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TOURNAMENT NOTES as of March 27, 2014 HARLINGEN COUNTRY CLUB MEN’S $15,000 FUTURES HARLINGEN, TX • MARCH 29 – APRIL 6 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO HARLINGEN TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Harlingen Country Club Men’s $15,000 Futures returns to Harlingen for the 12th Site: Harlingen Country Club consecutive year. It is the third hard-court Harlingen, Texas USTA Pro Circuit Futures event of 2014. It David Kenas is also one of five USTA Pro Circuit men’s Websites: procircuit.usta.com events in Texas this year, joining $15,000 Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, March 29 tournaments in October in Houston, Mansfield and Brownsville, as well as a $100,000 Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, April 1 Challenger in Dallas this past February. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Notable players competing in the main draw Surface: Hard / Outdoor include: Prize Money: $15,000 Chase Buchanan, who in 2013 reached Tournament Director: the semifinals at three USTA Pro Circuit Andy Carter, (956) 412-4100 ext. 104 Futures events. He also spent August and [email protected] September 2013 competing overseas and Chase Buchanan won the NCAA doubles Tournament Press Contact: won three ITF Circuit events, one in Ecuador championship in 2012 for Ohio State University and also reached the final of the Anaia Irish Funtanilla, (956) 244-2353 and two in Bolivia. As a college player for 2009 US Open Junior Championships. [email protected] Ohio State University, Buchanan won the NCAA doubles championship in 2012 with USTA Public Relations Contact: Blaz Rola, earning a wild card into the main Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 draw of the men’s doubles event at the US decorated tennis players in Wildcats’ history, [email protected] Open that year. Buchanan also reached the earning five All-America honors between boys’ singles final of the 2009 US Open singles and doubles. In 2008, he became PRIZE MONEY / POINTS Junior Championships and earned a wild card the first Kentucky player in 34 years to win SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points into the main draw of the US Open men’s four consecutive high school state singles Winner $2,160 27 singles event that year as the USTA Boys’ crowns. He captured his first pro title last Runner-up $1,272 15 18s champion, losing in the opening round to summer at the $10,000 Futures in Decatur, Semifinalist $753 8 then-No. 7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Buchanan has Ill., and this year, he reached the final of the Quarterfinalist $438 3 won three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles in $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit clay-court event Round of 16 $258 1 his career. in Boynton Beach, Fla. Round of 32 $156 - Evan King, a 2013 graduate of the University DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Eric Quigley, the 2012 NCAA singles of Michigan, where he was a three-time Winner $930 runner-up who played for the University All-American (2011-13) and the Big Ten Runner-up $540 of Kentucky. Quigley is one of the most Athlete of the Year in 2012 and 2013. King Semifinalist $324 holds the program record for most combined Quarterfinalist $192 singles and doubles victories (196), and he Round of 16 $108 ranks third all-time on Michigan’s singles David Kenas wins list with 117. In the pro ranks, King started the 2014 season strong, qualifying for and advancing to the singles quarterfinals at the $100,000 Challenger in Dallas. He has also won three USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles this year, including back-to-back titles in Bakersfield, Calif., and Calabasas, Calif., Eric Quigley was the 2012 NCAA singles runner-up for the University of Kentucky, where he finished as one of the most decorated tennis players in school history as a five-time All-American (singles and doubles). *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES in March. Overall, King has captured eight doubles titles on the USTA Cup. Donaldson has spent the first quarter of the year competing Pro Circuit and in Canada. overseas in Turkey, where he reached one singles final and one singles semifinal. He also qualified for the main draw of the $50,000 USTA Dennis Novikov, who was the 2012 USTA Boys’ 18s national Pro Circuit Challenger in Maui at the beginning of 2014. champion in singles and doubles. Those victories earned him wild- card entries into the men’s singles and doubles main draws at the 2012 US Open, where he became the second USTA Boys’ 18s reigning champ in 15 years to advance to the second round in men’s Two past Harlingen doubles champions have found success on the singles. Novikov completed his sophomore year at UCLA in spring ATP World Tour and USTA Pro Circuit. 2013 and turned pro that summer. He won his first USTA Pro Circuit title in June 2013 at the $10,000 Futures in Amelia Island, Fla. Born 2006 doubles champion Tim Smyczek broke into the Top 100 in 2013 in Moscow, Novikov moved with his family to the U.S. at 1 year old after advancing to the third round at the US Open, where he lost a tight and eventually chose tennis over hockey, swimming and gymnastics. five-setter to then-No. 43 Marcel Granollers. The US Open highlighted the strongest summer of Smyczek’s career; he also advanced to Jeff Dadamo, who earned a wild card into the 2013 US Open the second round of the Emirates Airline US Open Series events in Qualifying Tournament by winning the US Open National Playoffs Washington, D.C., and Winston-Salem, N.C., and qualified for Atlanta. men’s title (out of 649 men who competed). Dadamo has won two Also in 2013, the 5-foot-9 Smyczek advanced to the second round USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles during his career. He graduated in of the Australian Open, defeating 6-11 Ivo Karlovic in the opening 2011 from Texas A&M, where he won the NCAA men’s doubles title round. In 2012, Smyczek reached the second round of the US Open with Austin Krajicek. Dadamo is competing in his second tournament and won two USTA Pro Circuit Challengers—in Champaign, Ill., and of 2014 in Harlingen. Tallahassee, Fla. Jean-Yves Aubone, who won a season-high four USTA Pro Circuit Rhyne Williams, the 2012 doubles champion, qualified for the main Futures doubles titles in 2013. He also won two singles titles in 2008. draw of the 2014 Australian Open and took the first set off 2009 Aubone played for Florida State University, where he was the first US Open champion and No. 5 seed Juan Martin del Potro in the first player in school history to earn All-America singles honors twice. As round. Williams also reached the quarterfinals of the ATP event in a junior player, he represented the U.S. in Junior Davis Cup (16-and- Delray Beach, Fla., losing to John Isner. Williams won three matches under team competition) and also reached the singles semifinals of the to qualify for the main draw of the 2012 US Open for his Grand 2004 USTA Boys’ 18s National Clay Court Championships. Slam debut—in the process becoming one of just 13 qualifying wild cards in US Open recorded history to reach the main draw. At the US Devin McCarthy, who played for Ohio State and has received All-Big Open, Williams played Andy Roddick prior to Roddick’s retirement Ten honors. McCarthy was also a four-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete announcement. In addition, Williams earned a wild card into the recipient and won the 2008 Division II state high school singles title 2013 Australian Open main draw by winning the USTA Australian in Ohio. He competed primarily in Australia for the first two months Open Wild Card Playoffs, and he qualified for the 2013 French Open. of 2014. Also last year, he reached the semifinals at the ATP clay-court event in Houston for his best ATP result. Williams turned pro in 2011 following Teenager Jared Donaldson, who has competed in the US Open his sophomore year at the University of Tennessee, where he reached Junior Championships and represented the U.S. in Junior Davis the singles final at the 2011 NCAA Championships. *Player field subject to change HARLINGEN PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2013 Jiri Vesely (CZE) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) 2013 Ruben Gonzales (PHI) – Chris Letcher (AUS) 2012 Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) Peter Polansky (CAN) 2012 Tennys Sandgren (USA) – Rhyne Williams (USA) 2011 Dayne Kelly (AUS) Daniel Cox (GBR) 2011 Daniel Danilovic (SWE) – Joshua Zavala (USA) 2010 Arnau Brugues-Davi (ESP) Andrey Kumantsov (RUS) 2010 Catalin-Ionut Gard (ROU) – Artem Sitak (RUS) 2009 Jesse Witten (USA) Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR) 2009 Javier Herrera-Eguiluz (MEX) – Jarmere Jenkins (USA) 2008 Jamie Baker (GBR) Jurek Stasiak (AUS) 2008 Nicholas Monroe (USA) – Phillip Simmonds (USA) 2007 Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA) Victor Estrella (DOM) 2007 Izak Van Der Merwe (RSA) – Wesley Whitehouse (RSA) 2006 Jesse Witten (USA) Alberto Francis (USA) 2006 Brendan Evans (USA) – Tim Smyczek (USA) 2005 Eric Nunez (USA) Ryan Newport (USA) 2005 Scott Lipsky (USA) – David Martin (USA) 2004 Nicolas Todero (ARG) Kepler Orellana (VEN) 2004 Scott Lipsky (USA) – David Martin (USA) 2003 Huntley Montgomery (USA) Dusan Vemic (SRB) 2003 Raven Klaasen (RSA) – Huntley Montgomery (USA) 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.