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as of September 17, 2015

2015 COLEMAN VISION CHAMPIONSHIPS ALBUQUERQUE, NM • SEPTEMBER 20–27

USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO ALBUQUERQUE TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The 2015 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships return to Albuquerque for Site: Tanoan Country Club – Albuquerque, N.M. the 18th consecutive year. It is the second event following the US Open and the only Websites: www.colemanvision.com USTA Pro Circuit tournament held in New

procircuit.usta.com Dishman USTA/Ned Mexico this year. Facebook: Coleman Vision This tournament will be streamed live on Sunday, Sept. 20 Qualifying Draw Begins: www.procircuit.usta.com. Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Sept. 22 To follow the tournament, download the Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles USTA Pro Circuit’s new phone app by searching “procircuit” in the app store. received a into this Surface: Hard / Outdoor year’s US Open and won her first-round Prize Money: $75,000 match. Gibbs captured consecutive NCAA Notable players competing in the main draw singles titles in 2012 and 2013 for Stanford Tournament Director: include: University, becoming the fifth player in Sue Jollensten, (505) 822-1694 history—and the fourth from Stanford—to Nicole Gibbs, who earned a wild card into win back-to-back NCAA Division I women’s [email protected] singles championships. this year’s US Open and won her first-round Tournament Press Contact: match. Last year, Gibbs advanced to the Cee Ann Vaughan, (478) 973-4388 third round of the 2014 US Open—her in 2012, she defeated teammate Mallory [email protected] career-best result—while competing as Burdette in the NCAA singles title match USTA Communications Contact: a wild card after winning the USTA Pro and then teamed with Burdette to win the Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. NCAA doubles championship. As a junior She also won her third $50,000 USTA Pro player, she advanced to the final of the PRIZE MONEY / POINTS Circuit event of her career in Carson, Calif., USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships in in 2014. This year, Gibbs advanced to the SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points 2010 and 2011 and reached the semifinals second round of the —her Winner $11,400 110 of the 2011 junior US Open. Gibbs trains at first main draw appearance Runner-up $6,080 78 the USTA Training Center Headquarters in outside of the US Open—and competed Semifinalist $3,325 50 Boca Raton, Fla. in the and Wimbledon main Quarterfinalist $1,900 30 draws, peaking at No. 84 in the world in Round of 16 $1,140 14 Defending singles champion and 2013 March. She also qualified for this summer’s Round of 32 $665 1 finalistAnna Tatishvili, who qualified for Emirates Airline US Open Series event in the 2015 US Open and reached the second DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Stanford, Calif., upsetting round. She also qualified for the 2015 Winner $4,180 to reach the round of 16. Gibbs won Australian Open and reached the second Runner-up $2,090 consecutive NCAA singles titles in 2012 round and advanced to the quarterfinals of Semifinalist $359 and 2013 for Stanford University, becoming the WTA event in Bucharest, Romania, in Quarterfinalist $196 the fifth player in history—and the fourth July. Tatishvili peaked at No. 50 in the world Round of 16 $131 from Stanford—to win back-to-back NCAA in singles in October 2012 and No. 59 in COMMUNITY EVENTS Division I women’s singles championships. doubles in May 2012. Her best Grand Slam Gibbs also helped lead Stanford to its 17th Sunday, Sept. 20 result came at the 2012 US Open, where NCAA team title in 2013. As a sophomore Nickelodeon Worldwide Day of Play; Mid-School League she reached the fourth round before falling Clinic, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Nickelodeon 10 and to former world No. 1 . Under Play Time/Wheelchair Clinic, 1:00-2:00 p.m.; Tatishvili has won eight USTA Pro Circuit Senior Clinic, 2:00-3:00 p.m. singles titles and three ITF-level singles Tuesday, Sept. 22 titles in her career. She won her first WTA

Elementary School Kids’ Day, 10:15 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Staples USTA/Peter Wednesday, Sept. 23 Junior Pro-Am, 5:30-8:00 p.m. Albuquerque’s defending singles champion and Thursday, Sept. 24 2013 finalist qualified for the Elementary School Kids’ Day, 9:15-11:30 a.m. 2015 US Open and reached the second round. Sunday, Sept. 27 Wheelchair Exhibition, between finals *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES doubles title last year in Linz, Austria. As a junior player, Tatishvili secured a wild card into the 2013 US Open by winning the USTA climbed as high as No. 19 in the ITF World Junior Rankings and Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. In her career, Rogers has reached the doubles semifinals at the 2006 junior Australian Open won four USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and one doubles title. As a with . Tatishvili formerly represented the country junior player, she won the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships of Georgia but changed her representation to the in to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 US Open for her April 2014. first appearance in a Grand Slam (in either the main draw or juniors).

Louisa Chirico, who made her Grand Slam singles main draw 2012 singles champion , who peaked at No. 107 debut at the after winning the Har-Tru USTA in the world in July 2013 behind strong results on the USTA Pro Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge, which awards a French Open wild Circuit and the WTA tour. Also in 2013, Sanchez made her debut in card to an American player based on their results on the USTA Pro a Grand Slam main draw by earning a wild card into the US Open. In Circuit. Chirico won the challenge by claiming the singles title at the 2014, she won her first career WTA doubles title, in Auckland, New $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Dothan, Ala., and by reaching Zealand, with . For her career, Sanchez has won the final at the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. She two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, both in 2012, and 14 USTA Pro also received a wild card into the 2015 US Open and competed in Circuit/ITF-level doubles titles, including four events this year. Also Wimbledon qualifying this year, while also reaching the quarterfinals this year, she reached the singles final of the $25,000 USTA Pro of the WTA event in Washington D.C., to rise to a career-best No. Circuit event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., losing to up-and-coming 110 in the world. And in July, she represented the U.S. in the Pan young American CiCi Bellis. As a junior player, Sanchez was ranked American Games in . Chirico outperformed every other U.S. No. 1 in the U.S. as a 16-year-old and No. 4 in the country as an junior at the 2013 junior French Open, reaching the girls’ singles 18-year-old. She also was the No. 1-ranked collegian and an ITA All- semifinals. Chirico then reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon American at the University of Southern California, winning the 2011 juniors and the quarterfinals of the junior US Open to finish the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship singles title. 2013 season in the Top 10 of the ITF World Junior Rankings. In 2012, she teamed with to lead the U.S. to the , who peaked at No. 108 in the world this July after Junior Fed Cup title in Barcelona, Spain. Chirico won her first USTA qualifying for Wimbledon and reaching the quarterfinals of the Pro Circuit singles title that same year at the $10,000 event in WTA’s Wimbledon tune-up event in Nottingham, England, this June. Sumter, S.C., and her first doubles title in Indian Harbour Beach, Vickery also represented the U.S. in the Pan American Games in Fla., in 2013. Toronto this summer. Vickery won the first two career USTA Pro Circuit singles titles of her career earlier this year at the $25,000 2011 doubles champion , who has competed in every Florida events in Plantation and Sunrise. She has competed in the Grand Slam main draw but the Australian Open, playing in the US US Open and the Australian Open main draws in her young career, Open main draw five times and Wimbledon and the French Open receiving a main-draw wild card into the 2015 US Open and earning three times, qualifying for Roland Garros this year. Glatch has one into the by winning the USTA’s Australian consistently competed on the USTA Pro Circuit and ITF Circuit, Open Wild Card Playoff. She also competed in qualifying for the winning 10 singles titles and seven doubles titles, including a US Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 2014, and she reached singles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Osprey, Fla., the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in this year for her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title since 2009. Stanford, Calif., last summer—her first WTA quarterfinal. In 2013, Glatch has suffered through a number of injuries in her career, Vickery won the USTA National Girls’ 18s singles and doubles titles, missing more than a year from July 2013 to September 2014 and earning wild cards into the main draws of the singles and doubles most of 2010 as well. In 2009, Glatch propelled the U.S. to the events at the 2013 US Open. At the Open, she won her first-round Fed Cup final by winning two of the U.S.’s three points—dropping match in her Grand Slam debut, defeating Mirjana Lucic-Baroni just six games in four sets against two Top 50 players—in its 3-2 in straight sets. As a junior, Vickery ascended to No. 6 in the ITF semifinal victory against the Czech Republic with a straight-sets World Junior Rankings, reaching the doubles semifinals of junior win over 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. As a junior, Wimbledon in 2012 and competing in all four junior Grand Slams. Glatch reached the girls’ singles and doubles finals at the 2005 US She trains with coach Adrian Zeman at the ZMG Tennis at Deer Open—losing to current world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka in the singles Creek facility in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and was a longtime trainee of final—but she suffered career-threatening injuries in a motor scooter the USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training Center accident shortly thereafter. She returned to the USTA Pro Circuit the Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. following year and won her first career pro title at the $10,000 event in Fort Worth, Texas. , who played in just one tournament last year after having knee surgery, but who is on the comeback trail after 2013 singles champion , who qualified for the 2015 qualifying for the 2015 US Open and winning her first-round match. US Open and advanced to the third round—her career-best Grand Pegula achieved a career breakthrough in 2013 by qualifying for Slam result. Rogers peaked at No. 70 in the world last September and reaching the third round of the WTA event in Charleston, S.C. after reaching her first WTA singles final at the WTA event in Bad She also qualified for the WTA events in Shenzhen, China, and Gastein, Austria, while also reaching the semifinals in Quebec City Washington, D.C., climbing to a career-best No. 123 in the world and the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event that year. This year, Pegula qualified for Charleston and reached the in , where she upset then-Top 10 player . quarterfinals of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Dothan, Ala. Rogers competed in her first Australian Open and Wimbledon She also reached the final round of qualifying at Wimbledon and main draws this year, in addition to competing in the French Open the French Open this. Pegula has enjoyed even greater success in for the third time. In addition, she won the doubles title at the doubles, competing in the US Open doubles main draw in 2011, $50,000 grass-court event in Eastbourne, Great Britain, in June 2012 and 2015, and peaking at No. 92 in the world in the doubles with CoCo Vandeweghe. In 2013, Rogers earned a wild card into rankings in February 2013. Pegula’s father, Terry, is the owner of the the French Open by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Challenge—she reached the second round at Roland Garros—and TOURNAMENT NOTES

Samantha Crawford, who competed in the US Open main draw for Additional notable players competing in qualifying include: the second time in her career this year after winning this summer’s USTA Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. She won the , the two-time Grand Slam doubles champion who is challenge by reaching the final of the $50,000 event in Lexington, playing in just her sixth tournament since the 2014 US Open, where Ky. Crawford won the 2012 US Open girls’ singles title and qualified she lost in the second round to . She has been out for the women’s singles main draw of the US Open that year as since with a hip injury. King has ranked as high as No. 50 in the a qualifying wild card. She has also competed in the US Open world in singles and No. 3 in doubles, winning the women’s doubles women’s doubles draw three times (2011-12, 2014). At 6-foot-2, titles at the US Open and Wimbledon in 2010. She has won 14 WTA Crawford’s big serve and aggressive baseline game helped her rise doubles titles and one singles title (in Bangkok in 2006). King has to No. 5 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2012. This year, she also represented the U.S. in Fed Cup. won her fourth and fifth career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles at the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit events in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and Robin Anderson, who graduated from UCLA this year and earned Baton Rouge, La. All-America honors in both singles and doubles for the fourth consecutive year, becoming the seventh player in school history to , who played for the University of North Carolina, be accomplish that feat. This year, she was named the ITA National where she received All-America honors and, in 2010, helped lead Collegiate Player for the Year. Anderson was part of UCLA’s NCAA- the Tar Heels to their first NCAA team semifinals. In 2013, Marand title winning team in 2014 and reached the NCAA doubles final in won her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title, at the $25,000 event 2013. At the 2015 US Open, Anderson won the American Collegiate in El Paso, Texas. She has also won nine career USTA Pro Circuit Invitational, a tournament for American college players. She has doubles titles, including two tournaments this year. As a junior won one USTA Pro Circuit singles title ($10,000 Landisville, Pa., in player, Marand reached the doubles final at the 2006 Easter Bowl 2011) and one doubles title ($25,000 Redding, Calif., in 2013). with fellow American . As a junior player, she reached the singles quarterfinals of the 2010 junior US Open. Danielle Lao, who graduated from USC in 2013 and earned two All- America honors during her college career. She also led the Trojans to , who reached at least one USTA Pro Circuit final back-to-back Pac-12 team championships and was a team captain each year from 2006 to 2009 and advanced to two semifinals in her senior year. This June, Lao won her first career USTA Pro Circuit an injury-shortened 2011. In 2013, she won her first USTA Pro singles title at the $25,000 event in Baton Rouge, La. Also in 2015, Circuit singles crown in seven years, taking the title at the $10,000 she qualified for the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, event in Austin, Texas. This year, she has competed on the USTA Mich., and won her first ITF-level singles title in Leon, Mexico; she Pro Circuit and in Mexico and . Last year, she reached the also captured the doubles title in Leon. She won the first USTA Pro semifinals and won the doubles title at a $25,000 event in Santiago, Circuit title of her career in 2014 in doubles at the $25,000 event Chile. Albanese won the USTA Girls’ 18s title in 2006 to earn a wild in Pelham, Ala. After college at USC, Lao wrote a book, “Invaluable card into the US Open, where she advanced to the second round in Experience,” about playing college tennis. women’s singles. She also competed in the US Open in 2007

Caitlin Whoriskey, a former University of Tennessee standout , 34, who drew international attention in 1999 who was named the 2010 College Senior Player of the Year after by becoming the first female qualifier in Wimbledon history to reach leading the Volunteers to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. the event’s semifinals. She was ranked in the year-end Top 100 Whoriskey captured her first career USTA Pro Circuit singles title each year from 1999 to 2003, peaking at No. 18 in 2002. Injuries last year at the $10,000 event in Hilton Island, S.C., where drove her ranking into the 600s in 2005, but Stevenson rebounded she also won the doubles crown. This year, she reached the singles to climb back into the Top 200 in 2009, advancing to the final at quarterfinals and doubles semifinals at the $100,000 USTA Pro the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., for her best Circuit event in Midland, Mich., and won her eighth USTA Pro result on the USTA Pro Circuit since 1998. She is the daughter of Circuit/ITF-level doubles title at the $25,000 event in Jackson, basketball Hall-of-Famer Julius Erving. Miss. She also won the 2014 US Open National Playoffs to earn a wild card into the US Open Qualifying Tournament, where she won her first-round match.

*Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES

ALBUQUERQUE PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2014 Anna Tatishvili (USA) (USA) 2014 (USA) – Jan Abaza (USA) 2013 Shelby Rogers (USA) Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 2013 CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) – (GRE) 2012 Maria Sanchez (USA) (USA) 2012 Asia Muhammed (USA) – (USA) 2011 (RUS Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 2011 Alexa Glatch (USA) – (USA) 2010 Mirjana Lucic (CRO) Lindsay Lee-Wates (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. The USTA launched the game—and stay in the game. Kids are learning to play its Pro Circuit in 1979 to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and faster than ever before through the USTA’s youth initiative, it has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly which is geared toward getting more kids to participate in $3 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. Victoria Azarenka, Eugenie Bouchard, , , Kei tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a child’s Nishikori, , and Caroline Wozniacki are among today’s top stars who size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com. began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit.

More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped further the careers of two young NJTL Americans— and Nicole Gibbs. In her first full season as a Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, along with Charlie Pasarell professional after capturing back-to-back and Sheridan Snyder, the USTA/National Junior Tennis & NCAA singles championships in 2012 and Learning (NJTL) network is a nationwide group of more than

2013, Gibbs won the women’s USTA Pro A. Clary/Getty Images Timothy Circuit US Open Wild Card Challenge in 625 non-profit youth development organizations that provide 2014. After claiming the title at the $50,000 free or low-cost tennis, education and life skills programming USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., to more than 350,000 children each year. Celebrating its Gibbs clinched the US Open wild card 45th anniversary this year, NJTL is one of the USTA’s largest by advancing to the final of the $50,000 community-based offerings. tournament in Lexington, Ky., her last USTA Pro Circuit event of the season. Gibbs went on to reach the third round at the US Open, scoring a pair of Top 50 victories along the US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS way. Two weeks after the US Open, as a qualifier at Seoul, she reached her first WTA Nicole Gibbs The USTA launched the US Open quarterfinal, which boosted her into the National Playoffs in 2010, WTA Top 100 for the first time. Gibbs earned making the US Open “open” the second-most WTA ranking points of any to anyone age 14+ and of all American playing the USTA Pro Circuit in 2014. Kozlov, runner-up in 2014 at the junior championships of the Australian Open and Wimbledon, reached the final of the Sacramento Challenger last October at age skill levels. Last year, more 16, becoming the youngest American to reach a Challenger final since Andre Agassi in 1986. That result than 1,200 players competed vaulted Kozlov to No. 443 in the world, making him the youngest player in the ATP World Tour Top 500. He in 13 Sectional Qualifying concluded 2014 by sweeping the singles and doubles titles at the prestigious Junior Tennis Tournaments nationwide for Championships, locking down a No. 3 junior world ranking. a 2014 US Open Qualifying Tournament wild card. A mixed doubles element also was PLAYER DEVELOPMENT held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed doubles wild card. This year, players again competed in The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions singles and mixed doubles, but also had the chance to play by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need in the new men’s and women’s doubles competition to earn to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center main draw doubles wild cards. The US Open National Playoffs Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as Championships are Aug. 21-29. For more information and the well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. complete schedule, visit www.usopen.org/NationalPlayoffs.