TOURNAMENT NOTES as of January 2, 2014 MEN’S $10K PLANTATION COMMUNITY OPEN PLANTATION, FL • JANUARY 3-12 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO PLANTATION, KICKS OFF 2014 SEASON TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Men’s $10K Plantation Community Open Site: Frank Veltri Tennis Center returns to Plantation for the sixth consecutive Plantation, Fla. year. It is the first USTA Pro Circuit men’s tournament of 2014 and one of seven Websites: www.pctc.plantationtennis.org consecutive $10,000 Futures held in Florida Anthony Behar procircuit.usta.com on clay courts to kick off the 2014 USTA Pro Circuit season. In conjunction with USTA Facebook: Frank Veltri Tennis Center/Plantation Tennis Player Development, the USTA Pro Circuit Twitter: @veltri_tennis continues to emphasize the importance of increased training on clay for younger players. Qualifying Draw Begins: Friday, Jan. 3 Plantation is one of 15 USTA Pro Circuit men’s Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Jan. 7 events held in the state of Florida this year. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Notable players competing in the main draw Surface: Clay / Outdoor include: $10,000 Prize Money: Bjorn Fratangelo, who in 2011 became the Tournament Director: first American since John McEnroe in 1977 to Lowell Coffman, (954) 663-0568 win the boys’ singles title at the French Open. [email protected] Fratangelo had a strong season on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2013, winning the $10,000 Bjorn Fratangelo, in 2011, became the first Tournament Press Contact: Futures in Weston, Fla., and Orange Park, Fla., American since John McEnroe in 1977 to Connor Montana, (954) 270-3820 and reaching two additional Futures finals. He win the boys’ singles title at the French Open. [email protected] also competed in qualifying for the US Open. Fratangelo won two USTA Pro Circuit Futures titles in 2013. USTA Public Relations Contact: Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 Chase Buchanan, who in 2013 reached [email protected] the semifinals at three USTA Pro Circuit won three ITF Circuit events, in Ecuador and Futures events. He also spent August and Bolivia. As a college player for Ohio State September 2013 competing overseas and University, Buchanan won the NCAA doubles PRIZE MONEY / POINTS championship in 2012 with Blaz Rola, SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points earning a wild card into the main draw of the Winner $1,440 17 men’s doubles event at the US Open that Runner-up $848 9 year. Buchanan also reached the final of the Semifinalist $502 5 David Kenas 2009 junior US Open and earned a wild card Quarterfinalist $292 2 into the main draw of the US Open men’s Round of 16 $172 1 singles event that year as the USTA Boys’ Round of 32 $104 -- 18s champion, losing in the opening round to then-No. 7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Buchanan has DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) won three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles in Winner $620 his career. Runner-up $360 Semifinalist $216 Mitchell Krueger, who was the top-ranked Quarterfinalist $128 American boys’ junior in 2012, peaking at a Round of 16 $0 career-high No. 5 in the world junior rankings. Krueger advanced to the semifinals of boys’ singles at the French Open and Wimbledon COMMUNITY EVENTS in 2012 and turned pro that July. Krueger Friday, January 10 Pro-Am and Tennis Under the Stars Chase Buchanan claimed the NCAA doubles title in 2012 for Ohio State and reached three USTA Pro Circuit semifinals in 2013. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES captured his first pro singles title in 2013 at an ITF Circuit clay-court boys’ 16-and-under international team competition, and also reached event in the Netherlands. the singles semifinals of the 2004 USTA Boys’ 18 National Clay Court Championships. Evan King, a 2013 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he was a three-time All-American (2011-13). He also was the Big Ten Sekou Bangoura, who was named a doubles All-American during his Athlete of the Year in 2012 and 2013. King owns the program record sophomore year at the University of Florida, after reaching the doubles for most combined career singles and doubles wins (196) and ranks semifinals of the 2011 NCAA tournament. Bangoura ended the 2013 third all-time on Michigan’s singles wins list with 117. On the USTA Pro season strong, winning his first professional singles title at the $10,000 Circuit in 2013, King captured the second doubles title of his career at Futures in Niceville, Fla., and then winning a doubles title at the the $10,000 Futures in Godfrey, Ill., and won two additional doubles $10,000 Futures in Bradenton, Fla., the following week. Bangoura titles at ITF Circuit events in Canada in September. also reached the semifinals or better in doubles in the last five doubles draws he played in 2013. Dennis Novikov, who was the 2012 USTA Boys’ 18s national champion in singles and doubles. Those victories earned him wild-card entries Teenager Noah Rubin, who was America’s top junior to begin 2013, into the men’s singles and doubles main draws at the 2012 US Open, having ascended as high as No. 6 in the world in January. A pupil of where he became the second USTA Boys’ 18s champ in the last 15 John McEnroe’s academy in Randalls Island, N.Y., Rubin reached the years to advance to the second round in singles. Novikov completed his quarterfinals at the 2012 French Open Junior Championships and has sophomore year at UCLA in spring 2013 and turned pro that summer. represented the United States in Junior Davis Cup, the boys’ 16-and- He won his first USTA Pro Circuit title in June 2013 at the $10,000 under international team competition. In 2013, Rubin advanced to the Futures in Amelia Island, Fla. Born in Moscow, Novikov moved with his third round of the junior French Open and reached the semifinals of the family to the United States at 1 year old and eventually chose tennis Easter Bowl. On the USTA Pro Circuit in 2013, he advanced to his first over hockey, swimming and gymnastics. final at the $10,000 Futures in Godfrey, Ill., and reached two additional semifinals. Dennis Nevolo, who advanced to his first USTA Pro Circuit singles final in 2013 at the $15,000 Futures in Mansfield, Texas. In addition, Nevolo has excelled in doubles, winning two Futures titles on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2013, both with Jean-Yves Aubone. Nevolo graduated in Many current ATP and USTA Pro Circuit standouts have found success 2012 from the University of Illinois, where he was ranked as high as in Plantation. No. 2 in the NCAA men’s singles rankings. 2012 Plantation singles champion Jack Sock achieved the best result Kevin King, a former standout at Georgia Tech, where he received of his pro career in 2012 by reaching the third round of the US Open as All-America honors in 2011. He also was named to the All-ACC Team a wild card, losing to No. 11 seed Nicolas Almagro in a tight four-setter. in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and was a member of the ACC Academic He then repeated his result the following year, again reaching the third Honor Roll all four years at the school. King qualified for back-to-back round of the US Open in 2013, and peaked at No. 78 in the world in USTA Pro Circuit Challengers at the end of 2013 and won three ITF October 2013. Prior to his success in Plantation, Sock won the 2011 Circuit doubles titles, in Colombia and Ecuador. King’s father played US Open mixed doubles title with fellow American Melanie Oudin and football at Villanova, and his sister played varsity tennis at St. Leo captured the 2010 US Open boys’ singles title, defeating Denis Kudla University in Florida. in an All-American final. Five-time University of Florida All-American Greg Ouellette, who won 2012 doubles champion Jarmere Jenkins recently completed his the bronze medal in doubles at the 2011 Pan Am Games with Nicholas college tennis career at the University of Virginia and jumped 800 spots Monroe. Ouellette owns two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and four in the rankings since the start of 2013. Jenkins nearly won the NCAA doubles titles, with his last titles coming in 2012. “triple crown” in 2013, winning the NCAA team title—Virginia’s first— and the NCAA doubles championship with teammate Mac Styslinger, Romania’s Victor Crivoi, who won the Plantation singles title last year. while also reaching the NCAA singles final. Jenkins was named the ITA’s Crivoi peaked at No. 75 in the world in 2009 and has won matches at National Player of the Year for 2013 and ended the season as college the French Open and Wimbledon. He has captured 20 ITF and USTA tennis’s No. 1-ranked singles player. He reached the final round of Pro Circuit singles titles all over the world. qualifying at the 2013 US Open and won his first USTA Pro Circuit title at the $10,000 Futures in Rochester, N.Y., last summer. Notable players competing in qualifying include: 2010 singles champion Benoit Paire rose to a career-high No. 24 in Jean-Yves Aubone, who won a season-high four USTA Pro Circuit the world in August 2013. He reached the third round of the 2013 Futures doubles titles in 2013; he also won two singles titles in 2008. French Open and Wimbledon, having also reached the third round at Aubone played for Florida State University, where he was the first player Wimbledon in 2012.