TournamenT noTes as of october 24, 2012 MEN’S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA • OCTOBER 27–NOVEMBER 4 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO CHARLOTTESVILLE TournamenT InFormaTIon The Men’s Tennis Championships will take place in Charlottesville for the fourth Site: The Boars Head Sports Club consecutive year and will be offering $75,000 Charlottesville, Va. in prize money for the second time. It is the first of three consecutive USTA Pro Circuit Websites: www.boarsheadinn.com Challengers held indoors to finish the 2012 procircuit.usta.com season, along with events in Knoxville, Tenn., and Champaign, Ill. Charlottesville also hosts Facebook: Charlottesville Men’s Pro Tennis Challenger an annual $50,000 women’s event, which in at the Boar’s Head Sports Club 2012 took place in April. Kolodny/Moodswings Photography Tessa Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, October 27 This tournament will be streamed live on Main Draw Begins: Monday, October 29 procircuit.usta.com. Rising young American Jack Sock reached the Among the players competing in the main Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles third round of the 2012 US Open. He also won draw this week is rising young American Jack the 2010 US Open junior singles title and the Surface: Hard / Indoors Sock, who achieved the best result of his pro 2011 mixed doubles title. career by reaching the third round of the 2012 Prize Money: $75,000 US Open as a wild card. Sock won the 2010 US Open junior singles title and also qualified competed for the U.S. Davis Cup team in Tournament Director: for the main draw of US Open in 2010 and 2004 and 2009. Ron Manilla, (434) 972-6005 2011 by winning the USTA Boys’ 18 National [email protected] Championships. He won the 2011 US Open Also in Charlottesville is 2010 doubles mixed doubles title with fellow American champion Donald Young, who peaked at Tournament Press Contact: Melanie Oudin, and in 2012 he teamed with No. 38 in the world in February and Scott Ratcliffe, (434) 305-9764 reigning NCAA champion Steve Johnson to competed on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. [email protected] knock off the top-seeded team of Max Mirnyi Last year, Young reached the round of 16 at the US Open, upsetting two Top 30 players USTA Communications Contacts: and Daniel Nestor in the first round of men’s en route for his best Grand Slam tournament Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] doubles. Sock also won his first USTA Pro Circuit Challenger title at the $100,000 event result, and he also reached the final of the Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] in Tiburon, Calif., this fall. ATP event in Bangkok and the semifinals of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event PrIze money / PoInTs Also to compete in Charlottesville is former in Washington, D.C. As a junior, Young was a No. 15 Robby Ginepri, the only active two-time Grand Slam tournament champion SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points American man to reach the singles semifinals (2005 Australian Open, 2007 Wimbledon) Winner $10,800 90 of a Grand Slam tournament—at the 2005 and, at age 15, became the youngest-ever Runner-up $6,360 55 US Open, where he lost in five sets to Andre year-end world junior No. 1. Semifinalist $3,765 33 Agassi. Ginepri has reached the fourth round Quarterfinalist $2,190 17 or better at all four Grand Slam events and Rhyne Williams also had a notable run at the Round of 16 $1,290 8 US Open, winning three matches to qualify Round of 32 $780 -- for the 2012 main draw and his first Grand DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) USTA Slam appearance—in the process becoming Winner $4,650 one of just 13 qualifying wild cards to reach Runner-up $2,700 the main draw in recorded US Open history. Semifinalist $1,620 Williams faced Andy Roddick in the first Quarterfinalist $960 round just days before Roddick announced his Round of 16 $540 retirement. Williams turned pro last summer following his sophomore year at the University 2010 Charlottesville doubles champion Donald Young peaked at No. 38 in the world in February and competed on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. *Player field subject to change TournamenT noTes of Tennessee. He was one of the nation’s top collegiate players during a tour-level event; and three-time USTA Pro Circuit Challenger singles the 2010-11 season, reaching the singles final at the 2011 NCAA champion Alex Kuznetsov, who has been ranked as high as No. 158 in Championships. This year, in his first full season as a pro, Williams has the world, in 2007, and earlier this year won three matches to qualify reached the singles semifinals or better at three USTA Pro Circuit events for the main draw of the Australian Open, where he faced Rafael Nadal and has added two doubles titles. He also went 12-3 in singles in a in the first round. string of ITF Circuit events in Europe this spring. Former college standouts competing in the main draw are: Tennys Steve Johnson also will be competing in Charlottesville. Johnson Sandgren, a former University of Tennessee All-American who has cemented his place as one of the best college players ever in 2012, won three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and three doubles titles this going undefeated in singles to claim his second straight NCAA singles year, and who has climbed more than 250 spots in the ATP World Tour title and leading USC to its fourth team title during his four years at the rankings since the beginning of 2012 due in large part to his success school. Johnson turned professional shortly thereafter and captured the on the USTA Pro Circuit; and former UCLA standout Daniel Kosakowski, $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Aptos, Calif., this summer. From who won back-to-back USTA Pro Circuit Futures titles in Claremont, there, he reached the third round of the US Open, becoming the first Calif., and Costa Mesa, Calif., in September. reigning NCAA champion to advance to the third round of the men’s singles since Arizona State’s Sargis Sargisian in 1995. Among those set to compete this week in qualifying is Bradley Klahn, the 2010 NCAA singles champion who recently completed his career 2011 Charlottesville singles runner-up Jesse Levine, at a career-high at Stanford. At the 2012 US Open, Klahn received a wild card into No. 69 in the world, is the highest-ranked American in the field this qualifying and subsequently qualified for the main draw, where he week. He won a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the main draw of upset Top 50 player Jurgen Melzer in the first round in five sets. Klahn the 2012 Australian Open and qualified for both the 2012 French Open became the first-ever men’s qualifying wild card to win a round at the and Wimbledon, reaching the second round at both. Levine also played US Open. He started his professional career this summer with the in the US Open main draw this year, won the $100,000 USTA Pro help of the USTA Collegiate Team, a program providing college players Circuit Challenger in Dallas in February, and reached the quarterfinals of experience and opportunities on the USTA Pro Circuit. the ATP event in Metz, France, this fall. Also in qualifying is Devin Britton, who captured the 2009 NCAA Ryan Sweeting soared into the world’s Top 70 in 2011 after winning singles title in his freshman year at the University of Mississippi before his first ATP singles title at the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships turning pro. Britton’s NCAA title earned him a main draw wild card into in Houston. Also in 2011, he qualified for the ATP Masters event at the 2009 US Open, where he pushed five-time defending champion Indian Wells, where he reached the third round with wins against two Roger Federer in a 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 defeat. After touring for more than two Top 50 players. This year, Sweeting reached the second round of the years, Britton broke through with his first singles title at the $15,000 Australian Open and Wimbledon. Sweeting starred collegiately at the USTA Pro Circuit Futures in Sacramento, Calif., this June. He also has University of Florida. As a junior player, he won the 2005 US Open excelled in doubles, winning five USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles this boys’ singles title. year (and 10 doubles titles overall including ITF Men’s Circuit events). As a junior player, Britton reached the 2008 US Open boys’ singles final Another promising young American in this week’s field is 2010 as a wild card. US Open boys’ singles runner-up and former top junior Denis Kudla, who has been ranked in the ATP Top 200 for most of 2012. He Also competing in qualifying is Austin Krajicek, a five-time Texas A&M competed in the 2012 US Open as a wild card, qualified for the main All-American who won the 2011 NCAA men’s doubles title with fellow draw at the Australian Open in January—his first time in the main draw Charlottesville qualifying entrant Jeff Dadamo. Krajicek won his first of a Grand Slam event—and reached the final round of qualifying at this professional title at a $15,000 Futures in China in January and also year’s Wimbledon. Kudla captured his first USTA Pro Circuit Challenger qualified for the ATP event in Delray Beach, Fla., in February.