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TournamenT noTes as of april 10, 2012 2012 DOTHAN PRO CLASSIC DOTHAN, AL • APRIL 15 - 22 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT RETURNS TournamenT TO DOTHAN FOR 12TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR InFormaTIon The 2012 Dothan Pro Classic returns to Site: Westgate Tennis Center – Dothan, Ala. Dothan, Ala., for the 12th consecutive year. It is the second $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit clay- Websites: www.dothanprotennis.org court event of the 2012 season and the fourth Getty Images procircuit.usta.com of eight consecutive clay-court events, ranging Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, April 15 from $25,000 to $50,000 in prize money, to prepare players for the 2012 French Open. It Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, April 17 is also one of two USTA Pro Circuit women’s Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles events hosted in Alabama this year, following an event held in Pelham last week. Surface: Clay / Outdoor Prize Money: $50,000 This year, through an arrangement with the French Tennis Federation, the USTA Tournament Director: will award one women’s singles main draw Kim Meeker, (334) 615-3700 wild card into the 2012 French Open to [email protected] the American player who finishes with Tournament Press Contact: the best results in Dothan, as well as the Cricket Lee, (334) 797-3347 $50,000 events over the next two weeks [email protected] in Charlottesville, Va., and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. The USTA and the French Tennis USTA Public Relations Contacts: Federation have a reciprocal agreement in Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] which the French Open reserves a women’s Irina Falconi reached the third round of the Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] singles main draw wild card for an American 2011 US Open and won the singles gold medal player and the US Open does the same for in the 2011 Pan Am Games. one Frenchwoman. PrIze money / PoInTs kids to rally and play the game. On January 1, SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points On Tuesday, April 17, and Wednesday, April the rules of tennis officially changed in the Winner $7,315 70 18, the tournament will hold a 10 and Under U.S. to require that all USTA-sanctioned events Runner-up $3,990 50 Tennis clinic for local schoolchildren. 10 and for kids 10 and under be played utilizing Semifinalist $2,185 32 Under Tennis is a national initiative created some combination of the shorter and lighter Quarterfinalist $1,235 18 to develop young players. It uses right-sized racquets, slower-moving and lower-bouncing Round of 16 $760 10 equipment and smaller courts to better allow balls, and smaller courts utilized by 10 and Round of 32 $475 1 Under Tennis. On Saturday, April 21, the DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) tournament will also showcase 10 and Under Winner $2,660 Tennis in a Jamboree for all children. Runner-up $1,425 Michael Baz Semifinalist $760 Those players entered in the main draw this Quarterfinalist $380 week include Irina Falconi, who first broke Round of 16 $285 into the WTA Top 100 in 2011 and reached the third round of the 2011 US Open, upsetting No. 14 Dominika Cibulkova in CommunITy eVenTs the second round in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Sunday, April 15 The former collegiate Player of the Year at Family Day Georgia Tech played in all four Grand Slam Tuesday, April 17 10 and Under Tennis Clinic with local schools Lauren Davis won the USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2011 US Open and reached the Wednesday, April 18 second round of the WTA event in Indian Wells, 10 and Under Tennis Clinic with local schools Calif., last month. Saturday, April 21 Jamboree featuring 10 and Under Tennis, 10:30 a.m. *Player field subject to change TournamenT noTes events in 2011, qualifying for the Australian Open and Wimbledon Sharapova en route to the US Open quarterfinals, having upset former and winning a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the French Open. world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic earlier in the summer to reach the fourth She also was selected to represent the United States in the 2011 round at Wimbledon. Oudin also captured the 2011 US Open mixed Pan American Games, where she won the gold medal in singles and doubles title with up-and-coming American Jack Sock. Oudin currently the silver medal in doubles (with Christina McHale). trains at the home of the US Open in New York, alongside Brodsky and current world No. 35 Christina McHale. Also in the main draw are: Alison Riske, who qualified for the 2012 Australian Open and, in 2011, reached the quarterfinals at the WTA Other main draw wild cards are: 17-year-old Madison Keys, who trains event in Birmingham, England, in addition to competing in the main full-time at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, draws at the US Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon; 2008 US Fla., and who, in 2011, became the youngest player to win a match Open girls’ singles champion and U.S. Fed Cupper Coco Vandeweghe, at the US Open since 2005; and Jessica Pegula, who is the daughter who is the niece of former NBA All-Star Kiki Vandeweghe and who of Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula and who reached her first broke into the WTA Top 100 in 2011 after reaching the quarterfinals professional final in 2011 at the $25,000 event in Lutz, Fla. Jessica of the WTA event in Memphis, Tenn., and the second round of Pegula also advanced to the round of 16 in women’s doubles at the the US Open; Jill Craybas, who competed in the main draw of 45 2011 US Open. consecutive Grand Slam events dating back to the 2000 US Open before having her streak snapped at the 2012 Australian Open; and Players competing in qualifying are: Grace Min, the 2011 US Open Lauren Davis, 18, the former world No. 3 junior player who won the girls’ singles champion, who trains full-time at the USTA Training 2011 USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships to earn a wild card into Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and who won the first the 2011 US Open, and who captured a USTA playoff to earn a wild women’s USTA Pro Circuit title of 2012 in Innisbrook, Fla., and last card into the 2011 Australian Open. Davis received a wild card into month reached the final of the $25,000 event in Clearwater, Fla.; the WTA event in Indian Wells, Calif., last month and won her first- and Ashley Weinhold, the 2007 USTA Girls’ 18s national champion, round match. She also won the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in who won her second career professional title in 2011 at the $25,000 Plantation, Fla., in January. event in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Additional players to compete in the main draw include: Julia Boserup, Many current WTA standouts have competed in Dothan. Liezel Huber, who won her first professional title in 2011 at the $25,000 USTA Pro the 2002 Dothan singles runner-up, owns 52 WTA women’s doubles Circuit event in Redding, Calif., and who broke into the Top 200 earlier titles and is the No. 1-ranked doubles player in the world. Huber has this year after winning the $25,000 event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.; also captured five Grand Slam tournament women’s doubles titles, Julia Cohen, who earned All-America honors at both the University of including the 2011 US Open, and won both the 2009 French Open Florida and the University of Miami, and who captured two $25,000 and the 2010 US Open mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan. Huber titles overseas in the fall of 2011; Chichi Scholl, who rose nearly is a regular competitor on the U.S. Fed Cup team, where she is 8-1 600 slots in the WTA rankings in 2011 after sweeping the singles in doubles since joining the U.S. squad in 2008. Bethanie Mattek- and doubles titles at both the $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas, and Sands, the 2008 Dothan singles champion, reached the fourth round the $50,000 event in Lexington, Ky.; Gail Brodsky, the 2008 USTA of Wimbledon shortly after winning her title in Dothan. She peaked at Girls’ 18s national champion who trains full-time at the USTA Training No. 30 in the world in singles last July and has also had great success Center-East at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in in doubles; she peaked at a career-best No. 11 in doubles last April and Flushing, N.Y.; and Madison Brengle, a former world No. 4 junior player has won nine career WTA Tour doubles titles. Mattek-Sands is 5-6 in who has competed in the main draws of the Australian Open, French Fed Cup play for the United States (3-0 in doubles). Two-time Dothan Open and US Open. doubles champion and 2009 singles runner-up Carly Gullickson went on to win the 2009 US Open mixed doubles title with Travis Parrott, Receiving a main draw wild card is former world No. 31 Melanie Oudin, defeating the top three seeds en route to the title. who in 2009 beat three-time Grand Slam tournament champion Maria *Player field subject to change DOTHAN PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2011 Melinda Czink (HUN) Stephanie Foretz-Gacon (FRA) 2011 Valeria Solovieva (RUS) – Lenka Wienerova (SVK) 2010 Edina Gallovits (ROU) Anastasia Yakimova (BLR) 2010 Alina Jidkova (RUS) – Anastasia Yakimova (BLR) 2009 Shenay Perry (USA) Carly Gullickson (USA) 2009 Carly Gullickson (USA) – Julie Ditty (USA) 2008 Bethanie Mattek (USA) Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 2008 Tetiana Luzhanska (UKR) – Michaela Pastikova (CZE) 2007 Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 2007 Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) – Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE) 2006 Yuliana Fedak (UKR) Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 2006 Monique Adamczak (AUS) – Soledad Esperon (ARG) 2005 Milagros Sequera (VEN) Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 2005 Carly Gullickson (USA) – Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 2004 Shuai Peng (CHN) Eugenia Linetskaya (RUS)