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as of September 12, 2014

2014 COLEMAN VISION 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 and Cee Ann Vaughan, (478) 973-4388, [email protected] the semifinals of the 2006 , 2008 Lexington singles champion and former where she upset No. 1 seed Amelie Mauresmo USTA Communications Contacts: world No. 31 reached the in the fourth round and 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. . 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 . 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 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 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 , who won her first 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 ’s in the first round at the US Open. Brengle won the sixth USTA Pro Circuit singles title of her , 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 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 , reaching the girls’ the girls’ singles final at Wimbledon. singles semifinals before falling to eventual champion in three sets. Chirico then reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon 2011 and 2013 Albuquerque singles runner-up , 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 to lead the US Open in 2012, losing to former world No. 1 . the 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 . 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 , 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 . Also in 2011, Falconi won , 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. In 2009, she won a USTA wild-card playoff to earn events in Portland, Ore., and Yakima, Wash., winning the title in a berth into the main draw of the French Open, where she lost in the Portland for her second USTA Pro Circuit doubles title. She also holds opening round to former world No. 3 . three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, the most recent coming in 2010. In two seasons at Georgia Tech, Falconi was a two-time All-American; , who has jumped more than 150 spots in the singles rankings she is the school’s all-time leader in winning percentage (.824; 70-15). since turning pro in 2012 after completing her junior year at the She was born in Ecuador and moved to New York at age 3, learning to University of Florida, where she rose to No. 1 in the collegiate singles play on public courts in Manhattan. rankings. This June, Will won back-to-back doubles titles at ITF Pro Circuit events in Mexico, while reaching a singles final and a semifinal. , who earned a main draw wild card into the 2014 Also this year, she won her seventh USTA Pro Circuit doubles title at the Australian Open by winning the USTA’s Australian Open Wild Card $25,000 event in Vero Beach, Fla., to break into the Top 100 in the Playoff against other up-and-coming Americans; she lost to fellow WTA doubles rankings for the first time. American in the Australian Open’s first round. The Australian Open was Vickery’s first Grand Slam appearance outside the Players competing in qualifying include: US Open. She also competed in French Open and Wimbledon qualifying this year and reached her first WTA quarterfinal at the Emirates Airline Fifteen-year-old CiCi Bellis, who made international headlines at the US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif., this summer. Vickery won 2014 US Open with her upset victory over No. 12 Dominika Cibulkova the 2013 USTA Girls’ 18 National singles and doubles titles last in the first round of the women’s draw. Bellis, who received a wild card summer, earning wild cards into the main draw of the women’s singles into the main draw as the USTA Girls’ 18s National champion, became and doubles draws at the 2013 US Open. At the Open, which marked the youngest player to win a main draw match at the US Open since her Grand Slam tournament debut, she won her first-round match, in 1996. Bellis, who is now the No. 1-ranked junior defeating Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in straight sets. Vickery climbed 150 in the world (18-and-under), was also the youngest USTA Girls’ 18s spots in the rankings in 2013 behind her US Open win, in addition to National champion since in 1991. reaching the semifinals of two USTA Pro Circuit events, to end the year *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES

Samantha Crawford, who won the 2012 US Open girls’ singles title. to playing in her first US Open main draw that August. She spent a Crawford also qualified for the main draw of the Open that year and majority of 2013 competing on the USTA Pro Circuit and overseas in pushed Great Britain’s in the first round. At 6-foot-2, ITF events, reaching the singles quarterfinals or better at three USTA Crawford’s big serve and aggressive baseline game helped her rise Pro Circuit events and winning the doubles title at the $50,000 event to No. 5 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2012. In 2013, she in Dothan, Ala. Cohen has excelled at all levels of competitive tennis, advanced to the singles semifinals at the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit winning as a junior, collegiate player and in USTA family events, in event in Raleigh, N.C. This year, she won the third USTA Pro Circuit addition to her successes in the professional ranks. Cohen peaked at doubles title of her career at the $25,000 event in Rancho Santa Fe, No. 4 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2007, when she reached Calif., before spending the spring competing in Italy and France. the Australian Open girls’ doubles final. As a collegian, Cohen earned Crawford, who speaks Chinese (her mother is from China), trains with All-America honors in 2009 as a sophomore for the University of Miami the USTA Player Development program. (Fla.), after taking home the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rookie of the Year award as a freshman for the University of Florida. In 2008, 2012 Albuquerque singles champion , who peaked at she won three USTA parent-child national championships and added No. 107 in the world in July 2013 after strong results on the USTA another in 2009. Pro Circuit and the WTA tour. She started that year by reaching the quarterfinals of the USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, Mich., and , who played for the University of North Carolina, where competing in three WTA events. Sanchez also made her debut in a she received All-America honors and, in 2010, helped lead the Tar Grand Slam tournament main draw by earning a wild card into the Heels to their first NCAA team semifinals. In 2013, she won her first 2013 US Open. She won both her USTA Pro Circuit singles titles in USTA Pro Circuit singles title, at the $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas. 2012; she also holds seven USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles for her Marand also has won six USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles, with three career, including a doubles title at the $100,000 event in Vancouver coming in 2012. She competed in Europe this spring, where she won this summer. Prior to the , Sanchez won her first one ITF Pro Circuit doubles title in Italy and advanced to one additional WTA doubles title, teaming with for the championship final in Switzerland. As a junior player, Marand reached the doubles in Auckland, New Zealand. As a junior player, Sanchez was ranked final at the 2006 Easter Bowl with . No. 1 in the United States as a 16-year-old and No. 4 in the country as an 18-year-old. She also was the No. 1-ranked collegian and an , a former University of Tennessee standout, who was ITA All-American at USC, winning the 2011 USTA/ITA National named the 2010 College Senior Player of the Year after leading the Indoor Intercollegiate Championship singles title. Sanchez trains with Volunteers to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament for the first time the USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training Center in eight seasons. Whoriskey captured her first USTA Pro Circuit singles Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. title this May at the $10,000 event in Hilton Head Island, S.C., where she also won the doubles crown. She has also captured seven USTA , who qualified for the main draw at the 2014 Australian Pro Circuit and ITF Pro Circuit doubles titles throughout the world. This Open and spent a majority of the spring and summer competing year, Whoriskey won the US Open National Playoffs, earning a wild card overseas. Cohen broke into the Top 100 of the WTA rankings in July into US Open qualifying, where she won her first-round match. 2012 after advancing to her first WTA final, in Baku, Azerbaijan, prior

ALBUQUERQUE PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2013 (USA) Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 2013 Coco Vandeweghe (USA) – (GRE) 2012 Maria Sanchez (USA) Lauren Davis (USA) 2012 Asia Muhammed (USA) – (USA) 2011 (RUS) Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 2011 (USA) – Asia Muhammed (USA) 2010 Mirjana Lucic (CRO) Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) 2010 Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) – Megan Moulton-Levy (USA) 2009 (USA) Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) 2009 (USA) – (USA) 2008 (USA) Rossana de Los Rios (PAR) 2008 Julie Ditty (USA) – (USA) 2007 Rossana de los Rios (PAR) (EST) 2007 (HUN) – (USA) 2006 (USA) (PUR) 2006 Julie Ditty (USA) – (VEN) 2005 (AUS) (CAN) 2005 Julie Ditty (USA) – Milagros Sequera (VEN) 2004 (USA) Stephanie Dubois (CAN) 2004 Maureen Drake (CAN) – Carly Gullickson (USA) 2003 Kristina Brandi (PUR) Milagros Sequera (VEN) 2003 (USA) – Milagros Sequera (VEN) 2002 (USA) Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) 2002 (ITA) – Milagros Sequera (VEN) 2001 Mashona Washington (USA) Marissa Irvin (USA) 2001 Marissa Irvin (USA) – (USA) 2000 (USA) Maria Vento-Kabchi (VEN) 2000 Brie Rippner (USA) – Elena Tatarkova (UKR) 1999 (USA) Maria Vento-Kabchi (VEN) 1999 (USA) – (JPN) 1998 (LUX) (USA) 1998 Rachel McQuillan (AUS) – Nana Smith (JPN) 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. Mardy Fish, Maria Sharapova, John Isner, 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—Bradley Klahn 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 & 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, making USTA Pro Circuit Prize Money Leader with the US Open “open” to anyone $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 age 14+ and of all skill levels. the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, N.M.). Rogers also earned a USTA wild card into both the French Open Last year, more than 1,000 players and the US Open by winning wild card challenges for the two Grand Slam tournaments utilizing a series competed in 13 Sectional Qualifying of USTA Pro Circuit events. In her debut at the 2013 French Open, Rogers won her first round match. She Tournaments nationwide for a 2013 peaked at No. 116 in the world in October 2013, rising more than 100 spots throughout the year. Both US Open Qualifying Tournament wild Klahn and Rogers train with the USTA Player Development program. card. A mixed doubles element also was held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed doubles wild card. , a PLAYER DEVELOPMENT 17-year-old Japanese player living in Irvine, Calif., won the 2013 US Open National Playoffs women’s title and USTA Pro Circuit The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions regular Jeff Dadamo of Tampa, Fla., won the men’s wild card. by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need Yasmin Schnack and Eric Roberson won mixed doubles. The 13 to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center sectional qualifying tournaments for this year’s US Open National Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as Playoffs are in May and June, with championships in August. For well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. more information, visit www.usopen.org/NationalPlayoffs.