TournamenT noTes as of april 12, 2013 TOUR DE PAUL TENNIS TOURNAMENT LITTLE ROCK, AR • APRIL 13-21 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO LITTLE ROCK TournamenT InFormaTIon AS LONGEST-RUNNING MEN’S EVENT IN ITS 32ND YEAR Site: Pleasant Valley Country Club – Little Rock, Ark. The Tour De Paul Tennis Tournament enters its 32nd year on the USTA Pro Circuit; the Website: www.stvincenthealth.com/tourdepaul tournament is the longest-running event on Dave Kenas procircuit.usta.com the USTA Pro Circuit. It is the only $15,000 Futures tournament held in Arkansas and Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, April 13 concludes the USTA Pro Circuit spring hard- court season, as the clay season will begin Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, April 16 in two weeks to prepare players for the 2013 French Open. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Players competing in the main draw are: Surface: Hard / Outdoor Chase Buchanan, the 2012 NCAA men’s Prize Money: $15,000 doubles champion for Ohio State. On the USTA Pro Circuit in 2012, Buchanan won Co-Tournament Directors: two Futures singles titles and three Futures Breda Turner, (501) 590-6145 doubles titles—all on clay. Behind his [email protected] results in 2012, he climbed more than 500 Austin Krajicek is a former five-time spots in the ATP rankings. Buchanan won an All-American for Texas A&Mn who won the Jamie Jones, (501) 552-4920 ITF Pro Circuit doubles title in Canada last 2011 NCAA men’s doubles title, and has [email protected] month and competed in qualifying for the been a practice partner for the U.S. Davis ATP events in Delray Beach, Fla., and San Cup team three times. Tournament Press Contact: Jose, Calif., this year. Margaret Preston Dedman [email protected] Canada and reached the singles final at Austin Krajicek, a five-time All-American for another event the week prior. A standout Texas A&M who won the 2011 NCAA men’s junior player, he won the 2008 USTA Boys’ USTA Communications Contact: doubles title with Jeff Dadamo. Krajicek Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] 18 National Championships, earning a wild won his first professional title at a $15,000 card into the 2008 US Open main draw. Futures in China in January 2012 and won Krajicek has also been a practice partner PrIze money / PoInTs his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the on three occasions for the U.S. Davis Cup Futures in Austin, Texas, last summer. (He team. He is a distant relative of former SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points also captured the doubles title in Austin.) Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek. Winner $2,160 27 This March, Krajieck won the singles at Runner-up $1,272 15 doubles title at an ITF Pro Circuit event in Semifinalist $753 8 Eric Quigley, the 2012 NCAA singles Quarterfinalist $438 3 runner-up at the University of Kentucky. Round of 16 $258 1 Quigley is one of the most decorated Round of 32 $156 – tennis players in UK history, earning five Dave Kenas All-America honors between singles and DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) doubles. In 2008, he became the first Winner $930 Kentucky player in 34 years to win four Runner-up $540 straight high school state singles titles. Semifinalist $324 Quarterfinalist $192 Dennis Nevolo, a standout at the University Round of 16 $108 of Illinois, who finished his collegiate career in May 2012. Nevolo competed as part of the 2012 USTA Collegiate Team, and on Former US Open boys’ singles runner-up Chase Buchanan won the 2012 NCAA men’s doubles title while playing for Ohio State. *Player field subject to change TournamenT noTes the USTA Pro Circuit, he reached the quarterfinals or better at five event in Miami, defeating Ryan Harrison in the first round and then- events. This year, he won his first USTA Pro Circuit title in doubles world No. 27 Julien Benneteau of France in the second round. Blake at the $15,000 Futures in Brownsville, Texas. made his broadcasting debut as a Tennis Channel commentator for the Davis Cup First Round in Jacksonville, Fla., earlier this year. Sekou Bangoura, who was named a doubles All-American during his sophomore year at the University of Florida after reaching the 2003 runner-up Brian Baker began 2012 ranked No. 456 in the doubles semifinals of the 2011 NCAA Tournament. world after suffering a variety of injuries and was looking to rebuild his career on the USTA Pro Circuit. He eventually progressed to Daniel Nguyen, a former All-American at USC, where he helped the Challenger-level tournaments and accelerated his comeback by Trojans to four consecutive NCAA team championships, 2009-12, earning the USTA’s wild card to the French Open, as the American clinching the titles for the team in 2010 and 2011. Nguyen won who earned the most ranking points at two USTA Pro Circuit clay- the first USTA Pro Circuit singles title of his career last fall at the court Challengers—a $100,000 event in Sarasota, Fla., and a $10,000 Futures in Irvine, Calif., and spent the final months of $50,000 event in Savannah, Ga. He then headed to Europe and 2012 in Hong Kong playing ITF Pro Circuit events. reached his first ATP final at the French Open tune-up event in Nice, advanced to the second round of the French Open and then reached Nikita Kryvonos, who won the US Open National Playoffs USTA the fourth round at Wimbledon. He also reached the second round of Eastern sectional qualifier in 2010 and 2012, taking the title at the the US Open. Baker returned to pro tennis in 2011 after undergoing USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where he trains during five surgeries for a series of ailments from 2005 to 2008, including the year. The Ukrainian-born Kryvonos is working his way back from Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery in February 2008. a knee injury. A promising junior, he competed in the US Open qualifying in 2004, 2006 and 2007, and he has played extensively 2007 singles champion Donald Young broke into the world’s Top 40 in on the USTA Pro Circuit. He finished in the Top 400 in 2006. February of last year and qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. He competed in all four Grand Slam events a year ago, reaching the second round of the Australian Open. In 2011, he reached the round of 16 at the US Open, upsetting two Top 30 players en route, for his Many current and past ATP stars have had success in Little Rock. best Grand Slam result. Also in 2011, he reached the final of the ATP World Tour event in Bangkok and the semifinals of the Emirates 1999 doubles champion James Blake peaked at No. 4 in the world Airline US Open Series event in Washington, D.C. Earlier this month, in 2006 after being a finalist in the ATP’s year-end Tennis Masters Young won an ITF Pro Circuit Challenger in Leon, Mexico, for his Cup. A two-time US Open quarterfinalist, Blake has won five career first title since 2011. A standout junior player, Young was a two-time singles titles and also was a longtime member of the U.S. Davis Cup Grand Slam tournament champion (2005 Australian Open, 2007 team, helping lead the United States to the Davis Cup title in 2007. Wimbledon) and, at age 16 years and 5 months, finished 2005 as the Last month, he reached the third round of the ATP Masters Series youngest-ever year-end world junior No. 1. *Player field subject to change TournamenT noTes LITTLE ROCK PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2012 Tennys Sandgren (USA) John Peers (AUS) 2012 Tennys Sandgren (USA) – Gregory Ouellette (USA) 2011 Arnau Brugues-Davi (ESP) Alex Bogdanovic (GBR) 2011 Nima Roshan (AUS) – Artem Sitak (NZL) 2010 Brydan Klein (AUS) John Millman (AUS) 2010 Lester Cook (USA) – Brett Joelson (USA) 2009 Matej Bocko (SVK) Michael McClune (USA) 2009 Kaden Hensel (AUS) – Adam Hubble (AUS) 2008 Artem Sitak (RUS) Matthew Roberts (USA) 2008 Haydn Lewis (BAH) – Bjorn Munroe (BAH) 2007 Donald Young (USA) Kei Nishikori (JPN) 2007 Kei Nishikori (JPN) – Donald Young (USA) 2006 Wayne Odesnik (USA) Scott Oudesma (USA) 2006 Michael Quintero (COL) – Wesley Whitehouse (RSA) 2005 Zbynek Mlynarik (AUT) Fritz Wolmarans (RSA) 2005 Tres Davis (USA) – Scott Lipsky (USA) 2004 Emin Agaev (AZE) Rajeev Ram (USA) 2004 Rajeev Ram (USA) – Ryan Sachire (USA) 2003 Ignacio Hirigoyen (ARG) Brian Baker (USA) 2003 Jay Gooding (AUS) – Jordan Kerr (AUS) 2002 Florian Jeschonek (GER) Alun Jones (AUS) 2002 Huntley Montgomery (USA) – Ryan Sachire (USA) 2001 Fredrik Jonsson (SWE) Martin Verkerk (NED) 2001 Jeff Coetzee (RSA) – Shaun Rudman (RSA) 2000 Marcus Sarstrand (SWE) Damien Furmanski (ARG) 2000 Grant Doyle (AUS) – Frederic Niemeyer (CAN) 1999 Jimy Szymanski (VEN) Jason Weir-Smith (RSA) 1999 James Blake (USA) – Thomas Schroerlucke (USA) 1998 Oren Motevassel (USA) Louis Vosloo (RSA) 1998 Luke Bourgeois (AUS) – Michael Hill (AUS) 1997 Eyal Erlich (ISR) Noam Behr (ISR) 1997 Brian Eagle (USA) – Mark Quinney (USA) 1996 Doug Flach (USA) Marcus Hilpert (GER) 1996 Peter Kuhn (RSA) – Paul Rosner (RSA) 1995 Jamie Holmes (AUS) Chris Woodruff (USA) 1995 Bill Barber (USA) – David DiLucia (USA) 1994 Neville Godwin (RSA) Donny Isaak (USA) 1994 Keith Evans (USA) – Brian Gyetko (CAN) 1992 Andrew Sznajder (CAN) D.J. Bosse (RSA) 1992 Johan DeBeer (RSA) – John Sullivan (USA) 1991 Clinton Marsh (USA) Grant Stafford (RSA) 1991 Mike Briggs (USA) – Trevor Kronemann (USA) 1990 Tommy Ho (USA) Scott Melville (USA) 1990 Jeff Brown (USA) – Scott Melville (USA) 1989 John Carras (USA) Pat Galbraith (USA) 1989 Eric Amend (USA) – Pat Galbraith (USA) 1988 Scott Melville (USA) MaliVai Washington (USA) 1988 Clinton Banducci (RSA) – Earl Zinn (RSA) 1987 Shelby Cannon (USA) Scott Patridge (USA)