TOURNAMENT NOTES as of September 19, 2016 LOS CAB USTA MEN’S FUTURES FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA • SEPTEMBER 23-OCTOBER 2 USTA PRO CIRCUIT MEN’S TENNIS DEBUTS IN FOUNTAIN VALLEY The Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures is bringing USTA Pro Circuit tennis back to Fountain Valley for the first time since 1979—the first USTA year of the USTA Pro Circuit. It is the last of three consecutive USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 TOURNAMENT Futures hard-court events in California following the US Open, following Claremont INFORMATION and Irvine. This tournament previously ran 18 Site: Los Caballeros Racquet & Sports Club – years in Costa Mesa at the Costa Mesa Tennis Fountain Valley, Calif. Center this week. Website: www.procircuit.usta.com To follow the tournament, download the USTA Qualifying Draw Begins: Friday, Sept. 23 Pro Circuit’s phone app for smartphones and tablets by searching “procircuit” in the Apple Marcos Giron won the 2014 NCAA singles title Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Sept. 27 and Google Play stores. as a junior at UCLA and finished the year as the No. 1 college tennis player. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Notable American players competing in Surface: Hard / Outdoor Fountain Valley include: Alexios Halebian, a former top junior and Prize Money: $10,000 Marcos Giron, who won the 2014 NCAA three-time doubles champion on the USTA Tournament Director: singles title as a junior at UCLA and finished Pro Circuit and ITF Pro Circuit, most recently Hank Lloyd, (714) 608-9518 the year as the No. 1 college tennis player, winning the doubles title in Claremont [email protected] as ranked by the Intercollegiate Tennis this month. Halebian reached the singles Association. Giron became the 11th Bruin quarterfinals of the 2011 junior US Open and Tournament Press Contact: to win the NCAA men’s singles crown and climbed as high as No. 24 in the ITF World Joel Beers, (714) 423-1088 the first to do so in eight years. On the Junior Rankings. He also reached the singles [email protected] strength of his NCAA title, Giron received final and won the doubles title at the 2012 Easter Bowl, a prestigious junior event. On the USTA Communications Contact: a wild card into the 2014 US Open, where professional level, he won his first two doubles Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] he lost to fellow American John Isner in the first round. He rebounded to claim the men’s titles in Turkey in 2014. This year, Halebian title at the inaugural US Open American has competed on the USTA Pro Circuit and PRIZE MONEY / POINTS Collegiate Invitational. After winning the also in China, Korea, Puerto Rico, Israel, and Canada, reaching the quarterfinals or better at SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points NCAA title, Giron turned pro. Also in 2014, seven tournaments. Winner $1,440 18 Giron won the third USTA Pro Circuit singles Runner-up $848 10 title of his career at the $10,000 Futures in Nick Chappell, who graduated from TCU in Semifinalist $502 6 Calabasas, Calif., and served as a Davis Cup 2015, where he earned All-Big 12 honors Quarterfinalist $292 2 practice partner for the team’s World Group throughout his collegiate career. He graduated Round of 16 $172 1 Playoff in Chicago. Giron is playing in his with more than 150 singles and doubles wins. Round of 32 $104 - first USTA Pro Circuit event of the year after having hip surgery in December 2015. While Chappell has played most of this year overseas DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) recovering from surgery, he was UCLA’s in ITF Circuit events in Israel, winning his first Winner $620 men’s tennis volunteer assistant coach. doubles title in March and reaching two singles Runner-up $360 finals. He also competed in Egypt and Italy. Semifinalist $216 Quarterfinalist $128 Round of 16 $72 *Player field subject to change 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. The USTA launched the game—and stay in the game. Kids are learning to play its Pro Circuit in 1979 to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and faster than ever before through the USTA’s youth initiative, it has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly which is geared toward getting more kids to participate in $3 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a competed in cities nationwide. John Isner, Maria Sharapova, Andy Murray, Caroline Woznaicki, Kei child’s size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com. Nishikori, Victoria Azarenka and Sam Querrey are among today’s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit was USTA FOUNDATION a pathway to success for two young Frances Tiafoe USTA Foundation, the national charitable organization of Americans in 2015—Frances Tiafoe and the USTA, helps serve up dreams for under-resourced youth; Samantha Crawford. Tiafoe, a former world Jacob Stuckey individuals with disabilities; and wounded, ill and injured No. 2 junior who turned pro early in 2015, service members, veterans and their families. The foundation started last season ranked No. 1,143. His supports programs nationwide that leverage tennis and successes on the USTA Pro Circuit not only education to help those in need, primarily through the National allowed Tiafoe to finish the year ranked Junior Tennis & Learning (NJTL) network, and other efforts No. 176, but also gave him experience to assist military personnel, veterans and individuals with on the Grand Slam stage. Tiafoe won disabilities. To date, it has awarded more than $19 million in the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card grants and scholarships to hundreds of programs, benefitting Challenge (based on results in three USTA thousands of children and adults through a tennis, education Pro Circuit Challengers) to earn a spot in and health curricula. For more information, visit the website the 2015 French Open, which marked his www.ustafoundation.com. Grand Slam debut. He also won his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title in 2015 at the $15,000 Futures in Bakersfield, Calif., and reached three additional finals. Tiafoe US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS also competed in the 2015 US Open as a wild card and continues to climb in the The USTA launched the rankings. Crawford, the 2012 US Open US Open National Playoffs in girls’ singles champion, started the 2015 season ranked No. 293 and competed in 23 USTA Pro Circuit 2010, making the US Open events throughout the year. She went on to win the first USTA Pro Circuit singles title of her career at the $50,000 event in Scottsdale, Ariz., and also won two of the USTA Pro Circuit’s wild card challenges “open” to anyone age 14+ and to earn wild cards into the 2015 US Open and 2016 Australian Open. Crawford’s hard work paid off, of all skill levels. Last year, more and in January 2016, she rose to No. 107 in the world after a strong start to the year in Australia, than 1,450 players competed where she reached her first WTA semifinal in Brisbane as a qualifier. in 13 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments nationwide for a 2015 US Open Qualifying USTA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT Tournament wild card. A men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles element also was The USTA Player Development program, working with the American Tennis Family of players, coaches held, with the winning team earning a US Open main draw doubles and families, helps to identify and develop the next generation of American champions by surrounding wild card. Registration for all 2016 sectional events opens on March top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need to reach their 15, with tournaments taking place in May and June. The US Open maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center Headquarters National Playoffs will take place in New Haven in August. For more in Boca Raton, Fla., and utilizes National Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as well as information and the schedule, and to vie for a chance to compete in a network of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the United States. the US Open, visit www.usopen.org/NationalPlayoffs. FOUNTAIN VALLEY PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 1979 Van Winitsky (USA) Maurice Hunter (USA) 1979 Brad Rowe (USA) – Russell Simpson (NZL).