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as of July 9, 2013

WOMEN’S HOSPITAL CLASSIC EVANSVILLE, IN • JULY 15-21

USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO EVANSVILLE TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Women’s Hospital Classic returns to

Evansville for the 15th consecutive year. It is USTA the only USTA Pro Circuit event taking place Site: Wesselman Park Center in Indiana this year and the first of three Evansville, Ind. consecutive $10,000 hard-court events held Websites: www.evansvilletennis.net prior to the US Open. procircuit.usta.com Players competing in Evansville include: Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, July 14 Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, July 16 Seventeen-year-old Brooke Austin, who won the 2012 USTA Girls’ 18 Spring National Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Championships and helped lead the United Surface: Hard / Outdoors States to back-to-back World Junior Tennis titles in 2009 and 2010. In 2012, Austin Prize Money: $10,000 reached the final of the Easter Bowl, losing to 2012 year-end world junior No. 1 Taylor Tournament Directors: Townsend in the final. This year, Austin Anna Hazlett, (812) 430-4890 reached the singles quarterfinals and [email protected] doubles semifinals at the Easter Bowl. She Junior standout Brooke Austin won the Tournament Press Contact: cracked the Top 100 in the ITF World Junior 2012 USTA Girls’ 18 Spring National Ryan McDaniel, (317) 213-7697 Rankings in 2011 and has competed in the Championships and helped lead the United junior US Open three times. States to back-to-back World Junior Tennis [email protected] titles in 2009 and 2010. USTA Public Relations Contact: Zoe Scandalis, who plays tennis for USC Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 and finished the 2012-13 collegiate season Indian woman to be seeded in a [email protected] ranked in the Top 25 in Division I singles. event, the first Indian to break the WTA’s She holds one USTA Pro Circuit doubles Top 30 rankings and the winner of the mixed title, winning the $10,000 event in New PRIZE MONEY / POINTS doubles title at the 2009 . Orleans last year, and she won a $10,000 SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points ITF Women’s Circuit event in Mexico this , 18, a junior standout who Winner $1,568 12 year. Sandalis’ father was a professional Blair Shankle reached the doubles final at the 2011 USTA Runner-Up $980 8 triathlete, and her mother played lacrosse International Grass Court Championships Semifinalist $490 6 and rugby at Johns Hopkins. Scandalis is in Philadelphia and who has competed Quarterfinalist $245 4 a cousin of , who was the first Round 16 $196 1 in junior qualifying for the US Open and Round 32 $98 – Wimbledon. At age 9, Shankle was already ranked in the USTA National girls’ 12s and DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) went on to be the top-ranked girls’ 12s Winner $637 David Kenas player in the country. Her father, Jimmy, Runner-Up $343 is the CEO of a trucking company, and her Semifinalist $196 older brother, Brooks, has been a professional Quarterfinalist $98 baseball player in the minor leagues. Round 16 $49 Eighteen-year-old Nicole Robinson, who reached her first USTA Pro Circuit doubles final in March at the $10,000 event in

Zoe Scandalis plays tennis for USC and finished the 2012-13 collegiate season ranked in the Top 25 in Division I singles. She is a cousin of Sania Mirza, who was the first Indian woman to be seeded in a Grand Slam event and the first Indian player to break the WTA’s Top 30 rankings.

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Gainesville, Fla. In addition to the USTA Pro Circuit, Robinson has Missouri Valley Sectional Qualifying Tournament. Murdock is a competed all over the world in ITF Circuit tournaments in countries former No. 1 player for the University of Memphis, where she played such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. As a junior, she her junior and senior years. (She spent her freshman and sophomore won numerous Florida state singles titles. years competing for LSU.) Her father played golf at Memphis, and her mother was the university’s first baton twirler. Veronica Corning, who played tennis for a year and a half at Boston College, then transferred to Northwestern University. This Stephanie Kent, who played tennis her freshman year at Cornell and past season, Corning was Northwestern’s recipient of the Big then transferred to play at Yale. Ten Sportsmanship Award. Corning played high school tennis in Hamilton, Mass., and did not lose a set throughout her high school Nadia Echeverria Alam, who has spent most of 2013 competing career. Corning also won the 2011 US Open National Playoffs USTA overseas in events in Colombia, France, Mexico and Peru. Alam won Middle States mixed doubles title. two ITF Circuit doubles titles in Colombia and Peru in 2012. As a junior player, she reached the third round of the 2011 , Ashley Murdock, who won the 2011 US Open National Playoffs losing to 2012 US Open girls’ champion . *Player field subject to change

EVANSVILLE PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2012 (USA) Ying-Ying Duan (CHN) 2012 Ying-Ying Duan (CHN) – Yi-Fan Xu (CHN) 2011 Elizabeth Ferris (USA) (USA) 2011 Brynn Boren (USA) – (USA) 2010 Gabriela Paz (VEN) Chichi Scholl (USA) 2010 Brynn Boren (USA) – Sabrina Santamaria (USA) 2009 Elizabeth Lumpkin (USA) (USA) 2009 (USA) – (USA) 2008 Megan Moulton-Levy (USA) Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) 2008 Rebecca Marino (CAN) – Ellah Nze (USA) 2007 Kimberly Couts (USA) Helena Besovic (BIH) 2007 Jenna Long (USA) – Anna Lubinsky (USA) 2006 Audra Cohen (USA) (USA) 2006 Beau Jones (USA) – Tiya Rolle (USA) 2005 (USA) Kristi Miller (USA) 2005 (INA) – Romana Tedjakusuma (INA) 2004 Nicole Leimbach (USA) Anda Perianu (ROU) 2004 Kelly Schmandt (USA) – (USA) 2003 Stephanie Hazlett (USA) Neyssa Etienne (HAI) 2003 Tamara Encina (USA) – Alison Ojeda (USA) 2002 Shadisha Robinson (USA) Deanna Roberts (AUS) 2002 Jin-Hee Kim (KOR) – (JPN) 2001 (RSA) Kristen Schlukebir (USA) 2001 (PUR) – Alison Ojeda (USA) 2000 Kelly McCain (USA) Stephanie Hazlett (USA) 2000 Tomoe Hotta (JPN) – Ryoko Takemura (JPN) 1999 Kristina Kraszewski (USA) Lara Van Rooten (USA) 1999 (USA) – (USA) 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. Mardy Fish, , , , Sam Querrey, Victoria early on, increasing the likelihood that kids will return to the Azarenka and Andy Murray 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— 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 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 age 14+ and of all skill levels. the spring, she won back-to-back tournaments at the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and Last year, more than 1,200 players the $25,000 tournament in Raleigh, N.C. She competed in qualifying in Emirates Airline US Open Series competed in 13 Sectional Qualifying events throughout the summer and qualified in Stanford, Calif. Min, who trains at the USTA Training Center Tournaments nationwide for a 2012 Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., entered the Top 200 for the first time in her career in 2012, climbing US Open Qualifying Tournament nearly 250 spots in the rankings by year’s end. wild card. A mixed doubles element also was held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed PLAYER DEVELOPMENT doubles wild card. Clement Reix, a 28-year-old Frenchman living in Reno, Nev., won the US Open National Playoffs men’s title and USTA The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions Pro Circuit regular , 24, of Abington, PA, won by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need the women’s wild card for the second time in three years. Nicole to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center Melichar and Brian Battistone won the mixed doubles tournament. Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as The 2013 US Open National Playoffs – Men’s, Women’s and Mixed well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. Doubles Championships are August 16-19 in New Haven, Conn..