TournamenT noTes as of april 25, 2014 AUDI MELBOURNE PRO TENNIS CLASSIC PRESENTED BY REVOLUTION TECHNOLOGIES INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH, FL • APRIL 27-MAY 4 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN RETURN TO INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH AS FINAL EVENT IN HAR-TRU USTA PRO CIRCUIT WILD CARD CHALLENGE The Audi Melbourne Pro Tennis Classic presented by Revolution Technologies returns to Indian Harbour Beach for the ninth TournamenT consecutive year. It is one of nine USTA Pro Anthony Behar InFormaTIon Circuit women’s events held in Florida this year and one of 10 consecutive clay-court Site: Kiwi Tennis Club – Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. tournaments held during this season’s USTA Websites: www.kiwitennisclub.com Pro Circuit clay-court swing to help prepare procircuit.usta.com players for the French Open. In conjunction with USTA Player Development, the USTA Facebook: Kiwi Tennis Club Pro Circuit also continues to emphasize the Twitter: @kiwitennisclub importance of increased training for younger players on clay. Wild Card Challenge Twitter: #USTAHarTruWC Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, April 27 Indian Harbour Beach is the last of three consecutive women’s clay-court tournaments Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, April 29 (joining $50,000 events in Dothan, Ala., held the week of April 14, and Charlottesville, Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Va., held the week of April 21) that make Surface: Clay / Outdoors up the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge, which will award a men’s and a Prize Money: $50,000 women’s wild card into the 2014 French 2012 singles champion Grace Min was the Tournament Director: Open. The three women’s tournaments join first-week leader in this year’s Har-Tru USTA Pro Holly Baney, (321) 698-0888 three men’s tournaments—the Sarasota Open Circuit Wild Card Challenge. Min was one of the [email protected] in Florida, held the week of April 14; the top juniors in the world in 2011, having won Savannah Challenger in Georgia, held the the US Open junior title. Tournament Press Contact: week of April 21; and the USTA Tallahassee Christina Barea, (321) 409-4949 ext. 290 Tennis Challenger in Florida, held the week of [email protected] April 29. who earn the most ATP World Tour and WTA ranking points at two of three USTA Pro USTA Public Relations Contacts: Circuit clay-court events will receive USTA Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 The American man and American woman wild cards to compete in their respective [email protected] main draws of the French Open, which runs PrIze money / PoInTs Sunday, May 25, through Sunday, June 8. USTA Only U.S. players who did not receive direct SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points entry into the French Open are eligible for the Winner $7,600 70 wild cards. The USTA and the French Tennis Runner-up $4,053 50 Federation have a reciprocal agreement in Semifinalist $2,216 32 which wild cards into the 2014 French Open Quarterfinalist $1,267 18 and US Open are exchanged. Round of 16 $760 10 Round of 32 $444 1 This tournament will be streamed live on DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) www.procircuit.usta.com. Winner $2,786 Runner-up $1,393 Semifinalist $696 Quarterfinalist $380 Round of 16 $254 2010 singles runner-up Shelby Rogers, who is ranked No. 113 in the world, earned wild cards CommunITy eVenTs into the US Open and the French Open in 2013, both times based on her results on the USTA Pro Sunday, April 27 Circuit. She also was the top earner in USTA Pro Kids’ Day, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Circuit prize money among all women in 2013 *Player field subject to change TournamenT noTes Notable players competing in the main draw include: Irina Falconi, who has played in every Grand Slam tournament at least twice, reaching the third round of the 2011 US Open and the second 2012 Indian Harbour Beach singles champion Grace Min, who was round of the 2012 French Open. At the 2011 US Open, she upset the first-week leader in this year’s Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card then-No. 14 Dominika Cibulkova in the second round in Arthur Ashe Challenge after winning the $50,000 event in Dothan, Ala.—the Stadium and carried an American flag around the court in celebration fifth USTA Pro Circuit singles crown of her career. Min was one of following the win. Also in 2011, Falconi won a USTA playoff to earn the top juniors in the world in 2011, defeating the No. 2 seed in the a wild card into the French Open, where she advanced to the second first round and the No. 1 seed in the final to win the US Open girls’ round. She also qualified for the Australian Open and Wimbledon singles title without dropping a set. That same year, she also won the that year to rise to No. 73 in the world rankings. In addition, she girls’ doubles title at Wimbledon and reached the singles semifinals at was selected to represent the United States in the 2011 Pan Am the Easter Bowl and the USTA International Spring Championships. Games, where she won the gold medal in singles and the silver medal Those results propelled her to No. 4 in the world junior rankings. in doubles (with Christina McHale). In 2013, Falconi reached back- In 2013, Min qualified for the French Open—her first Grand Slam to-back doubles finals at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit events in tournament main draw appearance outside the US Open—as well as Portland, Ore., and Yakima, Wash., winning the title in Portland for the US Open. She also qualified for the WTA events in Indian Wells, her second USTA Pro Circuit doubles title. She also owns three USTA Calif.; Charleston, S.C.; and Acapulco, Mexico, last year to crack the Pro Circuit singles titles, the most recent coming in 2010. In two Top 150 for the first time in her career. Min won her first USTA Pro seasons at Georgia Tech before her professional career, Falconi was a Circuit singles title of 2014 at the $25,000 event in Innisbrook, Fla., two-time All-American and broke the school record in all-time winning defeating fellow American Nicole Gibbs in the final. Min has trained percentage (.824; 70-15). She was born in Ecuador and moved to New full-time at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, York at age 3, learning to play on public courts in Manhattan. Fla., since 2009. Victoria Duval, who became a top storyline at the 2013 US Open, where 2010 singles runner-up Shelby Rogers, who is the highest-ranked she qualified for the main draw and upset 2011 champion Samantha American in Indian Harbour Beach at No. 113 in the world. Rogers Stosur in the first round. Following the US Open, Duval competed in ITF earned a main draw wild card into the 2013 French Open by winning Pro Circuit events in Canada, winning her first pro singles and doubles last year’s Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge. She then won titles in Toronto. She opened the 2014 season ranked a career-high No. her first Grand Slam tournament main draw match at Roland Garros, 143 in the world and, in this year’s Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card defeating wild card Irena Pavlovic in the first round. Rogers also earned Challenge, reached the final of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event a wild card into the 2013 US Open through her summer hard-court in Dothan, Ala., losing to Grace Min. In 2012, Duval won the USTA results on the USTA Pro Circuit. Following the 2013 US Open, Rogers Girls’ 18s national title to earn a wild card into the US Open women’s won her third USTA Pro Circuit event of the year at the $75,000 event draw, where she played Kim Clijsters in the first round before Clijsters’ in Albuquerque, N.M., and finished the year as the USTA Pro Circuit retirement. Duval peaked at No. 18 in the world in the ITF World Junior prize-money leader, with $36,308 in earnings. As a junior player, Rankings in September 2011 after reaching the quarterfinals of the Rogers won the USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships to earn a wild junior US Open and junior Wimbledon. She also reached the semifinals card into the main draw of the 2010 US Open, her first appearance of the 2012 junior US Open. Duval grew up Haiti until she was 8. When in a Grand Slam tournament (in either the women’s main draw or the she was 7, she was held hostage in an armed robbery at her aunt’s juniors). She trains with the USTA Player Development program at the house in Port-au-Prince, along with several cousins, before being freed USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. unharmed. After that, Vicky’s mother, Nadine, gave up her neonatal practice and moved Vicky and her two brothers to South Florida, leaving 2009 singles champion Melanie Oudin, who burst onto the tennis behind Vicky’s father, Jean-Maurice, to continue his gynecology and scene in 2009, defeating former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic to reach obstetrics practice in Port-au-Prince. Vicky gave up ballet to pursue the fourth round at Wimbledon and beating four-time Grand Slam tennis, first at the Nick Bollettieri Academy in Bradenton, Fla., then tournament champion Maria Sharapova en route to the US Open at the Racquet Club of the South, a USTA Certified Regional Training quarterfinals.