TournamenT noTes as of march 6, 2013 USTA MEN’S PRO TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS OF CALABASAS CALABASAS, CA • MARCH 9–17 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO CALABASAS TournamenT InFormaTIon The USTA Men’s Pro Tennis Championships of Calabasas returns to Calabasas, Calif., for Site: Calabasas Tennis & Swim Center the second consecutive year as a $15,000 Calabasas, Calif USTA Pro Circuit event after a one-year hiatus in 2011. It served as a $50,000 Websites: www.calabasasprotennis.com Challenger for 10 years (from 2001 to procircuit.usta.com 2010). It is the third hard-court USTA Pro Circuit Futures of the year and the third Facebook: Top Seed – Calabasas Athletics University of Tennessee event offering $15,000 in prize money Twitter: @calabasastennis (following two $15,000 Futures held in Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, March 9 Texas in February). It is also the first of two consecutive $15,000 Futures in the state of Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, March 12 California, with an event to be held in Costa Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Mesa next week. Surface: Hard / Outdoor Players competing in the main draw are: Prize Money: $15,000 Defending singles champion and this week’s Tournament Director: top seed Tennys Sandgren, whose name Jeff Richards, (818) 388-1696,
[email protected] is pronounced like the sport and who won Tournament Press Contact: three Futures titles (in four finals) in 2012 Defending champion Tennys Sandgren won three Futures titles (in four finals) in 2012 Steve Pratt, (310) 408-4555,
[email protected] before transitioning to Challenger-level events for the remainder of the year.