TOURNAMENT NOTES as of January 21, 2015 THE ROYAL LAHAINA CHALLENGER MAUI, HAWAII • JANUARY 25 – FEBRUARY 1 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO MAUI AS FIRST CHALLENGER OF 2015 TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Royal Lahaina Challenger brings the USTA Pro Circuit to Maui for the third Site: The Royal Lahaina Resort – Maui, Hawaii consecutive year. Maui hosted an event USTA from 1984 to 1987 and in 1993 and 2006. Websites: www.royallahainachallenger.com Honolulu hosted a USTA Pro Circuit men’s procircuit.usta.com Challenger from 2003 to 2012. It is the Facebook: 2015 Royal Lahaina Challenger only USTA Pro Circuit event held in Hawaii, and it is the first $50,000 Challenger of the Twitter: @RLChallenger 2015 season. Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, Jan. 25 This tournament will be streamed live on Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Jan. 27 www.procircuit.usta.com. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Notable players competing in the main draw Surface: Hard / Outdoor include: Prize Money: $50,000 Maui’s defending singles champion Bradley Tournament Director: Klahn, who peaked at No. 63 in the world Ron Romano, (808) 277-0089 last March after winning in Maui, as well [email protected] as in a Challenger in Australia following the Maui’s defending singles champion Bradley Tournament Press Contact: Australian Open. Klahn earned a main draw Klahn peaked at No. 63 in the world last March Ryan Trujillo, (808) 585-9525 wild card into the 2013 US Open based on and has played in each of the four Grand Slam events. Klahn also won the 2010 NCAA men’s [email protected] his summer hard-court results on the USTA Pro Circuit, which included a victory at the singles title for Stanford University. USTA Communications Contact: $100,000 Challenger in Aptos, Calif., and a Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] runner-up finish at the $50,000 Challenger collegiate All-American in 2010, 2011 and in Binghamton, N.Y. He also competed in PRIZE MONEY / POINTS 2012. Following his pro debut in 2012, he the US Open main draw in 2014. Klahn received a wild card into qualifying at the Prize Money Ranking Points SINGLES: won the 2010 NCAA men’s singles title 2012 US Open and subsequently won three Winner $7,200 80 for Stanford University, and he was a matches to advance to the main draw, where Runner-up $4,240 48 he upset Top 50 player Jurgen Melzer in Semifinalist $2,510 29 the first round. In doing so, Klahn became Quarterfinalist $1,460 15 the first men’s qualifying wild card to win Round of 16 $860 7 a round at the US Open. In 2013, he led Round of 32 $520 -- the USTA Pro Circuit in prize money after reaching five USTA Pro Circuit singles finals DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) and winning two singles titles. In the off- Winner $3,100 Patrick Scala/Getty Images season, Klahn trained with the USTA Player Runner-up $1,800 Development program at the USTA Training Semifinalist $1,080 Center in Boca Raton, Fla. Quarterfinalist $640 Round of 16 $360 Maui’s defending doubles champion Denis Kudla, who competed in the Australian Open main draw for the third time in the last four years in 2015, after clinching the USTA Pro Circuit Australian Open Wild Card Challenge last fall. Kudla lost to No. 12 seed Feliciano Maui’s defending doubles champion Denis Kudla comes to Maui after competing in the Australian Open main draw for the third time in the last four years, having clinched the USTA Pro Circuit Australian Open Wild Card Challenge last fall. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES Lopez in the first round in a five-set match that lasted nearly three- champion and No. 5 seed Juan Martin del Potro in the opening and-a-half hours. Kudla earned the 2015 Australian Open wild-card round. In 2014, Williams qualified for and reached the quarterfinals berth by reaching the semifinals of the $50,000 Challenger in of the ATP event in Delray Beach, Fla., losing to John Isner, in Charlottesville, Va., and the quarterfinals of Challengers in Knoxville, his best result of the year. Williams won three matches to qualify Tenn., and Champaign, Ill. Kudla also qualified for the main draw of for the main draw of the 2012 US Open for his first Grand Slam the Australian Open in 2012 and 2014. He broke into the Top 100 appearance and, in the process, became one of just 13 qualifying in 2013 after advancing to the second round of Wimbledon—his wild cards to reach the main draw in recorded US Open history. first Grand Slam win. Also in 2013, Kudla qualified for the French At the 2012 US Open, he faced Andy Roddick prior to Roddick’s Open, reached the second round of the US Open and advanced to retirement announcement. In addition, Williams earned a wild card the quarterfinals of the ATP Wimbledon warm-up event at Queens into the 2013 Australian Open main draw by winning the USTA Club—his best ATP result. In 2014, he qualified for the Australian Australian Open Wild Card Playoffs, and he qualified for the 2013 Open and won his opening-round match at Wimbledon (before losing French Open. Also in 2013, he reached the semifinals at the ATP to Kei Nishikori in the second round). Kudla holds six USTA Pro clay-court event in Houston for his best ATP result. Williams turned Circuit singles titles and four doubles titles. He was ranked No. 3 in pro in 2011 following his sophomore year at the University of the world junior rankings and reached the boys’ singles final at the Tennessee, where he reached the singles final at the 2011 NCAA 2010 US Open, where he lost to Jack Sock in three sets. Kudla was Championships. He comes from a tennis family: His grandfather away from the game from mid-July 2014 to late September due to is Mike DePalmer Sr., a co-founder of the Nick Bollettieri Tennis mononucleosis. He was born in the Ukraine and came to the U.S. Academy, and his mother, Michelle DePalmer-Williams, is a former with his parents on his first birthday. Kudla trains with the USTA pro and Orange Bowl 16s champion. Williams is coached by his Player Development program and did his off-season training with cousin, Christopher Williams. fellow pros Sam Querrey, Steve Johnson and Madison Keys at the USTA Training Center – West in Carson, Calif. Chase Buchanan, who peaked at No. 158 in the world last August after a strong summer, during which he competed on the USTA Pro Ryan Harrison, who earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team for the Circuit and overseas, reaching the singles semifinals or better at 2012 Games in London and has been a member of the U.S. Davis five events and qualifying for the Emirates Airline US Open Series Cup team. He also has enjoyed success on the ATP World Tour, event in Cincinnati. Buchanan also won three ITF Circuit events last reaching three semifinals in 2012 to peak at No. 43 in the world. fall—one in Ecuador and two in Bolivia. As a college player for Ohio (At the time, he and Bernard Tomic of Australia were the only players State University, Buchanan won the NCAA doubles championship aged 20 or younger in the Top 100.) In 2013, Harrison reached the in 2012 with Blaz Rola, earning a wild card into the main draw of semifinals of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Atlanta, the US Open men’s doubles event that year. In singles, Buchanan advanced to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open tune-up event reached the final of the 2009 junior US Open. He also earned a wild in Sydney and reached the second round of the Australian Open card into the men’s singles main draw of that year’s US Open—his and the French Open (losing to John Isner in five sets in Paris). In only Grand Slam main-draw appearance—as the USTA Boys’ 18s 2014, Harrison reached the second round at the ATP Master Series champion, losing in the first round to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Buchanan events in Indian Wells and Miami, and he competed in the main has won three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles in his career. He draw at three of the four Grand Slam tournaments (the US Open, competed Australian Open qualifying this year for the first time, the Australian Open and, as a qualifier, Wimbledon). He has played reaching the final round. He has been training at the USTA Training in the US Open main draw each of the last five years. In 2010, he Center – West at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., working with qualified and upset No. 15 seed Ivan Ljubicic in the opening round, USTA collegiate coach Stephen Amritraj. and in 2012, he also advanced to the second round, losing to US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro. Jared Donaldson, who made his Grand Slam tournament debut after receiving a wild card into the 2014 US Open, where he faced 2006 singles champion Michael Russell, who comes to Maui after eventual quarterfinalist Gael Monfils in the first round. Donaldson qualifying for the Australian Open, where he lost in the first round won back-to-back USTA Pro Circuit singles titles at $15,000 Futures to No. 20 seed David Goffin. Russell is the men’s all-time leader in events in Tulsa, Okla., and Oklahoma City last summer—the first USTA Pro Circuit singles titles with 24, winning his most recent title USTA Pro Circuit singles titles of his career.