TOURNAMENT NOTES
as of May 7, 2014
TAMPA USTA MEN’S PRO CIRCUIT FUTURES
TAMPA, FL • MAY 9-18
Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles
The Tampa USTA Men’s Pro Circuit Futures
is being held in Tampa for the 15th
consecutive year. The city also hosted nine
USTA Pro Circuit events between 1980 and
1997. This is the last of three consecutive
clay-court USTA Pro Circuit Futures, all
of which have been held in Florida as part
of the USTA Pro Circuit spring clay-court
season. In conjunction with USTA Player
Development, the USTA Pro Circuit continues
to emphasize the importance of increased
training for younger players on clay.
Surface: Clay / Outdoor
Notable players competing in Tampa include:
Prize Money: $10,000
Bjorn Fratangelo, who in 2011 became the
first American since John McEnroe in 1977
to win the boys’ singles title at the French
Open. Fratangelo had a strong season on
the USTA Pro Circuit in 2013, reaching four
Futures finals and winning the singles titles
in Orange Park, Fla., and Weston, Fla. He
also competed in qualifying for the 2013
US Open.
Site: Harbour Island Athletic Club
Tampa, Fla.
Website: procircuit.usta.com
Qualifying Draw Begins: Friday, May 9
Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, May 13
Tournament Director:
Jose Campos, (813) 468-3659
[email protected]
Tournament Press Contact:
Jose Campos, (813) 468-3659
[email protected]
USTA Public Relations Contact:
Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219
[email protected]
Eric Quigley, the 2012 NCAA singles runner-up
out of the University of Kentucky. Quigley
is one of the most decorated tennis players
in Wildcats history, earning five All-America
honors between singles and doubles. In 2008,
he became the first Kentucky player in 34
years to win four consecutive high school state
singles titles. He captured his first pro title last
summer at the $10,000 Futures in Decatur, Ill.
This year, Quigley reached the singles final at
SINGLES:
Prize Money
Ranking Points
Winner
$1,44017
Runner-up
$8489
Semifinalist $5025
Quarterfinalist $2922
Round of 16
$172
1
Round of 32
$104
DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team)
Winner$620
Runner-up$360
Semifinalist$216
Quarterfinalist$128
Round of 16
$0
David Kenas
PRIZE MONEY / POINTS
Anthony Behar
USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO TAMPA FOR 15TH YEAR IN A ROW
TOURNAMENT
INFORMATION
In 2011, Bjorn Fratangelo became the first
American since John McEnroe in 1977 to win
the boys’ singles title at the French Open.
Fratangelo has since won two USTA Pro Circuit
singles titles.
the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit clay-court event
in Boynton Beach, Fla., and won the doubles
title at the $15,000 Futures in Little Rock,
Ark., in April with Jean-Yves Aubone.
Mitchell Krueger, who was the top-ranked
American junior boy in 2012, peaking at
a career-high No. 5 in the world junior
rankings. Krueger advanced to the boys’
singles semifinals at the French Open and
Wimbledon in 2012 and turned pro that
July. He captured his first pro singles title
last year while competing at a clay-court
ITF Pro Circuit event in the Netherlands.
This year he has reached the final at
the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in
Bakersfield, Calif.
Sekou Bangoura, who has won three USTA
Pro Circuit titles (two in doubles and one in
singles) in 2014. Overall, Bangoura owns
Eric Quigley was the 2012 NCAA singles
runner-up for the University of Kentucky. He
is one of the most decorated tennis players in
UK history, earning five All-America honors,
between singles and doubles.
*Player field subject to change
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two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and four doubles titles. He was
named a doubles All-American during his sophomore year at the
University of Florida after reaching the doubles semifinals of the
2011 NCAA tournament.
Dennis Novikov, who was the 2012 USTA Boys’ 18s national
champion in singles and doubles. Those victories earned him wild
card entries into the men’s singles and doubles main draws at the
2012 US Open, where he became the second USTA Boys’ 18s
champ in 15 years to win his first-round match in men’s singles.
Novikov completed his sophomore year at UCLA in 2013. He turned
pro that summer and won his first USTA Pro Circuit title in June
at the $10,000 Futures in Amelia Island, Fla. Born in Moscow,
Novikov moved with his family to the United States at 1 year old
and, from a varied sports background, chose tennis over hockey,
swimming and gymnastics.
Defending doubles champion Jean-Yves Aubone, who won a seasonhigh four USTA Pro Circuit Futures doubles titles in 2013 and who
has also captured two doubles titles this year. Aubone also won two
singles titles in 2008. He played for Florida State University, where
he became the first player in school history to earn All-America singles
honors twice. As a junior player, he represented the United States
in Junior Davis Cup (16-and-under international team competition)
and also reached the singles semifinals of the 2004 USTA Boys’ 18
National Clay Court Championships.
Jesse Witten, who posted the best Grand Slam result of his career
at the 2009 US Open, qualifying and knocking off two Top 100
players before falling to Novak Djokovic in four sets in the third
round. Witten peaked at No. 163 in the world in early 2010 and
has played on the USTA Pro Circuit periodically during the past five
years, winning his first title in four years at the $10,000 USTA Pro
Circuit Futures in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., last June. Witten
was a University of Kentucky standout, reaching the NCAA singles
final in 2002. Witten won the mixed doubles title at the 2013
US Open National Playoffs USTA Florida Sectional Qualifying
Tournament to advance to the US Open National Playoffs – Mixed
Doubles Championship in New Haven, Conn., last summer, where
he competed for a US Open mixed doubles wild card. Witten won
the mixed doubles title with his older sister, Sarah, who reached the
NCAA doubles final in 2003 while playing for Kentucky.
Five-time University of Florida All-American Greg Ouellette, who
won the bronze medal in doubles at the 2011 Pan Am Games with
Nicholas Monroe. Ouellette holds two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles
and four doubles titles, with his most recent titles coming in 2012.
final in 2013 at the $15,000 Futures in Mansfield, Texas. In
addition, Nevolo has excelled in doubles, winning two Futures titles
on the USTA Pro Circuit last year, both with Jean-Yves Aubone.
Nevolo graduated in 2012 from the University of Illinois, where he
was ranked as high as No. 2 in the NCAA men’s singles rankings.
Many USTA Pro Circuit and ATP World Tour standouts have found
success in Tampa.
2004 singles runner-up Brian Baker has reached the second round
or better at each of the four Grand Slam tournaments, including the
round of 16 at Wimbledon in 2012, when he climbed to No. 52
in the world rankings. Baker’s career has been interrupted by an
assortment of injuries requiring five surgeries from 2005 to 2008,
including Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery in
February 2008. A six-time USTA Pro Circuit singles champion, Baker
has played in only three events since suffering a severe knee injury
at the 2013 Australian Open, but none in 2014.
2010 doubles champion Denis Kudla went on to reach the US Open
boys’ singles final that year. He has since progressed to the USTA
Pro Circuit and ATP World Tour, breaking into the Top 100 for the
first time in his career in 2013, the year in which he advanced to
the second round of the US Open and Wimbledon, and competed in
a number of Emirates Airline US Open Series events. He qualified
for the 2013 French Open and reached the quarterfinals of the
Wimbledon warm-up event at Queens Club—his best ATP result.
Also in 2013, Kudla won the $50,000 Challenger in Tallahassee,
Fla., for his fifth USTA Pro Circuit singles title and third Challenger
title. Thus far in 2014, he has earned direct entry into the Australian
Open and won the doubles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit
Challenger in Maui, Hawaii, in January.
In 1987, Jim Courier won the event in Tampa. Courier, who was
inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005,
climbed to No. 1 in the world in 1992 and is a four-time Grand
Slam tournament champion (1991-92 French Open, 1992-93
Australian Open). He captured 23 singles titles and six doubles titles
and reached the final of all four majors during his career. Courier is
currently the U.S. Davis Cup captain.
1990 Tampa doubles champion Ken Flach won four Grand Slam
tournament doubles titles and captured the doubles gold medal at
the 1988 Olympics. He claimed 34 doubles titles during his career
and was 11-2 in Davis Cup doubles competition.
Dennis Nevolo, who advanced to his first USTA Pro Circuit singles
*Player field subject to change
TOURNAMENT NOTES
TAMPA PAST WINNERS
Singles
Doubles
Year
Winner
Runner-Up
Year
Winner
2013
Austin Krajicek (USA)
Christian Harrison (USA)
2013
Jean Yves-Aubone (USA) – Ryan Rowe (USA)
2012
Tennys Sandgren (USA)
Bjorn Fratangelo (USA)
2012
Philip Bester (CAN) – Kamil Pajkowski (CAN)
2011
Blake Strode (USA)
Lester Cook (USA)
2011
Ashley Fisher (AUS) – Chris Haggard (RSA)
2010
Augustin Gensse (FRA)
Erling Tveit (NOR)
2010
Denis Kudla (USA) – Junior Ore (USA)
2009
Philip Bester (CAN)
Haydn Lewis (BAR)
2009
Kaden Hensel (AUS) – Adam Hubble (AUS)
2008
Daniel Garza (MEX)
Marcus Fugate (USA)
2008
Adam Fuss (USA) – Vahid Mirzadeh (USA)
2007
Victor Estrella (DOM)
Stefano Ianni (ITA)
2007
Colin Ebelthite (AUS) – Clinton Thomson (AUS)
2006
Robert Yim (USA)
Izak Van Der Merwe (RSA)
2006
Kelly Jones (USA) – Pete Stroer (USA)
2005
Jose De Armas (VEN)
Diego Alvarez (ARG)
2005
Cody Conley (USA) – Ryan Newport (USA)
2004
K.J. Hippensteel (USA)
Brian Baker (USA)
2004
Ryan Haviland (USA) – K.J.Hippensteel (USA)
2003
Dusan Vemic (SRB)
Francisco Rodriguez (PAR)
2003
Ryan Haviland (USA) – K.J.Hippensteel (USA)
2002
Jose De Armas (VEN)
Frank Dancevic (CAN)
2002
Thomas Blake (USA) – Levar Harper-Griffith (USA)
2001
Daniel Andersson (SWE)
Levar Harper-Griffith (USA)
2001
Enrique Abaroa (MEX) – Lee Pearson (AUS)
2000
Cedric Kauffmann (FRA)
Noam Behr (ISR)
2000
Enrique Abaroa (MEX) – Mauricio Hadad (COL)
1998-1999
Event not held
1998-1999
Event not held
1997
David Witt (USA)
1997
Robert Kraus (RSA) – Markus Zillner (GER)
1991-1996
Event not held
1991-1996
Event not held
April 1990
Bryan Shelton (USA)
Broderick Dyke (AUS)
April 1990
Doug Flach (USA) – Ken Flach (USA)
March 1990
Jan Apell (SWE)
Massimo Ardinhi (ITA)
March 1990
Scott Melville (USA) – Jacco Van Duyn (NED)
1989
Event not held
1989
Event not held
1988
Jimmy Brown (USA)
Jon Sorbo (USA)
1988
Julian Barham (USA) – Rikard Bergh (SWE)
1987
Jim Courier (USA)
Jimmy Brown (USA)
1987
Tobias Svantesson (SWE) – John Treml (USA)
1986
Andrei Chesnokov (RUS)
Ramesh Krishnan (IND)
1986
Brett Custer (AUS) – David MacPherson (AUS)
1985
Magnus Tideman (SWE)
Ahmed El Mehelmy (EGY)
1985
Peter Carlsson (SWE) – Magnus Tideman (SWE)
1984
Jay Lapidus (USA)
Ben Testerman (USA)
1984
Jonathan Canter (USA) – Derek Tarr (USA)
1981-1983
Event not held
1981-1983
Event not held
1980
Ben Mckown (USA)
1980
Morris Strode (USA) – Charles Strode (USA)
Ricardo Mena (POR)
Rick Fagel (USA)
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U S TA P R O C I R C U I T
With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging
from $10,000 to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition
for aspiring tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. Celebrating its
35th anniversary in 2014, the USTA Pro Circuit provides players with the opportunity to gain professional
ranking points, and it has grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering
nearly $3 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries
competed in cities nationwide. Mardy Fish, Maria Sharapova, John Isner, Caroline Wozniacki, Sam
Querrey, Victoria Azarenka and Andy Murray are among today’s top stars who began their careers on
the USTA Pro Circuit.
Joyce Tartar-Rideout
More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit
helped launch the careers of two young
Americans—Bradley Klahn and Shelby
Rogers. Former Stanford standout and 2010
NCAA champion Klahn was the 2013 USTA
Pro Circuit Prize Money Leader with $50,606
in earnings, reaching five USTA Pro Circuit
singles finals and winning two singles titles:
the $15,000 Futures in Costa Mesa, Calif.,
in March, and the $100,000 Challenger in
Aptos, Calif., in August. The two singles
titles were the first USTA Pro Circuit singles
crowns of his career. Klahn also earned
Bradley Klahn
a USTA wild card into the 2013 US Open
through a wild card challenge incorporating
USTA Pro Circuit events. Klahn finished 2013
ranked in the Top 100 for the first time in his
career after starting the year ranked outside
the Top 250. Rogers was the 2013 women’s
USTA Pro Circuit Prize Money Leader with
$36,308 in earnings, winning three singles
titles with prize money of $50,000 or more ($50,000 events in Charlottesville, Va., and Lexington, Ky., and
the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, N.M.). Rogers also earned a USTA wild card into both the French Open
and the US Open by winning wild card challenges for the two Grand Slam tournaments utilizing a series
of USTA Pro Circuit events. In her debut at the 2013 French Open, Rogers won her first round match. She
peaked at No. 116 in the world in October 2013, rising more than 100 spots throughout the year. Both
Klahn and Rogers train with the USTA Player Development program.
P L AY E R D E V E L O P M E N T
The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions
by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need
to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center
Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as
well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States.
YOUTH TENNIS
The USTA is making it easier and more fun for kids to get into
the game—and stay in the game. Kids are learning to play
faster than ever before through the USTA’s youth initiative,
which is geared toward getting more kids to participate in
tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a child’s
size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com.
NJTL
Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, along with Charlie Pasarell
and Sheridan Snyder, the USTA/National Junior Tennis &
Learning (NJTL) network is a nationwide group of more than
625 non-profit youth development organizations that provide
free or low-cost tennis, education and life skills programming
to more than 350,000 children each year. Celebrating its
44th anniversary this year, NJTL is one of the USTA’s largest
community-based offerings..
U S O P E N N AT I O N A L P L AY O F F S
The USTA launched the US Open
National Playoffs in 2010, making
the US Open “open” to anyone
age 14+ and of all skill levels.
Last year, more than 1,000 players
competed in 13 Sectional Qualifying
Tournaments nationwide for a 2013
US Open Qualifying Tournament wild
card. A mixed doubles element also was held, with the winning
team earning a main draw mixed doubles wild card. Mayo Hibi, a
17-year-old Japanese player living in Irvine, Calif., won the 2013
US Open National Playoffs women’s title and USTA Pro Circuit
regular Jeff Dadamo of Tampa, Fla., won the men’s wild card.
Yasmin Schnack and Eric Roberson won mixed doubles. The 13
sectional qualifying tournaments for this year’s US Open National
Playoffs are in May and June, with championships in August. For
more information, visit www.usopen.org/NationalPlayoffs.