TOURNAMENT NOTES as of May 7, 2014 TAMPA USTA MEN’S PRO CIRCUIT FUTURES TAMPA, FL • MAY 9-18 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO TAMPA FOR 15TH YEAR IN A ROW TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Tampa USTA Men’s Pro Circuit Futures is being held in Tampa for the 15th Site: Harbour Island Athletic Club consecutive year. The city also hosted nine Tampa, Fla. USTA Pro Circuit events between 1980 and 1997. This is the last of three consecutive Anthony Behar Website: procircuit.usta.com clay-court USTA Pro Circuit Futures, all of which have been held in Florida as part Qualifying Draw Begins: Friday, May 9 of the USTA Pro Circuit spring clay-court season. In conjunction with USTA Player Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, May 13 Development, the USTA Pro Circuit continues to emphasize the importance of increased Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles training for younger players on clay. Surface: Clay / Outdoor Notable players competing in Tampa include: $10,000 Prize Money: Bjorn Fratangelo, who in 2011 became the first American since John McEnroe in 1977 Tournament Director: to win the boys’ singles title at the French Jose Campos, (813) 468-3659 Open. Fratangelo had a strong season on [email protected] the USTA Pro Circuit in 2013, reaching four Futures finals and winning the singles titles Tournament Press Contact: in Orange Park, Fla., and Weston, Fla. He In 2011, Bjorn Fratangelo became the first Jose Campos, (813) 468-3659 also competed in qualifying for the 2013 American since John McEnroe in 1977 to win [email protected] the boys’ singles title at the French Open. US Open. Fratangelo has since won two USTA Pro Circuit USTA Public Relations Contact: singles titles. Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 Eric Quigley, the 2012 NCAA singles runner-up [email protected] out of the University of Kentucky. Quigley is one of the most decorated tennis players the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit clay-court event in Wildcats history, earning five All-America in Boynton Beach, Fla., and won the doubles PRIZE MONEY / POINTS honors between singles and doubles. In 2008, title at the $15,000 Futures in Little Rock, Ark., in April with Jean-Yves Aubone. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points he became the first Kentucky player in 34 Winner $1,440 17 years to win four consecutive high school state singles titles. He captured his first pro title last Runner-up $848 9 Mitchell Krueger, who was the top-ranked summer at the $10,000 Futures in Decatur, Ill. American junior boy in 2012, peaking at Semifinalist $502 5 This year, Quigley reached the singles final at a career-high No. 5 in the world junior Quarterfinalist $292 2 rankings. Krueger advanced to the boys’ Round of 16 $172 1 singles semifinals at the French Open and Round of 32 $104 - Wimbledon in 2012 and turned pro that DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) July. He captured his first pro singles title Winner $620 David Kenas last year while competing at a clay-court Runner-up $360 ITF Pro Circuit event in the Netherlands. Semifinalist $216 This year he has reached the final at Quarterfinalist $128 the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Round of 16 $0 Bakersfield, Calif. Sekou Bangoura, who has won three USTA Pro Circuit titles (two in doubles and one in singles) in 2014. Overall, Bangoura owns 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 two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and four doubles titles. He was final in 2013 at the $15,000 Futures in Mansfield, Texas. In named a doubles All-American during his sophomore year at the addition, Nevolo has excelled in doubles, winning two Futures titles University of Florida after reaching the doubles semifinals of the on the USTA Pro Circuit last year, both with Jean-Yves Aubone. 2011 NCAA tournament. Nevolo graduated in 2012 from the University of Illinois, where he was ranked as high as No. 2 in the NCAA men’s singles rankings. Dennis Novikov, who was the 2012 USTA Boys’ 18s national champion in singles and doubles. Those victories earned him wild card entries into the men’s singles and doubles main draws at the 2012 US Open, where he became the second USTA Boys’ 18s Many USTA Pro Circuit and ATP World Tour standouts have found champ in 15 years to win his first-round match in men’s singles. success in Tampa. Novikov completed his sophomore year at UCLA in 2013. He turned pro that summer and won his first USTA Pro Circuit title in June 2004 singles runner-up Brian Baker has reached the second round at the $10,000 Futures in Amelia Island, Fla. Born in Moscow, or better at each of the four Grand Slam tournaments, including the Novikov moved with his family to the United States at 1 year old round of 16 at Wimbledon in 2012, when he climbed to No. 52 and, from a varied sports background, chose tennis over hockey, in the world rankings. Baker’s career has been interrupted by an swimming and gymnastics. assortment of injuries requiring five surgeries from 2005 to 2008, including Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery in Defending doubles champion Jean-Yves Aubone, who won a season- February 2008. A six-time USTA Pro Circuit singles champion, Baker high four USTA Pro Circuit Futures doubles titles in 2013 and who has played in only three events since suffering a severe knee injury has also captured two doubles titles this year. Aubone also won two at the 2013 Australian Open, but none in 2014. singles titles in 2008. He played for Florida State University, where he became the first player in school history to earn All-America singles 2010 doubles champion Denis Kudla went on to reach the US Open honors twice. As a junior player, he represented the United States boys’ singles final that year. He has since progressed to the USTA in Junior Davis Cup (16-and-under international team competition) Pro Circuit and ATP World Tour, breaking into the Top 100 for the and also reached the singles semifinals of the 2004 USTA Boys’ 18 first time in his career in 2013, the year in which he advanced to National Clay Court Championships. the second round of the US Open and Wimbledon, and competed in a number of Emirates Airline US Open Series events. He qualified Jesse Witten, who posted the best Grand Slam result of his career for the 2013 French Open and reached the quarterfinals of the at the 2009 US Open, qualifying and knocking off two Top 100 Wimbledon warm-up event at Queens Club—his best ATP result. players before falling to Novak Djokovic in four sets in the third Also in 2013, Kudla won the $50,000 Challenger in Tallahassee, round. Witten peaked at No. 163 in the world in early 2010 and Fla., for his fifth USTA Pro Circuit singles title and third Challenger has played on the USTA Pro Circuit periodically during the past five title. Thus far in 2014, he has earned direct entry into the Australian years, winning his first title in four years at the $10,000 USTA Pro Open and won the doubles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Circuit Futures in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., last June. Witten Challenger in Maui, Hawaii, in January. was a University of Kentucky standout, reaching the NCAA singles final in 2002. Witten won the mixed doubles title at the 2013 In 1987, Jim Courier won the event in Tampa. Courier, who was US Open National Playoffs USTA Florida Sectional Qualifying inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005, Tournament to advance to the US Open National Playoffs – Mixed climbed to No. 1 in the world in 1992 and is a four-time Grand Doubles Championship in New Haven, Conn., last summer, where Slam tournament champion (1991-92 French Open, 1992-93 he competed for a US Open mixed doubles wild card. Witten won Australian Open). He captured 23 singles titles and six doubles titles the mixed doubles title with his older sister, Sarah, who reached the and reached the final of all four majors during his career. Courier is NCAA doubles final in 2003 while playing for Kentucky. currently the U.S. Davis Cup captain. Five-time University of Florida All-American Greg Ouellette, who 1990 Tampa doubles champion Ken Flach won four Grand Slam won the bronze medal in doubles at the 2011 Pan Am Games with tournament doubles titles and captured the doubles gold medal at Nicholas Monroe. Ouellette holds two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles the 1988 Olympics. He claimed 34 doubles titles during his career and four doubles titles, with his most recent titles coming in 2012. and was 11-2 in Davis Cup doubles competition. Dennis Nevolo, who advanced to his first USTA Pro Circuit singles *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES TAMPA PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2013 Austin Krajicek (USA) Christian Harrison (USA) 2013 Jean Yves-Aubone (USA) – Ryan Rowe (USA) 2012 Tennys Sandgren (USA) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) 2012 Philip Bester (CAN) – Kamil Pajkowski (CAN) 2011 Blake Strode (USA) Lester Cook (USA) 2011 Ashley Fisher (AUS) – Chris Haggard (RSA) 2010 Augustin Gensse (FRA) Erling Tveit (NOR) 2010 Denis Kudla (USA) – Junior Ore (USA) 2009 Philip Bester (CAN) Haydn Lewis (BAR) 2009 Kaden Hensel (AUS) – Adam Hubble (AUS) 2008 Daniel Garza (MEX) Marcus Fugate (USA) 2008 Adam Fuss (USA) – Vahid Mirzadeh (USA) 2007 Victor Estrella (DOM) Stefano Ianni (ITA) 2007 Colin Ebelthite (AUS) – Clinton Thomson (AUS) 2006 Robert Yim (USA) Izak Van Der Merwe (RSA) 2006 Kelly Jones (USA) – Pete Stroer (USA) 2005 Jose De Armas (VEN) Diego Alvarez (ARG) 2005 Cody Conley (USA) – Ryan Newport (USA) 2004 K.J.