Tournament Notes

TOURNAMENT NOTES as of April 30, 2014 EAGLE LANDING TENNIS CLASSIC PRESENTED BY ST. VINCENT’S HEALTHCARE ORANGE PARK, FL • MAY 2-11 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO ORANGE PARK TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Eagle Landing Tennis Classic returns to Orange Park for the 12th year in a row. Site: Eagle Landing – Orange Park, Fla. It is the second of three consecutive clay- court USTA Pro Circuit Futures events held Website: procircuit.usta.com in April and May and one of 15 events Anthony Behar Qualifying Draw Begins: Friday, May 2 scheduled to be held in Florida in 2014. In conjunction with USTA Player Development, Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, May 6 the USTA Pro Circuit continues to emphasize Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles the importance of increased training for younger players on clay. Surface: Clay / Outdoor Prize Money: $10,000 Notable players competing in the main draw include: Tournament Director: Mark Arrowsmith, (904) 534-6440 Defending singles champion Bjorn [email protected] Fratangelo, who in 2011 became the first American since John McEnroe in 1977 to Tournament Press Contact: win the boys’ singles title at the French Mark Arrowsmith, (904) 534-6440 Open. Fratangelo had a strong season on [email protected] the USTA Pro Circuit in 2013. In addition USTA Public Relations Contact: to Orange Park, he won the Futures title in Weston, Fla., and he reached two additional Defending Orange Park singles champion Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 Bjorn Fratangelo won the boys’ singles title at Futures finals. He also competed in [email protected] the 2011 French Open, the first American to qualifying for the US Open. do so since John McEnroe in 1977. Including PRIZE MONEY / POINTS Orange Park, Fratangelo has won two USTA Eric Quigley, the 2012 NCAA singles Pro Circuit singles crowns in his career. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points runner-up who played for the University Winner $1,440 17 of Kentucky. Quigley is one of the most Runner-up $848 9 decorated tennis players in Wildcats history, Ill. This year, Quigley reached the singles Semifinalist $502 5 earning five All-America honors, between final of the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit clay- Quarterfinalist $292 2 singles and doubles. In 2008, he became court event in Boynton Beach, Fla., and won Round of 16 $172 1 the first Kentucky player in 34 years to win the doubles title at the $15,000 Futures in Round of 32 $104 - four consecutive high school state singles Little Rock, Ark., the week of April 7 with DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) titles. He captured his first pro title last Jean-Yves Aubone. Winner $620 summer at the $10,000 Futures in Decatur, Runner-up $360 Mitchell Krueger, who was the top-ranked Semifinalist $216 American junior boy in 2012, peaking at Quarterfinalist $128 a career-high No. 5 in the world junior Round of 16 $0 rankings. Krueger advanced to the boys’ singles semifinals at the French Open and David Kenas Wimbledon in 2012 and turned pro that July. He captured his first pro singles title last year while competing at a clay-court ITF Pro Circuit event in the Netherlands. He competed primarily in Australia for the first two months of 2014 and, also this year, reached the final of the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Bakersfield, Calif. Eric Quigley was the 2012 NCAA singles runner-up for the University of Kentucky. He is one of the most decorated tennis players in UK history, earning five All-America honors, between singles and doubles. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES Dennis Novikov, who was the 2012 USTA Boys’ 18s national Md., a USTA Certified Regional Training Center, where his father, an champion in singles and doubles. Those victories earned him wild immigrant from Sierra Leone in Africa, worked as a custodian. cards into the men’s singles and doubles main draws at the 2012 US Open, where he became the second USTA Boys’ 18s champ in Devin McCarthy, who played for Ohio State and received All-Big 15 years to win his first-round singles match. Novikov completed his Ten honors. McCarthy was a four-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete sophomore year at UCLA in 2013. He turned pro thereafter and won recipient and won the 2008 Division II state high school singles his first USTA Pro Circuit title in June 2013, at the $10,000 Futures title. Earlier this year, he won his first USTA Pro Circuit title by in Amelia Island, Fla. Born in Moscow, Novikov moved with his capturing the doubles crown at the $15,000 Futures in Harlingen, family to the United States at 1 year old and, from a varied sports Texas, with Evan King. background, chose tennis over hockey, swimming and gymnastics. Deiton Baughman, who won the first USTA Pro Circuit title of his Jeff Dadamo, who earned a wild card into the 2013 US Open career in February by capturing the doubles crown at the $10,000 Qualifying Tournament by winning the US Open National Playoffs Futures in Boynton Beach, Fla., with Collin Altamirano. As a junior men’s title (out of 649 men who competed). Dadamo has won two player, Baughman reached the doubles semifinals of this year’s USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles and one singles title during his USTA International Spring Championships and, last winter, reached career. He graduated in 2011 from Texas A&M, where he won the the singles semifinals of the Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis NCAA men’s doubles title with Austin Krajicek. Championships—both prestigious junior events. 2011 Orange Park doubles champion and five-time University of Florida All-American Greg Ouellette, who won the bronze medal in doubles at the 2011 Pan Am Games with Nicholas Monroe. Many USTA Pro Circuit and ATP World Tour standouts have found Ouellette holds two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and four doubles success in Orange Park. titles, with his most recent titles coming in 2012. 2003 doubles champion Brian Baker has reached the second round Dennis Nevolo, who advanced to his first USTA Pro Circuit singles or better at all four Grand Slam tournaments, including the round final in 2013 at the $15,000 Futures in Mansfield, Texas. In of 16 at Wimbledon in 2012, when he climbed to No. 52 in the addition, Nevolo has excelled in doubles, winning two Futures titles world rankings. Baker’s career has been interrupted by an assortment on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2013, both with Jean-Yves Aubone. of injuries requiring five surgeries from 2005 to 2008, including Nevolo graduated in 2012 from the University of Illinois, where he Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery in February 2008. peaked at No. 2 in the NCAA men’s singles rankings. A six-time USTA Pro Circuit singles champion, Baker has played in only three events since suffering a severe knee injury at the 2013 Jean-Yves Aubone, who won a season-high four USTA Pro Circuit Australian Open, but none in 2014. Futures doubles titles in 2013 and this year has captured two doubles titles. Aubone also won two singles titles in 2008. Aubone 2010 doubles champion Denis Kudla went on to reach the US Open played for Florida State University, where he was the first player boys’ singles final that year. He has since progressed to the USTA in school history to earn All-America singles honors twice. As a Pro Circuit and ATP World Tour, breaking into the Top 100 for the junior player, he represented the United States in Junior Davis Cup first time in his career in 2013, the year in which he advanced to (16-and-under international team competition) and also reached the the second round of the US Open and Wimbledon, and competed in singles semifinals of the 2004 USTA Boys’ 18 National Clay Court a number of Emirates Airline US Open Series events. He qualified Championships. for the 2013 French Open and reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon warm-up event at Queens Club—his best ATP result. Players competing in qualifying include: Also in 2013, Kudla won the $50,000 Challenger in Tallahassee, Fla., for his fifth USTA Pro Circuit singles title and third Challenger Francis Tiafoe, 16, who ranks a career-high No. 2 in the ITF title. Thus far in 2014, he has earned direct entry into the Australian World Junior Rankings. Tiafoe won the prestigious Orange Bowl Open and won the doubles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit International Tennis Championships junior tournament in December Challenger in Maui, Hawaii, in January. 2013 in Plantation, Fla., becoming the youngest boys’ champion in the 67 years of the event. He also won the Easter Bowl junior 2006 singles champion Tim Smyczek broke into the Top 100 in 2013 tournament this year and reached the final of the USTA International after advancing to the third round of the US Open, where he lost a Spring Championships, in addition to reaching the singles tight five-setter to then-No. 43 Marcel Granollers. The US Open quarterfinals of two USTA Pro Circuit events. In 2012, Tiafoe won highlighted the strongest summer of Smyczek’s career; he also two major 14-and-under tournaments (Les Petits As in Tarbes, advanced to the second round of the Emirates Airline US Open France, and Teen Tennis in Bolton, England) and helped lead the Series events in Washington, D.C., and Winston-Salem, N.C., and United States to a gold medal in World Junior Tennis, the sport’s qualified for Atlanta. Also in 2013, the 5-foot-9 Smyczek advanced premier 14-and-under international team competition.

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