TOURNAMENT NOTES as of January 16, 2014 THE ROYAL LAHAINA CHALLENGER MAUI, HI • JANUARY 19–26 USTA PRO CIRCUIT IN MAUI FOR 9TH YEAR (NON-CONSECUTIVE) TOURNAMENT INFO The Royal Lahaina Challenger brings the Site: The Royal Lahaina Resort – Lahaina, Hawaii USTA Pro Circuit to Maui for the second Websites: www.royallahainachallenger.com consecutive year. Maui hosted an event from 1984-87 and in 1993 and 2006. Honolulu procircuit.usta.com Getty Images hosted a USTA Pro Circuit men’s Challenger Facebook: 2014 Royal Lahaina Challenger from 2003-12. It is the only USTA Pro Twitter: @RLChallenger Circuit event hosted in Hawaii and is the first $50,000 Challenger of the 2013 season. Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, Jan. 19 Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Jan. 21 This tournament will be streamed live on www.procircuit.usta.com. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Prize Money: $50,000 Surface: Hard / Outdoor Notable players competing in the main draw include: Tournament Director: Ron Romano, (808) 277-0089, [email protected] Jack Sock, 21, one of the top young players Tournament Press Contact: in the game, who reached the second round Stephanie Hughes-White, (808) 585-9525 of the Australian Open. Sock broke into [email protected] the Top 100 last year after reaching the third round of the US Open for a second USTA Public Relations Contact: Jack Sock, the 2010 US Open junior Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] consecutive year. Also in 2013, he qualified for the 2013 French Open and reached the champion and 2011 US Open mixed doubles winner, broke into the ATP singles Top 100 quarterfinals of the ATP event in Memphis. PRIZE MONEY / POINTS last summer and reached the third round of In doubles, he teamed with fellow American SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points the US Open for a second consecutive year. Winner $7,200 80 Melanie Oudin to win the US Open mixed Runner-up $4,240 48 doubles title in 2011, and in 2012, he Ryan Harrison, who is one of the most highly Semifinalist $2,510 29 teamed with Steve Johnson to knock off the touted young Americans competing on the Quarterfinalist $1,460 15 top-seeded team of Max Mirnyi and Daniel Round of 16 $860 7 Nestor in the first round of US Open men’s ATP World Tour. He earned a spot on the U.S. Round of 32 $520 -- doubles. As a junior, Sock won the 2010 Olympic team for the 2012 Games in London US Open boys’ singles title (defeating Denis and has been a member of the U.S. Davis DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Kudla in an all-American final), won the Cup team. He also has enjoyed success on Winner $3,100 USTA Boys’ 18s National Championships the ATP World Tour, reaching three semifinals Runner-up $1,800 in 2010 and 2011 to earn a wild card in 2012 to climb to No. 43 in the world. Semifinalist $1,080 into the US Open and graduated from Harrison arrives in Maui after losing in the Quarterfinalist $640 first round of the 2014 Australian Open to Round of 16 $360 Blue Valley North High School in Kansas in 2011 with an 80-0 record for his high No. 25 seed Gael Monfils. In 2013, Harrison COMMUNITY EVENTS school career, winning four consecutive state reached the semifinals of the Emirates Airline championships. Sock trains with the USTA US Open Series event in Atlanta, advanced Saturday, Jan. 18 – Free Youth Tennis Fest Player Development program at the USTA to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (Ages 12 and Under), 10 a.m.-noon Training Center – West in Carson, Calif. tune-up event in Sydney, Australia, and Sunday, Jan. 19 – Pro-Am, time TBD reached the second round of the Australian Open and the French Open (losing to John Free Teen Clinic & Jr. Tournament Monday, Jan. 20 – Isner in five sets in Paris). He also won the Players (Ages 13 and Over), 3 p.m.-4 p.m.; $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Free Adult Tennis Doubles Clinic Getty Images Savannah, Ga. Harrison has played in the (Ages 18 and Over), 4 p.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 – Ice Cream Nite, sponsored by Roselani Ice Cream, 6 p.m. Bradley Klahn, the 2010 NCAA men’s singles Wednesday, Jan. 22 – Boys & Girls Club Visit, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. champion and the highest-ranked American in Maui, at No. 93, was the 2013 USTA Pro Circuit Thursday, Jan. 23 – USTA Adult League Appreciation Nite, prize money leader, reaching five singles finals 6 p.m. and winning two titles. Friday, Jan. 24 – School Day Invitational, 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Jan. 25 – Big Brothers/Big Sisters Tennis Clinic, 9 a.m.-10 a.m. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES US Open main draw each of the last four years; in 2010, he qualified trains with the USTA Player Development program at the USTA and upset No. 15 seed Ivan Ljubicic in the opening round, and he Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. also advanced to the second round in 2012. Harrison trains with the USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training Center Donald Young, who is currently in the third round of the Australian Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. Open. Young broke into the world’s Top 40 in February 2012 and qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. He competed in all four Bradley Klahn, who is the highest-ranked American in Maui at No. 93 Grand Slam events that year, reaching the second round of the in the world. He recently competed in the 2014 Australian Open, Australian Open. In 2011, he reached the round of 16 at the losing in the first round to No. 22 seed Grigor Dimitrov in four US Open, upsetting two Top 30 players en route, for his best Grand sets. Klahn had an excellent finish to his 2013 season; he won the Slam result. He also reached the final of the ATP World Tour event $100,000 Challenger in Aptos, Calif., and reached the final at the in Bangkok and the semifinals of the Emirates Airline US Open $50,000 Challenger in Binghamton, N.Y., to earn a main-draw wild Series event in Washington, D.C. In April 2013, Young won an ATP card into the 2013 US Open, where he advanced to the second round. Challenger in Leon, Mexico, for his first title since 2011, and he Klahn won the 2010 NCAA men’s singles title for Stanford University, qualified and reached the second round of the 2013 US Open. He and he was a collegiate All-American in 2010, 2011 and 2012. subsequently won the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Napa, Following his pro debut in 2012, Klahn received a wild card into Calif., in September 2013, immediately followed by a title at the qualifying at the 2012 US Open and subsequently won three matches $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Sacramento, Calif.—the to advance to the main draw, where he upset Top 50 player and fellow sixth and seventh Challenger titles of his career on the USTA Pro lefty Jurgen Melzer in five sets in the first round. In doing so, Klahn Circuit. A standout junior player, Young was a two-time Grand Slam became the first men’s qualifying wild card to win a round at the tournament champion (2005 Australian Open, 2007 Wimbledon) and, US Open. Klahn led the 2013 USTA Pro Circuit in prize money, with at age 16 years, 5 months, became the youngest-ever year-end world $50,606, after reaching five singles finals and winning two titles. Also junior No. 1 in 2005. in 2013, he served as a practice partner for the U.S. Davis Cup team in Jacksonville, Fla., where the U.S. defeated Brazil. Klahn started Alex Kuznetsov, the 2004 junior French Open runner-up (to Gael playing tennis when he was 11 years old after his mother, who played Monfils), who earned a main-draw wild card into the 2013 French tennis at Iowa, signed him up for a summer round-robin league. Open by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge Klahn trains with the USTA Player Development program at the USTA via his results on the USTA Pro Circuit—including a tournament title Training Center – West in Carson, Calif. as a qualifier at the Challenger in Sarasota, Fla. Following the French Open, Kuznetsov qualified for Wimbledon. Later in the summer, Steve Johnson, who earned a wild card into the 2014 Australian he won the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Binghamton, Open main draw by winning the USTA Australian Open Wild Card N.Y., and qualified for and advanced to the second round of the Playoff in Norcross, Ga., against fellow up-and-coming Americans. Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Washington, D.C., where In Australia, Johnson lost in the first round in five sets to France’s he lost to John Isner. Those results drove Kuznetsov’s ranking up to Adrian Mannarino. Johnson turned pro in 2012 after completing a career-high No. 120 in the world. In 2012, Kuznetsov qualified for an outstanding college tennis career at the University of Southern the Australian Open to make his first appearance in a Grand Slam California, winning the 2011 and 2012 NCAA singles championships tournament main draw since 2007; he lost to Rafael Nadal in the first and leading the Trojans to team titles all four years he played for the round.