Tournament Notes

as of June 27, 2012

NIELSEN PRO CHAMPIONSHIP WINNETKA, IL • JULY 1-7

USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO WINNETKA TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship returns to Winnetka for the seventh consecutive Site: A.C. Nielsen Tennis Center – Winnetka, Ill. year and the 21st year overall. It is the sixth Challenger on the 2012 USTA Pro Circuit

Websites: www.nielsenprotennis.com Melina Vastola calendar and is one of five USTA Pro Circuit procircuit.usta.com men’s events held in Illinois. (Champaign Facebook: Nielsen Pro Tennis hosts a $50,000 Challenger in November, and three $10,000 Futures are held later : @NielsenPro this summer.) It is also the first hard-court Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, July 1 Challenger of the summer season.

Main Draw Begins: Monday, July 2 This year’s Winnetka Challenger field includes Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles , who earned a USTA into the after capturing the Surface: Hard / Outdoor $50,000 Challenger in Savannah, Ga., and Brian Baker climbed to the Top 125 in the Prize Money: $50,000 subsequently reached his first ATP World Tour world this year by earning a wild card into the final at the French Open tune-up event in French Open and qualifying for Wimbledon, Tournament Director: Nice, France. He won his first-round match at advancing at least to the second round of both. Linda Goodman, (312) 505-7969 the French Open, and has since qualified for [email protected] Wimbledon, where he also won his first-round match. Baker returned to pro tennis in 2011 Tournament Press Contact: at all four events and has won after undergoing five surgeries for a series Mary Sandberg, (312) 493-6509 30 combined USTA Pro Circuit singles and of ailments from 2005 to 2008, including [email protected] doubles titles, which equals the all-time Tommy John elbow ligament replacement men’s record; and , who in USTA Communications Contacts: surgery in February 2008. 2011 won his first career ATP World Tour Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] title at the clay-court event in and Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] Other notable in the main draw this season qualified for the main draw of are: , who won a USTA playoff Wimbledon. Prize money / points to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2012 and has advanced to SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Also in the main draw are: two-time Winnetka the second round of Wimbledon as a qualifier Winner $7,200 80 runner-up , who won his (as of June 27); 2011 Winnetka singles Runner-up $4,240 48 first USTA Pro Circuit Challenger title in runner-up and doubles champion Semifinalist $2,510 29 Bobby Tallahassee, Fla., earlier this year, and who , who ascended to a career-best Quarterfinalist $1,460 15 Reynolds won USTA playoffs to earn wild cards into No. 63 in 2009, shortly before suffering a Round of 16 $860 7 the 2010 US Open and , wrist injury that cost him seven months, and Round of 32 $520 - respectively; 2008 Winnetka champion who has reached the second round or better DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) , who reached the doubles Winner $3,100 quarterfinals at Roland Garros in June; and Runner-up $1,800 2009 Winnetka champion , USTA Semifinalist $1,080 who qualified for the Quarterfinalist $640 to make his first appearance in a Grand Slam Round of 16 $360 main draw since 2007, facing in the first round. COMMUNITY EVENTS Monday, July 2 Among the players set to compete in Pro-Am, 3:30 p.m. qualifying are: former University of teammates , an All-American Thursday, July 5 Fast Competition, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Jesse Levine won a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2012 Australian Open and has so far advanced to the second round of Wimbledon as a qualifier.

*Player field subject to change Tournament Notes who has won two USTA Pro Circuit titles in his career, and Tennys USTA Pro Circuit Futures in Sacremento, Calif., in June. Sandgren, likewise an All-American, who has captured three USTA Pro Circuit titles this year; 2010 US Open boys’ champion and 2011 Many current and former ATP World Tour stars have found success in US Open mixed doubles champion , who in 2011 also Winnetka. Defending singles champion and 1999 doubles champion became the first USTA Boys’ 18s champion since 1995 to win a main peaked at No. 4 in the world in 2006 soon after he draw men’s singles match at the US Open; and Blake Strode, who has reached the quarterfinals of the US Open and has won 10 career won consecutive titles in the US Open National Playoffs to twice earn singles titles. Blake also was a longtime member of the U.S. Davis wild cards into the US Open Qualifying Tournament, having deferred Cup team, helping lead the to the title admission into Harvard Law School in order to pursue a professional in 2007. , the 2006 Winnetka singles champion, is tennis career. currently ranked No. 64 and won four ATP World Tour singles crowns in 2010, including a title on every surface. He also represented the Also in qualifying are: , who captured the 2011 NCAA United States in Davis Cup and peaked at No. 17 in the world in men’s doubles title as a senior at Texas A&M; and , January 2011 before undergoing elbow surgery. , the who won the 2009 NCAA men’s singles crown as a freshman for the singles runner-up in Winnetka in 1989 and 1991, went on to reach University of Mississippi, and who reached the boys’ singles final the final of the 1999 US Open and 1994 Australian Open, rank at the 2008 US Open. Britton won the singles title at the $15,000 No. 4 in the world and win eight career ATP singles titles. *Player field subject to change

Winnetka Past winners Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2011 James Blake (USA) (USA) 2011 Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) – Bobby Reynolds (USA) 2010 (ARG) Tim Smyczek (USA) 2010 Ryler DeHeart (USA) – Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (CAN) 2009 Alex Kuznetsov (USA) Tim Smyczek (USA) 2009 (AUS) – (USA) 2008 Rajeev Ram (USA) (USA) 2008 (USA) – (USA) 2007 (ISR) (RSA) 2007 Patrick Briaud (USA) – Chris Drake (USA) 2006 Sam Querrey (USA) (ITA) 2006 (PHI) – (USA) 2001-2005 Tournament not held Tournament not held 2001-2005 Tournament not held 2000 (JPN) Yong-Il Yoon (KOR) 2000 Hyung-Taik Lee (KOR) – Yong-Il Yoon (KOR) 1999 Alex O’Brien (USA) (BLR) 1999 James Blake (USA) – Thomas Blake (USA) 1998 Geoff Grant (USA) (ITA) 1998 Grant Silcock (AUS) – (RSA) 1997 (ITA) (ZIM) 1997 (USA) – Myles Wakefield (RSA) 1994 (USA) (ITA) 1994 Brian MacPhie (USA) – (USA) 1993 (ZIM) Maurice Ruah (VEN) 1993 (AUS) – Mark Petchey (GBR) 1992 (USA) (USA) 1992 Andrew Kratzmann (AUS) – Roger Rasheed (AUS) 1991 (ZIM) Todd Martin (USA) 1991 Bryon Black (ZIM) – (USA) 1990 Cristiano Caratti (ITA) Chris Garner (USA) 1990 Zeeshan Ali (IND) – Menno Oosting (NED) 1989 Brian Garrow (USA) Todd Martin (USA) 1989 Ville Jansson (SWE) – Scott Warner (USA) 1988 (USA) Gianluca Pozzi (ITA) 1988 Recardo Acuna (CHI) – Royce Deppe (RSA) 1987 (AUS) Roberto Saad (ARG) 1987 Tobias Svantesson (SWE) – John Treml (USA) 1985 (RSA) Harold Solomon (USA) 1985 (USA) – (USA) 1984 (USA) (USA) 1984 Dan Goldie (USA) – (USA) Tournament Notes

USTA PRO CIRCUIT 10 AND UNDER TENNIS

With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from On January 1, the USTA announced that the rules of tennis $10,000 to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for have officially changed and require that 10 and Under Tennis aspiring tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. The USTA launched its tournaments be played utilizing smaller, lighter racquets Pro Circuit 33 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and it and lower-bouncing balls on smaller courts. This rule change has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly $3 million signifies the emergence of 10 and Under Tennis as an integral in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities part of the development of young players. The scaled-down nationwide. , , , , James Blake, and equipment and smaller courts better allow kids to rally and are among today’s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. play the game earlier in their development, and increase the likelihood they will return to the court and continue to More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit improve while having fun doing so. For more information, visit helped launch the careers of two young www.10andundertennis.com. Americans—Christina McHale and Ryan Harrison. McHale reached the quarterfinals or better at five USTA Pro Circuit events in NJTL 2010 and climbed more than 100 spots in the WTA rankings that year. Buoyed by those Cities across the country participate in the USTA/National Junior results, she began to compete regularly Tennis and Learning (NJTL) network, a nationwide network of on the WTA tour in 2011 and became the community tennis organizations seeking to develop the character youngest player in the world’s Top 50 after of young people through both tennis and education. Founded defeating No. 8 seed en route by in 1969, more than 650 registered chapters/ to the third round of the US Open. Three Anthony Behar programs exist throughout the nation with more than 250,000 weeks prior, she upset world No. 1 Wozniacki participants ages 6-18, making NJTL one of the USTA’s largest at the US Open Series event in Cincinnati. community-based initiatives. McHale also was named to the U.S. Fed Cup team for the World Group Playoff in April 2011. Harrison began 2011 by winning US OPEN NATIONAL PlayoffS the singles and doubles titles at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Honolulu and subsequently The USTA launched the US Open reached the round of 16 in Indian Wells, where he upset three players ranked in the Top 50. Harrison National Playoffs in 2010, making cracked the Top 100 for the first time in summer 2011—becoming one of just two teenage males in the the US Open “open” to anyone age Top 100—after reaching back-to-back semifinals at the US Open Series events in Atlanta and . 14+ and of all skill levels. Last year, He also played in the main draw of all four Grand Slam events last year, pushing world No. 5 to more than 1,200 players competed in five sets in the second round at Wimbledon. 16 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments nationwide for a 2011 US Open PLAYER DEVELOPMENT Qualifying Tournament wild card. A mixed doubles element was also added, where the winning team won a main draw mixed The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions doubles wild card. Blake Strode, 24, of St. Louis, defended his US by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need Open National Playoffs men’s title in 2011 and Robin Anderson, to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center 18, of Matawan, NJ, won the women’s wild card. and Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as Christina Fusano won the mixed doubles tournament. Registration well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. for the 2012 US Open National Playoffs opens on March 15.