TOURNAMENT NOTES as of March 13, 2014 INNISBROOK WOMEN’S OPEN INNISBROOK, FL • MARCH 16–23 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS RETURNS TO INNISBROOK TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Innisbrook Women’s Open takes place for the second consecutive year in March. Innisbrook also hosted an event in January in Site: Innisbrook Golf Resort & Spa – Innisbrook, Fla. both 2012 and 2013. The tournament is the Anthony Behar Websites: www.visitinnisbrook.com last of three consecutive clay-court women’s procircuit.usta.com events held this March on the USTA Pro Circuit and prior to the French Open. In Facebook: Innisbrook, a Salamander Golf & Spa Resort conjunction with USTA Player Development, Twitter: @Innisbrook the USTA Pro Circuit continues to emphasize the importance of increased training for Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, March 16 younger players on clay. Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, March 18 Players competing in the main draw include: Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Surface: Clay / Outdoors 2012 Innisbrook singles champion Grace Min, who was one of the top juniors in the Prize Money: $25,000 world in 2011, defeating the No. 2 seed in the first round and the No. 1 seed in Tournament Director: the final to win the US Open girls’ singles Rhett Rollyson, (813) 719-0158, [email protected] title without dropping a set. That same Tournament Press Contact: year, she also won the girls’ doubles title 2012 Innisbrook singles champion Grace Min was one of the top juniors in the world in 2011, Ramona Hurley, (727) 773-0355 at Wimbledon and reached the singles winning the US Open girls’ singles title. In [email protected] semifinals at the Easter Bowl and the USTA 2013, she qualified for the women’s singles International Spring Championships. Those draw at the French Open and the US Open. USTA Public Relations Contacts: results propelled her to No. 4 in the world Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] junior rankings. In 2013, Min qualified for PRIZE MONEY / POINTS the French Open—her first main draw Grand Allie Kiick, who arrives in Innisbrook after Slam appearance outside of the US Open— qualifying for the BNP Paribas Open in SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points as well as the US Open. She also qualified Indian Wells, Calif., last week. Kiick turned Winner $3,919 50 for the WTA events in Indian Wells, Calif.; pro last year and improved her ranking Runner-up $2,091 30 Charleston, S.C.; and Acapulco, Mexico, last nearly 100 spots through her results on Semifinalist $1,114 18 year to crack the Top 150 for the first time the USTA Pro Circuit. In 2013, she won Quarterfinalist $ 654 9 in her career. Min has trained full-time at the second USTA Pro Circuit singles title Round of 16 $ 392 5 the USTA Training Center – Headquarters in of her career at the $10,000 event in Round of 32 $ 228 1 Boca Raton, Fla., since fall 2009. Gainesville, Fla., and also reached the final DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) of the $50,000 event in Charlottesville, Winner $1,437 Va. In junior tennis, Kiick was a finalist Runner-up $ 719 in the 2013 USTA Girls’ 18s National Semifinalist $ 359 Championships singles event and won the Quarterfinalist $ 196 Mauricio Paiz doubles title with Sachia Vickery, allowing Round of 16 $ 131 her to make her Grand Slam main draw debut in the women’s doubles event at COMMUNITY EVENTS the 2013 US Open. Kiick is the daughter Monday, March 17 of Jim Kiick, who was a running back on Pro-Am, 5 p.m. the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins. Her mother, Mary Johnson, is a former Tuesday, March 18 professional softball player. Allie has spent USTA League Captains Luncheon, 1 p.m. Friday, March 21 High School Team and Pro Circuit Players Allie Kiick, daugther of former Miami Dolphins all-pro running back Jim Kiick, qualified for Tennis Challenge, 5-9 p.m. the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., last week. Saturday, March 22 Exhibition Match and Clinic Introducing Masters Tennis, 9-11 a.m. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES time training at the USTA Training Center – Headquarters in Boca final of the USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships in 2010 and Raton, Fla., and with former Grand Slam finalist Harold Solomon. 2011, and she reached the semifinals of the 2011 US Open Junior Championships as a qualifier. Madison Brengle, who had a strong 2013 season on the USTA Pro Circuit, capturing two singles titles and one doubles title. She also Julia Cohen, who qualified for the 2014 Australian Open. Cohen reached the quarterfinals or better at all five USTA Pro Circuit events broke into the Top 100 of the WTA rankings in July 2012, after she competed in following the 2013 US Open. At the beginning advancing to her first WTA final in Baku, Azerbaijan, prior to of 2014, Brengle qualified for the WTA’s Australian Open tune-up competing in her first US Open main draw that August. She spent event in Hobart, Australia. She has played in the main draw at three a majority of 2013 playing on the USTA Pro Circuit and overseas in of the four Grand Slam events, winning USTA wild-card playoffs to ITF Women’s Circuit events. Cohen reached the singles quarterfinals earn entry into the Australian Open (2007, 2008) and the French or better at three USTA Pro Circuit events and won a doubles title Open (2008), as well as competing in the US Open main draw in at the $50,000 event in Osprey, Fla., in 2013. Along with her 2007. As a junior player, Brengle reached a career-high ranking of success in the professional ranks, Cohen has excelled at all levels of No. 4 in the world in 2007 and advanced to the girls’ singles final competitive tennis, winning as a junior and collegiate player, as well at Wimbledon that year. In the professional ranks, she has won five as in USTA family events. Cohen peaked at No. 4 in the ITF World singles titles and five doubles titles in her career, all on the USTA Junior Rankings in 2007, when she reached the Australian Open Pro Circuit. girls’ doubles final. As a collegian, Cohen earned All-America honors in 2009 as a sophomore for the University of Miami (Fla.), after Portugal’s Michelle Larcher De Brito, the top seed in Innisbrook, taking home the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rookie of the Year who peaked at No. 76 in the world in July 2009 after reaching the award as a freshman for the University of Florida. In 2008, she won third round of the French Open. She also reached the third round three USTA parent-child doubles national championships and added of Wimbledon last year and has played in the US Open main draw another in 2009. three times. De Brito consistently plays on the USTA Pro Circuit, having captured three singles titles, and has represented Portugal Maria Sanchez, who peaked at No. 107 in the world in July 2013 in Fed Cup. As a junior, she was the youngest player ever to win after strong results on the USTA Pro Circuit and WTA tour. She the 16-and-under singles title at the prestigious Eddie Herr Tennis began last year by reaching the quarterfinals of the USTA Pro Circuit Championships, which she captured at the age of 12 in 2005. event in Midland, Mich., as well as competing in three WTA events. Prior to Wimbledon, she qualified for and reached the third round Notable players competing in qualifying include: of the WTA grass-court event in Birmingham, England, for her best result of the year. Sanchez also made her debut in a Grand Slam Teenager Sachia Vickery, who earned a main draw wild card into main draw by earning a wild card into the 2013 US Open. She won the 2014 Australian Open by winning the USTA’s Australian Open two USTA Pro Circuit titles in 2012 and holds six USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Playoff in Norcross, Ga., last December against other doubles crowns. Prior to the 2014 Australian Open, Sanchez won up-and-coming Americans. The Australian Open was Vickery’s first her first WTA doubles title in Auckland, New Zealand, with Sharon Grand Slam tournament appearance outside of the US Open, and Fichman. As a junior player, Sanchez was ranked No. 1 in the U.S. she lost to fellow American Lauren Davis in the first round. Vickery as a 16-year-old and No. 4 in the country as an 18-year-old. She won the 2013 USTA National Girls’ 18s singles and doubles titles also was the No. 1-ranked collegian and an ITA All-American at last summer, earning wild cards into the women’s singles and USC, winning the 2011 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate doubles main draws at the 2013 US Open. She won her first-round Championship singles title. Sanchez trains with the USTA Player match in her Grand Slam debut in New York, defeating Mirjana Development program at the USTA Training Center – Headquarters in Lucic-Baroni in straight sets. Vickery climbed 150 spots in the WTA Boca Raton, Fla. rankings in 2013, on the strength of her US Open win and reaching the semifinals of two USTA Pro Circuit events, ending the 2013 Louisa Chirico, who outperformed every other American junior at season ranked in the Top 200 for the first time in her career. As a the 2013 French Open, reaching the girls’ singles semifinals before junior, Vickery was ranked as high as No.