TournamenT noTes as of July 13, 2011 FIFTH THIRD BANK TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS LEXINGTON, KY • JULY 17–24 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S EVENT CELEBRATES 15 YEARS IN LEXINGTON TournamenT InFormaTIon The Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships is taking place in Lexington for the 15th USTA Site: University of Kentucky – Hilary J. Boone straight year. It is held in conjunction with a Tennis Complex – Lexington, Ky. $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit men’s event this Websites: lexingtonchallenger.com week. Lexington is one of three combined procircuit.usta.com men’s and women’s events on the calendar this year (joining Vancouver and Plantation, Facebook: Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships Fla.). It is the only USTA Pro Circuit event to Twitter: @53Tennis take place in Kentucky. Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, July 17 On Tuesday, July 19, the tournament will Alison Riske, the top-ranked player in Lexing- host a National Junior Tennis and Learning Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, July 19 ton, earned a wild card into Wimbledon in 2010 (NJTL) network day in which local children after reaching the semifinals of the Wimbledon Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles will participate. The NJTL network is a tune-up event in Birmingham, England. Surface: Hard / Outdoors nationwide group of more than 600 nonprofit youth development organizations that Prize Money: $50,000 provide free or low-cost tennis, education the girls’ doubles titles at the French Open, Tournament Director: and life skills programming to more Wimbledon and the US Open. Stephens also Sam Dunn, (859) 619-4480 than 250,000 children each year. NJTL reached the singles quarterfinals or better [email protected] develops the character of young people by in the same three junior Slam tournaments, emphasizing the ideals and life of including the US Open semifinals. In Tournament Press Contact: co-founder Arthur Ashe. While NJTLs vary in addition, she won her first professional Jim Durham, (859) 806-6104 size and programming, this growing network tour-level match in Indian Wells, Calif. This [email protected] shares a commitment to positive youth year, Stephens qualified for the French Open development, the importance of education, and again advanced to the second round in USTA Communications Contacts: and tennis as a lifetime sport. Indian Wells, where she lost to world No. 1 Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] Caroline Wozniacki. Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] Expected in the main draw is Alison Riske, PrIze money / PoInTs the top-ranked player in the field, who Others expected in the main draw include: last year reached the semifinals of the former world No. 4 junior Julia Cohen, who SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Wimbledon tune-up event in Birmingham, reached a career-best ranking of No. 153 Winner $7,315 70 England, where she lost to Maria Sharapova. last November after winning a tournament Runner-up $3,990 50 In turn, Riske’s showing earned her a wild in Canada and reaching back-to-back finals Semifinalist $2,185 32 card into 2010 Wimbledon. This year, at the end of the year at $25,000 events in Quarterfinalist $1,235 18 Riske ascended to No. 104 in the world Brazil; Lindsay Lee-Waters, a mother of two, Round of 16 $760 10 in May after reaching the final of the who holds 30 USTA Pro Circuit career titles Round of 32 $475 1 $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Indian (19 in doubles) and has competed in 13 DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Harbour Beach, Fla. She later returned to US Opens, either in the qualifying or main Winner $2,660 Birmingham and reached the quarterfinals, draw; 16-year-old Krista Hardebeck, who, Runner-up $1,425 then competed in Wimbledon. in 2010, joined Melanie Oudin and Sam Semifinalist $760 Querrey as the only players to win the USTA Quarterfinalist $380 Also expected in the main draw is 18-year- International Spring Championships and the Round of 16 $285 old Sloane Stephens, who, in 2010, won Easter Bowl in back-to-back weeks (Marcos Giron also accomplished the feat this year); CommunITy eVenTs and 17-year-old Lauren Davis, who finished Monday, July 18 2010 by winning six events in the last three Pro-Am, 6 p.m. months of the year, including three junior Anthony Behar titles, two USTA Pro Circuit titles and a Tuesday, July 19 USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the NJTL Kids’ Day, 2-5 p.m. Standout junior Sloane Stephens, in 2010, won Exhibition Match, 6:15 p.m. the girls’ doubles titles at the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, and reached the Thursday, July 21 singles quarterfinals or better in the same three Ladies Night junior Slam events. TournamenT noTes main draw of the 2011 Australian Open. Davis won the USTA Pro match, defeating Alla Kudryavtseva in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Circuit event in Buffalo, N.Y., in June. and who this year reached the round of 16 at junior Wimbledon and reached the final of the USTA International Spring Others expected in the main draw include: Alexandra Mueller, who Championships, an esteemed junior event; 17-year-old Grace Min, won the inaugural US Open National Playoffs last year to earn a wild who, as a standout junior player, won the doubles title at the 2010 card into the 2010 US Open Qualifying Tournament, and who won USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships to earn a doubles main her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title of the year at the $10,000 draw wild card into the US Open, and who reached the semifinals event in Hilton Head Island, S.C., in June; Ashley Weinhold, who of the Easter Bowl this year and won the 2011 junior Wimbledon won the 2007 USTA Girls’ 18s title to earn a wild card into main doubles title; and Kristie Ahn, also competing as a member of the draw of the US Open, and who defeated 2009 USTA Collegiate Team, who just completed her freshman year at US Open quarterfinalist Melanie Oudin at the USTA Pro Circuit Stanford, where she earned All-America honors and was named the $25,000 event in Pelham, Ala., in March; Ahsha Rolle, who won ITA National Rookie of the Year. back-to-back USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles in January with Mashona Washington and reached the singles quarterfinals and the Other players competing in qualifying who are members of the USTA doubles semifinals of the $100,000 event in Midland, Mich., earlier Collegiate Team include: Hilary Barte of Stanford, Lauren Embree of this year; 19-year-old Julia Boserup, a full-time trainee at the USTA Florida, Maria Sanchez of Southern California, and Allie Will of Florida. Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., who, as a junior, won the 2008 Dunlop Orange Bowl and, as a professional, advanced Seven players expected in qualifying who will be competing in the to the semifinals of the $25,000 event in Jackson, Miss, earlier this US Open National Playoffs—Women’s Championship in August for a year; 19-year-old Chichi Scholl, who has qualified for eight USTA chance to earn a wild card into the US Open Qualifying Tournament Pro Circuit singles main draws this year, and who won the USTA Pro include: former LSU standout Megan Falcon, 2008 NCAA singles Circuit $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas, in June, which has resulted champion Amanda McDowell, Whitney Jones, Romana Tedjakusuma, in her climbing 500 spots in the WTA rankings; and Jennifer Macall Harkins, Lena Litvak and Robin Anderson, a trainee at the Elie, who has competed in ITF Women’s Circuit events in Mexico, USTA Training Center-East at the USTA Billie Jean King National Sweden, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Tennis Center, who reached the quarterfinals of the US Open juniors in 2010 and won the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Those receiving main draw wild cards include: Asia Muhammad, who Landisville, Pa., in May. learned to play tennis at the Andre Agassi Boys and Girls Club in Las Vegas, and who won the doubles title at the 2009 USTA Girls’ Many WTA stars have found success in Lexington. 2008 singles 18s National Championships with partner Christina McHale, earning champion Melanie Oudin went on to have the best season of her a wild card into the women’s doubles main draw at the US Open; young career in 2009, reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon and 18-year-old Nicole Gibbs, the runner-up at the 2010 USTA as a qualifier and then having a dream Grand Slam run to the Girls’ 18s National Championships, who, as a freshman, helped quarterfinals of the US Open. Oudin is also a key player on the lead Stanford to the 2011 NCAA team final. Gibbs is competing U.S. Fed Cup team, having helped lead the United States to the as a member of the 2011 USTA Collegiate Team, an elite training Fed Cup final both in 2009 and 2010.Carly Gullickson, the 2008 program for the top American collegiate tennis players that provides singles runner-up, won the 2009 US Open mixed doubles title with players with valuable exposure to the USTA Pro Circuit in a USTA Pro Circuit graduate Travis Parrott. 1997 singles runner-up team-oriented environment during the year. Liezel Huber, the No. 5-ranked doubles player in the world, has won 44 WTA doubles titles—including four Grand Slam women’s doubles Teenagers expected to compete in qualifying include: 16-year-old titles—and has played an integral role in the U.S.