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as of February 4, 2013

DOW CORNING CLASSIC MIDLAND, MI • FEBRUARY 3-10

DOW CORNING TENNIS CLASSIC CELEBRATES TOURNAMENT 25TH ANNIVERSARY ON THE USTA PRO CIRCUIT INFORMATION Top players converge on Midland, Mich., such as young American , 2012 NCAA singles finalist , former collegiate No. 1 , Site: Midland Community Tennis Center Midland, Mich. 2011 Pan Am Games singles gold medalist and 2011 Midland runner-up , two-time Midland singles champion , and U.S. Fed Cupper and Websites: dowcorningtennisclassic.com up-and-coming American CoCo Vandeweghe procircuit.usta.com

Facebook: Dow Corning Tennis Classic Now celebrating its 25th year, the Dow Corning Tennis Classic is the longest- Twitter: @DCTCPROTennis consecutively running women’s event on the Michael Baz Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, February 3 USTA Pro Circuit. The event is considered the marquee women’s tournament on the Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, February 5 USTA Pro Circuit and attracts more than Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles 15,000 fans each year. The USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to tennis stardom, Surface: Hard / Indoor and the Dow Corning Tennis Classic is Prize Money: $100,000 truly emblematic of that. Six tournament singles champions played in Executive Director: the event early in their careers, along with Mike Woody, (989) 205-9443 13 Grand Slam tournament doubles / mixed [email protected] doubles champions. The most notable Midland alumni include , Assistant Tournament Director: a seven-time Grand Slam tournament Sharon Cleland, (989) 708-9376 champion and Olympic gold medal winner, [email protected] four-time Grand Slam tournament singles Tournament Press Contact: champion , two-time Grand McCarton Ackerman, (917) 817-7186 Slam tournament singles champion Mary [email protected] Pierce, 2010 singles champion U.S. teen Lauren Davis, 19, broke into the and 2011 French Top 100 for the first time last October and USTA Communications Contacts: Open singles champion , as well as began 2013 by reaching the quarterfinals of the tune-up event in Hobart. Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] Anna Kournikova, a two-time Grand Slam Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected]

Prize money / points tournament women’s doubles and mixed doubles champion. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Getty Images Winner $15,200 140 The Dow Corning Tennis Classic will be Runner-Up $8,108 100 streamed live on procircuit.usta.com. Semifinalist $4,433 70 Quarterfinalist $2,533 36 The tournament began in 1989 at the Round 16 $1,520 18 $25,000 level and, seven years later, Round 32 $887 1 became one of five USTA Pro Circuit DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) tournaments to raise its prize money as Winner $5,573 part of the “Women’s $50,000 Challenger Runner-Up $2,787 Series” in 1996. Three years later, in 1999, Semifinalist $1,393 the prize money was raised again, this time Quarterfinalist $760 to $75,000. Midland made its debut as the Round 16 $507

Li Na, runner-up at this year’s Australian Open, won the Dow Corning Classic in 2002.

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first-ever $100,000 women’s event on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2010 the second round of the 2011 US Open and competed in the French and has been held at the $100,000 level ever since. Open and Wimbledon that year. Vandeweghe was named to the U.S. Fed Cup team for the 2010 final versus . As a junior, she won the Throughout the week, Midland Community Tennis Center will offer 2008 US Open girls’ singles title. Vandeweghe’s mother, Tauna, was a variety of daily interactive events that reach out to community a member of the U.S. national team in both swimming and volleyball, members at many different age and skill levels, including a “pros and her uncle is former NBA star Kiki Vandeweghe. to schools/schools to matches” day, a luncheon, a kids’ fun day, high school play day, an at-risk youth program and an adult Cardio Stephanie Foretz Gacon, 31, from France, is ranked No. 102. At Tennis clinic, along with opportunities to meet and ask questions of the , she won her first Grand Slam main draw the players. VIP packages, club seats and group rates are available match since 2005, and followed that up with opening round wins in addition to general admission tickets. Daily sessions are $12 at the French Open and Wimbledon. She also reached her first WTA for adults and $8 for juniors. For further ticket or sponsorship quarterfinal in nearly five years last February in Memphis, Tenn. information, please contact Assistant Tournament Director Sharon She peaked at No. 63 in 2003, and her biggest career win came Cleland at the Midland Tennis Club. in 2002, when she defeated on her way to reaching the quarterfinals at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C. Foretz This year’s Midland main draw field includes Top 100 young Gacon has also competed in the main draw of the French Open every American Lauren Davis, 2012 NCAA singles finalistMallory Burdette, year since 1999. This is her fourth appearance in Midland; she was a 2011 Pan Am Games singles gold medalist and 2011 Midland quarterfinalist in 2009 and reached the doubles final last year. runner-up Irina Falconi, former collegiate No. 1 Maria Sanchez, U.S. Fed Cupper and up-and-coming American CoCo Vandeweghe, , 30, from Hungary, is ranked No. 105. A 13-year two-time Midland singles champion Jill Craybas, and rising stars Alexa veteran of the WTA Tour, her 2012 highlights include reaching the Glatch, , , and Chiara Scholl. 2012 world third round of the WTA event in Birmingham, England, as well as junior No. 1 , 2012 US Open girls’ singles champion the second round at Wimbledon and the French Open. She has won , 2012 USTA Girls’ 18s National Champion one WTA singles title (Quebec City in 2009) and has racked up an , and 1998 Midland singles champion Alexandra impressive 20 ITF Circuit women’s singles titles. She also has had Stevenson are all expected in qualifying. Top 10 wins over players including and . Czink has also represented Hungary in 10 Fed Cup ties since 2003. Featured players expected to compete in the main draw include: Tatjana Malek, 25, from Germany, is ranked No. 108. She jumped , 21, from Italy, is ranked No. 78. In 2012, she more than 80 places in the rankings in 2012, due largely in part to qualified for Wimbledon and beat world No. 17 on reaching the second round of the US Open as a qualifier and at the WTA her way to reaching the fourth round, marking her best appearance event in Quebec City. A winner of eight ITF women’s singles events, her at a Grand Slam. She also scored big wins in 2012 over world No. 7 biggest title came in 2009 at the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event (in Beijing) and Francesca Schiavone in Bronx, N.Y. Malek has also represented Germany in nine Fed Cup (in Cincinnati), helping her improve her ranking by more than 80 spots ties since 2006. This is her first appearance in Midland. that year. Giorgi has also enjoyed success on the ITF Circuit by winning five singles titles, and also won the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event , 25, from Russia, is ranked No. 111. In 2012, last April in Dothan, Alab. This is her first appearance in Midland. she improved her ranking by more than 100 spots by reaching the third round of the US Open as a qualifier, as well as reaching the Lauren Davis, 19, from Gates Mills, Ohio, is ranked No. 90. Davis semifinals at the WTA event in Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2006, she started 2013 by reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open reached the singles final at WTA events in Quebec City and Kolkata, tune-up event in Hobart, losing to fellow young American and 2013 India, as well as won two titles on the USTA Pro Circuit in Hammond, Australian Opn semifinalist in three sets. Davis La., and Bronx, N.Y. She also beat former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic broke into the Top 100 for the first time in her career in 2012. She that same year. This is Puchkova’s third appearance in Midland; she qualified for and reached the second round of the French Open was a semifinalist in 2006. and advanced to the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Quebec City, Canada, following the US Open. Davis also ended the 2012 season Mirjana Lucic Baroni, 30, who resides in Tampa, Fla., but competes strong on the USTA Pro Circuit, winning the $50,000 USTA Pro for Croatia, is ranked No. 114. In 2012, she reached the third round Circuit event in Las Vegas, sponsored by music mogul Redfoo of the of Wimbledon as a qualifier and upset world No. 9 , chart-topping group LMFAO. She reached the final of the $75,000 marking her first time beating a Top 10 player since 1999. She was USTA Pro Circuit event in Albuquerque the week prior to finish one of the tennis’ rising stars in the late 1990s, peaking at No. 32 second among American women in WTA points earned on the USTA in 1998 and advancing to the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1999. She Pro Circuit in 2012. Davis peaked at No. 3 in the ITF World Junior also won the 1998 Australian Open doubles title with Rankings in 2010, when she won the and reached the and, in singles, advanced to the third round at the US Open in 1997 final of the Easter Bowl. and 1998 and at the French Open in 2001. Lucic, however, went into semi-retirement in 2003, playing in just two events between CoCo Vandeweghe, 21, from Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., is ranked the 2003 US Open and the 2007 WTA event in Memphis—both at No. 99. Vandeweghe reached her first pro final in 2012 at the the $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Dothan, Ala. She officially Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Stanford as a qualifier, launched her comeback in 2007 on the USTA Pro Circuit and won losing to . She then faced Williams in the first round the first two USTA Pro Circuit titles of her comeback in 2010, of the 2012 US Open. She also qualified for Wimbledon a year ago. finishing the year ranked in the Top 100 for the first time in 10 years. Vandeweghe broke into the Top 100 for the first time in her career in early 2011 after qualifying for the Australian Open and reaching , 19, from Puerto Rico, is ranked No. 115. Last month, the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Memphis. She also reached she won her first WTA main draw match in Sydney and then lost to *Player field subject to change Tournament Notes

world No. 5 in a third-set tiebreaker. Last October, she won the biggest title of her career at the $100,000 ITF event in Poitiers, France, as well as the $50,000 event in Joue-Les-Tours, France. In 2011, she reached the singles final of the junior events Hartis Tim at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and also won the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Surprise, Arizona. She has won six ITF Circuit women’s singles titles in total. Puig has represented Puerto Rico in Fed Cup every year since 2008 and won a silver medal at the 2011 Pan American Games. This is her first appearance in Midland.

Maria Sanchez, 23, from Modesto, Calif., is ranked No. 117. Since the end of the 2011 season, when she was ranked No. 687 in the world, Sanchez has ascended 570 places in the WTA rankings. Formerly the No. 1-ranked college singles player while at the University of Southern , Sanchez won two USTA Pro Circuit titles in 2012, at the $50,000 event in Sacramento—her first professional singles title—and the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, where she defeated Lauren Davis in the title match. Sanchez finished the year by making the final of the $75,000 event in Phoenix to finish as the top WTA point earner among Americans on the 2012 USTA Pro Circuit. Sanchez played the first professional event of her career in 2006, and she played in qualifying for WTA events for the first time in 2011 at Indian Wells and Stanford, Calif. She was an ITA All-American at USC, winning the 2011 USTA/ITA National Indoor Maria Sanchez, who won two USTA Pro Circuit titles in 2012, climbed Intercollegiate Championship singles title. As a junior player, she was more than 500 spots in the WTA rankings last year, earning more rankings ranked No. 1 in the as a 16-year-old and No. 4 in the points than any other American on the USTA Pro Circuit. country as an 18-year-old.

Alexa Glatch, 23, of Newport Beach, Calif., is ranked No. 120. three USTA adult national championships and added another in 2009, Glatch started the 2012 season strong by reaching the semifinals of all in doubles events with her parents. Cohen peaked at No. 4 in the the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and ITF World Junior Rankings in 2007, when she reached the Australian later qualified and reached the second round of the girls’ doubles final. Open. She fell in the final round of qualifying of both Wimbledon and the US Open, then closed the year by winning consecutive , 26, of France, is ranked No. 132. In 2012, she $25,000 ITF Circuit events in Japan in October. After an injury- won her first main draw match in a Grand Slam event at the French marred 2010, Glatch began her comeback in 2011 by qualifying Open. She has won eight ITF Circuit women’s singles titles, including for Wimbledon and also for the WTA events in Memphis, Tenn., and the $50,000 event last October in Limoges, France. Copenhagen, Denmark, advancing to the quarterfinals in Memphis. In 2009, Glatch propelled the U.S. to the Fed Cup final by winning Mallory Burdette of Jackson, Ga., who will turn 22 on January 28, two of the U.S.’s three points—dropping just six games in four sets is ranked No. 145. Burdette recently turned pro after reaching the against two Top 50 players—in its 3-2 semifinal victory against the third round of the US Open, losing to Maria Sharapova in Arthur Ashe Czech Republic; her victories included a straight-sets win over 2011 Stadium. Burdette received a into the 2012 US Open based Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. As a junior, Glatch reached on her USTA Pro Circuit results this summer, which included a title the girls’ singles and doubles finals at the 2005 US Open—losing at the $100,000 event in Vancouver. She also reached the second to current world No. 1 in the singles final—but round of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Stanford, she suffered career-threatening injuries in a motor scooter accident Calif., in her WTA debut. Burdette played for Stanford the last three shortly thereafter. She returned to the USTA Pro Circuit the following years, clinching the NCAA team title as a freshman in 2010, winning year and won her first career pro title at the $10,000 event in Fort the NCAA doubles crown in 2011 and 2012, and reaching the final Worth, Texas. of the 2012 NCAA singles (where she fell to teammate and doubles partner ). Julia Cohen, 23, from Philadelphia, is ranked No. 122. Cohen broke into the WTA Top 100 in late July 2012, reaching a career-high Jessica Pegula, 18, from Buffalo, N.Y., is ranked No. 150. Pegula No. 97 after advancing to her first WTA Tour final, in Baku, advanced to her first professional final at the $50,000 USTA Azerbaijan, prior to playing in her first US Open main draw in August. Pro Circuit event in Sacramento, Calif., in May 2012, falling to She is a veteran of all levels of competitive tennis, excelling as a Maria Sanchez in the final, before making a run to the final of the junior and collegiate player and having competed in USTA adult $100,000 event in Vancouver the following month, falling to Mallory events and on the USTA Pro Circuit. As a collegian, Cohen earned Burdette. She also was a semifinalist at the $100,000 ITF Circuit All-America honors as a sophomore for the University of Miami (Fla.) event in Marseille, France, and at the $50,000 event in Toronto in and took home the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rookie of the October. She played in the US Open doubles main draw in 2011 and Year honors as a freshman for the University of . Competing 2012, when she partnered with . Pegula, the daughter extensively on the USTA Pro Circuit and ITF Circuit, Cohen won of Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula, is coached by Michael Joyce, $25,000 events in Armenia and Argentina in 2011, and she reached who coached Maria Sharapova from mid-2004 to 2011. the semifinals of consecutive $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit events in Dothan, Ala., and Charlottesville, Va., in April 2012. In 2008, she won 2011 Midland singles runner-up Irina Falconi, 22, from Jupiter, Fla., *Player field subject to change Tournament Notes

is ranked No. 142. A one-time college star at Georgia Tech, Falconi Players receiving main draw wild cards are: has played in every Grand Slam event at least twice, reaching the third round of the US Open in 2011 and the second round of the Samantha Crawford, 17, from Atlanta, is ranked No. 266. Crawford French Open in 2012. Falconi played in the main draw of all four won the 2012 US Open girls’ singles title. Crawford also qualified for Slams in 2012, with the French Open providing her best result. the women’s main draw of the US Open as a wild card—she became She also reached the semifinals in Nottingham and the quarters in one of only 13 qualifying wild cards to advance to the main draw in Birmingham in Wimbledon warm-up events before losing to Victoria recorded US Open history. As a junior player, Crawford won the USTA Azarenka in the first round at Wimbledon. She cracked the Top 100 Girls’ 18s doubles title in 2011 and 2012 and is currently ranked a for the first time in 2011, upsetting No. 14 Dominika Cibulkova in career-high No. 5 in the world junior rankings. She trains at the USTA the second round of the US Open in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Also in Training Center Headquarters. 2011, Falconi qualified for the Australian Open and Wimbledon and won a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the French Open. In Ajla Tomljanovic, 19, from Croatia, is ranked No. 367. So far in addition, she was selected to represent the U.S. in the 2011 Pan Am 2013, she reached the final at the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event Games, where she won the gold medal in singles and the silver medal in Innisbrook, Florida. Her 2012 was severely derailed by injury and in doubles (with Christina McHale). In two seasons at Georgia Tech, she was limited to just six events all year, resulting in her using an Falconi was a two-time All-American and ranks first in school history injury protected ranking to enter Midland this year. Tomljanovic has in all-time winning percentage (.824; 70-15). Falconi was born in won three USTA Pro Circuit women’s singles titles in her career and Ecuador and moved to New York at age 3, learning to play on public has also represented Croatia in eight Fed Cup ties since 2010. This is courts in Manhattan. her first appearance in Midland.

Chiara Scholl, 20, from Pompano Beach, Fla., who goes by the , 21, of Long Beach, Calif., is ranked No. 437. nickname “Chi Chi,” is ranked No. 170. Scholl won her first two Muhammad learned to play tennis at the Boys and Girls career singles titles on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2011, at a $50,000 Club in Las Vegas. She won two USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles last event in Lexington, Ky., and at a $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas. In year, at the $50,000 event in Sacramento, Calif., and the $75,000 2012, she played in qualifying of the Australian Open, French Open event in Albuquerque, N.M. She holds six USTA Pro Circuit titles and US Open and she also reached the semifinals of two USTA Pro overall (five in doubles). Circuit events at the levels of $50,000 and above. Scholl’s younger sister, 17-year old Chalena, is a world Top 15 junior who trains at the Anne-Liz Jeukeng, 16, of Kansas City, Mo., is ranked No. 601. USTA Player Development headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. Jeukeng graduated high school one year early and now plays for Clemson. She was born in Cameroon and, at age 2, moved to the 2005 and 2007 Midland singles champion Jill Craybas, 38, from United States, where she became involved in tennis. Jeukeng lived Huntington Beach, Calif., is ranked No. 206. A Top 100 player from and trained in Kansas City for nine years, then moved to Boca Raton, 2001 to 2010, Craybas reached a career-high No. 39 in 2006 at Fla., where she now trains when not at school. She competed in age 31. In 2012, she played in the qualifying of all four Grand Slam Midland last year and reached the second round. events and qualified for WTA events in Paris, Charleston, Madrid and Bastad. she competed in the main draw of all four Grand Slams each year from 2001 and 2011, a streak of 44 straight Slam singles main draws that was snapped at the 2012 Australian Open. Her best Featured players expected to compete in the qualifying draw include: result came at Wimbledon in 2005, when she knocked off Serena Williams en route to the fourth round. Craybas won the 2002 Japan Taylor Townsend, 16, from Atlanta, is ranked No. 502 in the WTA Open on the WTA tour and has also won five tour-level doubles rankings. She clinched the year-end ITF No. 1 junior ranking for 2012 titles. She has represented the United States in the Olympics (2008 last December, becoming the first American girl to hold that position Beijing) and in Fed Cup (2004-06). She is the only woman to be a since in 1982. In 2012, Townsend also won the member of a national championship team with two different schools Australian Open junior singles title, and the junior doubles titles at the (Texas in 1993, Florida in 1996), and she won the NCAA singles Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. She also led the 2012 championship in 1996. United States to the Junior Fed Cup championship. Townsend trains at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. , 20, from Mt. Pleasant, S.C., is ranked No. 216. Rogers peaked at her career-high ranking of No. 207 last October Victoria Duval, 17, from Miami, is ranked No. 518. Duval earned a after making a run to the final of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event wild card into the main draw of the 2012 US Open by winning the in Las Vegas, sponsored by music mogul Redfoo of the chart-topping USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships as the No. 17 seed, knocking group LMFAO. She claimed one singles title on the 2012 USTA Pro off five Top 10 seeds en route. In the first round at the US Open, she Circuit, beating US Open junior girls’ champion Samantha Crawford faced recent retiree and former US Open champion . At in the final of the $50,000 event in Yakima, Wash., in July. Despite the 2012 US Open Junior Championships, Duval reached the singles missing much of the spring and summer of 2011 due to injury, she semifinals. She formerly trained at the USTA Certified Regional managed to reach the quarterfinals at three events, including the Training Center in Atlanta, and members of the club helped save $50,000 events in Troy, Ala., and Raleigh, N.C. As a junior player, her father, a doctor in Port-au-Prince, who was injured in the 2010 Rogers won the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships to earn earthquake in Haiti. a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 US Open for her first appearance in a Grand Slam (in the either main draw or the juniors). *Player field subject to change Tournament Notes

Sachia Vickery, 17, from Hollywood, Fla., is ranked No. 375. Vickery but Stevenson rebounded to climb back into the Top 200 in 2009, reached the doubles semifinals of the 2012 Wimbledon juniors and advancing to the final at the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., for her advanced to the third round of the 2012 US Open juniors. She is best result on the USTA Pro Circuit since winning Midland in 1998. currently ranked No. 24 in the ITF World Junior Rankings and has Stevenson is the daughter of basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving. worked with Richard Williams, Venus’ and Serena’s father. In Midland’s 25-year history, only four players have won multiple 1998 Midland singles champion , 32, from San titles – Lucie Hradecka (2009, 2011), (2005, 2008), Diego, is ranked No. 527. She first made waves in pro tennis more Jill Craybas (2004, 2007) and Canada’s Helen Kelesi, the only player than a decade ago, when she became the first female qualifier in to successfully defend the Midland singles title (1991-92). The Wimbledon history to reach the semifinals (in 1999). She was ranked United States leads all nations with nine singles titles. The United in the year-end Top 100 each year from 1999 to 2003, peaking at States also has 14 runner-up finishes at Midland. No. 18 in 2002. Injuries drove her rankings into the 600s in 2005, *Player field subject to change

midland Past WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Prize Money Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2012 $100,000 (BLR) Magdelena Rybarikova (SVK) 2012 Lucie Hradecka / Andrea Hlavackova 2011 $100,000 Lucie Hradecka (CZE) Irina Falconi (USA) 2011 / 2010 $100,000 (GBR) Lucie Hradecka (CZE) 2010 Lucie Hradecka / Laura Granville 2009 $75,000 Lucie Hradecka (CZE) (GRE) 2009 Yi Chen / 2008 $75,000 Laura Granville (USA) (USA) 2008 / Ashley Harkleroad 2007 $75,000 Jill Craybas (USA) Laura Granville (USA) 2007 Laura Granville / 2006 $75,000 Maria Emilia Salerni (ARG) Vasilia Bardina (RUS) 2006 / 2005 $75,000 Laura Granville (USA) Yoon Jeong Cho (KOR) 2005 Yulia Beygelzimer / Kelly McCain 2004 $75,000 Jill Craybas (USA) Nicole Vaidisova (CZE) 2004 / Asa Svensson 2003 $75,000 (GER) Laura Granville (USA) 2003 / Abigail Spears 2002 $75,000 Li Na (CHN) (USA) 2002 / Elena Tatarkova 2001 $75,000 Yoon Jeong Cho (KOR) (USA) 2001 Yvette Basting / Elena Tatarkova 2000 $75,000 (AUS) Yuka Yoshida (JPN) 2000 Nannie de Villers / 1999 $75,000 (LUX) Tara Snyder (USA) 1999 Liezel Horn / Samantha Smith 1998 $50,000 Alexandra Stevenson (USA) (USA) 1998 / Kerry-Anne Guse 1997 $50,000 (USA) Meilen Tu (USA) 1997 / Nana Miyagi 1996 $50,000 Anna Kournikova (RUS) Lindsay Lee (USA) 1996 Angela Lettiere / 1995 $25,000 Chanda Rubin (USA) Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (NED) 1995 Chanda Rubin / Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 1994 $25,000 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (NED) Meredith McGrath (USA) 1994 Erica Adams / Jeri Ingram 1993 $25,000 Ros Nideffer (USA) (USA) 1993 / Meredith McGrath 1992 $25,000 Helen Kelesi (CAN) Clair Wegink (NED) 1992 / Meredith McGrath 1991 $25,000 Helen Kelesi (CAN) Meredith McGrath (USA) 1991 Meredith McGrath / 1990 $25,000 Linda Ferrando (ITA) (FRA) 1990 Alissa Finnerman / Lisa Seemann 1989 $25,000 (USA) Meredith McGrath (USA) 1989 Il-Soon Kim / Jeong-Myung Lee 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. , Maria Sharapova, , , , Victoria early on, increasing the likelihood that kids will return to the Azarenka and 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 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 age 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 14+ and of all skill levels. Last year, the spring, she won back-to-back tournaments at the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and more than 1,200 players competed in the $25,000 tournament in Raleigh, N.C. She competed in qualifying in Emirates Airline US Open Series 13 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments events throughout the summer and qualified in Stanford, Calif. Min, who trains at the USTA Training Center nationwide for a 2012 US Open Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., entered the Top 200 for the first time in her career in 2012, climbing Qualifying Tournament wild card. A nearly 250 spots in the rankings by year’s end. mixed doubles element also was held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed doubles wild PLAYER DEVELOPMENT card. Clement Reix, a 28-year-old Frenchman living in Reno, Nev., won the US Open National Playoffs men’s title and USTA Pro Circuit The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions regular , 24, of Abington, PA, won the women’s by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need wild card for the second time in three years. and to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center Brian Battistone won the mixed doubles tournament. Information Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as for the 2013 US Open National Playoffs will be released in the well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. coming months.