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Tournament Notes TOURNAMENT NOTES as of April 28, 2015 REVOLUTION TECHNOLOGIES PRO TENNIS CLASSIC INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH, FL • MAY 3-10 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 French Open. 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 Wild Card 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 2015 French Open. 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 Taylor Townsend 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. Grace Min 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, Austria, 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 Australian Open 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 Grand Slam 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 Argentina, alongside sisters Serena and Venus Williams. 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 Gretchen Rush in 1982. Also in 2012, Townsend Katerina Stewart, 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 Clay Court 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- Rio Open 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 Louisa Chirico, 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 Anna Tatishvili, who advanced through three rounds of qualifying at in three WTA events. Also in 2013, Sanchez made her Grand Slam the 2015 Australian Open 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 Canada’s and at No. 59 in doubles in May 2012. Her best Grand Slam result Sharon Fichman for the crown in Auckland, New Zealand. 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.
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