TournamenT noTes as of may 22 , 2013 HEAD/FIRST FEDERAL WOMEN’S $10,000 HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC • MAY 25-JUNE 2 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO HILTON HEAD ISLAND TournamenT InFormaTIon The Head/First Federal Women’s $10,000 returns to Hilton Head Island, S.C., for the 21st consecutive year. It is the third of five Site: Van Der Meer Tennis Center consecutive hard-court women’s tournaments. Brad Horrigan Hilton Head Island, SC It is also one of five USTA Pro Circuit women’s Websites: www.vandermeertennis.com events held in South Carolina this year, procircuit.usta.com following Landisville and Sumter, which were held over the past two weeks; back-to-back Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, May 25 $25,000 events are held in Rock Hill and Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, May 28 Florence in October. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Players competing in the main draw include: Surface: Hard / Outdoors 2009 and 2011 Hilton Head Island singles Prize Money: $10,000 champion Alexandra Mueller, who won the Alexandra Mueller won the doubles title in US Open National Playoffs women’s singles Tournament Director: Hilton Head Island in 2009 and 2011 and titles both in 2010 and 2012, earning a wild also won the US Open National Playoffs Jim Stubbs, (843) 247-1424 card into the US Open Qualifying Tournament women’s singles titles both in 2010 and [email protected] on each occasion. She has captured three 2012, earning a wild card into the US Open Qualifying Tournament on each occasion. Tournament Press Contact: USTA Pro Circuit singles titles (two here and Jim Stubbs, (843) 247-1424 one at the $10,000 event in Landisville, Pa.) [email protected] and five doubles titles in her career. Championships and helped lead the U.S. to back-to-back World Junior Tennis titles USTA Communications Contact: Eighteen-year-old Denise Starr, who trains at in 2009 and 2010. Also in 2012, Austin Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] the USTA Training Center-East at the USTA reached the final of the Easter Bowl, losing Billie Jean King National Tennis Center—the to 2012 year-end world No. 1 junior Taylor PrIze money / PoInTs home of the US Open—in Flushing, N.Y., Townsend in the final. This year, Austin under the USTA Player Development program. reached the singles quarterfinals and doubles SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points There, Starr trains alongside WTA stars semifinals at the Easter Bowl. She cracked Winner $1,568 12 Melanie Oudin and Varvara Lepchenko. She the Top 100 in the ITF World Junior Rankings Runner-Up $980 8 captured her first pro title this year, winning in 2011 and has competed in the junior Semifinalist $490 6 the doubles championship at an ITF Circuit US Open three times. Quarterfinalist $245 4 event in France in January. Round 16 $196 1 Five-time University of Notre Dame All- Round 32 $98 - Seventeen-year-old Brooke Austin, who won American Kristy Frilling, who last year DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) the 2012 USTA Girls’ 18 Spring National completed her college career with 235 Winner $637 combined wins—tied for the third-most in Runner-Up $343 program history. She also holds three USTA Semifinalist $196 Pro Circuit doubles titles, winning one title Quarterfinalist $98 Dave Kenas each in 2007, 2008 and 2010. As a junior Round 16 $49 player, Frilling advanced to the girls’ doubles semifinals at the junior US Open in 2007, and she was ranked as high as No. 78 in the ITF CommunITy eVenTs World Junior Rankings. Tuesday, May 28 Free adult clinic and pro exhibition, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Friday, May 31 International Kids’ Day with free tennis clinic Eighteen-year-old Denise Starr trains at the USTA Training Center-East at the USTA Billie 4:00-6:00 p.m. Jean King National Tennis Center—the home of the US Open—in Flushing, N.Y. *Player field subject to change TournamenT noTes Fifteen-year-old Katerina Stewart, a standout junior who reached the Award. Corning played high school tennis in Hamilton, Mass., and did doubles final of the 2013 Easter Bowl. In December 2011, she won the not lose a set throughout her high school career. Corning also won the girls’ 14s singles title at the Junior Orange Bowl, and she also captured 2011 US Open National Playoffs USTA Middle States mixed doubles the USTA Florida Junior State Championships in the 18-and-under title. division in 2012 without dropping a set. Erin Clark, a former standout for Indiana, who competed in the NCAA Veronica Corning, who played tennis for a year and a half at Boston tournament. She competed overseas this year and won the doubles title College, then transferred to Northwestern University. This past season, at a $10,000 ITF event in Athens, Greece. In high school, Clark was a Corning was Northwestern’s recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship National Merit Finalist and AP Scholar with Distinction. *Player field subject to change Hilton HEAD PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2012 Mayo Hibi (JPN) Jessica Moore (AUS) 2012 Anamika Bhargava (USA) – Sylvia Krywacz (USA) 2011 Alexandra Mueller (USA) Bojana Bobusic (AUS) 2011 Macall Harkins (USA) – Amanda McDowell (USA) 2010 Alexis King (USA) Jacqueline Cako (USA) 2010 Jacqueline Cako (USA) – Erica Krisan (USA) 2009 Alexandra Mueller (USA) Alison Riske (USA) 2009 Jacqueline Cako (USA) – Alison Riske (USA) 2008 Mallory Cecil (USA) Theresa Logar (USA) 2008 Jennifer Elie (USA) – Nadja Gilchrist (USA) 2007 Angela Haynes (USA) Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 2007 Stacia Fonseca (USA) – Alexandra Mueller (USA) 2006 Julie Ditty (USA) Madison Brengle (USA) 2006 Christina Fusano (USA) – Raquel Kops-Jones (USA) 2005 Ansley Cargill (USA) Ekaterina Afinogenova (RUS) 2005 Shadisha Robinson (USA) – Robin Stephenson (CAN) 2004 Melanie Marois (CAN) Natalia Dziamidzenka (BLR) 2004 Cory-Ann Avants (USA) – Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 2003 Ludmila Richterova (CZE) Nicole Rencken (RSA) 2003 Yvonne Doyle (IRL) – Nicole Rencken (RSA) 2002 Gabriela Lastra (USA) Lauren Kalvaria (USA) 2002 Liza Andriyani (INA) – Wukirasih Sawondari (INA) 2001 Mi-Ra Jeon (KOR) Ansley Cargill (USA) 2001 Kristy Blumberg (USA) – Karin Miller (USA) 2000 Allison Bradshaw (USA) Jacqueline Trail (USA) 2000 Wendy Fix (USA) – Manisha Malhotra (IND) 1999 Jennifer Hopkins (USA) Renata Kolbovic (CAN) 1999 Dawn Buth (USA) – Vanessa Webb (USA) 1998 Holly Parkinson (USA) Renata Kolbovic (CAN) 1998 Varalee Sureephong (USA) – Vanessa Webb (USA) 1997 Stephanie Mabry (USA) Samantha Reeves (USA) 1997 Varalee Sureephong (USA) – Vanessa Webb (USA) 1996 Anne Mall (IRL) Mareze Joubert (RSA) 1996 Liza Andriyani (INA) – Mareze Joubert (RSA) 1995 Kori Davidson (USA) Mashona Washington (USA) 1995 Jane Chi (USA) – Stephanie Chi (USA) 1994 Karin Miller (USA) Jana Nejedly (CAN) 1994 Angela Lettiere (USA) – Stacey Sheppard (USA) 1993 Halle Cioffi (USA) Maureen Drake (CAN) 1993 Elly Hakami (USA) – Pam Nelson (USA) TournamenT noTes USTA PRO CIRCUIT 10 AND UNDER TENNIS With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from Tennis is now scaled to a child’s age and size, using lower- $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. The USTA launched its bouncing and slower-moving balls, lighter and shorter Pro Circuit 34 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and it racquets, and smaller courts. The modified equipment and has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly $3 million smaller courts will allow kids to rally and play the game 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 Querrey, Victoria early on, increasing the likelihood that kids will return to the Azarenka and Andy Murray are among today’s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. court and continue to improve all while having fun! For more information, visit www.10andundertennis.com More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped launch the careers of two young Americans—Jack Sock and Grace Min. Grace Min Sock began 2012 by winning the singles Tim Hartis Tim title and reaching the doubles final at the NJTL $10,000 Futures in Plantation, Fla. He then reached the quarterfinals of the $50,000 Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, the USTA/National Junior Tennis Challenger in Honolulu. With his strong USTA & Learning (NJTL) network is a nation-wide group of more than Pro Circuit results, Sock received wild cards 660 non-profit youth development organizations that provide free into numerous Emirates Airline US Open Series events in the summer, reaching the or low cost tennis, education and life skills programming to more quarterfinals in Atlanta. Sock then achieved than 300,000 children each year, ages 6-18, making NJTL one of the best result of his pro career by reaching the USTA’s largest community-based offerings. the third round of the 2012 US Open as a wild card. Sock followed up his US Open results by winning his first career USTA Pro Circuit Challenger title at the $100,000 event US OPEN NATIONAL PlayoffS in Tiburon, Calif., in the fall and finished 2012 ranked a career-high No. 150 in the The USTA launched the US Open world. After winning the 2011 US Open girls’ National Playoffs in 2010, making singles title, Min moved to the USTA Pro the US Open “open” to anyone Circuit to develop her game. She opened the year by winning the first women’s tournament of 2012 at the $25,000 event in Innisbrook, Fla.