Tournament Notes

TOURNAMENT NOTES as of April 21, 2016 BOYD TINSLEY CLAY COURT CLASSIC CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA • APRIL 24-MAY 1 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS 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 Head 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 French Open. Along with Tournament Director: these three women’s tournaments, the men’s Top seed and 2013 Charlottesville singles champion Shelby Rogers 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 Grace Min 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 Eugenie Bouchard. Rogers competed in her first Australian 2015 US Open, where she lost to reigning finalist Caroline Wozniacki 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 Rio Open 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 Anna Tatishvili, the former Top 50 player who has competed in all four Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. In her career, Rogers has Grand Slam 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 Australian Open 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 Victoria Azarenka. 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 Sachia Vickery, 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, Jessica Pegula, 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 2014 Australian Open 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.

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