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TOURNAMENT NOTES

as of April 21, 2016

BOYD TINSLEY CLASSIC CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA • APRIL 24-MAY 1

USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S RETURNS TO CHARLOTTESVILLE FOR 15TH YEAR, CONTINUES USTA PRO CIRCUIT ROLAND GARROS WILD CARD CHALLENGE

The Boyd Tinsley Clay Court Classic returns to TOURNAMENT Charlottesville for the 15th consecutive year. INFORMATION It is the only USTA Pro Circuit women’s event

held in Virginia. Charlottesville also hosts a Ryan USTA/Steven Site: Boar’s Sports Club $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit men’s Challenger in Charlottesville, Va. early November and, for the first time, will host a $25,000 men’s event in June to kick off the Websites: www.boarsheadinn.com new USTA Pro Circuit Collegiate Series. procircuit.usta.com

Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, April 24 Charlottesville is also one of three consecutive women’s clay-court tournaments (joining last Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, April 26 week’s $50,000 event in Dothan, Ala., and Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles next week’s $75,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.) that are part of the USTA Pro Surface: Clay / Outdoor Circuit Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge, Prize Money: $50,000 which will award a men’s and women’s wild card into the 2016 . Along with Tournament Director: these three women’s tournaments, the men’s Top seed and 2013 Charlottesville singles champion advanced to the third Ron Manilla, (434) 960-3364 tournaments that are part of the challenge round at the 2015 US Open as a qualifier. [email protected] include the 2016 Joey Gratton Sarasota Open in Sarasota, Fla., held the week of April 11; Tournament Press Contact: the St. Joseph’s/Candler Savannah Challenger Ron Manilla, (434) 960-3364 for the wild cards. The USTA and the French in Savannah, Ga., held the week of April 18; [email protected] Tennis Federation have a reciprocal agreement and the USTA Tallahassee Tennis Challenger in which wild cards into the 2016 French USTA Communications Contact: in Tallahassee, Fla., held the week of April 25. Open and 2016 US Open are exchanged. Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 [email protected] The American man and American woman This tournament will be streamed live on who earn the most ATP and WTA ranking www.procircuit.usta.com. To follow the points at two of the three USTA Pro Circuit tournament, download the USTA Pro Circuit’s PRIZE MONEY / POINTS clay-court events will receive USTA wild cards new phone app for smartphones and tablets SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points to compete in the main draws of the French by searching “procircuit” in the Apple and Winner $7,600 80 Open, which will be held Sunday, May 22, to Google Play stores. Runner-up $4,053 48 Sunday, June 5. Players who do not receive Semifinalist $2,216 29 direct entry into the French Open are eligible Notable players competing in Charlottesville Quarterfinalist $1,267 15 include: Round of 16 $760 8 Round of 32 $444 1 2013 Charlottesville singles champion and DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) former USTA Pro Circuit Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge winner Shelby Rogers, who Winner $2,786 Ryan USTA/Steven Runner-up $1,393 qualified for the 2015 US Open and advanced Semifinalist $696 to the third round—her career-best Grand Quarterfinalist $380 Slam result. Rogers peaked at No. 70 in the world in September 2014 (she is currently Round of 16 $254 No. 107) after reaching her first WTA singles COMMUNITY EVENTS Tuesday, April 26 Former Top 100 player and 2011 US Open Player Party with Boyd Tinsley, 8:00 p.m. junior champion holds eight career USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, including Wednesday, April 27 back-to-back $25,000 events this April. Boyd Tinsley Kids’ Day, 4:15 p.m.

*Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES final in Bad Gastein, Austria. That result came on the heels of reaching Player of the Year, making her the third UNC player ever to earn that the semifinals in Quebec City and the quarterfinals at the Emirates distinction. In 2014, Loeb won the inaugural American Collegiate Airline US Open Series event in Montreal, where she upset then-Top Invitational at the US Open. She also received a wild card into the 10 player . Rogers competed in her first Australian 2015 US Open, where she lost to reigning finalist Open and Wimbledon main draws in 2015, in addition to competing in the first round. Loeb, who turned pro following her sophomore in the French Open for the third time. She also won the doubles title season with the Tar Heels, was also a standout junior player, reaching at the $50,000 grass-court event in Eastbourne, Great Britain, in June the quarterfinals at the Wimbledon girls’ event in 2013 and the junior 2015 with CoCo Vandeweghe. This year, Rogers reached her second singles final at the 2013 USTA International Spring Championships WTA final at the in February and advanced to the semifinals in Carson, Calif.; she also won the doubles title in Carson. Loeb holds of the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, Mich., as well five USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, including the $25,000 event in as the $25,000 event in Wesley Chapel, Fla. In 2013, Rogers earned Surprise, Ariz., earlier this year, and five doubles titles. She trains at a wild card into the French Open by winning the that year’s wild card the John McEnroe Tennis Academy in Randall’s Island, N.Y. challenge—she reached the second round at Roland Garros—and secured a wild card into the 2013 US Open by winning the USTA , the former Top 50 player who has competed in all four Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. In her career, Rogers has events and reached the second or better at all but the won four USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and one doubles title. As a French Open. Most recently, Tatishvili competed in the main draw of junior player, she won the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships to the 2016 and qualified for the WTA Premier event earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 US Open for her first in Miami, and in 2015 she advanced to the second round at the appearance in a Grand Slam (in either the main draw or juniors) Australian Open and the US Open. Her best Grand Slam result came at the 2012 US Open, where she reached the fourth round before Grace Min, the former US Open junior champion who peaked at a falling to top seed . Overall, Tatishvili has won eight career-high No. 97 in the world in March 2015 after reaching the USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and three ITF Circuit singles titles in second round of the WTA’s Rio Open and competing in Indian Wells. her career, as well eight USTA Pro Circuit and ITF-level doubles titles. (She is currently No. 210.) In 2014, Min reached the semifinals of She also holds one career WTA doubles title, captured in 2014 in the WTA event in Bad Gastein, Austria—her first-ever WTA semifinal— Linz, Austria. As a junior player, Tatishvili climbed as high as No. 19 and competed in the US Open and French Open main draws, in the ITF World Junior Rankings and reached the doubles semifinals qualifying at Roland Garros. She was one of the top juniors in the at the 2006 junior Australian Open with Caroline Wozniacki. Tatishvili world in 2011, when she won the US Open girls’ singles title and the formerly represented the country of Georgia but changed her Wimbledon girls’ doubles title. Those results helped propel her to representation to the United States in April 2014. She is coached by No. 4 in the world junior rankings. In 2013, she qualified for the her father, Dimitri. French Open—her first main-draw Grand Slam appearance outside the U.S.—as well as the US Open. She holds eight USTA Pro Circuit , who peaked at a career-high No. 108 in the world in singles titles overall, including back-to-back $25,000 events in July 2015 after qualifying for Wimbledon. She also received a wild Jackson, Miss., and Pelham, Ala., this April. card into the 2015 US Open. Also last year, Vickery advanced to the quarterfinals of the WTA’s Wimbledon tune-up event in Nottingham, , who played in just one tournament in 2014 after Great Britain, and won the first two career USTA Pro Circuit singles having knee surgery but is on the comeback trail after qualifying for titles of her career at the $25,000 Florida events in Plantation and the 2015 US Open and winning her first-round match in her first- Sunrise. The 20-year-old has competed in the US Open, Wimbledon ever Grand Slam main draw. Also in 2015, Pegula qualified for the and Australian Open main draws in her young career. She earned a WTA event in Charleston, S.C., and reached the quarterfinals at the main-draw wild card into the by winning the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit events in Dothan, Ala., and in Kirkland, USTA’s Australian Open Wild Card Playoff. That same year, she reached Wash. She also reached the final round of qualifying at Wimbledon the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in and the French Open in 2015. This year, she reached the singles and Stanford, Calif.—her first WTA quarterfinal. In 2013, Vickery won the doubles semifinals at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Maui, USTA National Girls’ 18s singles and doubles titles, earning wild cards Hawaii, advanced to the semifinals of the $10,000 event in Orlando, into the main draws of the singles and doubles events at the 2013 Fla., and competed in the Australian Open qualifying tournament. US Open. At the Open, she won her first-round match in her Grand Pegula broke out in 2013, qualifying for and reaching the third round Slam debut, defeating Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in straight sets. As a junior, of the WTA event in Charleston. She also qualified for the WTA events Vickery ascended to No. 6 in the ITF World Junior Rankings. She is in Shenzhen, China, and Washington, D.C., climbing to a career- coached by USTA National Coaches Kathy Rinaldi and Anibal Aranda. best No. 123 in the world that year. Pegula has enjoyed even greater success in doubles, competing in the US Open doubles main draw , a former top junior and USTA Pro Circuit veteran who in 2011, 2012 and 2015 and peaking at No. 92 in the world in the has been a consistent presence in the Top 200 over the past three doubles rankings in February 2013. Pegula’s father, Terry, is the owner years. In her career, Boserup has competed in qualifying at the US of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Open and Australian Open and has won three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, including the $25,000 event in Raleigh, N.C., in 2015. Also , who completed her sophomore year at the University of in 2015, she won the doubles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit North Carolina in 2015, winning the NCAA Division I singles title to event in Las Vegas and reached the singles semifinals at the $75,000 become the first singles national champion in North Carolina women’s event in Albuquerque, N.M., and the $50,000 event in Macon, Ga. tennis history. Loeb was also the top-ranked college tennis player In 2014, she qualified for and reached the quarterfinals of the WTA for most of her freshman year (2013-14). As a freshman, she was event in Monterrey, Mexico, for her career-best WTA result. Boserup named the 2014 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Player of the Year was a standout junior, winning the prestigious in 2008, and Rookie of the Year as well as the 2014 ACC Women’s Tennis defeating U.S. Olympian Christina McHale in the final.

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Two-time Charlottesville doubles champion , who Following the 2014 US Open, Bellis won the first USTA Pro Circuit peaked at No. 107 in the world in July 2013 behind strong results singles titles of her career at the $25,000 events in Rock Hill, S.C., on the USTA Pro Circuit and the WTA tour. Also in 2013, Sanchez and Florence, S.C. In 2015, she reached the third round of the WTA made her debut in a Grand Slam main draw by earning a wild card event in Miami as a wild card and peaked at No. 152 in the world into the US Open. In 2014, she won her first WTA doubles title, in in July. In the junior ranks, Bellis clinched the ITF’s year-end No. 1 Auckland, New Zealand, with . Sanchez is currently world ranking in December 2014, becoming the second American girl ranked a career-high No. 65 in doubles after reaching the doubles in three years to earn the ITF’s year-end top junior ranking for players final at the WTA event in Monterrey, Mexico, in March. For her career, ages 18 and under (joining , 2012). In addition, she Sanchez has won two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, both in 2012, led the U.S. to the 2014 Junior Fed Cup title in Mexico, helping the and 15 USTA Pro Circuit/ITF Circuit doubles titles, including five in American squad win the 16-and-under world team title for the third 2015 alone. As a junior player, she was ranked No. 1 in the U.S. as a time in seven years (2008, 2012, 2014). 16-year-old and No. 4 in the country as an 18-year-old. She also was the No. 1-ranked collegian and an ITA All-American at the University 2012 singles champion , who has played in just a few of Southern California, winning the 2011 USTA/ITA National Indoor USTA Pro Circuit tournaments since October 2014 after undergoing Intercollegiate Championship singles title. a heart procedure. Most recently, she reached the quarterfinals of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Stockton, Calif., last July, , who turned pro in 2015 and soon thereafter won her and advanced to the final round of qualifying for the 2015 US Open. second career USTA Pro Circuit singles title, at the $25,000 event She also advanced to the quarterfinals of the $25,000 event in in Rock Hill, S.C. Prior to turning pro, Brady played collegiately for Pelham, Ala., this April. Oudin burst onto the tennis scene in 2009, two seasons at UCLA. During the 2014-15 campaign, the 20-year- defeating former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic to reach the fourth old was part of the team that reached the final of the NCAA Team round at Wimbledon and beating five-time Grand Slam champion Championships, and during her freshman season (2013-14), she was en route to the US Open quarterfinals. Oudin a member of the 2014 NCAA championship-winning team. peaked at No. 31 in the world in singles in April 2010, but she struggled with injuries and inconsistency in the year that followed. , who graduated from UCLA last year after earning All- She started a comeback in 2012, capturing her first career WTA title America honors in both singles and doubles for the fourth consecutive at the Wimbledon tune-up event in Birmingham, England. She then year, becoming the seventh player in school history to accomplish that competed at Wimbledon as a wild card. Oudin also earned a wild card feat. She was named the ITA National Collegiate Player of the Year into the based on her results on the USTA Pro for 2014-15. Anderson was part of UCLA’s NCAA-title winning team Circuit, which included a title at the event in Charlottesville, Va. (She in 2014 and reached the NCAA doubles final in 2013. At the 2015 reached the second round at Roland Garros that year.) In addition to US Open, she won the American Collegiate Invitational, a tournament her success in singles, Oudin notched one of the biggest victories of for the top U.S. college players. In her career, Anderson has won one her career at the 2011 US Open, claiming the mixed doubles title USTA Pro Circuit singles title ($10,000 Landisville, Pa., in 2011) and with fellow American Jack Sock. She has also been a consistent one doubles title ($25,000 Redding, Calif., in 2013). In February, she performer for the U.S. Fed Cup team in the past. Oudin announced reached the final of the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, in November 2013 that she was suffering from rhabdomyolysis, a Mich., and this April, she reached the semifinals of the $25,000 muscle-damaging condition, and took time off to deal with it. She USTA Pro Circuit event in Jackson, Miss. As a junior player, she resumed competition in March 2014 and competed on the USTA reached the singles quarterfinals at the 2010 junior US Open. Pro Circuit and in qualifying for the US Open, French Open and Wimbledon. She was then sidelined again by the heart procedure. 2014 Charlottesville doubles champion , who learned to play tennis at the Andre Agassi Boys and Girls Club in Las Vegas , 17, who won her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title at and is ranked a career-high No. 76 in doubles. Muhammad won her the $25,000 event in Wesley Chapel, Fla., in January. As a junior first WTA doubles title last year in the Netherlands; she also won four player, Kenin reached the singles final at the 2015 US Open Junior ITF Circuit doubles titles last year and added another four USTA Pro Championships. She also won the 2015 USTA Girls’ 18s national title Circuit doubles titles this year. In 2013, she captured her first singles to earn a wild-card berth into the US Open women’s singles draw for title since 2007 at the $25,000 event in Raleigh, N.C. And in 2014, her first Grand Slam main draw. Kenin, who goes by Sonya, climbed she won back-to-back doubles titles at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit as high as No. 2 in the ITF World Junior Rankings. She represented events in Charlottesville, Va., and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.; she also the U.S. at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games and also competed at the won the US Open National Playoffs USTA Missouri Valley Sectional 2016 ITF Junior Masters, both held in China. Qualifying Tournament in summer 2014. Overall, Muhammad holds 22 career USTA Pro Circuit titles (19 doubles, three singles). Raveena Kingsley, 17, who reached her first career USTA Pro Circuit singles final this year at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Notable players competing in qualifying include: Maui, Hawaii. Kingsley ranked as high as No. 22 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2015 on the strength of reaching the girls’ singles CiCi Bellis, who won her second career USTA Pro Circuit doubles title quarterfinals of the Australian Open and the semifinals of the Easter earlier this year at the $100,000 event in Midland, Mich. Bellis made Bowl, a prestigious junior event. She also won matches at the junior international headlines at the 2014 US Open with her first-round US Open and Wimbledon in 2015. upset of No. 12 seed and reigning Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova. With the victory, Bellis, then 15, became the youngest , who played collegiately for the University of North female player to win a main-draw match at the US Open since Anna Carolina, where she received All-America honors and, in 2010, helped Kournikova in 1996. She earned a wild card into the US Open main lead the Tar Heels to their first NCAA team semifinals. In 2013, draw as the USTA Girls’ 18s national champion; she was the youngest Marand won her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the $25,000 USTA Girls’ 18s national champion since in 1991. event in El Paso, Texas. She has also won 10 career USTA Pro Circuit

*Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES doubles titles, including three tournaments in 2015. As a junior She has also represented Serbia in the Olympics (2004, 2008 and player, Marand reached the doubles final at the 2006 Easter Bowl 2012) and in Fed Cup. with fellow American . 2006 singles finalistDominika Cibukova peaked at No. 10 in the , who won sectional qualifying titles in 2015 to world in March 2014 after reaching that year’s Australian Open final. advance to the US Open National Playoffs – Women’s Singles, She has also won five WTA singles titles and two doubles titles, and Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles Championships, which took has represented Slovakia in the Olympics and Fed Cup. place in August. In 2014, she won the National Playoffs mixed doubles championship to earn a wild card into the mixed doubles draw 2005 singles finalistVarvara Lepchenko, a native of Uzbekistan, at the US Open, where she and partner Joel Kielbowicz lost to Donald peaked at a career-high No. 19 in the world in October 2012, Young and Taylor Townsend in the first round. Cako completed her becoming the first American other than Venus and to NCAA career in 2013 at Arizona State University, where she received be ranked in the Top 20 since Lindsay Davenport in 2006. Lepchenko All-America honors and was named the 2013 Pac-12 Women’s Tennis has reached the third round or better at all four Grand Slam events – Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Cako has thrived in doubles on the USTA highlighted by round-of-16 showings at the 2012 French Open and Pro Circuit, winning eight titles, including the $25,000 event in 2015 US Open – and qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. Surprise, Ariz., earlier this year. She peaked at No. 169 in the world doubles rankings in September 2013. She has also won two career Bethanie Mattek-Sands, the 2003 Charlottesville singles champion, USTA Pro Circuit singles titles. is currently ranked a career-high No. 3 in the world in doubles after sweeping back-to-back doubles titles in Indian Wells (with CoCo andeweghe) and Miami (with Lucie Safarova) this year. In 2015, Mattek-Sands won the Australian Open and French Open women’s Many past and current WTA standouts have found success in doubles titles (with Safarova) and the French Open mixed doubles Charlottesville. title (with ). At the , Mattek-Sands teamed with Horia Tecau to win her first Grand Slam title in mixed Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic, the event’s inaugural runner-up, is a former doubles. In singles, Mattek-Sands has played in 14 US Opens, and world No. 1 who reached the 2008 US Open women’s singles final. In she reached the fourth round of Wimbledon in 2008 and the French her career, she has finished in the year-end Top 10 on five occasions Open in 2013. In 2011, she was ranked a career-high No. 30 in the – including in the top spot in 2008 – has reached the semifinals or world. Overall, she holds 19 WTA doubles titles and five USTA Pro better at a Grand Slam six times and has won 15 WTA singles titles. Circuit singles titles. She has also represented the U.S. in Fed Cup.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2015 (USA) (USA) 2015 Francoise Abanda (CAN) – Maria Sanchez (USA) 2014 Taylor Townsend (USA) Montserrat Gonzalez (PAR) 2014 Asia Muhammad (USA) – Taylor Townsend (USA) 2013 Shelby Rogers (USA) Allie Kiick (USA) 2013 Coco Vandeweghe (USA) – (GBR) 2012 Melanie Oudin (USA) (USA) 2012 Maria Sanchez (USA) – (USA) 2011 Stephanie Dubois (CAN) Michelle Larcher de Brito (POR) 2011 Sharon Fichman (CAN) – Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) 2010 Michaella Krajicek (NED) (GER) 2010 (USA) – (USA) 2009 Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS) 2009 Carly Gullickson (USA) – Nicole Kriz (AUS) 2008 Alexis Gordon (USA) (RUS) 2008 Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) – (USA) 2007 Edina Gallovits-Hall (ROU) Angelika Bachmann (GER) 2007 (ARG) – Hanna Nooni (SWE) 2006 (USA) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 2006 Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) – (IND) 2005 Carly Gullickson (USA) (USA) 2005 (USA) – Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) 2004 (USA) Jamea Jackson (USA) 2004 Erika Krauth (ARG) – Jessica Lehnhoff (GER) 2003 Kristina Brandi (USA) (AUS) 2003 Bethanie Mattek (USA) – (USA) 2002 Erika de Lone (USA) Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 2002 Erika de Lone (USA) – (RSA) 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 the game—and stay in the game. Kids are learning to play for aspiring tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. The USTA launched faster than ever before through the USTA’s youth initiative, its Pro Circuit in 1979 to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and 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. , Maria Sharapova, , Caroline Woznaicki, Kei child’s size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com. Nishikori, Victoria Azarenka and are among today’s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. USTA FOUNDATION More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit was a pathway to success for two young USTA Foundation, the national charitable organization of Americans in 2015— the USTA, helps serve up dreams for under-resourced youth; and Frances Tiafoe. Crawford, the 2012 US individuals with disabilities; and wounded, ill and injured Open girls’ singles champion, started the service members, veterans and their families. The foundation 2015 season ranked No. 293 and competed Photography Vomund supports programs nationwide that leverage tennis and in 23 USTA Pro Circuit events throughout education to help those in need, primarily through the National the year. She went on to win the first USTA & Learning (NJTL) network, and other efforts Pro Circuit singles title of her career at the to assist military personnel, veterans and individuals with $50,000 event in Scottsdale, Ariz., and also disabilities. To date, it has awarded more than $19 million in won two of the USTA Pro Circuit’s wild card grants and scholarships to hundreds of programs, benefitting challenges to earn wild cards into the 2015 thousands of children and adults through a tennis, education US Open and ; the wild and health curricula. For more information, visit the website card challenges were based upon results on www.ustafoundation.com. the USTA Pro Circuit. Crawford’s hard work paid off, and in January 2016, she rose to No. 107 in the world after a strong start to the year in Australia, where she reached her Samantha Crawford US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS first WTA semifinal in Brisbane as a qualifier. The USTA launched the Tiafoe, a former world No. 2 junior who turned pro early in 2015, started last season US Open National Playoffs in ranked No. 1,143. His successes on the USTA Pro Circuit not only allowed Tiafoe to finish the year ranked 2010, making the US Open No. 176, but also gave him experience on the Grand Slam stage. Tiafoe won the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit “open” to anyone age 14+ and Wild Card Challenge to earn a spot in the , which marked his Grand Slam debut. He of all skill levels. Last year, more also won his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title in 2015 at the $15,000 Futures in Bakersfield, Calif., and than 1,450 players competed reached three additional finals. Tiafoe also competed in the 2015 US Open as a wild card and continues in 13 Sectional Qualifying to climb in the rankings. 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 held, with the winning team The USTA Player Development program, working with the American Tennis Family of players, coaches earning a US Open main draw doubles wild card. Registration for and families, helps to identify and develop the next generation of American champions by surrounding all 2016 sectional events opened on March 15, with tournaments top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need to reach their taking place in May and June. The US Open National Playoffs will maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center Headquarters take place in New Haven in August. For more information and the in Boca Raton, Fla., and utilizes National Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as well as schedule, and to vie for a chance to compete in the US Open, visit a network of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the United States. www.usopen.org/NationalPlayoffs.