TournamenT noTes as of september 20, 2010 AMELIA ISLAND WOMEN’S $10K AMELIA ISLAND, FL • SEPTEMBER 26–OCTOBER 3 PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S TENNIS RETURNS TO AMELIA ISLAND TournamenT InFormaTIon The Amelia Island Women’s $10K debuts in 2010, one year after the city adopted a USTA Pro Circuit men’s futures event. Amelia Cynthia Lum Site: Amelia Island Plantation – Amelia Island, Fla. Island played host to a Sony Ericsson WTA Website: procircuit.usta.com Tour event from 1980 through 2008, with Maria Sharapova winning the very last Bausch Qualifying draw begins: Sunday, September 26 & Lomb Championships. The Amelia Island Main draw begins: Tuesday, September 28 Women’s $10K is the seventh and final USTA Pro Circuit women’s event in Florida this year. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Surface: Clay / Outdoor This year’s main draw is expected to feature 15-year-old Madison Keys, who burst onto Prize Money: $10,000 the scene less than two months after turning Tournament Director: 14 when she took a wild card into the Sony Kelly Gunterman, (802) 345-9842 Ericsson WTA Tour event in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and, in her tour-level debut, Fifteen-year-old Madison Keys won her first
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