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as of February 5, 2014

DOW CORNING CLASSIC MIDLAND, MI • FEBRUARY 9–16, 2014

DOW CORNING TENNIS CLASSIC RETURNS TO MIDLAND TOURNAMENT FOR 26TH YEAR ON THE USTA PRO CIRCUIT INFORMATION Top players converge on Midland, Mich., such as defending singles champion Site: Midland Community Tennis Center, , up-and-coming American Coco Vandeweghe, former collegiate No. 1 Midland, Mich. , 2013 USTA Pro Circuit prize money leader , former world junior No. 1 , 2013 US Open junior finalist Tornado Alicia Websites: dowcorningtennisclassic.com procircuit.usta.com Black, 2013 US Open star , 2014 , and young Americans and . Facebook: Dow Corning Tennis Classic Now celebrating its 26th year, the Dow Twitter: @DCTCtennis Corning Tennis Classic is the longest-running Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, Feb. 9 consecutive women’s event on the USTA Pro Circuit. The event is considered the Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Feb. 11 marquee women’s tournament on the USTA

Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Pro Circuit and attracts more than 15,000 Andrew Ong/USOpen.org fans each year. The USTA Pro Circuit is the Surface: Hard / Indoor pathway to tennis stardom and the Dow Prize Money: $100,000 Corning Tennis Classic is truly emblematic of that. Six singles champions Tournament Executive Director: played in the event early in their careers, Mike Woody, (989) 205-9443 along with 13 Grand Slam doubles / mixed [email protected] doubles champions. The most notable Assistant Tournament Director: Midland alumni include , a seven-time Grand Slam champion and Sharon Cleland, (989) 708-9376 Olympic gold medal winner, four-time Grand [email protected] Slam singles champion , Tournament Press Contact: two-time Grand Slam singles champion Sam Fisher, (989) 430-5672 , 2010 singles Defending Midland champion and Top 60 [email protected] champion and 2011 player Lauren Davis reached the third round of French Open and the 2014 Australian Open in her career-best Grand Slam result and arrives in Midland after USTA Communications Contact: singles champion , as well as Anna Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 being named to the U.S. Fed Cup Team for Kournikova, a two-time Grand Slam women’s the first time in Cleveland, where Davis won a [email protected] doubles and mixed doubles champion. doubles match with against Italy.

PRIZE MONEY / POINTS The tournament began in 1989 at the $25,000 level and seven years later became ask questions of the players. VIP packages, SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points one of five USTA Pro Circuit tournaments club seats and group rates are available Winner $15,200 140 to raise its prize money as part of the in addition to general admission tickets. Runner-Up $8,108 100 “Women’s $50,000 Challenger Series” Daily sessions are $12 for adults and $8 Semifinalist $4,433 70 in 1996. Three years later, in 1999, the for juniors. For further ticket or sponsorship Quarterfinalist $2,533 36 prize money was raised again, this time to information, please contact Assistant Round 16 $1,520 18 $75,000. Midland made its debut as the Tournament Director Sharon Cleland at the Round 32 $887 1 first-ever $100,000 women’s event on the Midland Tennis Club. DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) USTA Pro Circuit in 2010 and has been held Winner $5,573 at the $100,000 level ever since. This year’s Midland main draw field includes Runner-Up $2,787 defending Midland singles champion and Semifinalist $1,393 Throughout the week, Midland Community Top 60 player Lauren Davis, U.S. Fed Quarterfinalist $760 Tennis Center will offer a variety of daily Cupper and up-and-coming American Coco Round 16 $507 interactive events that reach out to Vandeweghe, former collegiate No. 1 Maria community members at many different ages Sanchez, 2013 USTA Pro Circuit prize and skill levels, including a “pros to schools/ money leader Shelby Rogers, former world schools to matches” day, a luncheon, a kids’ junior No. 1 Taylor Townsend, 2013 US fun day, high school play day, an at-risk Open star Victoria Duval, 2013 US Open youth program and an adult Cardio Tennis junior singles finalistTornado Alicia Black, clinic, along with opportunities to meet and *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES

in 2008 and has represented in Fed Cup and the Olympics. She has won eight WTA doubles titles and been ranked as high as No. 24 in the world in doubles. This is her second appearance

Getty Images in Midland: she won the tournament in 2012 and reached the semifinals in 2007 but fell to American .

Coco Vandeweghe, 22, is ranked No. 107. Vandeweghe had a strong summer in 2013 playing in the Emirates Airline US Open Series and US Open, qualifying for the Series events in Stanford, Calif., and Carlsbad, Calif., reaching the second round of both, in addition to qualifying for and reaching the second round of the US Open. Following the 2013 US Open, Vandeweghe reached the singles final at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Las Vegas and the final of an ITF-level event in Canada. She also won back-to-back USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles at the $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit events in Albuquerque, N.M., and Las Vegas after the US Open. Vandeweghe reached her first pro final in 2012 at the Series event in Stanford as a qualifier, losing to . She broke into the Top 100 for the first time in her career in early 2011 after qualifying for the Australian Open and reaching the quarterfinals of the WTA event Coco Vandeweghe had a strong summer in 2013 playing in the Emirates in Memphis, Tenn. Also in 2011, she reached the second round of Airline US Open Series and reached her first pro final in 2012 at the the US Open and competed in the French Open and Wimbledon. Series event in Stanford, losing to Serena Williams. She broke into the Vandeweghe was named to the U.S. Fed Cup team for the 2010 Top 100 for the first time in her career in early 2011 and has represented final versus Italy. As a junior, she won the 2008 US Open girls’ the U.S. in Fed Cup. singles title. Vandeweghe’s mother, Tauna, was a member of the U.S. national team in both swimming and volleyball, and her uncle former world junior No. 4 Madison Brengle, 2014 Australian Open is former NBA star Kiki Vandeweghe. This is her third appearance in wild card Sachia Vickery, and young American Allie Kiick. Midland; she reached the doubles semifinals in 2013.

Featured players expected to compete in the main draw include: , 23, of Canada, is ranked No. 112. Fichman is coming off a strong 2013 season where she won her eighth career Urszula Radwanska, 23, of Poland, is ranked No. 45 and is the highest- ITF singles title at the $25,000 event in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and ranked player in Midland. Radwanska peaked at No. 29 in the world made her Top 100 debut in August last year. She has also been in October 2012 and has competed in all four Grand Slam events. ranked as high as No. 62 in the world in doubles, winning 16 ITF She holds four ITF Circuit and USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and 10 doubles titles and capturing her first WTA doubles title earlier this doubles titles. She also holds one WTA doubles title, winning in Istanbul year in Auckland, New Zealand with American Maria Sanchez. This in 2007 with sister and current world No. 4 Agnieszka, and reached is Fichman’s third appearance in Midland; she was a singles and the doubles quarterfinals of the French Open in 2009. Radwanska has doubles quarterfinalist in 2008. represented Poland in Fed Cup and played for the Polish Olympic team in 2012 in . She is making her Midland debut. , 24, from the country of Georgia, who is ranked No. 115. Tatishvili won her seventh USTA Pro Circuit singles title in January 2014 , 27, of Switzerland, is ranked No. 94. The 2013 at the $25,000 event in Daytona Beach, Fla. She also competed in the season was cut short for Oprandi after struggling with a right 2014 Australian Open, losing in the first round to . Tatishvili shoulder injury. Prior to the injury, she has had four Top 100 peaked at No. 50 in the world in the WTA rankings in October 2012 and seasons. In 2012, Oprandi reached the third round of the Australian has competed in all four Grand Slam events, reaching the round of 16 Open and second rounds in four tournaments, including Wimbledon at the US Open in 2012 for her career-best result (she lost to eventual and the US Open. Other notable 2012 performances for Oprandi finalist ). As a junior player, Tatishvili peaked at No. 19 are wins at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Bronx. N.Y., in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2006, when she reached the and at the $100,000 ITF tournament just a month later in Biarritz, third round in singles at the junior Australian Open and the semifinals France. Oprandi had her first Top 50 season in 2006 after winning in doubles, where she partnered with former world No. 1 Caroline four singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF and USTA Pro Wozniacki. This is her fifth appearance in Midland; she was a singles Circuit. She has won 22 ITF singles titles overall and 11 doubles quarterfinalist in 2012 and won the doubles in 2011 and reached the titles. This is her first appearance in Midland. finals in 2010.

Olga Govortsova, 25, of Belarus, is ranked No. 98. Govortsova fell to , 24, of Serbia, is ranked No. 117. Dolonc reached the Agnieszka Radwanska in the second round at the 2014 Australian third round of Wimbledon in 2013, upsetting former world No. 1 and Open and is coming off her sixth Top 100 season in 2013. In fellow Serbian Jelena Jankovic in the second round. She also reached that year, Govortsova made it to the finals of the WTA’s the second round of the 2014 Australian Open, losing to Serena Open, but lost to Serbian Bojana Jovanovski. Other notable final Williams. Dolonc made her debut on the Serbian Fed Cup team in appearances of Govortsova’s include falling to at 2013 and has competed in WTA and ITF tournaments all over the the MPS Group Championships at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., in 2010 world. She has won two ITF women’s singles events, her last coming and being runner-up to in 2008 at the Cellular in 2012 at a $50,000 event in Donetsk, Ukraine. This is her second South Cup in Memphis. Govortsova peaked at No. 35 in the world appearance in Midland; she reached the doubles final in 2012.

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winning USTA wild-card playoffs to earn entry into the Australian Open (2007-08) and the French Open (2008), as well as competing in the US Open main draw in 2007. As a junior player, Brengle

Getty Images reached a career-high ranking of No. 4 in the world in 2007 and advanced to the girls’ singles final at Wimbledon that year. She has won five singles titles and five doubles titles in her career, all of which have come on the USTA Pro Circuit. This is her fifth appearance in Midland; she was a singles quarterfinalist in 2011 and 2012.

Sesil Karatantcheva, 24, of , is ranked No. 141. Karatantcheva peaked at No. 35 in the world in November 2005 after she reached the French Open quarterfinals in her career-best result. She has played in all four Grand Slam events throughout her career and has won seven ITF and USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, her last coming in 2011 at the $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Phoenix. As a junior player, she ranked No. 1 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2004, winning the junior French Open that year. This is Shelby Rogers was the 2013 USTA Pro Circuit prize money leader and her second appearance in Midland; she was eliminated in the first earned wild cards into the 2013 US Open and French Open based on her round in 2008. results on the USTA Pro Circuit. Lucie Hradecka, 28, of Czech Republic, is ranked No. 143. Throughout Hradecka’s career, she has won 17 WTA doubles titles, Shelby Rogers, 21, is ranked No. 119. Rogers earned a main draw including the and the 2013 US Open partnered wild card into the by winning the Har-Tru USTA with Andrea Hlavackova. In addition, the duo were silver medalists Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge. She then won her first Grand Slam at the 2012 Olympics in London. Hradecka also won the mixed main draw match at the French Open, defeating wild card Irena doubles title at the 2013 French Open with Frantisek Cermak. Pavlovic in the first round. The winner of the wild card challenge Hradecka has also proven her skills in singles, winning 18 ITF and was determined by the player who accumulated the greatest number USTA Pro Circuit singles titles. She has yet to win a WTA singles of WTA ranking points at two of three USTA Pro Circuit $50,000 title, but has been a runner-up in six different tournaments. Her clay-court events last spring. Rogers also earned a wild card into the career-high singles ranking came in June of 2011 at No. 43 and 2013 US Open through her summer hard-court results on the USTA her career-high doubles ranking came in October 2012 at No. 4. Pro Circuit, where she won the $50,000 event in Lexington, Ky., Hradecka has found great success in Midland and this will be her and reached the semifinals of the $50,000 event in Portland, Ore. sixth appearance: she lost in the doubles semifinals in 2007, was Following the 2013 US Open, Rogers won her third USTA Pro Circuit singles champion and doubles semifinalist in 2009, lost in the event of the year at the $75,000 event in Albuquerque to peak at singles final round in 2010 but was a doubles champion that year, No. 116 in the world in October and finish 2013 as the USTA Pro beat American in the singles final in 2011, and was a Circuit prize money leader with $36,308 in earnings. As a junior doubles champion again, as well as singles quarterfinalist in 2012. player, Rogers won the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 US Open for her Jovana Jaksic, 20, of Serbia, is ranked No. 146. This up-and- first appearance in a Grand Slam (in the either main draw or the comer won five different ITF singles titles in 2013, including three juniors). She trains with the USTA Player Development program at $25,000 events. Jaksic made her WTA debut in 2013, qualifying the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. This is for the main draw of the in Mexico and reaching her fourth appearance in Midland; she was a singles quarterfinalist the second round before losing to No. 3 seed in in 2012 and 2013. three sets. She also competed in qualifying in the US Open and Wimbledon last year. As a junior player, Jaksic peaked at No. 13 in Arvidsson, 29, of Sweden, is ranked No. 136. Arvidsson has the world in June 2011. This is Jaksic’s first appearance in Midland. won two WTA singles titles—winning the WTA event in Memphis, Tenn., in 2006 and 2012. She peaked at No. 29 in the world in Victoria Duval, 18, is ranked No. 150. Duval became a top storyline May 2006 after reaching the third round of the Australian Open at the 2013 US Open, where she qualified for the main draw and in her career-best Grand Slam singles result. Last year, Arvidsson upset 2011 champion in the first round. Following represented Sweden in Fed Cup against the in Delray the US Open, Duval competed in ITF events in Canada, winning her Beach, Fla., and defeated and lost to Serena first pro singles and doubles titles in Toronto. She opened the 2014 Williams. This is Arvidsson’s third appearance in Midland; she season ranked a career-high No. 143 in the world. In 2012, Duval was a quarterfinalist in 2010 and doubles champion in 2004 with was the USTA Girls’ 18s national champion, earning a wild card American partner . into the US Open women’s draw, where she played in the first round before Clijsters’ retirement. Duval peaked at No. 18 Madison Brengle, 23, is ranked No. 138. Brengle had a strong 2013 in the world in the ITF World Junior Rankings in September 2011 season on the USTA Pro Circuit in which she captured two singles after reaching the quarterfinals of the junior US Open and junior titles and one doubles title. She also reached the quarterfinals or Wimbledon. She also reached the semifinals of the 2012 junior better at all five USTA Pro Circuit events she competed in following US Open. Duval grew up Haiti until she was 8. When she was 7, the 2013 US Open. At the beginning of 2014, she qualified for the she was held hostage in an armed robbery in her aunt’s house in WTA’s Australian Open tune-up event in Hobart, . Brengle Port-au-Prince, along with several cousins, and was held for hours has played in the main draw at three of the four Grand Slam events, before being freed. Following that, Vicky’s mother, Nadine, gave up *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES

her neonatal practice and moved Vicky and her two brothers to South Sachia Vickery, 18, is ranked No. 187. Vickery earned a main draw Florida, leaving behind Vicky’s father, Jean-Maurice, to continue wild card into the 2014 Australian Open by winning the USTA’s his gynecology and obstetrics practice in Port-au-Prince. Vicky gave Australian Open Wild Card Playoff in Norcross, Ga., in December up ballet to pursue tennis, first at the Academy in against other up-and-coming Americans. The Australian Open was Bradenton, Fla., then at the Racquet Club of the South, a USTA Vickery’s first Grand Slam appearance outside of the US Open and Certified Regional Training Center in Atlanta. In 2010, Duval’s father Vickery lost to fellow American Lauren Davis in the first round. was involved in the Haiti earthquake and was pinned by collapsing Vickery won the 2013 USTA National Girls’ 18s singles and doubles walls outside his house. He dug himself out but had several titles last summer, earning wild cards into the main draw of the devastating injuries. Thereafter, an Atlanta family connected with singles and doubles draw at the 2013 US Open. At the US Open, the Racquet Club of the South donated a large amount of money to she won her first-round match in her Grand Slam debut, defeating airlift Jean-Maurice to a hospital in Fort Lauderdale. This is her third Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in straight sets. Vickery climbed 150 spots appearance in Midland; she was a singles quarterfinalist in 2013. in the rankings in 2013 due to her US Open win, in addition to reaching the semifinals of two USTA Pro Circuit events, to end Aleksandra Krunic, 20, of Serbia, is ranked No. 151. Krunic has the 2013 season ranked in the Top 200 for the first time in her won eight ITF singles titles all over the world, as well as five doubles career. As a junior, Vickery was ranked as high as No. 6 in the ITF titles. She also reached the doubles final of the 2013 WTA event in World Junior Rankings, reaching the doubles semifinals of junior Baku with Eleni Danilidou—Krunic’s first career WTA doubles final. Wimbledon in 2012 and competing in all four junior Grand Slams. Krunic made her Grand Slam debut at the 2013 US Open, where she Vickery trains with the USTA Player Development program at the qualified for the main draw and lost to American Coco Vandeweghe USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. This is her in the first round. As a junior player, Krunic peaked at No. 19 in the second appearance in Midland. ITF World Junior Rankings in May 2009 in singles and reached the doubles final of the 2009 junior Australian Open. She made her WTA Stephanie Foretz Gacon, 32, of France, is ranked No. 189. At the Tour debut in 2011, playing her first two WTA main draws in , she won her first Grand Slam main draw and Tashkent. This is Krunic’s first appearance in Midland. match since 2005, and followed that up with opening round wins at the French Open and Wimbledon. She also reached her first WTA Katerina Siniakova, 17, of the Czech Republic is ranked No. 156. quarterfinal in nearly five years in February 2013 in Memphis, Tenn. Siniakova qualified for the 2014 Australian Open for her first She peaked at No. 63 in 2003, and her biggest career win came in appearance in a Grand Slam main draw and broke into the Top 200 2002, when she defeated on her way to reaching the this year. She won the first four ITF singles titles of her career last quarterfinals at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C. Foretz Gacon year and holds three doubles titles. As a junior player, Siniakova has also competed in the main draw of the French Open every year has ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in the ITF World Junior since 1999. This is her fifth appearance in Midland; she was a singles Rankings and won three junior doubles titles in 2013 at the US quarterfinalist in 2009 and reached the doubles final in 2012. Open, French Open, and Wimbledon. She also reached the singles final of the 2013 junior Australian Open. This is her first appearance Maria Sanchez, 24, is ranked No. 210. Sanchez peaked at No. 107 in Midland. in the world in July 2013 after strong results on the USTA Pro Circuit and WTA tour. She started the year by reaching the quarterfinals of , 21, of Great Britain, is ranked No. 161. Watson Midland and competing in three WTA events. Prior to Wimbledon, peaked at No. 39 in the world in February 2013 after reaching the she qualified for and reached the third round of the WTA grass-court third round of the Australian Open. She also reached the third round event in Birmingham, England, for her best result of the year. Sanchez of Wimbledon in 2012. In 2012, Watson won her first WTA title also made her debut in a Grand Slam main draw by earning a wild at Osaka and became the first Brit to win a WTA singles title in 24 card into the 2013 US Open. Sanchez won two USTA Pro Circuit years. She also won two WTA doubles titles in 2012. Watson has titles in 2012, at the $50,000 event in Sacramento, Calif.—her first played for the Great Britain Fed Cup team and played in the 2012 professional singles title—and the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, Olympics in London. She trains with Nick Bolletierri. This is her N.M. Sanchez finished that year by making the final of the $75,000 third appearance in Midland. event in Phoenix to finish as the top WTA points earner among Americans on the 2012 USTA Pro Circuit. As a junior player, she was Allie Kiick, 18, is ranked a career-high No. 169 after reaching the ranked No. 1 in the United States as a 16-year-old and No. 4 in the final of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Daytona Beach, country as an 18-year-old. She also was the No. 1-ranked collegian Fla., and the semifinals of the $25,000 event in Vero Beach, Fla., and an ITA All-American at USC, winning the 2011 USTA/ITA in early 2014. Kiick, who turned pro in 2013, won the second National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship singles title. Entering USTA Pro Circuit singles title of her career at the $10,000 event in the 2014 Australian Open, Sanchez won her first career WTA doubles Gainesville, Fla., last year and also reached the final of the $50,000 title in Auckland, New Zealand, with Sharon Fichman. Sanchez event in Charlottesville, Va. In the junior ranks, Kiick was a finalist trains with the USTA Player Development program at the USTA in the 2013 USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships singles event Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. This is her second and won the doubles title with Sachia Vickery, allowing her to make appearance in Midland; she was a singles quarterfinalist in 2013. her Grand Slam main-draw debut in the women’s doubles event at the 2013 US Open. Kiick is the daughter of Jim Kiick, who , 31, of Italy, is ranked No. 211. This 15-year was a running back on the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins. Her WTA veteran’s accomplishments include reaching the third round of the mother is Mary Johnson, a former professional softball player. Allie Australian Open in both 2006 and 2007 and reaching the second round has spent time training at the USTA Training Center Headquarters of the US Open six times, including a memorable match against Serena in Boca Raton, Fla., and with former Grand Slam finalist Harold Williams in 2007. She has reached two WTA singles finals (in 2001 and Solomon. She is making her Midland debut. 2006) and has won three WTA doubles titles, including the US Open Series event in Cincinnati in 2006 with . Camerin peaked

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at No. 41 in the world in October 2004 and has represented Italy in Fed Tornado Alicia Black, 15, is ranked No. 954 in the WTA Rankings Cup and Olympics. This is her third appearance in Midland; she was a and is ranked a career-high No. 4 in the ITF World Junior Rankings, quarterfinalist in the 2001 tournament. making her the top-ranked American girl. Black advanced to the final of the girls’ singles event at the 2013 US Open Junior , 22, of , is ranked No. 226. In 2011, Pervak Championships. Immediately following the US Open, she won her won her first career WTA singles title at the and was first pro title at the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Amelia a runner-up at the WTA’s . She also reached the fourth Island, Fla. Also last year, Black reached the singles quarterfinals round of Wimbledon that year, peaking at No. 37 in the world in and won the doubles title at the prestigious Metropolia September 2011. As a junior player, Pervak won the 2009 junior International Tennis Championships to break into the Top 10 of Australian Open singles title, defeating Great Britain’s . the junior rankings. In July 2012, she made her WTA debut in the She represented Kazakhstan from 2011 to 2013 and now represents qualifying draw of the tournament in Washington, D.C. Black’s sister, Russia. This is her second appearance in Midland; she lost to Hurricane Tyra, is also a promising young player; she was the USTA’s eventual champion Lucie Hradecka in the 2011 semifinals. national champion among 12-and-unders in 2013. She is making her Midland debut. , 31, of Greece, is ranked No. 261. Daniilidou has won five WTA singles titles and three WTA doubles titles in her Featured players expected to compete in the qualifying draw include: career. She also reached the fourth round of Wimbledon in 2002, as well as the and 2004 US Open, and learned to play tennis at the Boys reached the mixed doubles final of the 2003 Australian Open with and Girls Club in Las Vegas. In 2013, she won two USTA Pro Circuit . She peaked at a career-high singles ranking of doubles titles and captured her first singles title since 2007 at the No. 14 in May 2003 and has served on the Greece Fed Cup team, $25,000 event in Raleigh, N.C. Muhammad holds nine USTA Pro as well as on three Olympic teams. This will be Daniilidou’s third Circuit titles overall (seven in doubles). appearance in Midland; she was a singles finalist in 2009 where she lost to eventual champion Lucie Hradecka, and reached the doubles Allie Will jumped more than 150 spots in the rankings since turning semifinals in 2010. pro in 2012 after completing her junior year at the University of Florida, where she rose to No. 1 in the collegiate singles rankings. Players receiving main draw wild cards include: She has recently cracked into the Top 100 in the WTA doubles rankings and is currently ranked No. 98 in doubles. Will has won Defending Midland champion Lauren Davis, 20, is ranked No. 67 nine doubles titles in her career, seven on the USTA Pro Circuit. after reaching the third round of the 2014 Australian Open in her career-best Grand Slam result. Davis is arriving in Midland after won a career-high five doubles titles on the USTA being named to the U.S. Fed Cup Team for the first time for the Pro Circuit in 2013 and holds 10 USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles World Group First Round in Cleveland, where she won in doubles. overall. She also holds four career USTA Pro Circuit singles titles. She competed in all four Grand Slam events in 2013. Also in In July 2013, she qualified for the WTA event in Washington, D.C., 2013, she reached two WTA quarterfinals in Monterrey, Mexico, and where she also reached the doubles quarterfinals. Mueller is a two- Quebec City, Canada. Davis broke into the Top 100 for the first time time winner of the US Open National Playoffs, earning wild cards in her career in 2012, qualifying for and reaching the second round into the US Open Qualifying Tournament in 2010 and 2012. of the French Open and advancing to the quarterfinals of Quebec City. Davis also ended the 2012 season strong on the USTA Pro completed her stellar college career in 2012 at the Circuit, winning the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Las Vegas, University of Tennessee. Pluskota reached the final of the $10,000 sponsored by music mogul Redfoo of LMFAO. Davis peaked at No. 3 tournament in Landisville, Pa., in May 2013. She also has enjoyed in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2010, when she won the Orange tremendous success in doubles, peaking at No. 158 in the world Bowl and reached the final of the Easter Bowl. Davis trains with in doubles last July after reaching eight doubles semifinals on the the USTA Player Development Program in Boca Raton, Fla., and USTA Pro Circuit. On the WTA tour in summer 2013, Pluskota and previously trained at the Chris Evert Academy in Boca Raton. fellow American reached the doubles quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif. Former world No. 1 junior and four-time junior Grand Slam champion Taylor Townsend, 17, is ranked No. 339. Townsend first made waves in pro tennis in 1999, when reached the girls’ singles final at Wimbledon in 2013, as well as she became the first female qualifier in Wimbledon history to reach the quarterfinals at the French Open juniors. Townsend turned pro the semifinals. She was ranked in the year-end Top 100 each year at the start of 2013 and, in her first WTA-level main-draw match, from 1999 to 2003, peaking at No. 18 in 2002. Injuries drove her beat then-No. 57 Lucie Hradecka in the first round of the BNP ranking into the 600s in 2005. Stevenson rebounded to climb back Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. In 2012, Townsend clinched the into the Top 200 in 2009, advancing to the final at the $50,000 year-end ITF No. 1 junior ranking, becoming the first American girl event in Carson, Calif., for her best result on the USTA Pro Circuit to hold that position since in 1982. Also in 2012, since 1998. Stevenson is the daughter of basketball Hall-of-Famer Townsend won the Australian Open junior singles and doubles titles, Julius Erving. as well as the junior doubles titles at the US Open and Wimbledon. In addition, she led the U.S. to the Junior Fed Cup championship. In Midland’s 26-year history, only four players have won multiple In the pro ranks in 2013, besides her win at Indian Wells, Townsend titles – Lucie Hradecka (2009, 2011), (2005, reached the final round of qualifying at the US Open. In 2014, 2008), Jill Craybas (2004, 2007) and Canada’s , the Townsend qualified for and reached the quarterfinals of the $25,000 only player to successfully defend the Midland singles title (1991- USTA Pro Circuit event in Daytona Beach, Fla., in January. This is 92). The United States leads all nations with 10 singles titles. The her second appearance in Midland. United States also has 14 runner-up finishes at Midland.

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MIDLAND PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2013 Lauren Davis (USA) Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) 2013 / Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 2012 (BLR) Magdelena Rybarikova (SVK) 2012 Lucie Hradecka / Andrea Hlavackova 2011 Lucie Hradecka (CZE) Irina Falconi (USA) 2011 / Anna Tatishvili 2010 (GBR) Lucie Hradecka (CZE) 2010 Lucie Hradecka / Laura Granville 2009 Lucie Hradecka (CZE) Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) 2009 Yi Chen / 2008 Laura Granville (USA) (USA) 2008 / Ashley Harkleroad 2007 Jill Craybas (USA) Laura Granville (USA) 2007 Laura Granville / 2006 Maria Emilia Salerni (ARG) Vasilia Bardina (RUS) 2006 / 2005 Laura Granville (USA) Yoon Jeong Cho (KOR) 2005 Yulia Beygelzimer / Kelly McCain 2004 Jill Craybas (USA) Nicole Vaidisova (CZE) 2004 / Asa Svensson 2003 (GER) Laura Granville (USA) 2003 / Abigail Spears 2002 Li Na (CHN) (USA) 2002 / Elena Tatarkova 2001 Yoon Jeong Cho (KOR) Tara Snyder (USA) 2001 Yvette Basting / Elena Tatarkova 2000 (AUS) Yuka Yoshida (JPN) 2000 Nannie de Villers / 1999 (LUX) Tara Snyder (USA) 1999 Liezel Horn / 1998 Alexandra Stevenson (USA) (USA) 1998 / Kerry-Anne Guse 1997 (USA) Meilen Tu (USA) 1997 / Nana Miyagi 1996 (RUS) Lindsay Lee (USA) 1996 Angela Lettiere / 1995 (USA) Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (NED) 1995 Chanda Rubin / Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 1994 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (NED) Meredith McGrath (USA) 1994 Erica Adams / Jeri Ingram 1993 Ros Nideffer (USA) (USA) 1993 / Meredith McGrath 1992 Helen Kelesi (CAN) Clair Wegink (NED) 1992 / Meredith McGrath 1991 Helen Kelesi (CAN) Meredith McGrath (USA) 1991 Meredith McGrath / 1990 Linda Ferrando (ITA) Mary Pierce (FRA) 1990 Alissa Finnerman / Lisa Seemann 1989 (USA) Meredith McGrath (USA) 1989 Il-Soon Kim / Jeong-Myung Lee 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. Celebrating its the game—and stay in the game. Kids are learning to play 35th anniversary in 2014, the USTA Pro Circuit provides players with the opportunity to gain professional faster than ever before through the USTA’s youth initiative, ranking points, and it has grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering which is geared toward getting more kids to participate in nearly $3 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. , Maria Sharapova, , Caroline Wozniacki, Sam tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a child’s Querrey, Victoria Azarenka and are among today’s top stars who began their careers on size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com. the USTA Pro Circuit.

More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped launch the careers of two young NJTL

Americans— and Shelby Ray East Rogers. Former Stanford standout and 2010 Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, along with Charlie Pasarell NCAA champion Klahn was the 2013 USTA and Sheridan Snyder, the USTA/National Junior Tennis & Pro Circuit Prize Money Leader with $50,606 Learning (NJTL) network is a nationwide group of more than in earnings, reaching five USTA Pro Circuit singles finals and winning two singles titles: 625 non-profit youth development organizations that provide the $15,000 Futures in Costa Mesa, Calif., free or low-cost tennis, education and life skills programming in March, and the $100,000 Challenger in to more than 350,000 children each year. Celebrating its Aptos, Calif., in August. The two singles 44th anniversary this year, NJTL is one of the USTA’s largest titles were the first USTA Pro Circuit singles crowns of his career. Klahn also earned community-based offerings.. a USTA wild card into the 2013 US Open through a wild card challenge incorporating USTA Pro Circuit events. Klahn finished 2013 US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS ranked in the Top 100 for the first time in his career after starting the year ranked outside Shelby Rogers The USTA launched the US Open the Top 250. Rogers was the 2013 women’s National Playoffs in 2010, USTA Pro Circuit Prize Money Leader with making the US Open “open” to $36,308 in earnings, winning three singles titles with prize money of $50,000 or more ($50,000 events in Charlottesville, Va., and Lexington, Ky., and anyone age 14+ and of all skill the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, N.M.). Rogers also earned a USTA wild card into both the French Open levels. Last year, more than and the US Open by winning wild card challenges for the two Grand Slam tournaments utilizing a series 1,000 players competed in 13 of USTA Pro Circuit events. In her debut at the 2013 French Open, Rogers won her first round match. She Sectional Qualifying Tournaments peaked at No. 116 in the world in October 2013, rising more than 100 spots throughout the year. Both nationwide for a 2013 US Open Klahn and Rogers train with the USTA Player Development program. Qualifying Tournament wild card. A mixed doubles element also was held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed PLAYER DEVELOPMENT doubles wild card. , a 17-year-old Japanese player living in Irvine, Calif., won the 2013 US Open National Playoffs The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions women’s title and USTA Pro Circuit regular Jeff Dadamo, 24, by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need of Tampa, Fla., won the men’s wild card. Yasmin Schnack to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center and Eric Roberson won the mixed doubles tournament. The Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as schedule for this year’s US Open National Playoffs will be well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. released in early 2014.