TOURNAMENT NOTES as of September 17, 2015 2015 COLEMAN VISION TENNIS 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. Nicole Gibbs received a wild card 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 Australian Open—her Winner $11,400 110 of the 2011 junior US Open. Gibbs trains at first Grand Slam 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 French Open 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 Caroline Garcia 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 Victoria Azarenka. 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 Anna Tatishvili 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 Caroline Wozniacki. Tatishvili formerly represented the country junior player, she won the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships of Georgia but changed her representation to the United States 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 Maria Sanchez, who peaked at No. 107 debut at the 2015 French Open 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 Sharon Fichman. 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 Toronto. 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 Taylor Townsend to lead the U.S. to the Sachia Vickery, 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 Alexa Glatch, 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 2014 Australian Open 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.