TournamenT noTes as of march 30, 2011 2011 ST. VINCENT TOUR DE PAUL TENNIS TOURNAMENT LITTLE ROCK, AR • APRIL 2–10 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO LITTLE ROCK AS LONGEST-RUNNING MEN’S EVENT TournamenT InFormaTIon The 2011 St. Vincent Tour de Paul Tennis Tournament enters its 31st year on the USTA Site: Pleasant Valley Country Club – Little Rock, Ark. Pro Circuit; the tournament is the longest running event on the USTA Pro Circuit. It is Websites: www.newoutlooktennis.com Susan Mullane the only $15,000 Futures tournament held procircuit.usta.com in Arkansas and concludes the USTA Pro Facebook: St. Vincent Auxiliary New Outlook Circuit spring hard court season, as the clay Tennis Tournament season will begin soon to prepare players for the 2011 French Open. Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, April 2 Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, April 5 Former college standouts expected in the main draw include: former University of Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Arkansas All-American Blake Strode, who Surface: Hard / Outdoor won the 2010 US Open National Playoffs to earn a wild card into the 2010 US Open Prize Money: $15,000 Qualifying Tournament, where he won his Former University of Arkansas standout and Tournament Director: first match, and who in 2009 chose to defer 2010 US Open National Playoffs champion Blake Strode deferred Harvard Law School to Breda Turner, (501) 552-3552 Harvard Law School to play professional play pro tennis. [email protected] tennis; former University of North Carolina All-American Nicholas Monroe, who won Tournament Press Contact: his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title since Breda Turner, (501) 552-3552 2007 at the $15,000 Futures in McAllen, the $15,000 Futures in Austin, Texas, [email protected] Texas, last month; and former University of and who has trained at the Roddick-Moros Mississippi All-American Robbye Poole, who International Tennis Academy in San Antonio. USTA Communications Contacts: won back-to-back singles titles in 2010 at Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] the Futures in Joplin, Mo., and Godfrey, Ill., International standouts expected in the Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] for his first career USTA Pro Circuit singles main draw include: former world No. 108 PrIze money / PoInTs titles, and reached the singles semifinals in Carsten Ball of Australia, the top-ranked McAllen last month. player in the Little Rock field, who advanced SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points to his first ATP World Tour singles final at Winner $1,950 27 Also expected in the main draw include: the 2009 LA Tennis Open, an Olympus US Runner-up $1,350 15 Adam El Mihdawy, who won his first career Open Series event where he lost to Sam Semifinalist $720 8 USTA Pro Circuit singles title in 2010 at the Querrey in the final, and who won his first Quarterfinalist $435 3 $10,000 Futures in Pittsburgh, and who, as career ATP World Tour doubles title last Round of 16 $300 1 a junior, was a quarterfinalist at the 2007 year in Newport, R.I., with countryman Round of 32 $176.25 - USTA International Spring Championships; Chris Guccione (the duo also reached the DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) and Tyler Hochwalt, who reached his first doubles quarterfinals of the 2009 US Open Winner $945 career USTA Pro Circuit final last year at and the round of 16 at the 2009 Australian Runner-up $495 Open); 6-foot-7 left-hander Guccione, who Semifinalist $390 has advanced to two career ATP World Tour Quarterfinalist $270 singles finals, along with one in doubles, Round of 16 $0 USTA and who has reached the second round at all four Grand Slam events in singles; CommunITy eVenTs Arnau Brugues-Davi of Spain, a four-time Sunday, April 3: Junior and Men’s Pro-Am, 3-5 p.m. University of Tulsa All-American, who has captured four USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, and who won the 2006 ITA Polo Monday, April 4: Mixed Pro-Am, 2-4 p.m. Ralph Lauren All-American Championships Pizza Pasta w/the Pros, 5:30-6:30 p.m. in college, defeating current world No. 33 Wednesday, April 6: Kids and Pros, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Former world No. 108 Carsten Ball is the top- ranked player in Little Rock and reached the final Thursday, April 7: Taste of Tennis, 6:30-9:30 p.m. of the Olympus US Open Series event in Los Angeles in 2009. Saturday, April 9: St. Vincent Tour de Paul 5K, 8 a.m. TournamenT noTes John Isner in the final; andArtem Sitak of New Zealand, who has Many USTA Pro Circuit and ATP World Tour standouts have found reached seven USTA Pro Circuit singles finals, capturing three titles, success in Little Rock. 1999 Little Rock doubles champion including Little Rock in 2008. James Blake, who peaked at world No. 4 in 2006, holds 10 ATP World Tour singles titles and has become a central figure in Players expected in qualifying include: Joshua Zavala, a former American tennis. 1988 singles runner-up MaliVai Washington University of Texas standout who captured two USTA Pro Circuit reached the final of Wimbledon in 1996 and won four career ATP doubles titles last year; five-time USTA Pro Circuit singles champion World Tour singles titles. He peaked at world No. 11 in 1992. and 2009 Little Rock singles runner-up Michael McClune, who is on 2007 Little Rock singles and doubles champion Donald Young the comeback trail from a hip injury that kept him out of action for broke into the Top 100 that year, reaching the third round of the most of last year, and who won the USTA Boys’ 18s singles crown to US Open and advancing to the singles final of seven USTA Pro earn a wild card into the main draw of the US Open in 2007; Chris Circuit tournaments. Young defeated world No. 5 Andy Murray en Wettengel, a former standout player for the University of Minnesota route to the third round of the ATP Masters Series event in Indian who finished fourth in the 2010 US Open National Playoffs; and Wells, Calif., last month. 2007 singles runner-up and doubles 20-year-old Devin Britton, who enrolled at the University of Mississippi champion (with Young) Kei Nishikori of Japan, has worked his way in January 2009 and, five months later, became the youngest man back to the Top 100 following an elbow injury by winning four ever to win the NCAA singles title (18 years, 2 months). His NCAA USTA Pro Circuit Challenger titles last year. He also reached the title earned him a main draw wild card into the 2009 US Open, where third round of the 2010 US Open as a qualifier (defeating No. 13 he faced Roger Federer. Britton won the doubles title at the $15,000 seed Marin Cilic en route). In 2008, Nishikori became the first Futures in Brownsville, Texas, last February, and reached his first Japanese man ever to advance to the fourth round at the US Open career USTA Pro Circuit singles final last year. and the first to crack the Top 100 since Shuzo Matsuoka in 1995. LITTLE ROCK PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 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) 1987 Joey Blake (USA) – Darren Yates (USA) 1986 Ricardo Acioly (BRA) Joey Blake (USA) 1986 Ricardo Acioly (BRA) – Richard Matuszewski (USA) 1985 Brett Dickinson (USA) Luke Jensen (USA) 1985 Nelson Aerts (BRA) – Rick Rudeen (USA) 1984 James Grabb (USA) Dan Cassidy (USA) 1984 Dan Cassidy (USA) – Morris Strode (USA) 1983 Matt Anger (USA) Kevin Kerns (USA) 1983 Robert Seguso (USA) – Ken Flach (USA) 1982 Ken Flach (USA) Jimmy Arias (USA) 1982 Erik Van’t Hof (USA) – Robert Van’t Hof (USA) 1981 Chris Delaney (USA) Mike Brunnberg (USA) 1981 Mike Bauer (USA) – John Benson (USA) TournamenT noTes USTA PRO CIRCUIT 30 MILLION PLAYERS With 90-plus tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from $10,000 The USTA Pro Circuit serves as an integral part of the USTA’s to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for aspiring mission to grow and develop tennis in the United States.