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TOURNAMENT NOTES

as of September 11, 2015

THE ASCENSION PROJECT WOMEN’S $25,000 CHALLENGER REDDING, CA • SEPTEMBER 13-20

USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S RETURNS TO REDDING TOURNAMENT INFO The Ascension Project Women’s $25,000 Site: Sun Oaks Tennis and Fitness – Redding, Calif.  Challenger is being held in Redding for Websites: procircuit.usta.com the 13th consecutive year. It is the first

www.sunoaks.com/TENNIS/PRO-TOURNAMENT-2/ USTA Pro Circuit women’s event following Steven Ryan the US Open and one of four women’s events Facebook: Sun Oaks Tennis & Fitness held in California this year. Twitter: @sun_oaks To follow the tournament, download the Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, September 13 USTA Pro Circuit’s new phone app by searching “procircuit” in the app store. Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, September 15 Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Notable players competing in the main draw include: Prize Money: $25,000 Surface: Hard / Outdoor Tournament Director: , who is playing in just her fifth Julie Garcia, (530) 227-3498, [email protected] tournament since the 2014 US Open, where she lost in the second round to Serena Tournament Press Contact: Williams. She has been out since with a hip Stephen A. Campbell, (530) 221-1584 injury. King has ranked as high as No. 50 in [email protected] the world in singles and No. 3 in doubles, USTA Communications Contact: winning the women’s doubles titles at the US Open and Wimbledon in 2010. She has Vania King has played in just four tournaments Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] this year since recovering from a hip injury. won 14 WTA doubles titles and one singles She has ranked as high as No. 50 in the world PRIZE MONEY / POINTS title (in Bangkok in 2006). King has also in singles and No. 3 in doubles, winning the SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points represented the U.S. in Fed Cup. women’s doubles titles at the US Open and Winner $3,919 50 Wimbledon in 2010. Runner-up $2,091 30 2013 and 2014 Redding doubles champion Semifinalist $1,114 18 and 2014 singles finalistLauren Embree, 2009, Embree won a USTA wild-card playoff Quarterfinalist $ 654 9 who completed her outstanding college to earn a berth into the main draw of the Round of 16 $ 392 5 career at the University of Florida in 2013 , where she lost in the opening Round of 32 $ 228 1 by being named the National College Player of the Year. Embree went 26-3 in her final round to former world No. 3 . DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) year for the Gators at the No. 1 singles spot, Winner $1,437 and she compiled a staggering 117-16 2013 Redding singles finalist and doubles Runner-up $ 719 singles record during her four years in champion , who graduated Semifinalist $ 359 Gainesville. As a pro in 2013, she won her from UCLA this year having earned All- Quarterfinalist $ 196 second USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the America honors in both singles and doubles Round of 16 $ 131 $10,000 event in Fort Worth, Texas. This for the fourth consecutive year, becoming COMMUNITY EVENTS year, she reached one USTA Pro Circuit final, the seventh player in school history to be at the $25,000 event in Sumter, S.C. In accomplish that feat. This year, she was Saturday, September 12 named the ITA National Collegiate Player Ascension Wine Tasting Fundraiser, 7:00 p.m. for the Year. Anderson was part of UCLA’s Sunday, September 13 NCAA-title winning team in 2014 and Road to College Workshop, 6:00 p.m. advanced to the NCAA doubles final in Tuesday-Wednesday, September 15-16 2013. She holds one USTA Pro Circuit Dave Kenas School Site Visits singles title at the $10,000 event in Wednesday, September 16 Landisville, Pa., in 2011, and one doubles Sun Oaks Junior Clinic, 4:30 p.m. title here in Redding in 2013. Anderson Saturday, September 19 Kids Tennis Carnival, 9:00-10:00 a.m. High School Girls’ Clinic, 11:00 a.m. Former University of Florida star 10 and Under Tennis Exhibition owns two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and won Sunday, September 20 the Redding doubles titles in 2013 and 2014. Special Olympics Clinic, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Wheelchair Exhibition, 11:30 a.m. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES also reached the Landisville final this year. As a junior player, she semifinals and won the doubles title at a $25,000 event in Santiago, reached the singles quarterfinals of the 2010 junior US Open. Chile. Albanese won the USTA Girls’ 18s title in 2006 to earn a into the US Open, where she advanced to the second round in , a former University of Tennessee standout women’s singles. She also competed in the US Open in 2007 who was named the 2010 College Senior Player of the Year after leading the Volunteers to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. Nadja Gilchrist, who was a standout player for the University of Whoriskey captured her first career USTA Pro Circuit singles title Georgia, where she reached the NCAA doubles final during her last year at the $10,000 event in Hilton Head Island, S.C., where senior season in 2012 (with ). Gilchrist was also she also won the doubles crown. This year, she reached the singles a three-time All-American at Georgia, with nearly 200 singles and quarterfinals and doubles semifinals at the $100,000 USTA Pro doubles wins. She won her first pro singles title this year at an ITF Circuit event in Midland, Mich., and won her eighth and ninth USTA Pro Circuit event in Egypt and captured her first and (to date) only Pro Circuit/ITF Pro Circuit doubles titles at the $25,000 event doubles title in 2008 at the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in in Jackson, Miss., and the $50,000 event in Sacramento, Calif. Hilton Head Island, S.C. Whoriskey also won the 2014 US Open National Playoffs to earn a wild card into the US Open Qualifying Tournament, where she won , 34, who drew international attention in 1999 her first-round match. by becoming the first female qualifier in Wimbledon history to reach the event’s semifinals. She was ranked in the year-end Top 100 , who reached at least one USTA Pro Circuit final each year from 1999 to 2003, peaking at No. 18 in 2002. Injuries each year from 2006 to 2009 and advanced to two semifinals in drove her ranking into the 600s in 2005, but Stevenson rebounded an injury-shortened 2011. In 2013, she won her first USTA Pro to climb back into the Top 200 in 2009, advancing to the final at Circuit singles crown in seven years, taking the title at the $10,000 the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., for her best event in Austin, Texas. This year, she has competed on the USTA result on the USTA Pro Circuit since 1998. She is the daughter of Pro Circuit and in Mexico and Canada. Last year, she reached the basketball Hall-of-Famer Julius Erving.

REDDING PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2014 (USA) Lauren Embree (USA) 2014 Jennifer Brady (USA) – Lauren Embree (USA) 2013 Adriana Perez (VEN) Robin Anderson (USA) 2013 Robin Anderson (USA) – Lauren Embree (USA) 2012 Chelsey Gullickson (USA) (USA) 2012 (USA) – (USA) 2011 (USA) (RUS) 2011 (USA) – (USA) 2010 (USA) Jelena Pandzic (CRO) 2010 (USA) – Yasmin Schnack (USA) 2009 (USA) (JPN) 2009 Anna Orlik (BLR) – Masa Zec-Peskiric (SLO) 2008 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) (CAN) 2008 (USA) – (USA) 2007 Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) Ekaterina Afinogenova (RUS) 2007 Chin-Wei Chan (TPE) – (USA) 2006 Diana Ospina (USA) (GBR) 2006 (RUS) – Ahsha Role (USA) 2005 Lucie Safarova (CZE) Ivana Lisjak (CRO) 2005 Yulia Beygelzeimer (UKR) – Stephanie Dubois (CAN) 2004 Anne Keothavong (GBR) (USA) 2004 (USA) – Mashona Washington (USA) 2003 (CAN) Jie (CHN) 2003 Zi (CHN) – (CHN)

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*Player field subject to change

VANCOUVER PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2014 Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) (UKR) 2014 (USA) – Maria Sanchez (USA) 2013 (GBR) (CAN) 2013 Sharon Fichman (CAN) – (UKR) 2012 (USA) (USA) 2012 (ISR) – (AUS) 2011 Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) Jamie Hampton (USA) 2011 Karolina Pliskova (CZE) – Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) 2010 (AUS) (FRA) 2010 Kai-Chen Chang (TPE) – (CAN) 2009 Stephanie Dubois (CAN) (IND) 2009 (USA) – (USA) 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. , , John Isner, Andy Murray, Kei tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a child’s Nishikori, , and 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—Stefan Kozlov and . 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 & 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 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 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 were 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.

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