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2011 US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS UPDATE

LAST WEEK’S RECAP:

Former Top 40 Doubles Player Captures Singles, Mixed Doubles Titles in Final US Open National Playoffs Sectional Qualifying Tournament in Georgia

2008 NCAA Singles Champion Amanda McDowell Wins Women’s Singles

The 16 US Open National Playoffs Sectional Qualifying Tournaments concluded with the USTA Southern Sectional Qualifying Tournament in Alpharetta, Ga. Current doubles world No. 112 David Martin captured both the men’s singles title and the mixed doubles title. Martin, 30, of Tulsa, Okla., defeated Spaniard Guillermo Gomez, a former Georgia Tech player, in the singles final, 7-6(3), 6-2. He also teamed with in mixed doubles to defeat Georgians Frank Solana and Jennifer Sinclair, 6-1, 6-1, in the mixed doubles. Martin did not lose one set in any of his singles or doubles matches. He peaked at No. 38 in the world in doubles in 2008, when he won the ATP event in San Jose, Calif., with Scott Lipsky. He has also advanced to five ATP doubles finals, including in Chennai, , this year with , and competed in US Open doubles main draws in 1998 and from 2007 to 2010. Fusano, 31, of Plymouth, Calif., competed for the University of and holds 12 career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles.

In the women’s singles, Amanda McDowell, 23, of Atlanta, defeated 15-year-old junior standout Anne- Liz Jeukeng, of Kansas City, Mo., 6-1, 6-2, for the women’s title. McDowell won the 2008 NCAA women’s singles title at Georgia Tech and received All-America honors.

The US Open National Playoffs – Men’s, Women’s and Mixed Doubles Championships will be held in conjunction with the New Haven Open at Yale, an Olympus US Open Series women’s event in August. The US Open National Playoffs – Men’s and Women’s Singles Championships will take place August 18- 21, with the champions earning a wild card into the US Open Qualifying Tournament, held the week prior to the US Open. The US Open National Playoffs – Mixed Doubles Championship will take place August 24-27, with the champions receiving a mixed doubles main draw wild card into the 2011 US Open.

BY THE NUMBERS:

1 --- Defending champion of the US Open National Playoffs (Strode)

2 --- Players who have reached the final of a doubles draw (Tarango as 1999 men’s doubles finalist, Ferreira as 2000 men’s doubles champion and mixed doubles champion)

3 --- Number of NCAA champions competing in the 2011 US Open National Playoffs (Mamiit in 1996, Bielik in 2002, McDowell in 2008)

3 --- Women who will be returning to the 2011 US Open National Playoffs – Women’s Championship (Diaz, Falcon, Tedjakusuma)

5 --- Players who have been ranked in the Top 100 in singles (Bardina, Mamiit, Tarabini, Tarango, Washington)

6 --- Men who will be returning to the 2011 US Open National Playoffs – Men’s Championship (Larson, Mamiit, Niculescu, Quigley, Strode, Wettengel)

8 --- Players who will compete in both singles and mixed doubles of the 2011 US Open National Playoffs (Diaz, Healey, Martin, Morton, Pelletier, Schnack, Strode, Vlaski)

8 --- Players who have ranked in the Top 100 in doubles (Ferreira, Fusano, Healey, Martin, Pelletier, Tarabini, Tarango, Washington)

12 --- Teenagers who advanced to the 2011 US Open National Playoffs Championships (H. Adams, S. Adams, Anderson, Corning, Dailey, Harrison, Jurova, Melichar, Morton, Niehaus, Rodgers, Withrow)

13 --- Players that are over the age of 30 that advanced to the 2011 US Open National Playoffs (Donley, Ferreira, Fusano, Healey, Keronen, Mamiit, Mullins, Nelson-Kortland, Ruegsegger, Tarabini, Tarango, Tedjakusuma, Washington)

192 --- Teams that competed in mixed doubles across the 16 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments

306 --- Women who competed in singles across the 16 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments

690 --- Men who competed in singles across the 16 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments

1,223 --- Total players who participated in singles and/or mixed doubles during the 2011 US Open National Playoffs Sectional Qualifying Tournaments

US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS SECTIONAL QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT FINAL RESULTS

Section Men's Winner Women's Winner Mixed Doubles Winners

USTA Eastern Steve Erickson Petra Jurova Beatrix Bielik/Darrin Cohen Age: 23; Hometown: Emerson, NJ Age: 18; Hometown: Bratislava, Slovakia Ages: 30/27; Hometowns: Valley Stream, NY/Lafayette, CA

USTA Southwest Bojan Temunovic Sylvia Kosakowski Nicole Melichar/Sam Harrison Age: 22; Hometown: Scottsdale, AZ Age: 24; Hometown: Downey, CA Ages: 17/18; Hometown: Stuart, FL/Gilbert, AZ

USTA New England Blake Strode Lena Litvak Whitney Jones/Blake Strode Age: 23; Hometown: St. Louis, MO Age: 22; Hometown: Ukraine/New York City Ages: 24/23; Hometowns: St. Louis, MO

USTA Florida Oleg Dmitriev Caroline Dailey Amanda Rodgers/Ellis Ferreira Age: 27; Hometown: /Dania Beach, FL Age: 16; Hometown: Sarasota, FL Ages: 18/41; Hometowns: Bradenton, FL/Holmes Beach, FL

USTA Mid-Atlantic Damon Gooch Skylar Morton Skylar Morton/Patrick Daciek Age: 24; Hometown: South Africa/Bethesda, MD Age: 17; Hometown: Bethesda, MD Ages: 17/21; Hometowns: Bethesda, MD/Severna Park, MD

USTA Chris Wettengel Yasmin Schnack/Eric Roberson Age: 29; Hometown: Las Vegas Age: 23; Hometown: Elk Grove, CA Ages: 23/24; Hometowns: Elk Grove, CA/Sacramento, CA

USTA Hawaii-Pacific Angelo Niculescu Maureen Diaz Maureen Diaz/Erik Nelson-Kortland Age: 30; Hometown: Lake Oswego, OR Age: 29; Hometown: Glendale, CA Ages: 29/32; Hometowns: Glendale, CA/Marina del Rey, CA

USTA Midwest Eric Quigley Romana Tedjakusuma Sandy Niehaus/Wil Lofgren Age: 22; Hometown: Peewee Valley, KY Age: 34; Hometown: Tracy, CA Ages: 16/26; Hometowns: Cincinnati, OH

USTA Intermountain Angelo Faustino Vasilisa Bardina Yana Ruegsegger/Miika Keronen Age: 22; Hometown: Littleton, CO Age: 23; Hometown: Denver, CO Ages: 34/40; Hometowns: Lakewood, CO/Longmont, CO

USTA Pacific Northwest Aleksandar Vlaski Marie-Eve Pelletier Marie-Eve Pelletier/Aleksandar Vlaski Age: 29; Hometown: Kirkland, WA Age: 29; Hometown: Quebec, Ages: 29/29; Hometowns: Quebec, Canada/Kirkland, WA

US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS SECTIONAL QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT FINAL RESULTS

USTA Middle States Nathan Healey Robin Anderson Veronica Corning/Nathan Healey Age: 31; Hometown: Wyomissing, PA Age: 18; Hometown: Matawan, NJ Ages: 19/31; Hometowns: Beverly, MA/Wyomissing, PA

USTA Southern California Cecil Mamiit Macall Harkins / Age: 34; Hometown: South Pasadena, CA Age: 25; Hometown: Palos Verdes, CA Ages: 42/42; Hometowns: Carlsbad, CA/Manhattan Beach, CA

USTA Texas Artem Baradach Samantha Adams/Harrison Adams Age: 22; Hometown: Dallas, TX Age: 35; Hometown: Houston, TX Ages: 19/17; Hometowns: New Braunfels, TX

USTA Missouri Valley Ashley Murdock Brook Connelly/David Mullins Age: 17; Hometown: Omaha, NE Age: 23; Hometown: Memphis, TN Ages: 25/32; Hometowns: Oklahoma City, OK/Norman, OK

USTA Northern Tony Larson Megan Falcon Imke Reimers/Erik Donley Age: 27 ; Hometown: Brooklyn Park, MN Age: 25; Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA Ages: 25/37; Hometowns: Minneapolis, MN; Duluth, MN

USTA Southern David Martin Amanda McDowell Christina Fusano/David Martin Age: 30; Hometown: Tulsa, OK Age: 23; Hometown: Atlanta, GA Ages: 31/30; Hometowns: Plymouth, CA; Tulsa, OK