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2020 Media Guide 2020 Media Guide Feb. 14-16 Feb. 15-23 YellowTennisBall.com 2020 QUICK FACTS EXECUTIVE STAFF ATP TOUR 250 EVENT DATES Tournament Director.................Mark Baron Main Draw .......................................Feb. 17-23 February 14-23, 2020 Tournament Chairman .............. Ivan Baron 16-Player Qualifying: ..................Feb. 15-16 Executive Director ......................John Butler Main Draw ....32 singles, 16-team doubles EVENT HISTORY Dir. Business Development, Sponsor Singles Format .......Best of 3 tie-break sets ATP 250: 28th Annual Liaison & Ticketing ...................Adam Baron Doubles Format ...............2 sets to 6 games ATP Champions Tour: 12th Annual Dir. Social Media, Volunteers, VolleyGirls, (no-ad scoring) with regular tie-break 6-6 22nd Year in Delray Beach Sponsor Relations ................... Marlena Hall Match tie-break at one-set each Assistant Special Events and Ticketing (1st team to 10 pts, win by 2) TITLE SPONSOR Manager ...............................Alexis Crenshaw Total Prize Money ........................... $673,655 City of Delray Beach Singles Winner ....................................$97,585 PRESENTING SPONSOR SUPPORT STAFF Doubles Winners................................$34,100 VITACOST.com Ball Kids Coordinator ................Monica Sica 2019 Singles Champion ........... Radu Albot Media Dir ........Natalie Milkolich-Cintorino 2019 Doubles Champions .............................. TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR Public Relations ...................................BlueIvy Bob & Mike Bryan Mark S. Baron Website Manager ................. Tomi Garguilo Operations Managers ..............Kevin Colon ATP TOUR STAFF VENUE Rusty Tillman Supervisors ..............Ali Nili & Lars Graff (Q) Delray Beach Stadium & Tennis Center Head Tournament Photographer ................ Referee ............................................... Marc Bell 3,540 ticketed seats Andrew Patron Tour Manager ...........................Denis Zikovic Photographers..................... Fritz Moore, Hal PR & Marketing ..........................Greg Sharko STADIUM SURFACE Goldman, Gina Fontana, Marco Peretta Physiotherapists ................... Shuhei Suzuki, Hard-Court (Plexicushion) VolleyGirls Photographer ........Jim Greene Mauricio Elizondo Stadium Court Manager ..........Mike Butler Sponsorship .............................Ryan O’Keefe BALL Stadium Court Co-Manager ....Ray Sayour IT Support ..........................Maria Zachmann PENN Extra Duty In-Game Entertainment Producer ............... Chief of Umpires ....................Pete Gameros PLAYER COMPENSATION Carl Foster Chair Umpires ......................Fergus Murphy, $673,655 Show Hosts ...........Carl Foster, Blair Henley Joshua Brace, Mohamed Fitouhi, VolleyGirls Captain & Choreographer ........ Simon Cannavan BROADCAST PARTNER Kerri Fouchet Review Official ............................Steve Ulrich Tennis Channel Administrative & Ticketing Associates ........ Marcella Escudero, Erin Ford, ATP CHAMPIONS TOUR EVENT PROMOTION TEAM Deivit Garcia, Jax Kenney, Katie Lee Tournament Dates .......................Feb. 14-16 VolleyGirls Format ...........Team Europe vs Team World VOLUNTEER STAFF 4 players per team CHARITIES Director of Volunteers ............ Marlena Hall Format ......... 6 singles, 2 doubles matches ACEing Autism Volunteer Coordinator .....Marcella Escudero Scoring ....1 point per win - best of 8 wins American Diabetes Association Asst Director of Volunteers & Transporta- 2 sets to 6 games (no-ad scoring) Chris Evert Charities tion Coordinator .............Charlotte Cramer Regular tie-break for sets at 6-6 Community Food Pantry Player Services/Tournament Desk Coordi- Match tie-break at oneset each Delray Beach Luminary Gala nator ............................................. Karla Wojcik First team to 10 pts, win by 2 Delray Beach Tennis Programs Ushers/Ticket Takers Coordinators ........Jeff Tournament tiebreaker in place at 4-4 First Serve USA Rosenberg, Sandy Krinsky, Robin Warner 2019 Champions .........................Team World Golden Bell Education Foundation Sandy & Harriett Krinsky Ticket Taker Greater Boca Raton Chamberof Commerce Registration & Credentials Coordinator .... ATP CHAMPIONS TOUR Habitatfor Humanity Danny Howard CEO ..................................................Jan Felgate Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Players & ATP Hospitality Coordinator ....... Tour Manager, PR & Marketing ..................... Love Serving Autism Tina Feinberg Nikhil Waugh Making Strides for Breast Cancer Executive Office & Will Call Coordinator.... Chief of Umpires ..............Dave LeBoutillier Play for Pink Teri Schoen, Maria Godfrey Think Pink Rocks Media Coordinators ...........Jane Guterman Village Academy Connie Mace Website YellowTennisBall.com Social Media @DelrayBeachOpen | #DBOpen 2020 2020 Delray Beach Open Winner’s Circle Title Talk The Delray Beach Open by VITACOST. Radu Albot will return to the Delray The Delray Beach Open field includes com, an ATP Tour 250 tournament, Beach Open as he seeks to be the two players who have already lift- returns for its 28th year. first player to successfully defend his ed trophies in 2020. France’s Ugo title here since Jason Stoltenberg Humbert won his first career title in Champions Clash in 1996-97. Albot’s triumph in 2019 Auckland in January while Jiri Vesely The ATP Champions Tour returns to was not only his first career title, but was victorious in Pune earlier this the Delray Beach Open for a 12th edi- it also marked the first ATP title by month. tion. The field includes 2006 Delray a player from Moldova. In what was Beach Open winner Tommy Haas the first Delray Beach Open final to Thrill of Victory, Agony of Defeat along with Champions Tour rookies go three sets since 2008, Albot saved Tennys Sandgren experienced the Marcos Baghdatis and David Ferrer three match points in the against joy and pain of sport last month. For on Team Europe. They will face Team Dan Evans. the second time in three years, the World which includes Americans former University of Tennessee stand- James Blake and Vince Spadea. American Accolades out reached the Australian Open Albot’s 2019 title snapped a three- quarterfinals in a run that included New Addition year streak of American winners at wins over World No. 8 Mario Berretti- For the first time, women’s tennis the Delray Beach Open. The three ni and No. 12 Fabio Fognini. He was will be featured at the Delray Beach year run of American winners includ- finally stopped in the quarters by Open, with a special Saturday night ed wins by Frances Tiafoe (2018), Roger Federer after holding seven exhibition between WTA star and Jack Sock (2017) and Sam Querrey match points against 20-time Grand Delray Beach native Coco Gauff tak- (2016). An American has won the Slam champion. Shortly after that ing on 2019 NCAA champion Estela Delray Beach Open title seven times defeat, Sandgren tweeted “What’s Perez-Somarriba of the Unviersity of in 27 years. the rule here folks - a double shot for Miami. each match point you didn’t con- Been There, Done That vert?” International Flavor The 2020 Delray Beach Open field A dozen different countries are repre- includes a the last three tournament Kyrgios Kind to Countrymen sented in the main draw singles field champions: Radu Albot (2019), The weeks leading up to the Austra- at this year’s Delreay Beach Open. Frances Tiafoe (2018) and Jack Sock lian Open were tense times down un- Including the doubles, qualifying (2017). The field also includes one for- der as bushfires ravaged many parts and Champions Tour players, there mer runner-up in 2016 finalist Milos of that country. Australian native are a total of 26 nations represented Raonic. Two-time champion Ernests Nick Kyrgios, a native of Canberra, this year. Gulbis (2010, 2013) is participating in was quick to support relief efforts by qualifying this year. pledging $200 per ace he hit during Age Range the Australian summer tournaments. There is a 15-year gap in age be- Bye-Bye Bryan Brothers Numerous players followed suit, as tween the oldest (35-year-old An- Defending and five-time doubles did tennis governing bodies, collec- dreas Seppi) and youngest (20-year- champions Bob & Mike Bryan have tively raising more than $6 million for old Miomir Kecmanovic) players in announced that 2020 will be their the cause. the singles field. Seppi is one of five final ATP season. The twins first ap- 30+ players in the field. Kecmanovic peared on the professional scene as Collegiate Champions is one of 11 players aged 24 or wild cards at the 1995 US Open, and This year’s Delray Beach Open field younger competing this week. made their Delray Beach debut in features a pair of former NCAA sin- 1999. They have teamed up to finish gles champions. Steve Johnson, who First Timers as the ATP’s No. 1 team 10 times in ended his career at Southern Califor- The past two Delray Beach Open their career, winning 118 titles and nia with a 72-match winning streak, champions, Radu Albot (2019) and more than 1,100 matches together. was the 2011 and 2012 NCAA winner. Frances Tiafoe (2018), are two of They have lifted the Delray Beach MacKenzie McDonald claimed the the nine players who have won their Open trophy in 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016 NCAA title while playing for maiden ATP title in Delray Beach. 2015 and 2019. UCLA. 2020 Women’s Exhibition Players Champions Tour Team Europe Champions Tour Team World Coco Gauff is a 15-year-old Delray Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) makes Captain James Blake (USA) is making Beach native ... Will turn 16 on
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