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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 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: , 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 . US Open. Fratangelo has since won two USTA Pro Circuit USTA Public Relations Contact: singles titles. Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 , the 2012 NCAA singles runner-up [email protected] out of the University of . Quigley is one of the most decorated 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 , 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 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. , 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 has reached the second round at the $10,000 Futures in Amelia Island, Fla. Born in , or better at each of the four tournaments, including the Novikov moved with his family to the 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 , 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 (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 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 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, 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 , who 1990 Tampa doubles champion 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 . 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 (USA) Christian Harrison (USA) 2013 Jean Yves-Aubone (USA) – Ryan Rowe (USA) 2012 (USA) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) 2012 (CAN) – Kamil Pajkowski (CAN) 2011 Blake Strode (USA) (USA) 2011 (AUS) – Chris Haggard (RSA) 2010 (FRA) Erling Tveit (NOR) 2010 Denis Kudla (USA) – Junior Ore (USA) 2009 Philip Bester (CAN) Haydn Lewis (BAR) 2009 (AUS) – Adam Hubble (AUS) 2008 (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) (RSA) 2006 (USA) – Pete Stroer (USA) 2005 Jose De Armas (VEN) Diego Alvarez (ARG) 2005 Cody Conley (USA) – Ryan Newport (USA) 2004 K.J. Hippensteel (USA) Brian Baker (USA) 2004 Ryan Haviland (USA) – K.J.Hippensteel (USA) 2003 Dusan Vemic (SRB) Francisco Rodriguez (PAR) 2003 Ryan Haviland (USA) – K.J.Hippensteel (USA) 2002 Jose De Armas (VEN) (CAN) 2002 Thomas Blake (USA) – Levar Harper-Griffith (USA) 2001 Daniel Andersson (SWE) Levar Harper-Griffith (USA) 2001 (MEX) – Lee Pearson (AUS) 2000 Cedric Kauffmann (FRA) Noam Behr (ISR) 2000 Enrique Abaroa (MEX) – Mauricio Hadad (COL) 1998-1999 Event not held 1998-1999 Event not held 1997 David Witt (USA) Ricardo Mena (POR) 1997 Robert Kraus (RSA) – Markus Zillner (GER) 1991-1996 Event not held 1991-1996 Event not held April 1990 Bryan Shelton (USA) Broderick Dyke (AUS) April 1990 Doug Flach (USA) – Ken Flach (USA) March 1990 Jan Apell (SWE) Massimo Ardinhi (ITA) March 1990 (USA) – Jacco Van Duyn (NED) 1989 Event not held 1989 Event not held 1988 Jimmy Brown (USA) Jon Sorbo (USA) 1988 Julian Barham (USA) – Rikard Bergh (SWE) 1987 Jim Courier (USA) Jimmy Brown (USA) 1987 Tobias Svantesson (SWE) – John Treml (USA) 1986 (RUS) (IND) 1986 Brett Custer (AUS) – David MacPherson (AUS) 1985 Magnus Tideman (SWE) Ahmed El Mehelmy (EGY) 1985 Peter Carlsson (SWE) – Magnus Tideman (SWE) 1984 Jay Lapidus (USA) Ben Testerman (USA) 1984 Jonathan Canter (USA) – Derek Tarr (USA) 1981-1983 Event not held 1981-1983 Event not held 1980 Ben Mckown (USA) Rick Fagel (USA) 1980 Morris Strode (USA) – Charles Strode (USA) TOURNAMENT NOTES

USTA PRO CIRCUIT YOUTH TENNIS With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging The USTA is making it easier and more fun for kids to get into from $10,000 to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for aspiring tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. Celebrating its the game—and stay in the game. Kids are learning to play 35th anniversary in 2014, the USTA Pro Circuit provides players with the opportunity to gain professional faster than ever before through the USTA’s youth initiative, ranking points, and it has grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering which is geared toward getting more kids to participate in nearly $3 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. , , , Caroline Wozniacki, Sam tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a child’s Querrey, Victoria Azarenka and are among today’s top stars who began their careers on size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com. the USTA Pro Circuit.

More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped launch the careers of two young NJTL Americans— and Shelby Rogers. Former Stanford standout and 2010 Founded in 1969 by , along with NCAA champion Klahn was the 2013 USTA

Joyce Tartar-Rideout and Sheridan Snyder, the USTA/National Junior Tennis & Pro Circuit Prize Money Leader with $50,606 Learning (NJTL) network is a nationwide group of more than in earnings, reaching five USTA Pro Circuit singles finals and winning two singles titles: 625 non-profit youth development organizations that provide the $15,000 Futures in Costa Mesa, Calif., free or low-cost tennis, education and life skills programming in March, and the $100,000 Challenger in to more than 350,000 children each year. Celebrating its Aptos, Calif., in August. The two singles 44th anniversary this year, NJTL is one of the USTA’s largest titles were the first USTA Pro Circuit singles community-based offerings.. crowns of his career. Klahn also earned Bradley Klahn a USTA wild card into the 2013 US Open through a wild card challenge incorporating USTA Pro Circuit events. Klahn finished 2013 US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS ranked in the Top 100 for the first time in his career after starting the year ranked outside The USTA launched the US Open the Top 250. Rogers was the 2013 women’s National Playoffs in 2010, making USTA Pro Circuit Prize Money Leader with the US Open “open” to anyone $36,308 in earnings, winning three singles titles with prize money of $50,000 or more ($50,000 events in Charlottesville, Va., and Lexington, Ky., and age 14+ and of all skill levels. the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, N.M.). Rogers also earned a USTA wild card into both the French Open Last year, more than 1,000 players and the US Open by winning wild card challenges for the two Grand Slam tournaments utilizing a series competed in 13 Sectional Qualifying of USTA Pro Circuit events. In her debut at the 2013 French Open, Rogers won her first round match. She Tournaments nationwide for a 2013 peaked at No. 116 in the world in October 2013, rising more than 100 spots throughout the year. Both US Open Qualifying Tournament wild Klahn and Rogers train with the USTA Player Development program. card. A mixed doubles element also was held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed doubles wild card. Mayo Hibi, a PLAYER DEVELOPMENT 17-year-old Japanese player living in Irvine, Calif., won the 2013 US Open National Playoffs women’s title and USTA Pro Circuit The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions regular Jeff Dadamo of Tampa, Fla., won the men’s wild card. by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need Yasmin Schnack and Eric Roberson won mixed doubles. The 13 to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center sectional qualifying tournaments for this year’s US Open National Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as Playoffs are in May and June, with championships in August. For well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. more information, visit www.usopen.org/NationalPlayoffs.