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as of February 7, 2013

FRESH START WOMEN’S OPEN RANCHO SANTA FE, CA • FEBRUARY 10 –17

USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO RANCHO SANTA FE TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Fresh Start Women’s Open returns to Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., for the third consecutive year. It is the fifth USTA Pro Site: Morgan Run Club and Resort – Circuit event on the 2013 women’s calendar Anthony Behar Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. and the second of three consecutive Websites: www.morganrun.com $25,000 hard-court events, following procircuit.usta.com Rancho Mirage, Calif., and preceding Surprise, Ariz. Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, February 10 Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, February 12 Those players competing in the main draw include: Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Surface: Hard / Outdoor , who is the reigning NCAA Division I singles champion. Gibbs defeated Prize Money: $25,000 Stanford teammate in the title match as a sophomore in 2012, for Tournament Director: which she was awarded a into Patrick Guion, (760) 219-6223 the main draw of the US Open. (She also [email protected] teamed with Burdette to win the NCAA Tournament Press Contact: doubles title.) Following the collegiate McCarton Ackerman, (917) 817-7186 season, Gibbs qualified and won the USTA Nicole Gibbs won the 2012 NCAA singles and [email protected] Pro Circuit event in Denver in July and doubles titles at Stanford, earning a main-draw received a wild card into the Emirates wild card into the 2012 US Open. USTA Public Relations Contacts: Airline US Open Series event in Stanford, Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] where she fell to in the and advanced to the final of the USTA Girls’ round of 16. Gibbs starred as a freshman at 18s National Championships for a second Stanford, going 46-6 in singles, including Prize money / points straight year before reaching the semifinals 27-0 in dual matches, and advanced to the of the 2011 US Open Junior Championships SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points semifinals of the NCAA Championships to as a qualifier. She also reached the Winner $3,919 50 earn All-America honors. She also helped semifinals in the girls’ doubles (with Kyle Runner-up $2,901 34 lead the Cardinal to the 2011 NCAA team McPhillips) and competed in the main draw Semifinalist $1,144 24 final. Gibbs then rejoined the junior ranks Quarterfinalist $654 14 of the women’s doubles (with ) Round of 16 $392 8 at the 2011 US Open. Round of 32 $228 1 2011 Rancho Santa Fe singles runner-up DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) , who won her third career Winner $1,437 professional title in March 2012 at the Runner-up $719 $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Fort Semifinalist $359

Manuela Davies/doubleXposure Walton Beach, Fla. She also reached the Quarterfinalist $196 quarterfinals of the $100,000 event in Round of 16 $131 Midland, Mich., last year. In 2011, Brengle ascended to a career-best ranking of No. 152 and won the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Hammond, La. In her career, Brengle has played in the main draw at three of the four events, winning

2011 Rancho Santa Fe singles runner-up Madison Brengle, who peaked at No. 152 in the world in 2011, has played in the main draw at three of the four Grand Slam events.

*Player field subject to change Tournament Notes

USTA wild card playoffs to earn entry into the , the 2007 USTA Girls’ 18s national champion, (2007-08) and the (2008), as well as competing in the who in turn received a wild card into the 2007 US Open. Weinhold US Open main draw in 2007. An outstanding junior competitor, she holds eight USTA Pro Circuit singles and doubles titles, winning her rose to No. 4 in the world junior rankings in 2007 after reaching the sixth doubles title in 2012 at the $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas. girls’ singles final at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon. She qualified for the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, Mich., last week. , the event’s No. 1 seed, who hails from nearby Newport Beach, Calif. Glatch started the 2012 season strong by reaching the Alexandra Stevenson, who first made waves in pro more semifinals here in Rancho Santa Fe and qualifying and advancing than a decade ago, when she became the first female qualifier to the second round of the . She fell in the final in Wimbledon history to reach the semifinals (in 1999). She was round of qualifying at both Wimbledon and the US Open, then ranked in the year-end Top 100 each year from 1999 to 2003, closed the year by winning consecutive $25,000 ITF Circuit events peaking at No. 18 in 2002. Injuries drove her rankings into the 600s in Japan in October. In 2009, Glatch propelled the U.S. to the in 2005, but Stevenson rebounded to climb back into the Top 200 in Fed Cup final by winning two of the United States’ three points— 2009, advancing to the final at the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., dropping just six games in four sets against two Top 50 players—in for her best result on the USTA Pro Circuit since 1998. Stevenson is its 3-2 semifinal victory against the Czech Republic; her victories the daughter of basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving. included a straight-sets win over 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. As a junior, Glatch reached the girls’ singles and doubles , who was an All-American and the No. 1 singles player for finals at the 2005 US Open, losing to current world No. 1 Victoria the University of Florida. She advanced to the NCAA semifinals in Azarenka in the singles final. She suffered career-threatening injuries 2012. in a motor scooter accident shortly thereafter but returned to the USTA Pro Circuit the following year and won her first career pro title Elizabeth Lumpkin, who helped lead UCLA to the NCAA team title in at the $10,000 event in Fort Worth, Texas. 2008, and who was the first player in Illinois state history to capture four high school state singles titles. , 38, of Huntington Beach, Calif., who finished in the Top 100 player each year from 2001 to 2010 and reached a career-high No. 39 in 2006. Craybas competed in the main draw of all four Grand Slams each year from 2001 and 2011, a streak Two young Americans have broken through on the WTA tour and of 44 straight Slam singles main draws. In 2012, she played in USTA Pro Circuit following their success in Rancho Santa Fe. the qualifying of all four Grand Slam events and qualified for WTA events in Paris, Charleston, Madrid and Bastad. Her best Slam Last year’s Rancho Santa Fe singles runner-up Lauren Davis started result came at Wimbledon in 2005, when she knocked off Serena 2013 by reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open tune- Williams en route to the fourth round. Craybas won the 2002 Japan up event in Hobart, losing to fellow young American and 2013 Open on the WTA tour and has also won five tour-level doubles Australian Open semifinalist in three sets. Davis titles. She has represented the United States in the Olympics (2008 broke into the Top 100 for the first time in her career in 2012. She Beijing) and in Fed Cup (2004-06). She is the only woman to be a qualified for and reached the second round of the French Open member of a national championship team with two different schools and advanced to the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Quebec City, (Texas in 1993, Florida in 1996), and she won the NCAA singles Canada, following the US Open. Davis also finished the 2012 season championship in 1996. strong on the USTA Pro Circuit, winning the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Las Vegas, sponsored by music mogul Redfoo of Former world No. 158 , who reached at least one the chart-topping group LMFAO. She also reached the final of the USTA Pro Circuit final each year from 2006 to 2009 and advanced $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Albuquerque, N.M., to finish to two semifinals in an injury-shortened 2011. She won the USTA second among American women in WTA points earned on the USTA Girls’ 18s title in 2006 to earn a wild card into the US Open, where Pro Circuit in 2012. she advanced to the second round of the women’s singles main draw. Last year’s Rancho Santa Fe doubles champion is Those players expected to compete in qualifying are: now approaching the Top 100. Since the end of the 2011 season, when she was ranked No. 687 in the world, Sanchez has ascended Sachia Vickery, 17, who reached the doubles semifinals of the 2012 570 places in the WTA rankings. Formerly the No. 1-ranked college Wimbledon juniors and advanced to the third round of the 2012 singles player while at the University of Southern California, Sanchez US Open juniors. She is currently ranked No. 28 in the ITF World won two USTA Pro Circuit titles in 2012, at the $50,000 event in Junior Rankings and has worked with Richard Williams, Venus’ and Sacramento, Calif.—her first professional singles title—and at the Serena’s father. $75,000 event in Albuquerque, where she defeated Davis in the title match. Sanchez wrapped up the year by reaching the final of , who learned to play tennis at the the $75,000 event in Phoenix to finish as the top WTA point earner Boys and Girls Club in Las Vegas. She won two USTA Pro Circuit among Americans on the 2012 USTA Pro Circuit. doubles titles last year, at the $50,000 event in Sacramento, Calif., and the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, N.M. She holds six USTA Pro Circuit titles overall (five in doubles). *Player field subject to change Tournament Notes

USTA PRO CIRCUIT 10 AND UNDER TENNIS With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from Tennis is now scaled to a child’s age and size, using lower- $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 its bouncing and slower-moving balls, lighter and shorter Pro Circuit 34 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and it racquets, and smaller courts. The modified equipment and has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly $3 million smaller courts will allow kids to rally and play the game in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. , , , , , Victoria early on, increasing the likelihood that kids will return to the Azarenka and are among today’s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. court and continue to improve all while having fun! For more information, visit www.10andundertennis.com More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped launch the careers of two young Americans—Jack Sock and . Grace Min Sock began 2012 by winning the singles Tim Hartis Tim title and reaching the doubles final at the NJTL $10,000 Futures in Plantation, Fla. He then reached the quarterfinals of the $50,000 Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, the USTA/National Junior Tennis Challenger in Honolulu. With his strong USTA & Learning (NJTL) network is a nation-wide group of more than Pro Circuit results, Sock received wild cards 660 non-profit youth development organizations that provide free into numerous Emirates Airline US Open Series events in the summer, reaching the or low cost tennis, education and life skills programming to more quarterfinals in Atlanta. Sock then achieved than 300,000 children each year, ages 6-18, making NJTL one of the best result of his pro career by reaching the USTA’s largest community-based offerings. the third round of the 2012 US Open as a wild card. Sock followed up his US Open results by winning his first career USTA Pro Circuit Challenger title at the $100,000 event US OPEN NATIONAL PlayoffS in Tiburon, Calif., in the fall and finished 2012 ranked a career-high No. 150 in the The USTA launched the US Open world. After winning the 2011 US Open girls’ National Playoffs in 2010, making singles title, Min moved to the USTA Pro the US Open “open” to anyone age Circuit to develop her game. She opened the year by winning the first women’s tournament of 2012 at the $25,000 event in Innisbrook, Fla. Later in 14+ and of all skill levels. Last year, the spring, she won back-to-back tournaments at the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and more than 1,200 players competed in the $25,000 tournament in Raleigh, N.C. She competed in qualifying in Emirates Airline US Open Series 13 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments events throughout the summer and qualified in Stanford, Calif. Min, who trains at the USTA Training Center nationwide for a 2012 US Open Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., entered the Top 200 for the first time in her career in 2012, climbing Qualifying Tournament wild card. A nearly 250 spots in the rankings by year’s end. mixed doubles element also was held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed doubles wild PLAYER DEVELOPMENT card. Clement Reix, a 28-year-old Frenchman living in Reno, Nev., won the US Open National Playoffs men’s title and USTA Pro Circuit The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions regular , 24, of Abington, PA, won the women’s by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need wild card for the second time in three years. Nicole Melichar and to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center Brian Battistone won the mixed doubles tournament. Information Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as for the 2013 US Open National Playoffs will be released in the well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. coming months.

rancho santa fe Past WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2012 (USA) Lauren Davis (USA) 2012 Maria Sanchez (USA) – Yasmin Schnack (USA) 2011 Michelle Larcher de Brito (POR) Madison Brengle (USA) 2011 Julie Ditty (USA) – Mervana Jugic-Salkic (BIH)