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as of April 28, 2015

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USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S EVENT RETURNS TO INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH AND CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY The Revolution Technologies Pro Tennis

Classic celebrates its 10th anniversary in USTA Indian Harbour Beach this year. It is one of TOURNAMENT eight USTA Pro Circuit women’s events held INFORMATION in Florida in 2015 and one of 12 consecutive Site: Kiwi Tennis Club – Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. clay-court tournaments held during this season’s USTA Pro Circuit clay-court swing to Websites: www.kiwitennisclub.com help prepare players for the . In procircuit.usta.com conjunction with USTA Player Development, Facebook: Kiwi Tennis Club the USTA Pro Circuit continues to emphasize the importance of increased training for Challenge Twitter: #HarTruWildCard younger players on clay. Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, May 3 Indian Harbour Beach is the last of three Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, May 5 consecutive women’s clay-court tournaments Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles (joining $50,000 events in Dothan, Ala., Surface: Clay / Outdoor and Charlottesville, Va.) that are part of the Har-Tru Wild Card Challenge, which will Prize Money: $50,000 award one men’s and one women’s wild card Tournament Director: into the . Along with Kelly Camirand, (321) 544-8076 these three women’s tournaments, the men’s [email protected] tournaments in the challenge were the 2015 Sarasota Open in Sarasota, Fla., the week of Tournament Press Contact: April 13; the St. Joseph’s/Candler Savannah Richard Stroman, (321) 536-0159 Challenger in Savannah, Ga., the week of [email protected] April 20; and the USTA Tallahassee Tennis Defending Indian Harbour Beach singles and USTA Communications Contact: Challenger in Tallahassee, Fla., the week of doubles champion won last Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] April 27. year’s Har-Tru Wild Card Challenge, earning a wild card into the French Open, where she PRIZE MONEY / POINTS The American man and American woman advanced to the third round. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points who earn the most ATP and WTA ranking Winner $7,600 70 points at two of the three USTA Pro Circuit the French Open are eligible for the wild Runner-up $4,053 50 clay-court events will receive USTA wild cards. The USTA and the French Tennis Semifinalist $2,216 32 cards to compete in their respective main Federation have a reciprocal agreement in Quarterfinalist $1,267 18 draws at the French Open, which runs which wild cards into the 2015 French Open Round of 16 $760 10 Sunday, May 24, to Sunday, June 7. Only and 2015 US Open are exchanged. Round of 32 $444 1 players who do not receive direct entry into DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) This tournament will be streamed live on

Winner $2,786 USTA www.procircuit.usta.com. Runner-up $1,393 Semifinalist $696 To follow the tournament, download the Quarterfinalist $380 USTA Pro Circuit’s new phone app by Round of 16 $254 searching “procircuit” in the app store. COMMUNITY EVENTS Sunday, May 3 Mike Cherry High School Skills Competition, 12:00 p.m. 2012 Indian Harbour Beach singles champion Kids’ Day, 3:00-5:00 p.m. earned a career-high ranking of Tuesday, May 5 – Aces for Autism, 4:30-5:30 p.m. No. 97 in the world in March. Last year, she reached the semifinals of the WTA event in Bad Thursday, May 7 – Ladies Day. Gastein, , for her first-ever WTA semifinal. Saturday, May 9 10th Year Anniversary Celebration Soiree *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES

Notable players competing in the main draw include: competed in the US Open and the main draws in her young career. She earned a main draw wild card into the 2014 Defending singles and doubles champion Taylor Townsend, whose Australian Open by winning the USTA’s Australian Open Wild Card victory in Indian Harbour Beach last year helped her win the Har-Tru Playoffs against other up-and-coming Americans. She also competed USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge and clinch a wild card into in qualifying for the US Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 2014, the French Open. She became one of the stories of Week 1 at the and she reached the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open French Open, making her tournament main draw debut Series event in Stanford, Calif., last summer—her career-best WTA and advancing to the third round. Townsend earned the French Open result. In 2013, Vickery won the USTA National Girls’ 18s singles wild card by winning the singles titles in Charlottesville and Indian and doubles titles, earning wild cards into the main draws of the Harbour Beach—the first two USTA Pro Circuit titles of her career. women’s singles and doubles events at the 2013 US Open. At the She subsequently competed in the main draw last year at Wimbledon Open, she won her first-round match in her Grand Slam debut, and the US Open, and extended her streak of consecutive Grand Slam defeating Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in straight sets. As a junior, Vickery tournament appearances to four earlier this year with her main draw ascended to No. 6 in the ITF World Junior Rankings, competing in debut in the Australian Open. Also this year, Townsend made her Fed all four junior Grand Slam tournaments and reaching the doubles Cup debut, competing for the United States in the World Group II First semifinals of junior Wimbledon in 2012. She trains with the Round in , alongside sisters Serena and . USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training Center Townsend is a former junior standout. She clinched the year-end ITF Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. No. 1 junior ranking in 2012 to become the first American girl to hold that position since in 1982. Also in 2012, Townsend , 17, who reached the final of the $50,000 event in won four Grand Slam tournament junior titles (Australian Open junior Dothan, Ala., mere days ago to move into second place in the Har-Tru singles and doubles, as well as junior doubles at Wimbledon and the Wild Card Challenge (as of April 27). Earlier this year, she won USTA US Open) and led the United States to the 2012 Junior Fed Cup Pro Circuit singles titles at the $10,000 event in Gainesville, Fla., championship. Townsend turned pro at the start of 2013 and, in her and the $25,000 event in Palm Harbor, Fla., the fourth and fifth WTA debut, beat then-No. 57 Lucie Hradecka in the first round in professional singles crowns of her career, as well as the doubles title Indian Wells, Calif. at the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Sunrise, Fla. Last year, Stewart won the USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships 2012 singles champion Grace Min, who rose to a career-best No. 97 in Memphis, capping a 34-match winning streak in junior and pro in the world in March after reaching the second round of the WTA’s matches, during which she won three USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 clay- and competing in Indian Wells. Last year, Min reached the court events (Orlando, Fla.; Bethany Beach, Del.; and Charlotte, N.C.). semifinals of the WTA event in Bad Gastein, Austria—her first-ever She was awarded a wild card into qualifying at the 2014 US Open WTA semifinal. She also competed in the US Open and French Open and won her first-round qualifying match over Yuliya Beygelizimer, a main draws in 2014, surviving three rounds of qualifying at Roland former Top 100 player. Stewart also played in the women’s doubles Garros. In 2013, she qualified for the French Open—her first main main draw at the 2014 US Open with , falling in the draw Grand Slam tournament appearance outside the United States— first round. An accomplished player on all surfaces, Stewart also as well as the US Open. She owns five USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, was the USTA Girls’ 16s national hard court champion in 2013. Her with two titles coming in 2014. Min was one of the top juniors in the mother, Marina, was an Argentine WTA pro. world in 2011, when she won the US Open girls’ singles title and the Wimbledon girls’ doubles title. She also reached the singles semifinals 2012 singles finalistMaria Sanchez, who peaked at No. 107 in the at the Easter Bowl and the USTA International Spring Championships. world in July 2013 behind strong results on the USTA Pro Circuit and Those results propelled her to No. 4 in the world junior rankings. the WTA tour. She started that year by reaching the quarterfinals of the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, Mich., and competing , who advanced through three rounds of qualifying at in three WTA events. Also in 2013, Sanchez made her Grand Slam the and reached the second round of the main tournament main draw debut as a wild card at the US Open. In draw. She peaked at No. 50 in the world in singles in October 2012 2014, she won her first WTA doubles title, teaming with ’s and at No. 59 in doubles in May 2012. Her best Grand Slam result for the crown in , . Thus far came at the 2012 US Open, where she reached the fourth round in her career, Sanchez has won two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, before falling to former world No. 1 . Tatishvili won both in 2012, and eight USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles, including her first WTA doubles title last year in , Austria. She has also won the title at the $50,000 event in Dothan, Ala., last month. Also this eight USTA Pro Circuit singles titles (including two in 2014) and three year, she reached the singles final of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit ITF Circuit singles titles in her career. As a junior player, Tatishvili event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., losing to up-and-coming young climbed as high as No. 19 in the ITF World Junior Rankings and American CiCi Bellis. As a junior player, Sanchez was ranked No. 1 reached the doubles semifinals at the 2006 junior Australian Open in the U.S. as a 16-year-old and No. 4 in the country as an 18-year- with . Tatishvili is a native of the former Soviet old. She also was the No. 1-ranked collegian and an ITA All-American republic of Georgia; she became a U.S. citizen in April 2014. at USC, winning the 2011 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship singles title. , who won the first USTA Pro Circuit singles titles of her career earlier this year at the $25,000 Florida events in Plantation , who qualified for and reached the quarterfinals of and Sunrise. She also reached the quarterfinals at the $100,000 the WTA event in Monterrey, Mexico, in April 2014, her career- USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, Mich., and the second round best WTA result. In addition, following the 2014 US Open, she at the WTA premier mandatory event in Indian Wells, Calif., to rise reached the quarterfinals or better at three $50,000 USTA Pro to a career-best No. 137 in the world. The 19-year-old has already Circuit events. Boserup has competed in qualifying for the US Open

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and the Australian Open, and she has won two USTA Pro Circuit Two-time Indian Harbour Beach singles champion and 2006 doubles singles titles—the $25,000 event in Redding, Calif., in 2011 and champion Edina Gallovits-Hall, a native Romanian who recently the $25,000 event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., in 2012, which became a U.S. citizen. Gallovits-Hall peaked at No. 54 in the world precipitated her rise to a career-best singles ranking of No. 174. in singles in April 2008 and at No. 63 in doubles in April 2009. She Boserup was also a standout junior, winning the prestigious Orange has won matches in each of the four Grand Slam tournaments and Bowl in 2008, defeating future U.S. Olympian Christina McHale in reached her lone WTA singles final in 2007 in . She has won the final. three WTA doubles titles and has represented in Fed Cup. She won her first ITF Circuit singles and doubles titles in 2000 and , who won the 2012 US Open girls’ singles title. has consistently been competing on the USTA Pro Circuit. Crawford also qualified for the women’s singles main draw of the US Open that year. At 6-foot-2, Crawford’s big and aggressive Players competing in qualifying include: baseline game helped her rise to No. 5 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2012. This year, she won the fourth USTA Pro Circuit , who played in just one tournament last year after doubles title of her career, prevailing in the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit having knee surgery. Pegula achieved a career breakthrough in 2013 event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and in singles, she reached the final after qualifying for and reaching the third round of the WTA event in at the $25,000 event in Plantation, Fla., and the quarterfinals at Charleston, S.C. She also qualified for the WTA events in Shenzhen, both the $50,000 event in Dothan, Ala., and the $25,000 event in , and Washington, D.C., climbing to a career-best No. 123 in the Daytona Beach, Fla. world rankings. This year, Pegula again qualified for the WTA event in Charleston, S.C., and reached the quarterfinals of the $50,000 USTA , who survived two rounds of qualifying in the BNP Pro Circuit event in Dothan, Ala. She has enjoyed even greater success Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., in March 2014 and in doubles, competing in the US Open doubles main draw in 2011 subsequently rose to No. 155 in the world. After achieving a and 2012 and peaking at No. 92 in the world in the doubles rankings career-high ranking of No. 136 last September, Kiick did not in February 2013. Pegula’s father, Terry, is the owner of the NHL’s compete again until December because of a knee injury. During her Buffalo Sabres and the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. comeback, she once again competed in qualifying in Indian Wells this past March and reached the semifinals of the $25,000 USTA , 16, who ranked as high as No. 3 in the ITF Pro Circuit event in Palm Harbor, Fla. Kiick turned pro in 2013 and World Junior Rankings in 2014. Black advanced to the final of the improved her ranking nearly 100 spots through her results on the girls’ singles event at the 2013 US Open Junior Championships. USTA Pro Circuit. That year, she won the second USTA Pro Circuit Immediately following that US Open, she won her first pro title at singles title of her career at the $10,000 event in Gainesville, Fla., the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Amelia Island, Fla., and and reached the final of the $50,000 event in Charlottesville, Va. later reached the singles quarterfinals and won the doubles title In the junior ranks, Kiick was a finalist in the 2013 USTA Girls’ 18 at the prestigious . In 2014, Black reached the girls’ National Championships singles event and won the doubles title singles quarterfinals at Wimbledon and the US Open and the doubles with Sachia Vickery, allowing her to make her Grand Slam main semifinals at the French Open. She also won her second USTA Pro draw debut in the 2013 US Open women’s doubles event. Kiick is Circuit singles title, at the $10,000 event in Evansville, Ind., and led the daughter of Jim Kiick, a running back on the undefeated 1972 the United States to the 2014 Junior Fed Cup title in San Luis Potosi, Miami Dolphins. Her mother, Mary Johnson, is a former professional Mexico. She has played in just one USTA Pro Circuit event this year. softball player. Allie has spent time training at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and with former Grand , 34, who drew international attention in 1999 by Slam tournament finalist . becoming the first female qualifier in Wimbledon history to reach the women’s singles semifinals. She was ranked in the year-end Top 100 , who played collegiately for the University of North each year from 1999 to 2003, peaking at No. 18 in 2002. Injuries Carolina, where she received All-America honors and, in 2010, drove her ranking into the 600s in 2005, but Stevenson rebounded helped lead the Tar Heels to their first NCAA team semifinals. In to climb back into the Top 200 in 2009, advancing to the final at the 2013, Marand captured her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title, $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., for her best result winning at the $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas. She also has won on the USTA Pro Circuit since 1998. She is the daughter of basketball eight USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles, including the $25,000 event Hall-of-Famer Julius Erving. in Daytona Beach, Fla., earlier this year. She competed in Europe last spring, winning one ITF Circuit doubles title in and advancing to , who won five doubles titles on the USTA Pro an additional final in . As a junior player, Marand reached Circuit in 2013 and owns 13 USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles overall, the doubles final at the 2006 Easter Bowl with fellow American including three from 2014. She also has won four USTA Pro Circuit . singles titles. In July 2013, Mueller qualified in singles for the WTA event in Washington, D.C.; she also reached the doubles quarterfinals , who won five ITF Circuit singles titles and three in Washington. Mueller is a two-time winner of the US Open National doubles titles during the 2013 and 2014 seasons. This year, she Playoffs, earning wild cards into the US Open Qualifying Tournament reached the quarterfinals of the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in in 2010 and 2012. Midland, Mich., and the $25,000 event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Pera made her WTA debut at the 2014 US Open, having received , who goes by the nickname “Chi Chi” and won her first a wild card with American Tornado Alicia Black into the women’s singles titles on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2011 at the $50,000 event doubles event. Pera also competed in the junior US Open in 2012. in Lexington, Ky., and the $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas. Those Pera was born in but plays for the United States. results jump-started her career, and she peaked at No. 164 in the world in singles in October 2011. She has competed in qualifying

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at all four Grand Slam tournaments. Last year, Scholl reached the champion and 2008 singles runner-up, reached the fourth round of quarterfinals or better at two USTA Pro Circuit doubles events. Wimbledon seven weeks after her 2008 success at Indian Harbour Beach. She peaked at No. 30 in the world in singles in July 2011 and has also had great success in doubles—she rose to a career-best No. 11 in doubles in April 2011 and has won 14 WTA Tour doubles Many past and current WTA standouts have found success in Indian titles, including the women’s doubles title at the Australian Open Harbour Beach. this year. Mattek-Sands also won the Australian Open mixed doubles title in 2012. 2011 singles runner-up won her first WTA singles title in 2014 in Tianjin, China, and rose to a career-best No. 40 last 2009 singles champion used her result in Indian June. She also made her debut on the U.S. Fed Cup team in 2014 Harbour Beach as a springboard to success at Wimbledon and the in the World Group Quarterfinal in Cleveland against Italy, where she US Open later that year. She defeated former world No. 1 Jelena played singles. She also played doubles with in last Jankovic to reach the fourth round at the All England Club and month’s Fed Cup World Group Playoff in Italy. Riske gained world beat multiple Grand Slam tournament champion attention in 2013 after advancing to the fourth round of the US Open, en route to the quarterfinals in Flushing Meadows. Oudin peaked where she defeated reigning Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in at No. 31 in the world in singles in April 2010 but has struggled the third round, on the heels of a successful season that with injuries and inconsistency in the years that followed. Oudin included reaching the third round at Wimbledon. Riske advanced to announced in November 2013 that she was suffering from the third round of the , upsetting No. 23 seed rhabdomyolysis, a muscle-damaging condition, and took time in the first round, and returned to the third round at off to deal with it. Last year, she revealed that she had a form of Wimbledon later in the year. arrhythmia, which required surgery, and last month, she revealed that she needed a second procedure. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, the 2007 Indian Harbour Beach singles *Player field subject to change

INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2014 Taylor Townsend (USA) (KAZ) 2014 Taylor Townsend (USA) – (USA) 2013 (SLO) (BUL) 2013 Louisa Chirico (USA) – Jan Abaza (USA) 2012 Grace Min (USA) (USA) 2012 Maria-Fernanda Alves (BRA) – (AUS) 2011 (HUN) Alison Riske (USA) 2011 (UKR) – Lenka Wienerova (SVK) 2010 Edina Gallovits-Hall (ROU) (USA) 2010 (USA) – (USA) 2009 Melanie Oudin (USA) (GER) 2009 Heidi El Tabahk (CAN) – (AUT) 2008 (BEL) Bethanie Mattek (USA) 2008 (USA) – (USA) 2007 Bethanie Mattek (USA) (BLR) 2007 (AUS) – (USA) 2006 Edina Gallovits-Hall (ROU) Rosana de Los Rios (PAR) 2006 Edina Gallovits-Hall (ROU) – (USA) TOURNAMENT NOTES

USTA PRO CIRCUIT YOUTH TENNIS With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging The USTA is making it easier and more fun for kids to get into from $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 the game—and stay in the game. Kids are learning to play its Pro Circuit in 1979 to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and faster than ever before through the USTA’s youth initiative, it has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly which is geared toward getting more kids to participate in $3 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. Victoria Azarenka, , , , Kei tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a child’s Nishikori, , Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki are among today’s top stars who size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com. began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit.

More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped further the careers of two young NJTL Americans— and . In her first full season as a Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, along with Charlie Pasarell professional after capturing back-to-back and Sheridan Snyder, the USTA/National & NCAA singles championships in 2012 and Learning (NJTL) network is a nationwide group of more than

2013, Gibbs won the women’s USTA Pro A. Clary/Getty Images Timothy Circuit US Open Wild Card Challenge in 625 non-profit youth development organizations that provide 2014. After claiming the title at the $50,000 free or low-cost tennis, education and life skills programming USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., to more than 350,000 children each year. Celebrating its Gibbs clinched the US Open wild card 45th anniversary this year, NJTL is one of the USTA’s largest by advancing to the final of the $50,000 community-based offerings. tournament in Lexington, Ky., her last USTA Pro Circuit event of the season. Gibbs went on to reach the third round at the US Open, scoring a pair of Top 50 victories along the US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS way. Two weeks after the US Open, as a qualifier at , she reached her first WTA Nicole Gibbs The USTA launched the US Open quarterfinal, which boosted her into the National Playoffs in 2010, WTA Top 100 for the first time. Gibbs earned making the US Open “open” the second-most WTA ranking points of any to anyone age 14+ and of all American playing the USTA Pro Circuit in 2014. Kozlov, runner-up in 2014 at the junior championships of the Australian Open and Wimbledon, reached the final of the Sacramento Challenger last October at age skill levels. Last year, more 16, becoming the youngest American to reach a Challenger final since in 1986. That result than 1,200 players competed vaulted Kozlov to No. 443 in the world, making him the youngest player in the ATP World Tour Top 500. He in 13 Sectional Qualifying concluded 2014 by sweeping the singles and doubles titles at the prestigious Orange Bowl Junior Tennis Tournaments nationwide for Championships, locking down a No. 3 junior world ranking. a 2014 US Open Qualifying Tournament wild card. A mixed doubles element also was PLAYER DEVELOPMENT held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed doubles wild card. This year, players can again compete in The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions singles and mixed doubles, but also will have the chance by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need to play in the new men’s and women’s doubles competition to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center to earn main draw doubles wild cards. Registration for all Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as divisions opens on March 15. For more information and the well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. complete schedule, visit www.usopen.org/NationalPlayoffs.