TOURNAMENT NOTES as of September 23, 2015 RED ROCK PRO OPEN LAS VEGAS, NV • SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 4 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO LAS VEGAS TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Red Rock Pro Open returns to Las Vegas for the ninth consecutive year. It is the first Site: Red Rock Country Club – Las Vegas, Nevada $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit women’s event Websites: www.redrockproopen.com following the US Open and the only USTA Pro procircuit.usta.com Circuit tournament held in Nevada this year. Dishman USTA/Ned Facebook: Red Rock Country Club Tennis This tournament will be streamed live on Twitter: @RedRockTennis www.procircuit.usta.com. Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, Sept. 26 To follow the tournament, download the Main Draw Begins: Monday, Sept. 28 USTA Pro Circuit’s new phone app by searching “procircuit” in the app store. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Surface: Hard / Outdoor Notable players competing in the main draw include: Prize Money: $50,000 Tournament Director: Nicole Gibbs, who earned a wild card into Nicole Gibbs received a wild card into this Mike Copenhaver, (702) 304-5637 this year’s US Open and won her first-round year’s US Open and won her first-round [email protected] match. Last year, Gibbs advanced to the match. Gibbs captured consecutive NCAA third round of the 2014 US Open—her singles titles in 2012 and 2013 for Stanford Tournament Press Contact: career-best result—while competing as University, becoming the fifth player in Steve Pratt, (310) 408-4555 history—and the fourth from Stanford—to a wild card after winning the USTA Pro win back-to-back NCAA Division I women’s [email protected] Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. singles championships. She also won her third $50,000 USTA Pro USTA Communications Contact: Circuit event of her career in Carson, Calif., Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] in 2014. This year, Gibbs advanced to the March. She also qualified for this summer’s second round of the Australian Open—her Emirates Airline US Open Series event in PRIZE MONEY / POINTS first Grand Slam main draw appearance Stanford, Calif., upsetting Caroline Garcia outside of the US Open—and competed to reach the round of 16. Gibbs won Prize Money Ranking Points SINGLES: in the French Open and Wimbledon main consecutive NCAA singles titles in 2012 Winner $7,600 80 draws, peaking at No. 84 in the world in and 2013 for Stanford University, becoming Runner-up $4,053 48 the fifth player in history—and the fourth Semifinalist $2,216 29 from Stanford—to win back-to-back NCAA Quarterfinalist $1,267 15 Division I women’s singles championships. Round of 16 $760 8 Gibbs also helped lead Stanford to its 17th Round of 32 $444 1 NCAA team title in 2013. As a sophomore DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Steven Ryan in 2012, she defeated teammate Mallory Winner $2,786 Burdette in the NCAA singles title match Runner-up $1,393 and then teamed with Burdette to win the Semifinalist $696 NCAA doubles championship. As a junior Quarterfinalist $380 player, she advanced to the final of the Round of 16 $254 USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships in 2010 and 2011 and reached the semifinals of the 2011 junior US Open. Gibbs trains at COMMUNITY EVENTS the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Sunday, Sept. 27 Boca Raton, Fla. Sunrise Children’s Hospital Kids’ Day, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28 Shelby Rogers qualified for the 2015 US Open Pro-Am, 6:00-8:00 p.m. and advanced to the third round—her career-best Grand Slam result. Rogers peaked at No. 70 in the world last September after reaching her first WTA singles final in Bad Gastein, Austria. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES 2012 Las Vegas singles finalistShelby Rogers, who qualified for 2011 Las Vegas singles finalist and doubles championAlexa Glatch, the 2015 US Open and advanced to the third round—her career- who has competed in every Grand Slam main draw but the Australian best Grand Slam result. Rogers peaked at No. 70 in the world last Open, playing in the US Open main draw five times and Wimbledon September after reaching her first WTA singles final in Bad Gastein, and the French Open three times, qualifying for Roland Garros this Austria, while also reaching the semifinals in Quebec City and year. Glatch has consistently competed on the USTA Pro Circuit the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in and ITF Circuit, winning 10 singles titles and seven doubles titles, Montreal, where she upset then-Top 10 player Eugenie Bouchard. including a singles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event Rogers competed in her first Australian Open and Wimbledon in Osprey, Fla., this year for her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title main draws this year, in addition to competing in the French Open since 2009. Glatch has suffered through a number of injuries in her for the third time. In addition, she won the doubles title at the career, missing more than a year from July 2013 to September 2014 $50,000 grass-court event in Eastbourne, Great Britain, in June and most of 2010 as well. In 2009, Glatch propelled the U.S. to the with CoCo Vandeweghe. In 2013, Rogers earned a wild card into Fed Cup final by winning two of the U.S.’s three points—dropping the French Open by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card just six games in four sets against two Top 50 players—in its 3-2 Challenge—she reached the second round at Roland Garros—and semifinal victory against the Czech Republic with a straight-sets win secured a wild card into the 2013 US Open by winning the USTA over 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. As a junior, Glatch Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. In her career, Rogers has reached the girls’ singles and doubles finals at the 2005 US Open— won four USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and one doubles title. As a losing to current world No. 1 Azarenka in the singles final—but junior player, she won the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships she suffered career-threatening injuries in a motor scooter accident to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 US Open for her shortly thereafter. She returned to the USTA Pro Circuit the following first appearance in a Grand Slam (in either the main draw or juniors). year and won her first career pro title at the $10,000 event in Fort Worth, Texas. Sachia Vickery, who peaked at No. 108 in the world this July after qualifying for Wimbledon and reaching the quarterfinals of the Jessica Pegula, who played in just one tournament last year WTA’s Wimbledon tune-up event in Nottingham, England, this June. after having knee surgery, but who is on the comeback trail after Vickery also represented the U.S. in the Pan American Games in qualifying for the 2015 US Open and winning her first-round match. Toronto this summer. Vickery won the first two USTA Pro Circuit Pegula achieved a career breakthrough in 2013 by qualifying for singles titles of her career earlier this year at the $25,000 Florida and reaching the third round of the WTA event in Charleston, S.C. events in Plantation and Sunrise. She has competed in the US Open She also qualified for the WTA events in Shenzhen, China, and and the Australian Open main draws in her young career, receiving Washington, D.C., climbing to a career-best No. 123 in the world a main-draw wild card into the 2015 US Open and earning one that year. This year, Pegula qualified for Charleston and reached the into the 2014 Australian Open by winning the USTA’s Australian quarterfinals of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Dothan, Ala. Open Wild Card Playoff. She also competed in qualifying for the She also reached the final round of qualifying at Wimbledon and US Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 2014, and she reached the French Open this. Pegula has enjoyed even greater success in the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in doubles, competing in the US Open doubles main draw in 2011, Stanford, Calif., last summer—her first WTA quarterfinal. In 2013, 2012 and 2015, and peaking at No. 92 in the world in the doubles Vickery won the USTA National Girls’ 18s singles and doubles titles, rankings in February 2013. Pegula’s father, Terry, is the owner of the earning wild cards into the main draws of the singles and doubles NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. events at the 2013 US Open. At the Open, she won her first-round match in her Grand Slam debut, defeating Mirjana Lucic-Baroni Samantha Crawford, who competed in the US Open main draw for in straight sets. As a junior, Vickery ascended to No. 6 in the ITF the second time in her career this year after winning this summer’s World Junior Rankings, reaching the doubles semifinals of junior USTA Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. She won the Wimbledon in 2012 and competing in all four junior Grand Slams. challenge by reaching the final of the $50,000 event in Lexington, She trains with coach Adrian Zeman at the ZMG Tennis at Deer Ky. Crawford won the 2012 US Open girls’ singles title and qualified Creek facility in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and was a longtime trainee of for the women’s singles main draw of the US Open that year as the USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training Center a qualifying wild card.