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Tournament Notes TOURNAMENT NOTES as of October 10, 2018 HARLINGEN COUNTRY CLUB $25,000 FUTURES HARLINGEN, TEXAS • OCT. 13-21 USTA PRO CIRCUIT MEN’S TENNIS RETURNS TO HARLINGEN FOR 16TH YEAR The Harlingen Country Club $25,000 Futures returns to Harlingen, Texas, for the TOURNAMENT INFO 16th consecutive year. This is the second Site: Harlingen Country Club year the tournament will feature a $25,000 purse. Previously, it had been held earlier Pete Staples/USTA Websites: www.facebook.com/harlingenprocircuit in the year as a $15,000 event. It is the www.procircuit.usta.com second of two consecutive $25,000 hard- court events taking place this fall in Texas, Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, Oct. 13 following a tournament in Houston last week. Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Oct. 16 Notable players competing in Harlingen Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles include: Surface: Hard / Outdoor Ronnie Schneider, 24, Bloomington, Ind. Sebastian Korda, the son of former Australian Prize Money: $25,000 Open champion Petr Korda, won the Australian • Completed his collegiate career at UNC in Open junior boys’ title in January. Tournament Director: 2017, where he earned All-America honors. Andy Carter, (956) 412-4100 x.104 • Named the 2017 ITA Senior Player of the [email protected] Year. Henry Craig, 23, Murrieta, Calif. Tournament Press Contact: • Four-time All-ACC selection. • Two-time Summit League Player of the Year (2014-15) at the University of Denver Beth Ann Lairsen, (956) 412-4100 x.104 • Won second career Pro Circuit singles title [email protected] and sixth career Pro Circuit doubles title in Sebastian Korda, 18, Bradenton, Fla. Thailand in August. USTA Communications Contact: • 2018 Australian Open boys’ singles • Captured the 2013 USTA Boys’ 18s Pat Mitsch, 914-697-2291, [email protected] champion. National Championships doubles title to PRIZE MONEY / POINTS earn a wild card into the main draw of the • Former world No. 1 junior. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points 2013 US Open doubles tournament. • Son of former Australian Open men’s Winner $3,600 27 champion Petr Korda. Runner-up $2,210 15 Alexander Ritschard, 24, Switzerland Harrison Adams, 24, New Braunfels, Texas Semifinalist $1,255 8 • Swiss-American; Three-time NCAA team Quarterfinalist $1,520 3 champion at the University of Virginia • Was an All-American and All-SEC player Round of 16 $730 1 (2014-2017). at Texas A&M. Round of 32 $260 — • Three ITF Pro Circuit singles titles in • Reached the singles final at a $15,000 2018, all won at clay-court events in Futures in Mexico City in May. DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Sweden. Winner $1,550 Adam El Mihdawy, 28, Long Island City, N.Y. Runner-up $900 • Has competed extensively all over the Semifinalist $540 world, winning 13 ITF Pro Circuit and USTA Pro Circuit events in the U.S., Mexico, Quarterfinalist $320 Canada, Egypt, Turkey and Bolivia. Round of 16 $180 Andrew Ong/USTA • Also holds 11 doubles titles worldwide, COMMUNITY EVENTS which he won from 2009-13. Mon., Oct. 15 – Pro-Am • This March, competed in a series of ITF Pro Circuit events in Qatar. Sat., Oct. 20 – Kids’ Day Clinic Patrick Kypson was a practice partner for the U.S. Davis Cup team for its semifinal matches vs. Croatia in September. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES • Grandfather played and coached pro soccer in Egypt. Sam Riffice, 19, Roseville, Calif. • Freshman at the University of Florida; Ranked the No. 1 freshman Patrick Kypson, 18, Raleigh, N.C. in collegiate tennis by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. • 2017 USTA Boys’ 18s national singles champion, earning a wild • Former standout junior – ranked as high as No. 18 in the world card entry into the US Open that year. among players ages 18-and-under in 2017. • Recently served as a practice partner for the U.S. Davis Cup team Vasil Kirkov, 19, Tampa, Fla. for their semifinal matches in Croatia. • 2017 USTA Boys’ 18s national doubles champion and 2016 • Won his first career pro singles title last November at the USTA USTA Boys’ 18s national singles finalist. Pro Circuit clay-court Futures in Niceville, Fla. Evan Zhu, 19, Irvine, Calif. Jordi Arconada, 21, College Park, Md. • 2018 NCAA doubles champion out of UCLA, with Martin Redlicki. • Completed his senior season at Texas A&M by earning Doubles All- • Sister, Amy, played collegiate tennis at Michigan. American honors and going 32-8 in singles for the NCAA semifinalist Aggies. Finished his career with an 84-36 mark in collegiate singles Jacob Dunbar, 22, Medina, Ohio matches. • Played four years at the University of Richmond, setting the • Product of the renowned JTCC training center in College Park, school record for career wins with a 105-25 overall singles record; Md., along with pros Frances Tiafoe, Alison Riske and Denis Kudla. Named the Atlantic 10 Outstanding Performer of the Year as a senior in 2017. • Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Sister, Usue, is ranked in the Top 300. *Player field subject to change HARLINGEN PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2017 JJ Wolf (USA) Evan Zhu (USA) 2017 Hunter Johnson (USA) – Yates Johnson (USA) Evan Zhu (USA) 2016 Dominik Koepfer (GER) Luke Bambridge (GBR) 2016 Evan King (USA) – Luke Bambridge (GBR) 2015 Alexander Sarkissian (USA) Eric Quigley (USA) 2015 Deiton Baughman (USA) – Jeremy Hunter Nicholas (USA) 2014 Filip Krajinovic (SRB) Daniel Smethurst (GBR) 2014 Evan King (USA) – Devin McCarthy (USA) 2013 Jiri Vesely (CZE) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) 2013 Ruben Gonzales (PHI) – Chris Letcher (AUS) 2012 Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) Peter Polansky (CAN) 2012 Tennys Sandgren (USA) – Rhyne Williams (USA) 2011 Dayne Kelly (AUS) Daniel Cox (GBR) 2011 Daniel Danilovic (SWE) – Joshua Zavala (USA) 2010 Arnau Brugues-Davi (ESP) Andrey Kumantsov (RUS) 2010 Catalin-Ionut Gard (ROU) – Artem Sitak (RUS) 2009 Jesse Witten (USA) Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR) 2009 Javier Herrera-Eguiluz (MEX) – Jarmere Jenkins (USA) 2008 Jamie Baker (GBR) Jurek Stasiak (AUS) 2008 Nicholas Monroe (USA) – Phillip Simmonds (USA) Sam Warburg (USA) 2007 Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA) Victor Estrella (DOM) 2007 Izak Van Der Merwe (RSA) – Wesley Whitehouse (RSA) 2006 Jesse Witten (USA) Alberto Francis (USA) 2006 Brendan Evans (USA) – Tim Smyczek (USA) 2005 Eric Nunez (USA) Ryan Newport (USA) 2005 Scott Lipsky (USA) – David Martin (USA) 2004 Nicolas Todero (ARG) Kepler Orellana (VEN) 2004 Scott Lipsky (USA) – David Martin (USA) 2003 Huntley Montgomery (USA) Dusan Vemic (SRB) 2003 Raven Klaasen (RSA) – Huntley Montgomery (USA) - Jeff Salzenstein (USA).
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