TOURNAMENT NOTES as of June 25, 2014 NIELSEN PRO TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP WINNETKA, IL • JUNE 28 – JULY 5 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO WINNETKA TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship returns to Winnetka for the ninth consecutive Site: A.C. Nielsen Tennis Center – Winnetka, Ill. year and the 23rd overall. It is the sixth Challenger on the 2014 USTA Pro Circuit Websites: www.nielsenprotennis.com Getty Images calendar and is one of five USTA Pro Circuit procircuit.usta.com men’s events held in Illinois. (Champaign Facebook: Nielsen Pro Tennis hosts a $50,000 Challenger in November, and three $10,000 Futures are held later Twitter: @NielsenPro this summer.) It is also the first hard-court Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, June 28 Challenger of the summer season. Main Draw Begins: Monday, June 30 This tournament will be streamed live on Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles www.procircuit.usta.com. Surface: Hard / Outdoor Notable players competing in the main draw Prize Money: $50,000 include: Tournament Director: Ryan Harrison, who earned a spot on the U.S. Linda Goodman, (312) 505-1969 Olympic team for the 2012 Games in London [email protected] and who has also been a member of the U.S. Tournament Press Contact: Davis Cup team. He peaked at No. 43 in the Ryan Harrison has been ranked as high as Grant Oslan, (312) 919-9921 world in 2012, when he reached three tour No. 43 in the world and has represented the [email protected] semifinals. In 2013, Harrison reached the United States in Davis Cup and the Olympics. semifinals of the Emirates Airline US Open USTA Communications Contact: Series event in Atlanta, advanced to the Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 quarterfinals of the Australian Open tune-up seed Ivan Ljubicic in the opening round) and [email protected] event in Sydney and reached the second round 2012. Harrison trains with the USTA Player of the Australian Open and the French Open Development program at the USTA Training (losing to John Isner in five sets in Paris). Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. PRIZE MONEY / POINTS Harrison also won the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Savannah, Ga. This year, SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points 2013 Winnetka singles runner-up Bradley Harrison has competed in the main draws of Winner $7,200 80 Klahn, who peaked at No. 63 in the world all three Slams played thus far, and he has Runner-up $4,240 48 in March after winning the $50,000 USTA played in the US Open main draw each of the Semifinalist $2,510 29 Pro Circuit Challenger in Maui, Hawaii, last four years, advancing to the second round Quarterfinalist $1,460 15 and a Challenger in Australia following the in 2010 (when he qualified and upset No. 15 Round of 16 $860 7 Australian Open. Klahn earned a main draw Round of 32 $520 - wild card into the 2013 US Open based on DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) his summer hard-court results on the USTA Winner $3,100 Pro Circuit, which included a victory at the Runner-up $1,800 $100,000 Challenger in Aptos, Calif., and a Semifinalist $1,080 runner-up finish at the $50,000 Challenger in Quarterfinalist $640 Binghamton, N.Y. Klahn won the 2010 NCAA Round of 16 $360 men’s singles title for Stanford University, Mike Lawrence/USOpen.org and he was a collegiate All-American in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Following his pro COMMUNITY EVENTS debut in 2012, Klahn received a wild card Sunday, June 29 into qualifying at the 2012 US Open and Pro-Am, 2 p.m. 2013 Winnetka singles runner-up Bradley Klahn peaked at No. 63 in the world in March. He won the 2010 NCAA men’s singles title for Stanford. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES subsequently won three matches to advance to the main draw, where Styslinger and also reached the NCAA singles final. Jenkins was named he upset Top 50 player Jurgen Melzer in the first round. In doing so, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s National Player of the Year for Klahn became the first men’s qualifying wild card to win a round at the 2013 and ended the season as college tennis’ No. 1-ranked singles US Open. In 2013, he led the USTA Pro Circuit in prize money after player. He reached the final round of qualifying at the 2013 US Open reaching five USTA Pro Circuit singles finals and winning two singles and won his first career USTA Pro Circuit title at the $10,000 Futures titles. He also served as a practice partner for the U.S. Davis Cup team in Rochester, N.Y. This year, he won ITF-level singles and doubles in Jacksonville, Fla., earlier that year. Klahn trains with the USTA events in Australia. Jenkins is one of nine children, several of whom are Player Development program at the USTA Training Center – West in adopted from various backgrounds. His family was even featured once Carson, Calif. on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Several of Jenkins’ siblings have played tennis competitively, and two of his brothers, Jackie Jr. (Northwestern) Denis Kudla, who broke into the Top 100 for the first time in 2013 and Jermaine (Clemson), played NCAA Division I college tennis. after advancing to the second round of the US Open and Wimbledon and competing in a number of Emirates Airline US Open Series Michael Russell, who is the men’s all-time leader in USTA Pro Circuit events. He qualified for the 2013 French Open and reached the singles titles with 24. With his victory at the $75,000 Challenger quarterfinals of the ATP Wimbledon warm-up event at Queens Club— in Charlottesville, Va., in 2013, Russell became the oldest USTA his best ATP result. Also in 2013, Kudla won the $50,000 USTA Pro Pro Circuit singles champion (35 years, 6 months, 2 days). Russell Circuit Challenger in Tallahassee, Fla., for his fifth USTA Pro Circuit upset then-No. 9 Mardy Fish en route to the semifinals of the ATP singles title. This year, Kudla qualified for the Australian Open and World Tour event in Houston in April 2012 and, in summer 2013, won his opening-round match at Wimbledon. He competed in the he reached the semifinals of the ATP grass-court event in Newport, 2012 US Open as a wild card and also finished the 2012 USTA Pro R.I.—his career-best ATP results. He also reached the semifinals of Circuit season as the top ATP points earner among Americans and the ATP event in Memphis in 2014 as a qualifier and has consistently the leader in prize money. Kudla was formerly ranked No. 3 in the competed in all four Grand Slam events. In 2001, Russell achieved world junior rankings and reached the boys’ singles final at the 2010 his best Grand Slam tournament result by reaching the fourth round US Open, where he lost to Jack Sock in three sets. Kudla has served of the French Open, where he pushed eventual champion Gustavo as a Davis Cup practice partner. He was born in the Ukraine and Kuerten to five sets. came to the U.S. with his parents on his first birthday. Kudla trains with the USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training 2007 singles champion Rajeev Ram, who has established himself Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. as a steady presence in the Top 50 of the world doubles rankings, reaching the second round or better at all four Grand Slam events in 2009 and 2010 Winnetka singles runner-up Tim Smyczek, who doubles, including the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, French broke into the Top 100 in 2013 after advancing to the third round Open and Wimbledon, and peaking at No. 33 in the world in doubles of the US Open, where he lost a tight five-setter to then-No. 43 in 2010. In 2012, he reached the doubles quarterfinals at the Marcel Granollers. The US Open highlighted the strongest summer French Open and Australian Open, and he reached the round of 16 of Smyczek’s career; he also advanced to the second round of the in doubles at the US Open in 2013 with Brian Baker. Overall, Ram Emirates Airline US Open Series events in Washington, D.C., and has won seven ATP World Tour doubles crowns. In 2009, he won Winston-Salem, N.C., and qualified for Atlanta. Also in 2013, the his first ATP singles crown in Newport, R.I., where he also captured 5-foot-9 Smyczek advanced to the second round of the Australian the doubles title. In 2012, he reached the singles semifinals of the Open, defeating 6-foot-11 Ivo Karlovic in the opening round. Smyczek Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Los Angeles, losing to Sam holds three USTA Pro Circuit Challenger titles, and this year he reached Querrey, two weeks after advancing to the semis in Newport. Ram the semifinals of the $50,000 Challenger in Maui, Hawaii. Smyczek advanced to the singles semifinals of the ITF Wimbledon tune-up regularly trains at Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, Fla., and once lived event in Nottingham, Great Britain, this month, while also winning with fellow American Mardy Fish for a year while training there. the doubles title. An Indiana state high school champion, Ram played collegiately at the University of Illinois for one semester in 2003 and Alex Kuznetsov, the 2004 junior French Open runner-up (to Gael helped the Illini win the school’s first NCAA team title.