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TournamenT noTes as of september 12, 2011 2011 COLEMANVISION TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS ALBUQUERQUE, NM • SEPTEMBER 18–25 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS RETURNS TO ALBUQUERQUE TournamenT InFormaTIon The 2011 ColemanVision Tennis Championships is taking place in Albuquerque for the 14th consecutive year, Ron Angle Site: Tanoan Country Club – Albuquerque, N.M. making it the longest-running pro sporting Websites: colemantennischampionships.com event in New Mexico. It is one of the four procircuit.usta.com most prestigious women’s tournaments on the USTA Pro Circuit (along with $100,000 Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, September 18 tournaments in Midland, Mich., and Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, September 20 Vancouver, British Columbia, and a $75,000 event in Phoenix, Ariz.). Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Surface: Hard / Outdoor This year’s Albuquerque field is expected to include American Melanie Oudin, who turns Prize Money: $75,000 20 on September 23rd, and teamed with Tournament Director: countryman Jack Sock to win the 2011 US Open mixed doubles title as a Sue Jollensten, (505) 822-1694, [email protected] wild card team. Oudin enjoyed consecutive Tournament Press Contact: Grand Slam breakthroughs in 2009, Jeremy Dyche, (505) 507-9966, [email protected] defeating former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic to reach the fourth round at USTA Public Relations Contact: Wimbledon, and then beating three-time 2009 US Open quarterfinalist Melanie Oudin Joshua Rey, (786) 554-5667, [email protected] Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova won the 2011 US Open mixed doubles title with Jack Sock. PrIze money / PoInTs en route to the US Open quarterfinals. Prize Money Ranking Points SINGLES: Other teenagers expected in Albuquerque Winner $11,400 110 in June and has thrived on the USTA Pro include: American Chi Chi Scholl, who Runner-up $6,080 78 Circuit this season, reaching three semifinals has risen in the world rankings from No. Semifinalist $3,325 50 and two finals; , a member of 729 at the end of 2010 to No. 174 by Kurumi Nara Quarterfinalist $1,900 30 the Japanese Fed Cup team who qualified qualifying at eight USTA Pro Circuit events Round of 16 $1,140 14 at the French Open and Wimbledon in this season, reaching three quarterfinals Round of 32 $665 1 2010; and 2010 US Open junior champion and two semifinals, and winning titles at the Daria Gavrilova. DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) $50,000 event in Lexington, Ky., and the Winner $4,180 $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas; Camila Runner-up $2,090 Giorgi of Italy, who qualified at Wimbledon Other Americans expected in the main draw Semifinalist $1,045 include: Gail Brodsky, who is playing in Quarterfinalist $570 her second USTA Pro Circuit event of the Round of 16 $380 year after spending the majority of the year competing in Europe and Australia, and who CommunITy eVenTs earned a wild card into the 2008 US Open Sunday, Sept. 18: USTA NNMTA’s Mid-School League David Kenas after winning the USTA Girls’ 18s National Clinic, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Championships; Madison Brengle, who rose QuickStart Clinic for 55+ Seniors, 1-2 p.m. to No. 4 in the world junior rankings in Youth Clinic, 2-3 p.m. 2007 after reaching the girls’ singles final Monday, Sept. 19: Pro-Am & Party, 5:30-8 p.m. at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon, Tuesday, Sept. 20: Elementary School Kids’ Day, and who qualified for the WTA event in 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. College Park, Md., this summer; and Alexa Wednesday, Sept. 21: Junior Pro-Am, 5:30-8 p.m. Glatch, who is on the comeback trail after Thursday, Sept.22: Elementary School Kids’ Day, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23: Rally for the Cure, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24: Legend’s Clinics, 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m. Albuquerque wild card Grace Min won the 2011 An Evening with Roy Emerson Gala and Fundraiser, US Open girls’ singles title. 6-9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25: Clinic & Brunch with Roy Emerson, 9:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. TournamenT noTes an injury-marred 2010, and qualified for Wimbledon in June and Davis, who ended the 2010 season on a 27-match winning streak, also this year qualified for WTA events in Copenhagen, Denmark, and sweeping three ITF Junior Circuit tournaments, a $25,000 USTA Memphis, Tenn., where she subsequently reached the quarterfinals. Pro Circuit event and the Australian Open Wild Card Playoffs. After finishing 2010 as the No. 3 junior in the world, the 17-year-old Four tour veterans expected in Albuquerque’s main draw are: Mirjana Davis this year won two USTA Pro Circuit titles at the $10,000 Lucic of Croatia, the defending Albuquerque singles champion events in Atlanta and Buffalo, N.Y. She also won the 2011 USTA who has reached the quarterfinals of WTA Tour events on clay Girls’ 18s National Championships to earn a wild card into the main at Strasbourg and on grass at Birmingham in 2011; American draw of the US Open three weeks ago. Lindsay Lee-Waters, a 34-year-old mother of two who reached both Albuquerque finals in 2010, winning the doubles title and finishing Expected in qualifying includes: 16-year-old Krista Hardebeck, as the singles runner-up, and who holds 30 USTA Pro Circuit career who is coming off a quarterfinal appearance in girls’ singles at the titles (19 in doubles); Melinda Czink of Hungary, the champion of 2011 US Open, as well as five former college players:Amanda Fink $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournaments this season in Dothan, Ala., (USC), Julie Coin (Clemson), Macall Harkins (TCU), 2011 US Open and Indiana Harbour Beach, Fla., who reached the third round of National Playoffs singles runner-up Yasmin Schnack (UCLA), and the 2003 US Open and 2009 French Open; and former world No. Amanda McDowell (Georgia Tech), who won the 2008 NCAA 54 Edina Gallovits-Hall of Romania, who has won 12 career singles singles title. titles on the USTA Pro Circuit. American veterans atop the qualifying entry list are Alexandra Those players receiving main draw wild cards include: 2011 US Stevenson, a 1998 Wimbledon semifinalist;Ahsha Rolle, the 2006 Open girls’ champion Grace Min; Jamie Hampton, who climbed more Albuquerque singles champion; and former world No. 50 and 2001 than 550 spots in the WTA Tour rankings in 2010 by reaching the Albuquerque singles champion Mashona Washington, who competed final at eight USTA Pro Circuit events, highlighted by four singles in this year’s US Open National Playoffs, and who reached the third titles, and who qualified for the main draw of the Australian Open round in Wimbledon in 2005. Washington has won 13 career USTA and WTA events in Indian Wells and Miami this year; and Lauren Pro Circuit doubles titles. ALBUQUERQUE PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2010 Mirjana Lucic (CRO) Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) 2010 Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) – Megan Moulton-Levy (USA) 2009 Shenay Perry (USA) Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) 2009 Mashona Washington (USA) – Riza Zalameda (USA) 2008 Julie Ditty (USA) Rosana de Los Rios (PAR) 2008 Julie Ditty (USA) – Carly Gullickson (USA) 2007 Rosana de los Rios (PAR) Maret Ani (EST) 2007 Melinda Czink (HUN) – Angela Haynes (USA) 2006 Ahsha Rolle (USA) Kristina Brandi (PUR) 2006 Julie Ditty (USA) – Milagros Sequera (VEN) 2005 Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) Maureen Drake (CAN) 2005 Julie Ditty (USA) – Milagros Sequera (VEN) 2004 Marissa Irvin (USA) Stephanie Dubois (CAN) 2004 Maureen Drake (CAN) – Carly Gullickson (USA) 2003 Kristina Brandi (PUR) Milagros Sequera (VEN) 2003 Samantha Reeves (USA) – Milagros Sequera (VEN) 2002 Laura Granville (USA) Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) 2002 Francesca Lubiani (ITA) – Milagros Sequera (VEN) 2001 Mashona Washington (USA) Marissa Irvin (USA) 2001 Marissa Irvin (USA) – Katie Schlukebir (USA) 2000 Brie Rippner (USA) Maria Vento-Kabachi (VEN) 2000 Brie Rippner (USA) – Elena Tatarkova (UKR) 1999 Jennifer Hopkins (USA) Maria Vento-Kabachi (VEN) 1999 Debbie Graham (USA) – Nana Smith (JPN) 1998 Anne Kremer (LUX) Jane Chi (USA) 1998 Rachel McQuillan (AUS) – Nana Smith (JPN) TournamenT noTes USTA PRO CIRCUIT 10 AND UNDER TENNIS With 90-plus tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from $10,000 10 and Under Tennis is a nationwide USTA initiative that to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for aspiring uses the QuickStart Tennis play format and takes a better tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. The USTA launched its Pro Circuit approach to introducing kids to the game. Balls are lower in 32 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and it has since compression, so they are easier to hit; racquets are sized for grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering more than $2.5 million in small hands; and the courts are smaller and easier to cover. prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities Full-sized courts can now be reconfigured to accommodate nationwide. Maria Sharapova, Andy Roddick, Caroline Wozniacki, James Blake, Justine Henin, Andy up to six 36-foot courts. In turn, kids learn, rally, play and Murray and Sam Querrey are among today’s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. compete right from the start, and the game becomes more accessible and fun for them. For more information, visit The USTA Pro Circuit helped launch the www.10andundertennis.com.