TOURNAMENT NOTES as of October 6, 2015 ROCK HILL ROCKS OPEN ROCK HILL, SC • OCTOBER 11-18 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS RETURNS TO ROCK HILL TOURNAMENT INFO The Rock Hill Rocks Open returns to the Site: Rock Hill Tennis Center – Rock Hill, S.C. USTA Pro Circuit for the seventh straight USTA Websites: procircuit.usta.com year. It is the second to last $25,000 USTA www.cityofrockhill.com Pro Circuit women’s tournament for 2015 and precedes another USTA Pro Circuit Facebook: Rock Hill Rocks Open event in South Carolina, in Florence, which will take place next week. Tournaments in Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, October 11 Charleston and Hilton Head Island were held Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, October 13 over the past two weeks. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles To follow the tournament, download the Surface: Hard / Outdoor USTA Pro Circuit’s new phone app by searching “procircuit” in the app store. Prize Money: $25,000 Tournament Director: Notable players competing in the main draw Kim Ozmon, (803) 325-4022 include: [email protected] Sachia Vickery, the top American in Rock Tournament Press Contact: Hill, who peaked at No. 108 in the world Tim Hartis, (803) 230-1967 this July after qualifying for Wimbledon and [email protected] reaching the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon USTA Communications Contact: tune-up event in Nottingham, England. Sachia Vickery, the top American in Rock Hill, Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 Also this summer, Vickery represented the peaked at No. 108 in the world this July. Also this year, Vickery represented the U.S. in the [email protected] United States in the Pan American Games in Toronto, and earlier this year she won the Pan American Games and won the first two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles of her career. PRIZE MONEY / POINTS first two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles of SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points her career, at the $25,000 Florida events in Plantation and Sunrise. In her young career, Winner $3,919 50 and Wimbledon in 2014, and she reached Vickery has competed in the US Open and Runner-up $2,091 30 the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline the Australian Open main draws, receiving a Semifinalist $1,114 18 US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif., main draw wild card into the 2015 US Open Quarterfinalist $ 654 9 last summer—her first WTA quarterfinal. and earning one into the 2014 Australian Round of 16 $ 392 5 In 2013, Vickery won the USTA Girls’ 18s Open by winning the USTA’s Australian Round of 32 $ 228 1 national singles and doubles titles, earning Open Wild Card Playoff. She also competed wild cards into the main draws of the singles DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) in qualifying for the US Open, French Open Winner $1,437 and doubles events at the 2013 US Open. Runner-up $ 719 At the Open, she won her first-round match in her Grand Slam debut, defeating Mirjana Semifinalist $ 359 USTA Quarterfinalist $ 196 Lucic-Baroni in straight sets. As a junior Round of 16 $ 131 player, Vickery ascended to No. 6 in the ITF World Junior Rankings, reaching the COMMUNITY EVENTS doubles semifinals of junior Wimbledon Sunday, October 11 in 2012 and competing in all four junior Rockin’ Junior Kickoff, 5:30-7:00 p.m. Grand Slam tournaments. She trains with coach Adrian Zeman at the ZMG Tennis Monday, October 12 at Deer Creek facility in Deerfield Beach, Adult Pro-Am, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Fla., and was a longtime trainee of the Tuesday, October 13 Wheelchair Exhibition, noon-1:00 p.m. Jennifer Brady turned pro after completing her sophomore year at UCLA this past spring, having helped the Bruins to the NCAA team final in both of her seasons, including the championship in 2014. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training Center Melanie Oudin, who has played in just a few USTA Pro Circuit Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. tournaments since October 2014 after undergoing a heart procedure. Most recently, she reached the quarterfinals of the Jennifer Brady, who recently completed her sophomore year at $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Stockton, Calif., in July, and UCLA and has since turned pro. This past season, Brady was advanced to the final round of qualifying for the 2015 US Open. part of the UCLA team that reached the final of the NCAA Team Oudin burst onto the tennis scene in 2009, defeating former world Championships. During her freshman season (2013-14), she was a No. 1 Jelena Jankovic to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon and member of the 2014 NCAA championship-winning team. Also last beating then-three-time Grand Slam tournament champion Maria year, Brady won her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title, taking the Sharapova en route to the US Open quarterfinals. Oudin peaked at crown at the $25,000 event in Redding, Calif., where she also won No. 31 in the world in singles in April 2010, but she struggled with the doubles title. Brady reached the quarterfinals of the $50,000 injuries and inconsistency in the year that followed. She started a USTA Pro Circuit event in Las Vegas this month and owns three comeback in 2012, capturing the first WTA title of her career at USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles. the Wimbledon tune-up event in Birmingham, England. She then competed at Wimbledon as a wild card. Oudin also earned a wild 2011 Rock Hill singles champion Romina Oprandi of Switzerland, card into the 2012 French Open based on her results on the USTA who is the top-ranked player in Rock Hill and peaked at No. 32 in Pro Circuit, which included a title at the event in Charlottesville, the world in 2013. Oprandi has competed in all four Grand Slam Va. (She reached the second round at Roland Garros that year.) In tournaments, reaching the third round of the 2012 Australian Open addition to her success in singles, Oudin notched one of the biggest for her best Grand Slam result. She has won 25 ITF Pro Circuit victories of her career at the 2011 US Open, claiming the mixed singles titles and 11 doubles titles, as well as one WTA doubles doubles title with fellow American Jack Sock. She has also been a title at Marrakech, Morocco, in 2014, where she also reached the consistent performer for the U.S. Fed Cup team. Oudin announced singles final. Oprandi has represented Switzerland in Fed Cup. She in November 2013 that she was suffering from rhabdomyolysis, is on the comeback trail after having a fifth shoulder surgery at a muscle-damaging condition, and took time off to recover. She the end of this February, putting her out of competition for three resumed competition in March 2014 and competed on the USTA months. Pro Circuit and in qualifying for the US Open, French Open and Wimbledon. She was then sidelined again by the heart procedure. Israel’s Shahar Peer, who peaked at No. 11 in the world in singles in 2011 and at No. 14 in doubles in 2008. Peer reached Reigning USTA Girls’ 18s national champion Sofia Kenin, 16, the singles quarterfinals of the 2007 Australian Open, losing to who made her Grand Slam main draw debut at the US Open this Serena Williams, and the 2007 US Open, where she lost to Anna summer and also reached the 2015 US Open junior singles final. Chakvetadze. Peer advanced to the doubles final at the 2008 Kenin earned a wild card berth into the US Open women’s singles Australian Open with former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka and has draw by virtue of her USTA Girls’ 18s national title and fell to reached five Grand Slam tournament doubles quarterfinals overall. Mariana Duque-Marino in the first round. Kenin, who goes by She has won five WTA singles titles and three WTA doubles titles “Sonya,” is the No. 3-ranked junior in the world and represented and competed on the Israeli Olympic Team and Fed Cup Team. the United States at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in China. Notable players competing in qualifying include: Alexandra Stevenson, 34, who drew international attention in 1999 by becoming the first female qualifier in Wimbledon history to reach Taylor Townsend, who was a top storyline at the 2014 French Open, the event’s semifinals. She was ranked in the year-end Top 100 where she made her Grand Slam main draw debut and advanced each year from 1999 to 2003, peaking at No. 18 in 2002. Injuries to the third round. She competed in the French Open as a wild drove her ranking into the 600s in 2005, but Stevenson rebounded card after winning the 2014 Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card to climb back into the Top 200 in 2009, advancing to the final at Challenge, taking the challenge on the strength of victories at two the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., for her best $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit clay court events: Charlottesville, Va., result on the USTA Pro Circuit since 1998. She is the daughter of and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. Those were the first two USTA Pro basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving. Circuit titles of her career. Townsend went on to compete in the other three Grand Slam tournaments following last year’s French Alexandra Mueller, who won a career-high five doubles titles on the Open. This year, she made her Fed Cup debut in the World Group USTA Pro Circuit in 2013 and owns 14 USTA Pro Circuit doubles II First Round in Argentina, where she played doubles.