TOURNAMENT NOTES as of June 11, 2014 RESORTQUEST PRO WOMEN’S OPEN BETHANY BEACH, DE • JUNE 15–22 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS RETURNS TO BETHANY BEACH TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The ResortQuest Pro Women’s Open returns to Bethany Beach for the fourth consecutive year. It is the only USTA Pro Circuit event Site: Sea Colony Tennis – Bethany Beach, Del. taking place in Delaware this year and is Brad Horrigan Websites: www.seacolonytennis.net/pwo the second-to-last clay-court tournament procircuit.usta.com before the summer hard-court season. In conjunction with USTA Player Development, Facebook: Sea Colony Tennis the USTA Pro Circuit continues to emphasize Twitter: @seacolonytennis the importance of increased training for younger players on clay. Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, June 15 Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, June 17 Notable players competing in the main draw include: Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Surface: Clay / Outdoors Alexandra Mueller, who is the top seed in Bethany Beach. Mueller won a career-high Prize Money: $10,000 five doubles titles on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2013 and holds 11 USTA Pro Circuit Tournament Director: Alexandra Mueller, the top seed in Bethany doubles titles overall; most recently, she Thomas Johnston, (302) 381-8033 Beach, holds 11 USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles captured the $25,000 event in Raleigh, and four singles titles. [email protected] N.C., in May. She also has won four career Tournament Press Contact: USTA Pro Circuit singles titles. In July Tim Fisher, (302) 462-5776 2013, Mueller qualified in singles for the singles rankings and earning All-America [email protected] WTA event in Washington, D.C., where she also reached the doubles quarterfinals. honors. She also helped lead the Gators to USTA Public Relations Contacts: Mueller is a two-time winner of the US Open the 2014 NCAA team semifinals. Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 National Playoffs, earning wild cards into [email protected] the US Open Qualifying Tournament in 2010 Caitlin Whoriskey, a former University of and 2012. Tennessee standout, who was named the 2010 College Senior Player of the Year after PRIZE MONEY / POINTS Defending singles champion Brianna leading the Volunteers to the quarterfinals SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Morgan, who recently completed her of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in Winner $1,568 12 sophomore season at the University of eight seasons. Whoriskey captured her first Runner-up $980 7 Florida, finishing at No. 19 in the collegiate career USTA Pro Circuit singles title in May Semifinalist $490 4 at the $10,000 event in Hilton Head Island, Quarterfinalist $245 2 S.C., where she also won the doubles crown. Round of 16 $196 1 Whoriskey spent the first half of 2013 Round of 32 $98 0 competing in Europe, where she reached David Kenas back-to-back ITF singles finals in Turkey in DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) May. She has also captured four ITF doubles Winner $637 titles throughout the world. Runner-up $343 Semifinalist $196 Lena Litvak, who has played for Harvard. Quarterfinalist $98 Litvak’s only USTA Pro Circuit singles title Round of 16 $49 came in Bethany Beach in 2011, and she COMMUNITY EVENTS also won the doubles title here that year. Thursday, June 19 Junior Play Day, 4:30 p.m. Defending singles champion Brianna Morgan Saturday, June 21 recently completed her sophomore year at the USTA Member Appreciation Day University of Florida, finishing the season ranked No. 19 in the collegiate singles rankings. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES In doubles, she holds six USTA Pro Circuit and ITF-level titles and at the 2011 US Open and, in 2013, reached the second round of broke into the Top 250 in the world in doubles in 2012. She has the girls’ singles event in New York. trained at the USTA Training Center-East at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Litvak’s family is from Ukraine and Sixteen-year-old Katerina Stewart, who won her first career USTA moved to Bronx, N.Y., more than two decades ago. Pro Circuit singles title at the $10,000 event in Orlando in March. Stewart is a standout junior player, reaching the doubles final at Brooke Austin, 18, who won the first USTA Pro Circuit singles title of the 2013 Easter Bowl and competing in the junior US Open. In her career at the $10,000 event in Sumter, S.C., in May. Austin is December 2011, she won the girls’ 14s singles title at the Junior a former junior standout who won the 2012 USTA Girls’ 18s Spring Orange Bowl, and she also captured the USTA Florida Junior State National Championships and helped lead the U.S. to back-to-back Championships in the 18-and-under division in 2012 without World Junior Tennis titles (14 and under) in 2009 and 2010. She dropping a set. reached the final of the 2012 Easter Bowl, losing to year-end junior No. 1 Taylor Townsend in the final, and last year she reached the Julia Elbaba, who recently completed her sophomore season at the singles quarterfinals and doubles semifinals at the Easter Bowl. University of Virginia, where she posted a 31-6 singles record and Austin won her only USTA Pro Circuit doubles title at the $10,000 received All-American singles honors for the second consecutive event in Cleveland in 2011. She recently committed to play for the year. She also received All-America honors in doubles. Last year, University of Florida in the fall. Elbaba was named the women’s ITA National Rookie of the Year and was the first Virginia women’s player to be seeded at the NCAA Defending doubles champion Peggy Porter, who in 2013 won the Individual Championships. Elbaba holds one USTA Pro Circuit title, US Open National Playoffs Texas Sectional Qualifying Tournament in doubles at the $10,000 event in New Orleans in 2012. for the second consecutive year. Porter has committed to the University of Florida in the fall. She has been coached by Jarmila Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Profit, who has previously trained at the Gajdosova, who won the 2013 Australian Open mixed doubles title. USTA Training Center-West in Carson, Calif. Off the court, she speaks A standout junior player, Porter won the 2013 Easter Bowl doubles about diabetes after being diagnosed with Type I diabetes at age 2. championship. She played in her first junior Grand Slam tournament *Player field subject to change BETHANY BEACH PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2013 Brianna Morgan (USA) Jessica Moore (AUS) 2013 Lindsey Hardenbergh (USA) – Peggy Porter (USA) 2012 Vojislava Lukic (SRB) Sanaz Marand (USA) 2012 Sanaz Marand (USA) – Jacqueline Cako (USA) 2011 Lena Litvak (USA) Maria-Fernanda Alves (BRA) 2011 Alexandra Hirsch (USA) – Lena Litvak (USA) w 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. Celebrating its the game—and stay in the game. Kids are learning to play 35th anniversary in 2014, the USTA Pro Circuit provides players with the opportunity to gain professional faster than ever before through the USTA’s youth initiative, ranking points, and it has grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering which is geared toward getting more kids to participate in nearly $3 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. Mardy Fish, Maria Sharapova, John Isner, Caroline Wozniacki, Sam tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a child’s Querrey, Victoria Azarenka and Andy Murray are among today’s top stars who began their careers on size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com. the USTA Pro Circuit. More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped launch the careers of two young NJTL Americans—Bradley Klahn and Shelby Ray East Rogers. Former Stanford standout and 2010 Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, along with Charlie Pasarell NCAA champion Klahn was the 2013 USTA and Sheridan Snyder, the USTA/National Junior Tennis & Pro Circuit Prize Money Leader with $50,606 Learning (NJTL) network is a nationwide group of more than in earnings, reaching five USTA Pro Circuit singles finals and winning two singles titles: 625 non-profit youth development organizations that provide the $15,000 Futures in Costa Mesa, Calif., free or low-cost tennis, education and life skills programming in March, and the $100,000 Challenger in to more than 350,000 children each year. Celebrating its Aptos, Calif., in August. The two singles 44th anniversary this year, NJTL is one of the USTA’s largest titles were the first USTA Pro Circuit singles crowns of his career. Klahn also earned community-based offerings.. a USTA wild card into the 2013 US Open through a wild card challenge incorporating USTA Pro Circuit events. Klahn finished 2013 US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS ranked in the Top 100 for the first time in his career after starting the year ranked outside Shelby Rogers The USTA launched the US Open the Top 250. Rogers was the 2013 women’s National Playoffs in 2010, making USTA Pro Circuit Prize Money Leader with the US Open “open” to anyone $36,308 in earnings, winning three singles titles with prize money of $50,000 or more ($50,000 events in Charlottesville, Va., and Lexington, Ky., and age 14+ and of all skill levels.