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Tournament Notes TournamenT noTes as of april 27, 2011 THE MIMA FOUNDATION/USTA PRO TENNIS CLASSIC INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH, FL • MAY 1–8 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS CELEBRATES SIX YEARS TournamenT IN INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH InFormaTIon The MIMA Foundation/USTA Pro Tennis Classic will be celebrating its sixth year on Site: Kiwi Tennis Club – Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. the USTA Pro Circuit this year. The event is Hartis Tim Websites: mimafoundationtennisclassic.org the third $50,000 event of the year on the procircuit.usta.com USTA Pro Circuit women’s schedule and the Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, May 1 only $50,000 women’s tournament held in Florida. Indian Harbour Beach also is the Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, May 3 third of four consecutive $50,000 clay court Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles events to prepare USTA Pro Circuit players for the clay court season and the 2011 Surface: Clay / Outdoor French Open. Irina Falconi will make her French Open debut Prize Money: $50,000 later this month after winning a USTA Wild This year’s main draw is expected to feature Card Playoff last week. Tournament Director: Irina Falconi, who will turn 21 during the Holly Baney and Murray Lilley, (321) 698-0888 tournament and who, last week, won a [email protected] USTA Playoff to earn a main draw wild England, where she defeated two Top 20 card into the 2011 French Open. Last year, Tournament Press Contacts: players and, subsequently, received a wild Falconi became just the 10th qualifying Shelley Johnson, (321) 431-0445 card into Wimbledon, before ending the year [email protected] wild card ever to reach the US Open main by winning three $50,000-plus ITF Women’s draw, and in January, she also qualified Amelia Woodbridge, (321) 795-8951 Circuit events; and Lauren Davis, 17, who for the 2011 Australian Open. The former [email protected] ended 2010 as arguably the hottest player Georgia Tech All-American and the 2009- in tennis, winning two USTA Pro Circuit USTA Communications Contacts: 10 NCAA season-end Intercollegiate Tennis tournaments, three ITF World Junior Circuit Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] Association No. 1 player is ranked a career- events (including the prestigious Dunlop Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] high No. 119 after advancing to the second Orange Bowl) and a USTA Wild Card Playoff round of the WTA event in Charleston, to earn a main draw wild card into the 2011 PrIze money / PoInTs S.C., in early April and reaching the final Australian Open. of the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Midland, Mich. Winner $7,315 70 Also expected in the main draw are: Renata Runner-up $3,990 50 Voracova, from the Czech Republic, the Semifinalist $2,185 32 Other featured players scheduled to top-ranked player in the field, who has six Quarterfinalist $1,235 18 compete this week are: Alison Riske, 20, WTA doubles titles to her credit; Edina Round of 16 $760 10 who in 2010 reached the semifinals of the Gallovits-Hall, from Romania, a two-time Round of 32 $475 1 Wimbledon tune-up event in Birmingham, Indian Harbour Beach champion and the former No. 54 player in the world, who has DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) played in all four Grand Slam singles main Winner $2,660 USTA draws, holds 12 USTA Pro Circuit singles Runner-up $1,425 titles (second all-time) and reached the Semifinalist $760 semifinals of the $25,000 event in Pelham, Quarterfinalist $380 Ala., in early April; Lauren Albanese, who Round of 16 $285 won the 2006 USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships to earn an automatic wild CommunITy eVenTs card into the US Open, where she advanced Sunday, May 1 to the second round, and who has since USTA Kids’ Day Presented by Space Coast reached seven career USTA Pro Circuit Tennis Association, 2-4:30 p.m. singles finals; and former world No. 4 junior Wednesday, May 4 Health Awareness Day Presented by LifeShape, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Alison Riske reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon tune-up event in Birmingham, Thursday, May 5 England, last year and received a main draw wild card into Wimbledon. Space Coast Ladies Day featuring free lunch buffet, 11 a.m. TournamenT noTes Julia Cohen, who reached a career-best ranking of No. 153 last Those expected to compete in qualifying include: Beatrice Capra, November after winning a tournament in Canada and reaching back- who won an eight-player USTA Playoff to earn the final wild card to-back finals at the end of the year at $25,000 events in Brazil. into the main draw of the 2010 US Open—her first main draw at a tour-level event—where she upset No. 18 seed Aravane Rezai before International players of note in the main draw include: 17-year-old falling to Maria Sharapova in the third round; last year’s doubles Laura Robson of Great Britain, a former world No. 1 junior who won champion Julie Ditty, the all-time leader in USTA Pro Circuit titles the girls’ singles title at Wimbledon in 2008 and reached the girls’ with 38, who peaked at No. 66 in the WTA doubles rankings in singles final at the Australian Open in 2009 and 2010 as well as 2009 and has competed for the U.S. Fed Cup team; Alexa Glatch, the girls’ semifinals at the US Open in 2009;Mandy Minella of the 2005 US Open girls’ singles and doubles finalist and former Luxembourg, who won three matches to qualify for the 2010 US Open U.S. Fed Cup standout who reached the quarterfinals at the WTA and reached the third round before losing to Venus Williams; Kurumi event in Memphis, Tenn., earlier this year as a qualifier; andAshley Nara of Japan, who reached back-to-back $50,000 finals on the Weinhold, who won the 2007 USTA Girls’ 18s title, earning a wild USTA Pro Circuit in 2010, winning the title in Lexington, Ky.; 2009 card into main draw of the US Open, and who defeated 2009 US Open Indian Harbour Beach runner-up Laura Siegemund of Germany, who quarterfinalist Melanie Oudin at the USTA Pro Circuit event in won the singles title on clay courts at the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit Pelham, Ala., last month. event in Lutz, Fla., earlier this year; and Julia Schruff of Germany, who reached a career-high ranking of No. 52 in 2006 and reached Many current WTA standouts have competed in Indian Harbour the third round of the US Open in 2005. Beach. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who won the event in 2007 and reached the final a year later, is a U.S. Fed Cup regular—she is Those receiving main draw wild cards include: 18-year-old Shelby 5-6 in Fed Cup play, including 3-0 in doubles—who reached the Rogers, who won the 2010 USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships fourth round of Wimbledon in 2008 and rose to No. 37 in the to earn a main draw wild card into the 2010 US Open, and who world in singles in March 2009. She also has had great success in reached her first professional final at The MIMA Foundation/USTA doubles, reaching a career-best No. 11 in doubles in early April and Pro Circuit Classic last year; 16-year-old Grace Min, who trains winning nine career WTA doubles titles. 2008 singles champion full-time at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Yanina Wickmayer reached the semifinals of the 2009 US Open and Fla., and who won the doubles title at the 2010 USTA Girls’ 18s achieved a career-high ranking of No. 12 last year. 2009 singles National Championships with partner Lauren Herring, earning a wild champion Melanie Oudin used her victory at Indian Harbour Beach card into the women’s doubles main draw at the 2010 US Open; and as a springboard to her breakthrough summer that year, as she 20-year-old Lauren Embree, a University of Florida sophomore who defeated former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic en route to the fourth was the 2010 SEC Player of the Year, and who made her Grand Slam round at 2009 Wimbledon and upset former US Open finalist Elena tournament debut at the 2009 French Open after winning a USTA Dementieva as well as former US Open champion Maria Sharapova Wild Card Playoff to earn entry into the main draw. on her way to the quarterfinals of the 2009 US Open. INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2010 Edina Gallovits (ROU) Shelby Rogers (USA) 2010 Christina Fusano (USA) – Courtney Nagle (USA) 2009 Melanie Oudin (USA) Laura Siegemund (GER) 2009 Heidi El Tabakh (CAN) – Melanie Klaffner (AUT) 2008 Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) Bethanie Mattek (USA) 2008 Madison Brengle (USA) – Kristy Frilling (USA) 2007 Bethanie Mattek (USA) Olga Govortsova (BLR) 2007 Monique Adamczak (AUS) – Angela Haynes (USA) 2006 Edina Gallovits (ROU) Rosana de Los Rios (PAR) 2006 Edina Gallovits (ROU) – Jessica Kirkland (USA) TournamenT noTes USTA PRO CIRCUIT 30 MILLION PLAYERS With 90-plus tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from $10,000 The USTA Pro Circuit serves as an integral part of the USTA’s to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for aspiring mission to grow and develop tennis in the United States. In tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals.
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