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Tournament Notes TournamenT noTes as of april 18, 2012 BOYD TINSLEY WOMEN’S CLAY COURT CLASSIC CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA • APRIL 22-29 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S RETURNS TO CHARLOTTESVILLE TournamenT FOR 11TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR InFormaTIon The Boyd Tinsley Women’s Clay Court Classic Site: Boars Head Sports Club returns to Charlottesville, Va., for the 11th Charlottesville, Va. consecutive year. It is the third $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit clay-court event of the 2012 Getty Images Websites: www.boarsheadinn.com season and the fifth of eight consecutive procircuit.usta.com clay-court events, ranging from $25,000 to Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, April 22 $50,000 in prize money, to develop players on clay and prepare them for the 2012 Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, April 24 French Open. It is also one of two USTA Pro Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Circuit women’s events held in Virginia this year; Williamsburg will host a $10,000 event Surface: Clay / Outdoor in October. Additionally, Charlottesville will Prize Money: $50,000 host a men’s indoor $75,000 Challenger in November. Tournament Director: Ron Manilla, (434) 972-6005 The tournament is sponsored by longtime [email protected] tennis fan Boyd Tinsley, the violinist for Dave Matthews Band. On Wednesday, April 25, the Tournament Press Contact: tournament will hold a 10 and Under Tennis John Kelly, (434) 987-6513 clinic for kids in the Boyd Tinsley Foundation. [email protected] 10 and Under Tennis is a national initiative Irina Falconi reached the third round of the USTA Communications Contacts: created to develop young players. It uses 2011 US Open and won the singles gold medal at the 2011 Pan Am Games. Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] right-sized equipment and smaller courts to Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] better allow kids to rally and play the game. On January 1, the rules of tennis officially changed in the United States to require that This year, through an arrangement with the PrIze money / PoInTs all USTA-sanctioned events for kids 10 and French Tennis Federation, the USTA will under be played utilizing some combination of award one women’s singles main draw wild SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points card into the 2012 French Open to the Winner $7,315 70 the shorter and lighter racquets, slower-moving and lower-bouncing balls, and smaller courts American woman who finishes with the best Runner-Up $3,990 50 combined results in two of the following Semifinalist $2,185 32 utilized by 10 and Under Tennis. On Tuesday, April 24, the tournament players and staff will three $50,000 clay-court USTA Pro Circuit Quarterfinalist $1,235 18 events—Charlottesville; Dothan, Ala. (held Round 16 $760 10 go to Charlottesville schools to introduce 10 and Under Tennis to kids. last week); and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. Round 32 $475 1 (being held next week). The USTA and the DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) French Tennis Federation have a reciprocal Winner $2,660 agreement in which the French Open reserves Runner-Up $1,425 a women’s singles main draw wild card for an Semifinalist $760 American player and the US Open does the Quarterfinalist $380 Ron Angle same for one Frenchwoman. Round 16 $285 Those players entered in the main draw this week include Irina Falconi, who first broke into CommunITy eVenTs the WTA Top 100 in 2011 and reached the Tuesday, April 24 third round of the 2011 US Open, upsetting School outreach program/local school visit Wednesday, April 25 Coco Vandeweghe has represented the United Boyd Tinsley Community Kids Festival featuring States in Fed Cup and won the 2008 US Open 10 and Under Tennis, 4-5:30 p.m. girls’ singles title. *Player field subject to change TournamenT noTes No. 14 Dominika Cibulkova in the second round in Arthur Ashe Stadium. who has competed in the main draws of the Australian Open, French Falconi, a former collegiate Player of the Year at Georgia Tech, played in Open and US Open. all four Grand Slam events in 2011, qualifying for the Australian Open and Wimbledon and winning a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into Those players receiving main draw wild cards include former world the French Open. She also was selected to represent the United States No. 31 Melanie Oudin, who in 2009 beat three-time Grand Slam in the 2011 Pan American Games, where she won the gold medal in tournament champion Maria Sharapova en route to the US Open singles and the silver medal in doubles (with Christina McHale). quarterfinals and upset former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon. Oudin also captured the 2011 Also in the main draw are: Alison Riske, who qualified for the 2012 US Open mixed doubles title with up-and-coming American Jack Sock. Australian Open and, in 2011, reached the quarterfinals at the WTA She currently trains at the USTA Training Center-East in New York—the event in Birmingham, England, for the second year in a row and home of the US Open—alongside USTA Pro Circuit player Gail Brodsky competed in the main draws at the US Open, Australian Open and and current world No. 35 McHale. Wimbledon; 2008 US Open girls’ singles champion and U.S. Fed Cupper Coco Vandeweghe, who is the niece of former NBA All-Star Other wild cards are: Alexandra Kiick, 16, who is the daughter of Kiki Vandeweghe and who broke into the WTA Top 100 in 2011 after former Miami Dolphins running back Jim Kiick, and who, as a junior reaching the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Memphis, Tenn., player, reached the semifinals of the Easter Bowl earlier this month and and the second round of the US Open; Jill Craybas, who competed in also captured the doubles title with Samantha Crawford; and Maria the main draw of 45 consecutive Grand Slam events from the 2000 Sanchez, a three-time All-American for USC who won the 2010 USTA/ US Open through the 2011 US Open; and Lauren Davis, 18, the former ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships. world No. 3 junior player who won the 2011 USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships to earn a wild card into the 2011 US Open, and who Players competing in qualifying are: 17-year-old Madison Keys, who captured a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the 2011 Australian trains full-time at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Open. Davis received a wild card into the WTA event in Indian Wells, Raton, Fla., and who, in 2011, became the youngest player to win a Calif., last month and won her first-round match. She also won the match at the US Open since Nicole Vaidisova in 2005; and Grace Min, $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Plantation, Fla., in January. the 2011 US Open girls’ singles champion, who also trains full-time in Boca Raton, Fla., and who won the first women’s USTA Pro Circuit title Additional players to compete in the main draw include: Julia Boserup, of 2012 in Innisbrook, Fla., and reached the final of the $25,000 event who won her first professional title in 2011 at the $25,000 USTA Pro in Clearwater, Fla., in March. Circuit event in Redding, Calif., and who broke into the Top 200 earlier this year after winning the $25,000 event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.; Many current WTA standouts have competed in Charlottesville. Julia Cohen, who earned All-America honors at both the University of Jankovic, the event’s inaugural runner-up, is a former world No. 1 who Florida and the University of Miami, and who captured two $25,000 reached the 2008 US Open women’s final.Bethanie Mattek-Sands, the titles overseas in the fall of 2011; Chichi Scholl, who rose nearly 600 2003 Charlottesville doubles champion, reached the fourth round of slots in the WTA rankings in 2011 after sweeping the singles and Wimbledon in singles in 2009. She peaked at No. 30 in the world in doubles titles at both the $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas, and the singles last July and also has had great success in doubles. She peaked $50,000 event in Lexington, Ky.; Tetiana Luzhanska, who represented at a career-best No. 11 in doubles last April and has won nine career Ukraine before recently becoming a U.S. citizen, and who has won WTA doubles titles. Mattek-Sands is 5-6 in Fed Cup play for the United 16 doubles titles on the USTA Pro Circuit; former US Open girls’ States (3-0 in doubles). 2005 Charlottesville singles champion and singles and doubles finalist Alexa Glatch, who in 2011 qualified for two-time doubles champion Carly Gullickson went on to win the 2009 Wimbledon and reached the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Memphis US Open mixed doubles title with Travis Parrott, defeating the top three as a qualifier; andMadison Brengle, a former world No. 4 junior player, seeds en route to the title. *Player field subject to change CHARLOTTESVILLE PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2011 Stephanie Dubois (CAN) Michelle Larcher de Brito (POR) 2011 Sharon Fichman (CAN) / Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) 2010 Michaella Krajicek (NED) Laura Siegemund (GER) 2010 Julie Ditty (USA) / Carly Gullickson (USA) 2009 Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS) 2009 Carly Gullickson (USA) / Nicole Kriz (AUS) 2008 Alexis Gordon (USA) Olga Puchkova (RUS) 2008 Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) / Abigail Spears (USA) 2007 Edina Gallovits-Hall (ROU) Angelika Bachmann (GER) 2007 Erica Krauth (ARG) / Hanna Nooni (SWE) 2006 Laura Granville (USA) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 2006 Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) / Sunitha Rao (IND) 2005 Carly Gullickson (USA) Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 2005 Ashley Harkleroad (USA) / Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) 2004 Marissa Irvin (USA) Jamea Jackson (USA) 2004 Erika Krauth (ARG) / Jessica Lehnhoff (GER) 2003 Kristina Brandi (USA) Christina Wheeler (AUS) 2003 Bethanie Mattek (USA) / Lilia Osterloh (USA) 2002 Erika de Lone (USA) Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 2002 Erika de Lone (USA) / Jessica Steck (RSA) TournamenT noTes USTA PRO CIRCUIT 10 AND UNDER TENNIS With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from On January 1, the USTA announced that the rules of tennis $10,000 to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for have officially changed and require that 10 and Under Tennis aspiring tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals.
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