Tournament Notes

TournamenT noTes as of april 15, 2014 BOYD TINSLEY CLAY COURT CLASSIC CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA • APRIL 20-27 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO CHARLOTTESVILLE, CONTINUES HAR-TRU USTA PRO CIRCUIT WILD CARD CHALLENGE The Boyd Tinsley Clay Court Classic returns to Charlottesville for the 13th consecutive year. USTA It is the only USTA Pro Circuit women’s event TournamenT held in Virginia and one of 10 consecutive InFormaTIon clay-court tournaments held during this season’s USTA Pro Circuit clay-court swing to Site: Boars Head Sports Club – Charlottesville, Va. help prepare players for the French Open. In Websites: www.boarsheadinn.com conjunction with USTA Player Development, procircuit.usta.com the USTA Pro Circuit also continues to emphasize the importance of increased Wild Card Challenge Twitter: #USTAHarTruWC training for younger players on clay. Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, April 20 Charlottesville is one of three consecutive Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, April 22 women’s clay-court tournaments (joining Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles $50,000 events in Dothan, Ala., the week of April 14, and in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., Surface: Clay / Outdoors next week) that make up the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge, which will Prize Money: $50,000 award a women’s and a men’s wild card into Tournament Director: the 2014 French Open. These three women’s Ron Manilla, (434) 972-6005 tournaments join three men’s events—the [email protected] Sarasota Open in Florida, the week of April 14; Shelby Rogers, who is ranked No. 110 in the the Savannah Challenger in Georgia, the week world, earned wild cards into the US Open and Tournament Press Contact: of April 21; and the USTA Tallahassee Tennis the French Open in 2013, both times based on John Kelly, (434) 987-6513 Challenger in Florida, the week of April 29. her results on the USTA Pro Circuit. She was [email protected] also the top earner in USTA Pro Circuit prize money among all women in 2013. USTA Public Relations Contacts: The American man and American woman Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 who earn the most ATP World Tour and WTA [email protected] ranking points at two of three USTA Pro Circuit French Open are eligible for the wild cards. clay-court events will receive USTA wild cards The USTA and the French Tennis Federation PrIze money / PoInTs to compete in their respective singles main have a reciprocal agreement in which wild SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points draws at the French Open, which runs Sunday, cards into the 2014 French Open and US Winner $7,600 70 May 25, through Sunday, June 8. Only players Open are exchanged. Runner-up $4,053 50 who did not receive direct entry into the Semifinalist $2,216 32 This tournament will be streamed live on www. Quarterfinalist $1,267 18 procircuit.usta.com. Round of 16 $760 10 Round of 32 $444 1 RonAngle Notable players competing in the main draw include: DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Winner $2,786 Runner-up $1,393 Defending singles champion Shelby Semifinalist $696 Rogers, who is the highest-ranked player Quarterfinalist $380 in Charlottesville, at No. 111 in the world. Round of 16 $254 2012 Charlottesville singles champion Melanie Oudin burst onto the tennis scene in 2009, defeating former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon and beating four-time Grand Slam tournament champion Maria Sharapova en route to the US Open quarterfinals. Oudin peaked at No. 31 in the world in singles in April 2010. *Player field subject to change TournamenT noTes Rogers earned a main draw wild card into the 2013 French Open by where she advanced to the second round. She also qualified for the winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge. She then Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2011 to rise to No. 73 in the world won her first Grand Slam main draw match at Roland Garros, defeating rankings. In addition, she was selected to represent the United States wild card Irena Pavlovic in the first round. Rogers also earned a wild in the 2011 Pan Am Games, where she won the gold medal in singles card into the 2013 US Open through her summer hard-court results and the silver medal in doubles (with Christina McHale). In 2013, on the USTA Pro Circuit. Following the 2013 US Open, Rogers won Falconi reached back-to-back doubles finals at the $50,000 USTA Pro her third USTA Pro Circuit event of the year at the $75,000 event in Circuit events in Portland, Ore., and Yakima, Wash., winning the title Albuquerque, N.M., and finished the year as the USTA Pro Circuit prize- in Portland for her second USTA Pro Circuit doubles title. She also money leader, with $36,308 in earnings. As a junior player, Rogers won owns three USTA Pro Circuit singles crowns, the most recent coming the USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships to earn a wild card into the in 2010. In two seasons at Georgia Tech, Falconi was a two-time All- women’s singles main draw of the 2010 US Open for her Grand Slam American and holds the school record in all-time winning percentage tournament debut (in either the women’s event or the juniors). She (.824; 70-15). She was born in Ecuador and moved to New York at trains with the USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training age 3, learning to play on public courts in Manhattan. Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. Victoria Duval, who became a top storyline at the 2013 US Open, 2012 singles champion Melanie Oudin, who burst onto the tennis where she qualified for the main draw and upset 2011 champion scene in 2009, defeating former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic to Samantha Stosur in the first round. Following the US Open, Duval reach the fourth round at Wimbledon and beating four-time Grand competed in ITF Pro Circuit events in Canada, winning her first pro Slam tournament champion Maria Sharapova en route to the US singles and doubles titles in Toronto. She opened the 2014 season Open quarterfinals. Oudin peaked at No. 31 in the world in singles in ranked a career-high No. 143 in the world. In 2012, Duval won the April 2010, but struggled with injuries and inconsistency in the year USTA Girls’ 18s national title to earn a wild card into the US Open that followed. Oudin started a comeback in 2012, capturing her first women’s draw, where she played Kim Clijsters in the first round, WTA title at the Wimbledon tune-up event in Birmingham, England, before Clijsters’ second retirement from professional tennis. Duval where she won eight matches (including qualifying) and upset No. peaked at No. 18 in the world in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 5 seed Jankovic in the final. Oudin then competed at Wimbledon as September 2011, after reaching the quarterfinals of the junior US a wild card. She also earned a 2012 French Open wild card based Open and junior Wimbledon. She also reached the semifinals of the on her results on the USTA Pro Circuit, which included a title at 2012 junior US Open. Duval grew up Haiti until she was 8. When the event here in Charlottesville. (She reached the second round at she was 7, she was held hostage in an armed robbery at her aunt’s Roland Garros.) Last year, she won the Party Rock Open, a $50,000 house in Port-au-Prince, along with several cousins, before being USTA Pro Circuit event in Las Vegas sponsored by music sensation freed unharmed. Following that, Vicky’s mother, Nadine, gave up her Redfoo; reached the second round at the French Open; and qualified neonatal practice and moved Vicky and her two brothers to South for the clay-court WTA events in Rome and Brussels. In addition to Florida, leaving behind Vicky’s father, Jean-Maurice, to continue her success in singles, she notched one of the biggest victories of her his gynecology and obstetrics practice in Port-au-Prince. Vicky gave career at the 2011 US Open, claiming the mixed doubles title with up ballet to pursue tennis, first at the Nick Bollettieri Academy in countryman Jack Sock. She also has been a consistent performer for Bradenton, Fla., then at the Racquet Club of the South, a USTA the U.S. Fed Cup team. Oudin announced in November 2013 that she Certified Regional Training Center in Atlanta. In January 2010, during was suffering from rhabdomyolysis, a muscle-damaging condition. She the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti, Duval’s father was has played in three events this year. pinned by collapsing walls outside his house. He dug himself out, but had several devastating injuries. An Atlanta family connected with the Grace Min, who was one of the top juniors in the world in 2011, Racquet Club of the South donated a large amount of money to airlift defeating the No. 2 seed in the first round and the No. 1 seed in the Jean-Maurice to a hospital in Fort Lauderdale for treatment. final to win the US Open girls’ singles title without dropping a set. That same year, she also captured the girls’ doubles title at Wimbledon Last year’s singles runner-up Allie Kiick, who qualified for the BNP and reached the singles semifinals at the Easter Bowl and the USTA Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., last month and subsequently International Spring Championships. Those results propelled her to peaked at No.

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