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Tournament Notes

as of October 24, 2012

MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA • OCTOBER 27–NOVEMBER 4

USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO CHARLOTTESVILLE TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Men’s Tennis Championships will take place in Charlottesville for the fourth Site: The Boars Sports Club consecutive year and will be offering $75,000 Charlottesville, Va. in prize money for the second time. It is the first of three consecutive USTA Pro Circuit Websites: www.boarsheadinn.com Challengers held indoors to finish the 2012 procircuit.usta.com season, along with events in Knoxville, Tenn., and Champaign, Ill. Charlottesville also hosts Facebook: Charlottesville Men’s Pro Tennis Challenger an annual $50,000 women’s event, which in at the Boar’s Head Sports Club 2012 took place in April. Kolodny/Moodswings Photography Tessa

Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, October 27 This tournament will be streamed live on Main Draw Begins: Monday, October 29 procircuit.usta.com. Rising young American reached the Among the players competing in the main Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles third round of the 2012 US Open. He also won draw this week is rising young American Jack the 2010 US Open junior singles title and the Surface: Hard / Indoors Sock, who achieved the best result of his pro 2011 mixed doubles title. career by reaching the third round of the 2012 Prize Money: $75,000 US Open as a . Sock won the 2010 US Open junior singles title and also qualified competed for the U.S. team in Tournament Director: for the main draw of US Open in 2010 and 2004 and 2009. Ron Manilla, (434) 972-6005 2011 by winning the USTA Boys’ 18 National [email protected] Championships. He won the 2011 US Open Also in Charlottesville is 2010 doubles mixed doubles title with fellow American champion , who peaked at Tournament Press Contact: , and in 2012 he teamed with No. 38 in the world in February and Scott Ratcliffe, (434) 305-9764 reigning NCAA champion to competed on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. [email protected] knock off the top-seeded team of Last year, Young reached the round of 16 at the US Open, upsetting two Top 30 players USTA Communications Contacts: and in the first round of men’s en route for his best tournament Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] doubles. Sock also won his first USTA Pro Circuit Challenger title at the $100,000 event result, and he also reached the final of the Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] in Tiburon, Calif., this fall. ATP event in Bangkok and the semifinals of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event Prize money / points Also to compete in Charlottesville is former in Washington, D.C. As a junior, Young was a No. 15 , the only active two-time Grand Slam tournament champion SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points American man to reach the singles semifinals (2005 , 2007 Wimbledon) Winner $10,800 90 of a Grand Slam tournament—at the 2005 and, at age 15, became the youngest-ever Runner-up $6,360 55 US Open, where he lost in five sets to Andre year-end world junior No. 1. Semifinalist $3,765 33 Agassi. Ginepri has reached the fourth round Quarterfinalist $2,190 17 or better at all four Grand Slam events and also had a notable run at the Round of 16 $1,290 8 US Open, winning three matches to qualify Round of 32 $780 -- for the 2012 main draw and his first Grand

DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) USTA Slam appearance—in the process becoming Winner $4,650 one of just 13 qualifying wild cards to reach Runner-up $2,700 the main draw in recorded US Open history. Semifinalist $1,620 Williams faced in the first Quarterfinalist $960 round just days before Roddick announced his Round of 16 $540 retirement. Williams turned pro last summer following his sophomore year at the University

2010 Charlottesville doubles champion Donald Young peaked at No. 38 in the world in February and competed on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team.

*Player field subject to change Tournament Notes of . He was one of the nation’s top collegiate players during a tour-level event; and three-time USTA Pro Circuit Challenger singles the 2010-11 season, reaching the singles final at the 2011 NCAA champion , who has been ranked as high as No. 158 in Championships. This year, in his first full season as a pro, Williams has the world, in 2007, and earlier this year won three matches to qualify reached the singles semifinals or better at three USTA Pro Circuit events for the main draw of the Australian Open, where he faced and has added two doubles titles. He also went 12-3 in singles in a in the first round. string of ITF Circuit events in Europe this spring. Former college standouts competing in the main draw are: Tennys Steve Johnson also will be competing in Charlottesville. Johnson Sandgren, a former University of Tennessee All-American who has cemented his place as one of the best college players ever in 2012, won three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and three doubles titles this going undefeated in singles to claim his second straight NCAA singles year, and who has climbed more than 250 spots in the ATP World Tour title and leading USC to its fourth team title during his four years at the rankings since the beginning of 2012 due in large part to his success school. Johnson turned professional shortly thereafter and captured the on the USTA Pro Circuit; and former UCLA standout Daniel Kosakowski, $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Aptos, Calif., this summer. From who won back-to-back USTA Pro Circuit Futures titles in Claremont, there, he reached the third round of the US Open, becoming the first Calif., and Costa Mesa, Calif., in September. reigning NCAA champion to advance to the third round of the men’s singles since Arizona State’s Sargis Sargisian in 1995. Among those set to compete this week in qualifying is , the 2010 NCAA singles champion who recently completed his career 2011 Charlottesville singles runner-up , at a career-high at Stanford. At the 2012 US Open, Klahn received a wild card into No. 69 in the world, is the highest-ranked American in the field this qualifying and subsequently qualified for the main draw, where he week. He won a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the main draw of upset Top 50 player Jurgen Melzer in the first round in five sets. Klahn the and qualified for both the 2012 became the first-ever men’s qualifying wild card to win a round at the and Wimbledon, reaching the second round at both. Levine also played US Open. He started his professional career this summer with the in the US Open main draw this year, won the $100,000 USTA Pro help of the USTA Collegiate Team, a program providing college players Circuit Challenger in Dallas in February, and reached the quarterfinals of experience and opportunities on the USTA Pro Circuit. the ATP event in Metz, , this fall. Also in qualifying is , who captured the 2009 NCAA soared into the world’s Top 70 in 2011 after winning singles title in his freshman year at the University of Mississippi before his first ATP singles title at the U.S. Men’s Championships turning pro. Britton’s NCAA title earned him a main draw wild card into in . Also in 2011, he qualified for the ATP Masters event at the 2009 US Open, where he pushed five-time defending champion Indian Wells, where he reached the third round with wins against two in a 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 defeat. After touring for more than two Top 50 players. This year, Sweeting reached the second round of the years, Britton broke through with his first singles title at the $15,000 Australian Open and Wimbledon. Sweeting starred collegiately at the USTA Pro Circuit Futures in Sacramento, Calif., this June. He also has University of . As a junior player, he won the 2005 US Open excelled in doubles, winning five USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles this boys’ singles title. year (and 10 doubles titles overall including ITF Men’s Circuit events). As a junior player, Britton reached the 2008 US Open boys’ singles final Another promising young American in this week’s field is 2010 as a wild card. US Open boys’ singles runner-up and former top junior , who has been ranked in the ATP Top 200 for most of 2012. He Also competing in qualifying is , a five-time A&M competed in the 2012 US Open as a wild card, qualified for the main All-American who won the 2011 NCAA men’s doubles title with fellow draw at the Australian Open in January—his first time in the main draw Charlottesville qualifying entrant . Krajicek won his first of a Grand Slam event—and reached the final round of qualifying at this professional title at a $15,000 Futures in in January and also year’s Wimbledon. Kudla captured his first USTA Pro Circuit Challenger qualified for the ATP event in Delray Beach, Fla., in February. A standout singles title in Lexington, Ky., this summer. He also served as a practice junior player, he won the 2008 USTA Boys’ 18 National Championships, partner for the U.S. Davis Cup team for its quarterfinal victory over earning a wild card into the 2008 US Open main draw. He also has France earlier this year and for the semifinals in this September. been a practice partner on three occasions for the U.S. Davis Cup team, most recently for the team’s semifinal tie in Gijon, Spain. He is a distant Also expected in the main draw this week is , who relative of former Wimbledon champion . qualified for the 2012 US Open and advanced to the second round to reach a career-high No. 153 in the world. Smyczek also won an Another young American in qualifying is 18-year-old , eight-man USTA wild card playoff to earn a spot in the main draw of the who reached his first $50,000 Challenger semifinal this summer in 2010 US Open—his first Grand Slam main draw appearance—and won Lexington, Ky. In May, he reached back-to-back Futures semifinals in a similar USTA wild card playoff to earn a spot in the main draw of the Tampa, Fla., and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. The younger brother of . He also qualified for Indian Wells earlier this year, rising American and U.S. Olympian , Christian teamed advancing to the second round. Smyczek regularly trains in Tampa, Fla., with Ryan to reach the doubles quarterfinals at the 2012 US Open, with fellow Americans , and . upsetting the No. 4 seeds in the opening round.

Other Americans in the main draw are: , who ascended Others in qualifying are: , who ended his career at UCLA to a career-best No. 63 in 2009 shortly before suffering a wrist injury in 2012 by leading the team to the NCAA semifinals and reached the that cost him seven months, has reached the second round or better at championship round of the 2012 US Open National Playoffs in both all four Grand Slam events in his career, and is tied for the most career singles and mixed doubles; and Michael McClune, who spent the first USTA Pro Circuit men’s titles with 30 after winning the doubles crown half of 2012 playing in and then reached the quarterfinals at the $50,000 Challenger in Savannah, Ga., this spring; Michael at the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Aptos, Calif., and the Russell, the men’s all-time leader in USTA Pro Circuit singles titles with $50,000 Challenger in Lexington this summer. McClune won the USTA 22, who upset then-Top 10 player Fish en route to the semifinals of the Boys’ 18s singles crown to earn a wild card into the main draw of the ATP World Tour event in Houston in April, the best result of his career at 2007 US Open, his only Grand Slam main draw appearance to date.

*Player field subject to change Tournament Notes

USTA PRO CIRCUIT 10 AND UNDER TENNIS

With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from On January 1, the USTA announced that the rules of tennis $10,000 to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for have officially changed and require that 10 and Under Tennis aspiring tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. The USTA launched its tournaments be played utilizing smaller, lighter racquets Pro Circuit 33 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and it and lower-bouncing balls on smaller courts. This rule change has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly $3 million signifies the emergence of 10 and Under Tennis as an integral in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities part of the development of young players. The scaled-down nationwide. Mardy Fish, , Andy Roddick, , James Blake, and equipment and smaller courts better allow kids to rally and are among today’s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. play the game earlier in their development, and increase the likelihood they will return to the court and continue to More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit improve while having fun doing so. For more information, visit helped launch the careers of two young Ryan Harrison www.10andundertennis.com. Americans—Christina McHale and Ryan Harrison. McHale reached the quarterfinals or better at five USTA Pro Circuit events in NJTL 2010 and climbed more than 100 spots in the WTA rankings that year. Buoyed by those Cities across the country participate in the USTA/National Junior results, she began to compete regularly Tennis and Learning (NJTL) network, a nationwide network of on the WTA tour in 2011 and became the community tennis organizations seeking to develop the character youngest player in the world’s Top 50 after of young people through both tennis and education. Founded defeating No. 8 seed en route by in 1969, more than 650 registered chapters/ to the third round of the US Open. Three Anthony Behar programs exist throughout the nation with more than 250,000 weeks prior, she upset world No. 1 Wozniacki participants ages 6-18, making NJTL one of the USTA’s largest at the US Open Series event in . community-based initiatives. McHale also was named to the U.S. Fed Cup team for the World Group Playoff in April 2011. Harrison began 2011 by winning US OPEN NATIONAL PlayoffS the singles and doubles titles at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in and subsequently reached the round of 16 in Indian Wells, where he upset three players ranked in the Top 50. Harrison The USTA launched the US Open cracked the Top 100 for the first time in summer 2011—becoming one of just two teenage males in the National Playoffs in 2010, making Top 100—after reaching back-to-back semifinals at the US Open Series events in and . the US Open “open” to anyone He also played in the main draw of all four Grand Slam events last year, pushing world No. 5 to age 14+ and of all skill levels. five sets in the second round at Wimbledon. This year, more than 1,200 players competed in 13 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments nationwide for a PLAYER DEVELOPMENT 2012 US Open Qualifying Tournament wild card. A mixed doubles element also was held, with the winning team earning a main The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions draw mixed doubles wild card. Clement Reix, a 28-year-old by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need Frenchman living in Reno, Nev., won the US Open National Playoffs to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center men’s title and , 24, of Abington, PA, won the Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as women’s wild card for the second time in three years. Nicole well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental . Melichar and won the mixed doubles tournament.

CHARLOTTESVILLE Past WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2011 (RSA) Jesse Levine (USA) 2011 Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) – (GBR) 2010 (USA) (USA) 2010 Robert Kendrick (USA) – Donald Young (USA) 2009 (USA) (IND) 2009 (GER) – Andreas Siljestrom (SWE)