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as of February 7, 2010

DOW CORNING CLASSIC MIDLAND, MI • FEBRUARY 7–14, 2010

DOW CORNING TENNIS CLASSIC ENTERS 22ND YEAR AND BECOMES TOURNAMENT FIRST-EVER $100,000 WOMEN’S EVENT ON THE USTA PRO CIRCUIT INFORMATION Top players converging on Midland, Mich., include defending singles champion Site: Midland Community Tennis Center Lucie Hradecka and former world No. 7 Nicole Vaidisova Midland, Mich. Now in its 22nd year, the Dow Corning Tennis Websites: dowcorningtennisclassic.com Classic is the longest consecutive running procircuit.usta.com women’s event on the USTA Pro Circuit. The event is considered the marquee women’s Qualifying draw begins: Sunday, February 7 tournament on the USTA Pro Circuit, attracting more than 15,000 fans each year.

Main draw begins: Tuesday, February 9 The USTA Pro Circuit is the gateway to tennis Mustafa Ozer/Getty Images stardom and the Dow Corning Tennis Classic Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles is truly emblematic of that. Four singles champions played in the event early Surface: Hard / Indoor in their careers, along with 13 Grand Slam doubles / mixed doubles champions. The Prize Money: $100,000 most notable Midland alumni include , a seven-time Grand Slam champion Executive Director: and Olympic gold medal winner; Maria Mike Woody, (989) 631-6151 ext. 101 Sharapova and , each of whom [email protected] has won multiple Grand Slam singles titles; 2004 champion Anastasia Assistant Tournament Director: Myskina; and , a two-time Ryan Boyer, (989) 631-6151 ext. 104 Grand Slam women’s doubles champion. [email protected] Defending Midland singles champion Lucie The tournament began in 1989 at the Hradecka enters Midland as the top-ranked $25,000 level and seven years later became player in the 2010 draw. Tournament Press Contact: one of five USTA Pro Circuit tournaments to Joshua Rey, (786) 554-5667 raise its prize money as part of the “Women’s [email protected] $50,000 Challenger Series” in 1996. Three Throughout the week, the Midland years later, in 1999, prize money was raised Community Tennis Center offers a variety

USTA Communications Contacts: again, this time to $75,000. Midland now of daily interactive events for community Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] stands as the first and only $100,000 members of many different ages and skill Kristen Clonan, (914) 697-2262, [email protected] women’s event on the USTA Pro Circuit levels, including “pros to schools / schools calendar. to matches” day, kids fun day and an at-risk Prize money / points youth program, along with opportunities to meet and ask questions of the players. (Please visit dowcorningtennisclassic.com SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points for a full schedule of events.) Also, VIP Winner $15,200 140 packages, club seats and group rates are Runner-Up $8,107 100 available in addition to general admission Semifinalist $4,433 70 tickets. Daily sessions are $12 for adults Quarterfinalist $2,533 36 Robert Cianflone/Getty Images and $8 for juniors. For further ticket or sponsorship information, please contact Round 16 $1,520 18 Assistant Tournament Director Ryan Boyer Round 32 $887 1 at the Midland Tennis Club.

Prize Money (per team) DOUBLES: of , formerly ranked Winner $5,573 No. 14 in the world, has five career Sony Runner-Up $2,787 Ericsson WTA Tour singles titles and has reached the third round in each of the Semifinalist $1,393 four Grand Slams. Quarterfinalist $760 Round 16 $507 Tournament Notes

This year’s Midland main draw field includes Former world No. 28 , 28, of defending singles champion Lucie Hradecka, , using a protected ranking of two-time Midland singles champion Laura No. 84 to gain entry into the main draw, is Granville, and Eleni Daniilidou, winner of currently ranked No. 286. Granville owns five Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles titles. the protected ranking after missing nearly a Former world No. 7 player Nicole Vaidisova is year to injury. She returned in March 2009 also among the talent scheduled to compete and won the first event in her comeback, the Dima Korotayev/Getty Images in the main draw. $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Redding, Calif. She also won the $10,000 event in FEATURED PLAYERS SCHEDULED TO COMPETE Landisville, Pa., and reached the semifinals IN THE MAIN DRAW INCLUDE: at the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., Defending Midland singles champion Lucie where she won the doubles title. Granville Hradecka, 24, of the , is the has advanced to the third round or better at top-ranked player at No. 64 in the world. A all four Grand Slams, including the fourth fixture in the doubles Top 100 since 2005, round at Wimbledon in 2002 and 2007, and she enjoyed her finest season in singles the third round of the 2005 US Open. She in 2009 after winning the Midland title. is the only player to win consecutive USTA Hradecka reached the final at the Sony Girls’ 18s titles (1998-99) and NCAA singles Ericsson WTA Tour event in Strasbourg titles (2000-01 at Stanford University). She (), advanced to the second round at holds 14 career USTA Pro Circuit titles (nine the French Open and reached the final at singles), including Midland, Mich., in both Former world No. 7 and 2004 Midland singles finalist Nicole Vaidisova has been a tour-level in Turkey. In 2008, she 2005 and 2008. semifinalist at both the won six doubles titles, including two on the 2009 Midland singles semifinalistKatie and French Open. WTA Tour (, Czech Republic, and Bad O’Brien, 21, of Great Britain, is ranked Gastein, ). No. 84. She advanced to the second round Valerie Tetreault, 22, of Saint Jean sur , 20, of Long Beach, Calif., is at the Australian Open in January and at Richelieu, Canada, is ranked No. 122. She ranked No. 73. She has played primarily on Wimbledon in 2007. She has competed drove her ranking up nearly 300 places in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in recent years. in the main draw at Wimbledon every year 2009 by winning three USTA Pro Circuit She swept the singles and doubles titles at the since 2004. O’Brien also reached the junior singles titles—$50,000 events in Carson, tour event in in 2006 to finish the quarterfinals of doubles at Wimbledon in Calif., and Grapevine, Texas, and a $25,000 year ranked No. 50. In 2008, she reached 2004. event in El Paso, Texas. She also reached the quarterfinals of the Olympus US Open 2004 Midland doubles champion Sofia the doubles final in Grapevine with American Series event in Cincinnati, and last year she Arvidsson, 25, of , is ranked No. Kimberly Couts. Tetreault qualified for the advanced to the third round of the US Open 105. Arvidsson reached a career high of 2009 US Open, her first Grand Slam event, (defeating current world No. 15 Samantha No. 29 in 2006 after advancing to the extending then-No. 46 Magdalena Rybarikova Stosur in the second round). King has third round at the Australian Open and to three sets in the first round. In 2006, at competed in all four Grand Slams in singles she has finished in the Top 100 in three of age 18, Tetreault played in her first Sony and doubles, reaching the final of the mixed the past four years. (She was No. 102 in Ericsson WTA Tour event in Quebec City. doubles at the with 2007.) In 2008, Arvidsson went 6-1 in Fed . In women’s doubles, she has Cup play (4-0 in singles) and reached the , 31, of Aliso Viejo, Calif., is twice reached the round of 16 at the US second round at the US Open, stretching ranked No. 126. She has been competing on Open (2007, 2009), and she advanced to eventual finalist Jelena Jankovic to three the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour for more than the quarterfinals at 2009 Wimbledon. King sets in defeat. Arvidsson also reached the a decade, finishing in the year-end Top 100 has won eight tour-level doubles titles and quarterfinals at the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour from 1999 to 2001, and again in 2007. has also been a regular contributor to the event in Memphis, and the second round at She reached a career-high No. 41 in April U.S. Fed Cup team, making her singles the 2008 Olympic Games and at tour-level 2001 after advancing to the fourth round at debut in the 2006 World Group semifinals events in Miami and Indian Wells. Wimbledon and the US Open in 2000. On against ’s . the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, Osterloh has Former Top 50 player , advanced to the singles semifinals in three , 26, of Great Britain (born 22, of , is ranked No. 115. She has events and has captured two doubles titles. in Kiev, ), is ranked No. 83. She won 35 career ITF circuit titles (15 singles), She has reached seven USTA Pro Circuit advanced to the third round at the 2010 and a doubles title on the Sony Ericsson singles finals since 1996, taking the title at Australian Open before losing to world WTA Tour in 2009 in , . the $75,000 event in Pittsburgh in 2005 No. 2 . Baltacha also reached Niculescu has reached the second round and the $50,000 event in Waikoloa, Hawaii, the third round at the 2005 Australian Open of both the Australian Open (2009) and in 2006. Osterloh also owns seven USTA and 2002 Wimbledon. She has amassed 11 Wimbledon (2008). Pro Circuit doubles titles. She is one of just career ITF circuit titles (seven singles). four women to have won both the NCAA singles title (Stanford) and USTA Girls’ 18s Championships. Tournament Notes

Winner of five Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles Former world No. 7 and 2004 Midland , 17, of Great Britain, is titles, Eleni Daniilidou, 26, of Greece, is singles finalistNicole Vaidisova, 20, of ranked No. 556. The No. 3 junior player in ranked No. 161. Ranked as high as No. 14 in Prague, Czech Republic, is ranked No. 192. the world at the end of 2009, she won the the world (May 2003), she also has one Sony She was a Top 20 player for 140 consecutive girls’ singles title at the 2009 US Open and Ericsson WTA Tour doubles title. Daniilidou weeks from October 2005 to June 2008. the girls’ doubles title at the 2009 French has reached the third round of each Grand She has been a semifinalist at the Australian Open. Watson also won her first pro title in Slam and the fourth round at all but Roland Open (2007) and the French Open (2006), 2009 at a $10,000 ITF-level event in Great Garros. She also reached the mixed doubles as well as a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon Britain. She trains in Florida. final of the with (2007-08). Her best result at the US Open partner . Daniilidou has came in 2005, when she reached the round Beatrice Capra, 17, of Ellicot City, Md., is played both in Fed Cup and on the Olympic of 16. Vaidisova owns six Sony Ericsson WTA ranked No. 726 and currently competing team for her native Greece. A ruptured tendon Tour titles, including Vancouver in 2004 at in the qualifying draw. Capra won her first in her knee in April 2008 cost her most age 15. She also is one of the youngest-ever professional singles title in October 2009 of the summer and ultimately dropped her champions on the USTA Pro Circuit (14 at the USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 event in ranking considerably. Daniilidou came back to years, 9 months, Columbus, Ohio). Williamsburg, Va. On the junior level, she reach the singles final at Midland in 2009. reached the girls’ singles quarterfinals at Courtney Dolehide, 17, of Hinsdale, Ill., is the 2009 US Open and the girls’ doubles , 25, of Victorville, Calif., is ranked No. 475. She reached her first pro semifinals at Wimbledon. Capra, the top- ranked No. 168. She found success at the final at the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event ranked player in the USTA Girls’ 18s Grand Slams in the early stages of her career, in Wichita, Kan., in 2009. On the junior national standings for much of last year, also advancing to the third round of the 2004 circuit, Dolehide took third place in singles won the USTA Girls’ 18s Spring National US Open and taking a set from Serena and doubles at the 2008 USTA Girls’ 18s Championships and reached the semifinals at Williams in the first round at Wimbledon in National Winter Championships and was also the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships. 2005. In 2009, she reached the third round featured on ESPNRise.com, an ESPN website In 2008, she won the ITF Pan American at Indian Wells and also qualified for the celebrating high school athletics. Closed Championships and was a finalist Olympus US Open Series event in Stanford, at the USTA Girls’ 18s National Calif., and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event , 20, of Auburn, Ala., is Championships. She also reached the in Charleston, S.C. Also last year, Haynes ranked No. 488. She won her first career semifinals at the $10,000 event in won a round in qualifying at the French Open USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the $10,000 and won doubles titles at $10,000 events, in and Wimbledon, and advanced to the final event in Cleveland in October 2009. Sumter, S.C., and Southlake, Texas. round of qualifying at the US Open. Haynes Hampton reached the final of the $25,000 holds seven career USTA Pro Circuit doubles event in Lutz, Fla., this past January. She won In Midland’s 20-year history, only three titles, along with two singles titles. In 2008, doubles titles at the USTA Girls’ 18s National players have won multiple titles—Laura she advanced to the semifinals of tour-level Championships in 2007 and 2008. Granville (2005, 2008), (2004, 2007) and Canada’s , the only Quebec City as a qualifier (falling to then- Jacqueline Cako, 18, of Brier, Wash., is world No. 11 ). player to successfully defend the Midland ranked No. 500. She won her second singles title (1991-92). The United States , 19, of Dover, Del., is career pro title in 2009 at the USTA Pro leads all nations with nine singles titles and ranked No. 188. She was one of America’s Circuit $10,000 event in Wichita, Kan. Kelesi’s two titles make Canada the only top junior players in 2007, when she As a junior, she reached the final at the other country to own more than one Midland advanced to the girls’ singles final at both the 2008 International Spring Championships. singles title. The United States also has 13 Australian Open and Wimbledon. On the pro Cako formerly competed in gymnastics, but runner-up finishes at Midland. level, she has played in the main singles draw stopped competition after growing too tall. at three of the four Grand Slams, competing in the 2007 US Open and winning playoffs to gain entry into the 2007 and 2008 Australian Opens, as well as the . On the USTA Pro Circuit in 2009, Brengle advanced to the semifinals of $50,000 events in Boston and Troy, Ala., and the doubles final at the $75,000 event in Vancouver. In 2008, she reached the semifinals of $50,000 events in San Diego and Vancouver. Brengle won her first career USTA Pro Circuit event at the $10,000 event in Baltimore in 2005. Tournament Notes

Midland Past WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Prize Money Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2009 75,000 Lucie Hradecka (CZE) Eleni Daniilidou (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 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 / 1998 50,000 (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 (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 (ITA) Mary Pierce (FRA) 1990 Alissa Finnerman / Lisa Seemann 1989 25,000 (USA) Meredith McGrath (USA) 1989 Il-Soon Kim / Jeong-Myung Lee

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