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as of September 23, 2015

RED ROCK PRO OPEN LAS VEGAS, NV • SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 4

USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO LAS VEGAS TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Red Rock Pro Open returns to Las Vegas for the ninth consecutive year. It is the first Site: Red Rock Country Club – Las Vegas, Nevada $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit women’s event Websites: www.redrockproopen.com following the US Open and the only USTA Pro

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Facebook: Red Rock Country Club This tournament will be streamed live on Twitter: @RedRockTennis www.procircuit.usta.com.

Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, Sept. 26 To follow the tournament, download the Main Draw Begins: Monday, Sept. 28 USTA Pro Circuit’s new phone app by searching “procircuit” in the app store. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Surface: Hard / Outdoor Notable players competing in the main draw include: Prize Money: $50,000 Tournament Director: , who earned a into Nicole Gibbs received a wild card into this Mike Copenhaver, (702) 304-5637 this year’s US Open and won her first-round year’s US Open and won her first-round [email protected] match. Last year, Gibbs advanced to the match. Gibbs captured consecutive NCAA third round of the 2014 US Open—her singles titles in 2012 and 2013 for Stanford Tournament Press Contact: career-best result—while competing as University, becoming the fifth player in Steve Pratt, (310) 408-4555 history—and the fourth from Stanford—to a wild card after winning the USTA Pro win back-to-back NCAA Division I women’s [email protected] Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. singles championships. She also won her third $50,000 USTA Pro USTA Communications Contact: Circuit event of her career in Carson, Calif., Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] in 2014. This year, Gibbs advanced to the March. She also qualified for this summer’s second round of the —her Emirates Airline US Open Series event in PRIZE MONEY / POINTS first main draw appearance Stanford, Calif., upsetting outside of the US Open—and competed to reach the round of 16. Gibbs won Prize Money Ranking Points SINGLES: in the and Wimbledon main consecutive NCAA singles titles in 2012 Winner $7,600 80 draws, peaking at No. 84 in the world in and 2013 for Stanford University, becoming Runner-up $4,053 48 the fifth player in history—and the fourth Semifinalist $2,216 29 from Stanford—to win back-to-back NCAA Quarterfinalist $1,267 15 Division I women’s singles championships. Round of 16 $760 8 Gibbs also helped lead Stanford to its 17th Round of 32 $444 1 NCAA team title in 2013. As a sophomore DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Steven Ryan in 2012, she defeated teammate Mallory Winner $2,786 Burdette in the NCAA singles title match Runner-up $1,393 and then teamed with Burdette to win the Semifinalist $696 NCAA doubles championship. As a junior Quarterfinalist $380 player, she advanced to the final of the Round of 16 $254 USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships in 2010 and 2011 and reached the semifinals of the 2011 junior US Open. Gibbs trains at COMMUNITY EVENTS the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Sunday, Sept. 27 Boca Raton, Fla. Sunrise Children’s Hospital Kids’ Day, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 28 qualified for the 2015 US Open Pro-Am, 6:00-8:00 p.m. and advanced to the third round—her career-best Grand Slam result. Rogers peaked at No. 70 in the world last September after reaching her first WTA singles final in Bad Gastein, .

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2012 Las Vegas singles finalistShelby Rogers, who qualified for 2011 Las Vegas singles finalist and doubles championAlexa Glatch, the 2015 US Open and advanced to the third round—her career- who has competed in every Grand Slam main draw but the Australian best Grand Slam result. Rogers peaked at No. 70 in the world last Open, playing in the US Open main draw five times and Wimbledon September after reaching her first WTA singles final in Bad Gastein, and the French Open three times, qualifying for Roland Garros this Austria, while also reaching the semifinals in Quebec City and year. Glatch has consistently competed on the USTA Pro Circuit the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in and ITF Circuit, winning 10 singles titles and seven doubles titles, , where she upset then-Top 10 player . including a singles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event Rogers competed in her first Australian Open and Wimbledon in Osprey, Fla., this year for her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title main draws this year, in addition to competing in the French Open since 2009. Glatch has suffered through a number of injuries in her for the third time. In addition, she won the doubles title at the career, missing more than a year from July 2013 to September 2014 $50,000 grass-court event in , Great Britain, in June and most of 2010 as well. In 2009, Glatch propelled the U.S. to the with CoCo Vandeweghe. In 2013, Rogers earned a wild card into Fed Cup final by winning two of the U.S.’s three points—dropping the French Open by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card just six games in four sets against two Top 50 players—in its 3-2 Challenge—she reached the second round at Roland Garros—and semifinal victory against the with a straight-sets win secured a wild card into the 2013 US Open by winning the USTA over 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. As a junior, Glatch Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. In her career, Rogers has reached the girls’ singles and doubles finals at the 2005 US Open— won four USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and one doubles title. As a losing to current world No. 1 Azarenka in the singles final—but junior player, she won the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships she suffered career-threatening injuries in a motor scooter accident to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 US Open for her shortly thereafter. She returned to the USTA Pro Circuit the following first appearance in a Grand Slam (in either the main draw or juniors). year and won her first career pro title at the $10,000 event in Fort Worth, Texas. , who peaked at No. 108 in the world this July after qualifying for Wimbledon and reaching the quarterfinals of the , who played in just one tournament last year WTA’s Wimbledon tune-up event in Nottingham, , this June. after having knee surgery, but who is on the comeback trail after Vickery also represented the U.S. in the Pan American Games in qualifying for the 2015 US Open and winning her first-round match. Toronto this summer. Vickery won the first two USTA Pro Circuit Pegula achieved a career breakthrough in 2013 by qualifying for singles titles of her career earlier this year at the $25,000 Florida and reaching the third round of the WTA event in Charleston, S.C. events in Plantation and Sunrise. She has competed in the US Open She also qualified for the WTA events in Shenzhen, , and and the Australian Open main draws in her young career, receiving Washington, D.C., climbing to a career-best No. 123 in the world a main-draw wild card into the 2015 US Open and earning one that year. This year, Pegula qualified for Charleston and reached the into the by winning the USTA’s Australian quarterfinals of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Dothan, Ala. Open Wild Card Playoff. She also competed in qualifying for the She also reached the final round of qualifying at Wimbledon and US Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 2014, and she reached the French Open this. Pegula has enjoyed even greater success in the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in doubles, competing in the US Open doubles main draw in 2011, Stanford, Calif., last summer—her first WTA quarterfinal. In 2013, 2012 and 2015, and peaking at No. 92 in the world in the doubles Vickery won the USTA National Girls’ 18s singles and doubles titles, rankings in February 2013. Pegula’s father, Terry, is the owner of the earning wild cards into the main draws of the singles and doubles NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. events at the 2013 US Open. At the Open, she won her first-round match in her Grand Slam debut, defeating Mirjana Lucic-Baroni , who competed in the US Open main draw for in straight sets. As a junior, Vickery ascended to No. 6 in the ITF the second time in her career this year after winning this summer’s World Junior Rankings, reaching the doubles semifinals of junior USTA Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. She won the Wimbledon in 2012 and competing in all four junior Grand Slams. challenge by reaching the final of the $50,000 event in Lexington, She trains with coach Adrian Zeman at the ZMG Tennis at Deer Ky. Crawford won the 2012 US Open girls’ singles title and qualified Creek facility in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and was a longtime trainee of for the women’s singles main draw of the US Open that year as the USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training Center a qualifying wild card. She has also competed in the US Open Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. women’s doubles draw three times (2011-12, 2014). At 6-foot-2, Crawford’s big serve and aggressive baseline game helped her rise , who qualified for the 2015 US Open and reached to No. 5 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2012. This year, she the second round. She also qualified for the won her fourth and fifth career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles at the and reached the second round and advanced to the quarterfinals $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit events in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and of the WTA event in Bucharest, , in July. Tatishvili peaked Baton Rouge, La. at No. 50 in the world in singles in October 2012 and No. 59 in doubles in May 2012. Her best Grand Slam result came at the , who recently completed her sophomore year at UCLA 2012 US Open, where she reached the fourth round before falling and has since turned pro. This past season, Brady was part of the to former world No. 1 . Tatishvili has won eight UCLA team that reached the final of the NCAA Team Championships. USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and three ITF-level singles titles in During her freshman season (2013-14), she was a member of the her career. She won her first WTA doubles title last year in , 2014 NCAA championship-winning team. Also last year, Brady Austria. As a junior player, Tatishvili climbed as high as No. 19 in won her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title, at the $25,000 event the ITF World Junior Rankings and reached the doubles semifinals at in Redding, Calif.; she also won the doubles title in Redding. In the 2006 junior Australian Open with . Tatishvili addition, Brady won two doubles events in 2011. formerly represented the country of Georgia but changed her representation to the in April 2014. TOURNAMENT NOTES

Julia Boserup, who qualified for and reached the quarterfinals of Cup team in the past. Oudin announced in November 2013 that she the WTA event in Monterrey, Mexico, in April 2014 for her career- was suffering from rhabdomyolysis, a muscle-damaging condition, best WTA result. In addition, following the 2014 US Open, she and took time off to deal with it. She resumed competition in March reached the quarterfinals or better at three $50,000 USTA Pro 2014 and competed on the USTA Pro Circuit and in qualifying for Circuit events. In her career, Boserup has competed in qualifying the US Open, French Open and Wimbledon. She was then sidelined for the US Open and Australian Open, and she has won three USTA again by the heart procedure. Pro Circuit singles titles, including the $25,000 event in Raleigh, N.C., this year—her first USTA Pro Circuit title since 2012, when Danielle Lao, who graduated from USC in 2013 and earned two All- she achieved a career-best singles ranking of No. 174. Boserup was America honors during her college career. She also led the Trojans to also a standout junior, winning the prestigious in 2008, back-to-back Pac-12 team championships and was a team captain defeating U.S. Olympian Christina McHale in the final. her senior year. This June, Lao won her first career USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the $25,000 event in Baton Rouge, La. Also in 2015, , who played for the University of North Carolina, she qualified for the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, where she received All-America honors and, in 2010, helped lead Mich., and won her first ITF-level singles title in Leon, Mexico; she the Tar Heels to their first NCAA team semifinals. In 2013, Marand also captured the doubles title in Leon. She won the first USTA Pro won her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title, at the $25,000 event Circuit title of her career in 2014 in doubles at the $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas. She has also won nine career USTA Pro Circuit in Pelham, Ala. After college at USC, Lao wrote a book, “Invaluable doubles titles, including two tournaments this year. As a junior Experience,” about playing college tennis. player, Marand reached the doubles final at the 2006 Easter Bowl with fellow American . , a former University of Tennessee standout who was named the 2010 College Senior Player of the Year after Notable players competing in qualifying include: leading the Volunteers to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. Whoriskey captured her first career USTA Pro Circuit singles title , who was a top storyline at the , last year at the $10,000 event in Hilton Island, S.C., where where she made her Grand Slam main-draw debut and advanced she also won the doubles crown. This year, she reached the singles to the third round. She competed in the French Open as a wild quarterfinals and doubles semifinals at the $100,000 USTA Pro card after winning the 2014 Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Circuit event in Midland, Mich., and won her eighth USTA Pro Challenge. Townsend earned the wild card by winning two $50,000 Circuit/ITF-level doubles title at the $25,000 event in Jackson, USTA Pro Circuit clay-court events: Charlottesville, Va., and Indian Miss. She also won the 2014 US Open National Playoffs to earn a Harbour Beach, Fla.—the first two USTA Pro Circuit titles of her wild card into the US Open Qualifying Tournament, where she won career. Townsend went on to compete in the other three Grand Slam her first-round match. events following last year’s French Open. This year, she made her Fed Cup debut in the World Group II First Round in , where , the two-time Grand Slam doubles champion who is she played in the dead doubles rubber. Townsend is a former junior playing in just her sixth tournament since the 2014 US Open, where standout, clinching the year-end ITF No. 1 junior ranking in 2012 to she lost in the second round to . She has been out become the first American girl to hold that position since Gretchen since with a hip injury. King has ranked as high as No. 50 in the Rush in 1982. She ascended to No. 1 by winning the Australian world in singles and No. 3 in doubles, winning the women’s doubles Open junior singles and doubles titles as well as the junior doubles titles at the US Open and Wimbledon in 2010. She has won 14 WTA titles at the US Open and Wimbledon. Also in 2012, she led the doubles titles and one singles title (in Bangkok in 2006). King has U.S. to the Junior Fed Cup championship. Townsend turned pro at also represented the U.S. in Fed Cup. the start of 2013 and, in her first WTA-level main-draw match, beat then-No. 57 Lucie Hradecka in the first round of Indian Wells. After , who graduated from UCLA this year and earned playing primarily pro events early that year, she returned to the junior All-America honors in both singles and doubles for the fourth ranks in 2013 and reached the girls’ singles final at Wimbledon. consecutive year, becoming the seventh player in school history to accomplish that feat. This year, she was named the ITA National 2013 Las Vegas singles champion , who has played in Collegiate Player for the Year. Anderson was part of UCLA’s NCAA- just a few USTA Pro Circuit tournaments since October 2014 after title winning team in 2014 and reached the NCAA doubles final in undergoing a heart procedure. She reached the quarterfinals of the 2013. At the 2015 US Open, Anderson won the American Collegiate $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Stockton, Calif., this July. Oudin Invitational, a tournament for American college players. She has burst onto the tennis scene in 2009, defeating former world No. 1 won one USTA Pro Circuit singles title ($10,000 Landisville, Pa., in Jelena Jankovic to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon and beating 2011) and one doubles title ($25,000 Redding, Calif., in 2013). five-time Grand Slam champion en route to the US As a junior player, she reached the singles quarterfinals of the 2010 Open quarterfinals. Oudin peaked at No. 31 in the world in singles junior US Open. in April 2010, but she struggled with injuries and inconsistency in the year that followed. She started a comeback in 2012, capturing Alexandra Stevenson, 34, who drew international attention in 1999 her first career WTA title at the Wimbledon tune-up event in by becoming the first female qualifier in Wimbledon history to reach , England. She then competed at Wimbledon as a wild the event’s semifinals. She was ranked in the year-end Top 100 card. Oudin also earned a wild card into the each year from 1999 to 2003, peaking at No. 18 in 2002. Injuries based on her results on the USTA Pro Circuit, which included a title drove her ranking into the 600s in 2005, but Stevenson rebounded at the event in Charlottesville, Va. (She reached the second round at to climb back into the Top 200 in 2009, advancing to the final at Roland Garros that year.) In addition to her success in singles, Oudin the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., for her best notched one of the biggest victories of her career at the 2011 US result on the USTA Pro Circuit since 1998. She is the daughter of Open, claiming the mixed doubles title with fellow American Jack basketball Hall-of-Famer Julius Erving. Sock. She has also been a consistent performer for the U.S. Fed TOURNAMENT NOTES

Many WTA stars have found success in Las Vegas. 2013 singles finalist and doubles championCoCo Vandeweghe won her first WTA title in 2014 in ‘S-Hertogenbosch, , and 2007 Las Vegas doubles champion Victoria Azarenka has ranked reached quarterfinals of Wimbledon this year in her career-best No. 1 in the world and won her first career Grand Slam title at the Grand Slam result. She peaked at No. 32 in the world this February. . She successfully defended her title at the Vandeweghe reached her first pro final in 2012 at the Series event Australian Open in 2013 and reached the US Open final in 2012 in Stanford as a qualifier, losing to Serena Williams. Vandeweghe and 2013. She holds 17 WTA singles titles and won the bronze broke into the Top 100 for the first time in her career in early 2011 medal in singles at the 2012 Olympics in . after qualifying for the Australian Open. She was named to the U.S. Fed Cup team for the 2010 final versus and in this year’s World 2007 singles champion Caroline Wozniacki, of , ended Group II First Round in Argentina, where she played singles and in 2010 and 2011 ranked No. 1 in the world. She has captured 23 the dead doubles rubber. WTA singles titles and has reached the quarterfinals or better at seven Grand Slam events, including the 2009 and 2014 US Open, where she was the runner-up. *Player field subject to change

LAS VEGAS PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2014 (USA) Michelle Larcher De Brito (POR) 2014 Veronica Cepede Royg (PAR) – Maria Irigoyen (ARG) 2013 Melanie Oudin (USA) CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) 2013 CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) – (AUT) 2012 (USA) Shelby Rogers (USA) 2012 (USA) – (RUS) 2011 (ITA) (USA) 2011 Alexa Glatch (USA) – (USA) 2010 (USA) Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 2010 Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) – Megan Moulton-Levy (USA) 2009 (RUS) Aniko Kapros (HUN) 2009 Aniko Kapros (HUN) – Agustina Lepore (ARG) 2008 (FRA) (USA) 2008 (HUN) – Renata Voracova (CZE) 2007 Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) Akiko Morigami (JPN) 2007 Victoria Azarenka (BLR) – (BLR) 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 competed in cities nationwide. Victoria Azarenka, Eugenie Bouchard, , , Kei tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a child’s Nishikori, , Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki are among today’s top stars who size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com. began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit.

More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped further the careers of two young NJTL Americans— and Nicole Gibbs. In her first full season as a Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, along with Charlie Pasarell professional after capturing back-to-back and Sheridan Snyder, the USTA/National Junior Tennis & NCAA singles championships in 2012 and Learning (NJTL) network is a nationwide group of more than

2013, Gibbs won the women’s USTA Pro A. Clary/Getty Images Timothy Circuit US Open Wild Card Challenge in 625 non-profit youth development organizations that provide 2014. After claiming the title at the $50,000 free or low-cost tennis, education and life skills programming USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., to more than 350,000 children each year. Celebrating its Gibbs clinched the US Open wild card 45th anniversary this year, NJTL is one of the USTA’s largest by advancing to the final of the $50,000 community-based offerings. tournament in Lexington, Ky., her last USTA Pro Circuit event of the season. Gibbs went on to reach the third round at the US Open, scoring a pair of Top 50 victories along the US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS way. Two weeks after the US Open, as a qualifier at , she reached her first WTA Nicole Gibbs The USTA launched the US Open quarterfinal, which boosted her into the National Playoffs in 2010, WTA Top 100 for the first time. Gibbs earned making the US Open “open” the second-most WTA ranking points of any to anyone age 14+ and of all American playing the USTA Pro Circuit in 2014. Kozlov, runner-up in 2014 at the junior championships of the Australian Open and Wimbledon, reached the final of the Sacramento Challenger last October at age skill levels. Last year, more 16, becoming the youngest American to reach a Challenger final since in 1986. That result than 1,200 players competed vaulted Kozlov to No. 443 in the world, making him the youngest player in the ATP World Tour Top 500. He in 13 Sectional Qualifying concluded 2014 by sweeping the singles and doubles titles at the prestigious Orange Bowl Junior Tennis Tournaments nationwide for Championships, locking down a No. 3 junior world ranking. a 2014 US Open Qualifying Tournament wild card. A mixed doubles element also was PLAYER DEVELOPMENT held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed doubles wild card. This year, players again competed in The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions singles and mixed doubles, but also had the chance to play by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need in the new men’s and women’s doubles competition to earn to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center main draw doubles wild cards. The US Open National Playoffs Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as Championships are Aug. 21-29. For more information and the well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. complete schedule, visit www.usopen.org/NationalPlayoffs.