TOURNAMENT NOTES

as of February 10, 2017

ORLANDO PROFESSIONAL SERIES ORLANDO, FL • FEBRUARY 10-19

PRO TENNIS RETURNS TO THE USTA NATIONAL CAMPUS AT LAKE NONA IN ORLANDO WITH USTA PRO CIRCUIT MEN’S EVENT Pro tennis returns to the new USTA National Campus at Lake Nona in Orlando with The TOURNAMENT INFO Orlando Professional Tennis Series, a $15,000 USTA USTA Pro Circuit men’s event. This is the Site: USTA National Campus – Orlando, Fla. second of four USTA Pro Circuit tournaments that will be hosted this year at the USTA Websites: www.procircuit.usta.com National Campus. One women’s event was Qualifying Draw Begins: Friday, Feb. 10 hosted in January, two men’s events will be hosted in February, and another women’s event Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Feb, 14 will be hosted in March. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles The Orlando Tennis Centre hosted a USTA Surface: Clay / Outdoor Pro Circuit women’s event from 2013-16 Prize Money: $15,000 and the city also hosted a USTA Pro Circuit women’s event in 1992. Orlando hosted USTA Tournament Director: Pro Circuit men’s tennis in 1980, 1984, and Idelle Pierre-Louis, (914) 325-6059 2005. [email protected]

USTA Communications Contact: To follow the tournament, download the USTA Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] Pro Circuit’s phone app for smartphones and Rhyne Williams, currently on the comeback tablets by searching “procircuit” in the Apple trail following a back injury, reached the NCAA PRIZE MONEY / POINTS and Google Play stores. singles final in 2011 and peaked at No. 114 in the world in 2013. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Winner $2,160 18 Notable players competing in Orlando include: Runner-up $1,272 10 • Turned pro in 2011 following his sophomore Semifinalist $753 6 Rhyne Williams, 25, Knoxville, Tenn. year at the University of Tennessee, where Quarterfinalist $438 2 • Former Top 120 player who was away from he reached the singles final at the NCAA Round of 16 $258 1 the game from June 2015 to June 2016 Championships Round of 32 $156 -- due to a back injury and is currently on the • In 2012, won three matches to qualify DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) comeback trail on the USTA Pro Circuit for the main draw of the US Open, facing Winner $930 prior to Roddick’s retirement Runner-up $540 announcement Semifinalist $324 • Made a second main draw at Quarterfinalist $192 the 2013 , earning a wild card Round of 16 $108 by winning the USTA Australian Open Wild

Ned Dishman/USTA Card Playoffs; he also qualified for the 2013 COMMUNITY EVENTS Saturday, Feb. 18 • Reached the semifinals at the ATP clay- Kids’ Day court event in Houston in 2013 for his best ATP result • In 2014, qualified for the main draw of the Australian Open and took the first set off 2009 US Open champion and No. 5 seed Juan Martin del Potro in the opening round

Jared Hiltzik graduated in 2016 from the Univer- sity of Illinois, where he earned three All-America honors.

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• Since his comeback last summer, has won five USTA Pro Circuit/ITF • Earned All-America honors his junior year and was the 2014 Ivy Circuit doubles titles and reached two singles finals League Player of the Year • Comes from a tennis family—grandfather is Mike DePalmer Sr., • Spent most of 2016 competing overseas in ITF Circuit events in co-founder of the Tennis Academy; mother is Michelle Greece, Croatia, Bulgaria, Finland and Canada DePalmer-Williams, a former pro and Orange Bowl 16s champion Receiving main draw wild cards include:

Jared Hiltzik, 22, Wilmette, Ill./Tampa, Fla. Ulises Blanch, 18, Pompano Beach, Fla. • Graduated in 2016 from the University of Illinois, where he earned • Ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in the ITF World Junior three All-America honors, making him one of three Illini players ever to Rankings do so • Reached the Wimbledon junior semifinals in 2016 • Finished collegiate career as the eighth-winningest singles player in • Born in Puerto Rico and has lived in Seattle, China, Thailand, program history, with 115 victories Argentina and India • Reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament as a junior in 2014 Sebastian Korda, 16, Bradenton, Fla. • Won his first USTA Pro Circuit doubles title in early 2016 at the • Son of former Australian Open champion Petr Korda USTA Pro Circuit Collegiate Series event in Winston-Salem, N.C., and then captured back-to-back doubles titles in Illinois in summer 2016 • Reigning USTA Boys’ 18s National Clay Court champion • In July 2016, served as a practice partner with the U.S. Davis Cup • Part of a group of juniors who have trained with Ivan Lendl of the last team for its quarterfinal against Croatia in Portland, Ore. year and a half as part of a USTA Player Development initiative

Gonzales Austin, 24, Miami Lukas Greif, 17, Newburgh, Ind. • Graduated from Vanderbilt in 2015 as the SEC Player of the Year • Reigning USTA Boys’ 16-and-under national hard court and clay court champion • Received All-America honors in both singles and doubles during junior and senior years Notable players competing in qualifying include: • In collegiate career, earned 107 singles wins—the most of any player in Vanderbilt history Raleigh Smith, 25, Miami, Fla. • Holds one USTA Pro Circuit title, in doubles at the $10,000 Futures • Graduated in 2014 from Northwestern in Claremont, Calif., in September 2015 • In junior and senior year, earned First-Team All-Big Ten selection Nick Chappell, 24, Indianapolis • Graduated with 130 singles and doubles wins • Graduated from TCU in 2015, earning All-Big 12 honors throughout Cameron Silverman, 24, Mount Kisco, N.Y. his collegiate career • Graduated in 2014 from Elon • Graduated with more than 150 combined singles and doubles wins • Played in the No. 1 position for Elon • Played most of 2016 overseas in ITF Pro Circuit events in Israel, winning first doubles title in March and reaching two singles finals; also • Holds eight ITF Circuit doubles titles all over the world competed in Egypt and Italy Hunter Callahan, 24, Lower Gwynedd, Pa. Winston Lin, 23, Williamsville, N.Y. • Former standout for Ohio State, who was a 2012 and 2013 Scholar- • Graduated from the Columbia University in 2015, having played at Athlete the No. 1 singles and doubles positions his senior year

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