TOURNAMENT NOTES as of September 12, 2014 2014 COLEMAN VISION TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. • SEPTEMBER 14–21 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS RETURNS TO ALBUQUERQUE TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Coleman Vision Tennis Championships return to Albuquerque for the 17th consecutive year. It is the only USTA Pro Circuit women’s Ron Angle Site: Tanoan Country Club – Albuquerque, N.M. event held in New Mexico and the second Websites: www.colemanvision.com event following the US Open. procircuit.usta.com This tournament will be streamed live on Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, September 14 www.procircuit.usta.com. Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, September 16 Notable players competing in the main draw Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles include: Surface: Hard / Outdoor Former world No. 7 and tournament wild Prize Money: $75,000 card Nicole Vaidisova, who retired from pro Tournament Director: tennis in 2010 and is competing in her Sue Jollensten, (505) 822-1694, [email protected] first tournament since then. Vaidisova has won six WTA singles titles and reached the Tournament Press Contact: semifinals of the 2007 Australian Open and Cee Ann Vaughan, (478) 973-4388, [email protected] the semifinals of the 2006 French Open, 2008 Lexington singles champion and former where she upset No. 1 seed Amelie Mauresmo USTA Communications Contacts: world No. 31 Melanie Oudin reached the in the fourth round and Venus Williams in the quarterfinals of the 2009 US Open and won Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] quarterfinals. She also has represented the the 2011 US Open mixed doubles title with PRIZE MONEY / POINTS Czech Republic in Fed Cup. Jack Sock. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Melanie Oudin, who burst onto the tennis Winner $11,400 110 scene in 2009, defeating former world No. Oudin then competed at Wimbledon as a Runner-Up $6,080 78 1 Jelena Jankovic to reach the fourth round wild card. She also earned a 2012 French Semifinalist $3,325 50 at Wimbledon and beating five-time Grand Open wild card based on her results on the Quarterfinalist $1,900 30 Slam tournament champion Maria Sharapova USTA Pro Circuit, which included a title at Round 16 $1,140 14 en route to the US Open quarterfinals. Oudin the event in Charlottesville, Va. (She reached Round 32 $665 1 peaked at No. 31 in the world in singles in the second round at Roland Garros that year.) DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) April 2010, but struggled with injuries and Last year, Oudin won the Party Rock Open, Winner $4,180 inconsistency in the year that followed. She a $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Las Runner-Up $2,090 started a comeback in 2012, capturing her Vegas sponsored by music sensation Redfoo; Semifinalist $359 first WTA title at the Wimbledon tune-up reached the second round at the French Quarterfinalist $196 event in Birmingham, England, where she Open; and qualified for the clay-court WTA Round 16 $131 won eight matches (including qualifying) events in Rome and Brussels. In addition to and upset No. 5 seed Jankovic in the final. her success in singles, she notched one of the COMMUNITY EVENTS biggest victories of her career at the 2011 US Sunday, September 14 Open, claiming the mixed doubles title with USTA NNMTA’s Mid-School League Clinic countryman Jack Sock. She also has been 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. USTA a consistent performer for the U.S. Fed Cup Senior Clinic, 1:00-2:00 p.m. team. Oudin announced in November 2013 that she was suffering from rhabdomyolysis, a Monday, September 15 muscle-damaging condition, and took time off Pro-Am, 5:30 p.m. to recover. She resumed competition in March Tuesday, September 16 Elementary School Kids’ Day, 10:15 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Former world No. 7 Nicole Vaidisova is competing in the first tournament of her Wednesday, September 17 comeback from retirement in 2010. During Junior Pro-Am, 5:30 p.m. her initial rise to the Top 10, Vaidisova won six WTA singles titles and was a two-time Grand Thursday, September 18 Slam tournament semifinalist. Elementary School Kids’ Day, 10:15 a.m.-1:00 p.m. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES of this year and competed on the USTA Pro Circuit and in qualifying for ranked in the Top 200 for the first time. As a junior, Vickery climbed to the US Open, French Open and Wimbledon. No. 6 in the ITF World Junior Rankings, reaching the doubles semifinals of junior Wimbledon in 2012 and competing in all four junior Grand Madison Brengle, who won her first Grand Slam tournament main Slams. Vickery has trained with the USTA Player Development program draw match this year at the US Open, where she competed as a wild at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. card. Brengle defeated Israel’s Julia Glushko in the first round at the US Open. Brengle won the sixth USTA Pro Circuit singles title of her Julia Boserup, who qualified for and reached the quarterfinals of the career this year at the $50,000 women’s event in Lexington, Ky. She WTA event in Monterrey, Mexico, this April for her career-best WTA also holds five USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles. This spring, Brengle result. Boserup returned to action in summer 2013 after missing the competed overseas in ITF Pro Circuit events, reaching three consecutive first half of the year due to injury. She won her first USTA Pro Circuit quarterfinals. Brengle also had a strong finish to the 2013 USTA Pro singles title in 2011 at the $25,000 event in Redding, Calif. In her Circuit season, capturing two singles crowns and one doubles title. (She career, she has competed in qualifying for the US Open and Australian reached the quarterfinals or better at all five USTA Pro Circuit events Open. As a junior player, she won the prestigious Orange Bowl in 2008, she competed in following the 2013 US Open.) In her career, Brengle defeating U.S. Olympian and Fed Cupper Christina McHale in the final. has played in the main draw at three of the four majors, winning USTA wild-card playoffs to earn entry into the Australian Open (2007-08) and Other players receiving main draw wild cards include: the French Open (2008), as well as competing in the US Open main draw in 2007 and in 2014. As a junior player, Brengle ascended to a Louisa Chirico, an up-and-coming young American who outperformed career-high ranking of No. 4 in the world in 2007, after advancing to every other U.S. junior at the 2013 French Open, reaching the girls’ the girls’ singles final at Wimbledon. singles semifinals before falling to eventual champion Belinda Bencic in three sets. Chirico then reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon 2011 and 2013 Albuquerque singles runner-up Anna Tatishvili, who juniors, again losing to Bencic, and the quarterfinals of the US Open peaked at No. 50 in the world in singles in October 2012 and at juniors to finish the 2013 season in the Top 10 of the ITF World No. 59 in doubles in May 2012. She reached the fourth round of Junior Rankings. In 2012, she teamed with Taylor Townsend to lead the US Open in 2012, losing to former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka. the United States to the Junior Fed Cup title in Barcelona, Spain. Tatishvili has won seven USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, as well as three Chirico won her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title in 2012 at the ITF Pro Circuit singles titles. As a junior player, she climbed as high $10,000 event in Sumter, S.C., and her first doubles title in 2013 as No. 19 in the ITF World Junior Rankings and reached the doubles at the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. This year, she semifinals of the 2006 junior Australian Open with Caroline Wozniacki. has reached the doubles semifinals or better at four USTA Pro Circuit Tatishvili formerly represented the country of Georgia, but changed her events and spent the spring competing in Europe, where she won an representation to the United States in April 2014. ITF Pro Circuit singles title in Italy and reached one additional final in Switzerland. She also competed in US Open qualifying this year. Chirico Irina Falconi, who has played in each Grand Slam tournament at least trains with the USTA Player Development program. twice. At the 2011 US Open, she upset No. 14 Dominika Cibulkova in the second round in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Also in 2011, Falconi won Lauren Embree, who completed her outstanding college career in 2013 a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the French Open, where she at the University of Florida by being named the ITA National College advanced to the second round. She also qualified for the Australian Player of the Year. Embree went 26-3 in her final year for the Gators Open and Wimbledon that year to rise to No. 73 in the world rankings. at the No. 1 singles spot, and she compiled a staggering 117-16 In addition, she was selected to represent the United States in the singles record during her college career. As a pro in 2013, she won 2011 Pan Am Games, where she won the gold medal in singles and her second USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the $10,000 event in Fort the silver medal in doubles (with Christina McHale). In 2013, Falconi Worth, Texas, and reached the second round at the $50,000 event reached back-to-back doubles finals at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit in Lexington, Ky.