TOURNAMENT NOTES as of September 20, 2018 LOS CAB USTA MEN’S FUTURES FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA • SEPTEMBER 21-30 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO FOUNTAIN VALLEY The Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures is taking place in Fountain Valley for the third consecutive year. Two years ago, USTA Pro Circuit tennis returned to Fountain Valley for the fi rst time since 1979—the fi rst year of Staples USTA/Pete TOURNAMENT INFO the USTA Pro Circuit. This tournament is the Site: Los Cabelleros Racquet & Sports Club last of three consecutive USTA Pro Circuit Fountain Valley, Calif. $15,000 Futures hard-court events in California following the US Open, coming on Website: www.procircuit.usta.com the heels of Claremont and Laguna Niguel. Qualifying Draw Begins: Friday, September 21 Notable players competing in the main draw Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, September 25 include: Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Strong Kirchheimer, 23, Cary, N.C. Surface: Hard / Outdoor • Finished collegiate career at Northwestern in 2017 as the fi fth player in program Jenson Brooksby won this year’s USTA Boys’ Prize Money: $15,000 18s national championship and received a main history to record 100 singles victories, draw wild card into the 2018 US Open. Tournament Director: with 105; Two-time All-Big Ten First Team Hank Lloyd, (714) 608-9518 selection. [email protected] • Reached one Futures-level singles fi nal Mousheg Hovhannisyan, 26, Los Angeles in 2018, at a $25,000 hard court event in Tournament Press Aide: • Played four seasons of college tennis at Gatineau, Canada, in March. Joel Beers, (714) 423-1088 Pepperdine from 2009-13: fi nished with an 80-52 record in singles and 32-24 in [email protected] Alexios Halebian, 24, Hollywood, Calif. doubles. USTA Communications Contact: • Former Top 25-ranked junior • Born in Armenia – Father, Stepan, was a Pat Mitsch, (914) 697-2291 • Singles runner-up to Dennis Novikov at star table tennis player in the Soviet Union. [email protected] the USTA Boys’ 18s National Championship in 2012. Jenson Brooksby, 17, Sacramento, Calif. PRIZE MONEY / POINTS • Has won seven ITF and USTA Pro Circuit • Won the USTA Boys’ 18s National Prize Money Ranking Points SINGLES: doubles titles. Championship singles title at Kalamazoo, Winner $2,160 18 Mich., (d. Brandon Nakashima) to earn a US Runner-up $1,272 10 Sam Shropshire, 23, Philadelphia, Pa. Open main draw wild card. Semifi nalist $753 6 • Four-year All-Big Ten selection at • Product of the academy in Sacramento Quarterfi nalist $438 2 Northwestern (three-time First Team), run by coach Joseph Gilbert, who also Round of 16 $258 1 becoming only one of three athletes in coached 2013 USTA Boys’ 18s National Round of 32 $156 -- program history to be named All-Big Ten Champion Collin Altamirano. every season of his career; Went 77-34 in • Been successful at nearly every rung of DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) singles overall at Northwestern. USTA junior competition, having won the Winner $930 12s national singles title (2013) and been Trent Bryde, 19, Atlanta, Ga. Runner-up $540 the runner-up at the 16s level (2016). • Former Top-10 world-ranked junior Semifi nalist $324 • Verbal commitment to TCU Quarterfi nalist $192 • Top 200-world ranked junior Paul Oosterbaan, 22, Kalamazoo, Mich. Round of 16 $108 • Member of four SEC championship teams at the University of Georgia • Reached the singles fi nal at an ITF Futures tournament in Calgary in June • 6-foot-7 *Player fi eld subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES FOUNTAIN VALLEY PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2017 Ronnie Schneider (USA) Ryan Shane (USA) 2017 Elliott Orkin (USA) / Ronnie Schneider (USA) 2016 Sebastian Fanselow (GER) Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM) 2016 Hunter Johnson (USA) – Yates Johnson (USA).