Tournament Notes INTERSCOPE RECORDS PRESENTS THE NORMAN WILKERSON TENNIS EXPERIENCE ATLANTA JULY USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO ATLANTA

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1 Tournament Notes as of July 5, 2010 INTERSCOPE RECORDS PRESENTS THE NORMAN WILKERSON TENNIS EXPERIENCE ATLANTA JULY TOURNAMENT INFORMATION Site: Racquet Club of the South Norcross, Ga. Website: procircuit.usta.com Qualifying draw begins: Saturday, July 10 Main draw begins: Tuesday, July 13 Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Surface: Hard / Outdoor Prize Money: $10,000 Tournament Director: Patricia Jensen, (917) segaljensen@aol.com USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO ATLANTA Interscope Records presents the Norman Wilkerson Tennis Experience returns to Atlanta for the third straight year. The tournament is the only women s event hosted in Georgia and is the first of three hard court tournaments to prepare players for the 2010 US Open. This year s main draw is expected to include last year s singles champion Irina Falconi, who is competing on the USTA Summer Collegiate Team, an elite training program for the top American collegiate tennis players to provide the players with valuable exposure to the USTA Pro Circuit in a teamoriented atmosphere. Falconi finished her sophomore year at Georgia Tech, where as a freshman, she recorded one of the best rookie campaigns in school history, posting 30 singles wins to earn All-America honors. USTA Tournament Press Contact: Patricia Jensen, (917) segaljensen@aol.com USTA Public Relations Contacts: Eric Schuster, (914) , schuster@usta.com Amanda Korba, (914) , korba@usta.com Prize money / points SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Winner $1, Runner-up $980 8 Semifinalist $490 6 Quarterfinalist $245 4 Round of 16 $196 1 Round of 32 $98 - DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Winner $637 Runner-up $343 Semifinalist $196 Quarterfinalist $98 Round of 16 $49 Tim Hartis Also expected in the main draw include: Alexandra Mueller, who won the singles and doubles titles at the USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 event in Landisville, Pa., earlier this year and was the winner of the US Open National Playoffs USTA Middle States Sectional Qualifying Tournament; 16-year-old Ellen Tsay, who won the doubles title at the 2010 International Spring Championships and swept the girls 16s singles and doubles titles at the 2008 Last year s singles champion Irina Falconi, an All-American at Georgia Tech, is a three-time winner on the USTA Pro Circuit. Easter Bowl; Elizabeth Lumpkin, who won her first professional title at the $10,000 event in Evansville, Ind., last July and helped lead UCLA to the NCAA team title in 2008; Alexis King, who won $10,000 Hilton Head Island, S.C., last month and reached the final of $10,000 Sumter, S.C., the week prior; Chloe Jones, who reached back-toback quarterfinals at $10,000 events in Landisville, Pa., and Sumter, S.C., last year and was a doubles finalist at the 2007 Easter Bowl as a junior; and Allie Will, also a member of the USTA Summer Collegiate Team and an accomplished junior, who was a singles and doubles All-American as a freshman at the University of Florida. Former top collegiate players in the main draw include: 2008 Atlanta singles champion Amanda Fink, a four-year letter Five-time USTA Pro Circuit champion Alexandra Mueller recently won the US Open National Playoffs USTA Middle States Sectional Qualifier.

2 Tournament Notes winner at the University of Southern California; and Story Tweedie- Yates, who won team national championships at Stanford University in 2002 and Two members of the USTA Summer Collegiate Team also received main draw wild cards: Hilary Barte, who plays for Stanford and won the NCAA Division I doubles title this year; and Maria Sanchez, who plays for USC and entered this past season ranked No. 8 in the nation in the ITA singles rankings. In addition to Falconi, Will, Barte and Sanchez, those members of the USTA Summer Collegiate Team who will compete in qualifying include: Caitlin Whoriskey, who was named the 2010 Intercollegiate Tennis Association s National Senior Player of the Year for Division I women s tennis after leading the University of Tennessee to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament; Lindsay Burdette, who completed her senior year at Stanford this spring; and Lindsay s sister, Mallory, who finished her freshman year at Stanford. In addition to Mueller, three other US Open National Playoffs Sectional Qualifying Tournament champions are scheduled to compete in qualifying this week: former USC standout Maureen Diaz, who won the USTA Hawaii-Pacific sectional qualifier; 16-yearold Jessica Pegula, the USTA Intermountain winner, who reached the final of a junior tournament in Brazil this year; and Samantha Powers, the USTA Southern sectional qualifier champion. Also expected in qualifying include: 15-year-old Madison Keys, who became the youngest player since Martina Hingis in 1994 to win a tour-level match, defeating Alla Kudryavtseva in 2009 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; Lauren Davis, who reached the quarterfinals of the girls singles at the 2009 US Open; and Kate Fuller, who will be attending the University of Georgia in the fall. ATLANTA Past WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2009 Irina Falconi (USA) Jennifer Elie (USA) 2009 Kaitlyn Christian (USA) Lindsey Nelson (USA) 2008 Amanda Fink (USA) Svetlana Krivencheva (BUL) 2008 Sanaz Marand (USA) Kristi Miller (USA) David Kenas Lauren Davis finished 2009 as the No. 2-ranked girl in the nation.

3 Tournament Notes USTA PRO CIRCUIT With more than 90 tournaments 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. The USTA launched its Pro Circuit 31 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points and has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering more than $3 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. Maria Sharapova, Andy Roddick, James Blake, Andy Murray, Jelena Jankovic, Sam Querrey and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga are among today s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. In 2009, the USTA Pro Circuit helped launch the careers of two young Americans Melanie Oudin and John Isner. Oudin began 2009 ranked No. 177, but climbed the rankings by winning back-to-back $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit events. With a boost in confidence, she reached the fourth round of Wimbledon and the quarterfinals of the 2009 US Open. She is now the No. 3 American woman behind Venus and Serena Williams. Isner joined the USTA Pro Circuit after turning pro in 2007 and jump-started the best season of his career by winning the Tallahassee Challenger last year. Subsequently, he reached the semifinals at two Olympus US Open Series events and upset Andy Roddick en route to the fourth round at the 2009 US Open. This year, Isner captured his first tour title and reached the fourth round of the Australian Open to become the No. 2 American in men s tennis. Melanie Oudin PLAYER DEVELOPMENT 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. 30 MILLION PLAYERS The USTA Pro Circuit serves as an integral part of the USTA s mission to grow and develop tennis in the United States. In November 2009, the USTA and Tennis Industry Association announced that tennis participation in the United States topped 30 million players for the first time in more than two decades with participation growing in all age groups under the age of 50 and within all ethnicities. Another survey conducted by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association last year also showed that tennis is the only traditional sport to enjoy growth in grass-roots participation. NJTL Cities across the country participate in the USTA/National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) network, a nationwide network of community tennis organizations seeking to develop the character of young people through both tennis and education. Founded by Arthur Ashe in 1969, more than 550 registered chapters/ programs exist throughout the nation with more than 220,000 participants ages 6-18, making NJTL one of the USTA s largest community-based initiatives. US OPEN NATIONAL PlayoffS The USTA is holding its first-ever US Open National Playoffs to provide an opportunity for anyone age 14 or older to earn a wild card into the 2010 US Open Qualifying Tournament in Flushing, N.Y., in August. The winners of 16 nationwide sectional qualifying tournaments will all compete in the US Open National Playoffs Men s and Women s Championships during the summer Olympus US Open Series events in Atlanta (men) and Stanford, Calif. (women). The men s and women s champions of the US Open National Playoffs receive the wild card into the US Open qualifying draw! To find a sectional qualifying tournament, visit usopen.org.

4 U S T A P R O C I R C U I T P L A Y E R I N F O R M A T I O N PLAYERS TO WATCH Kristie Ahn pg. 2 Lauren Albanese Julia Boserup Madison Brengle Beatrice Capra Mallory Cecil pg. 3 Julia Cohen Kimberly Couts Jill Craybas Julie Ditty Stephanie Dubois (CAN) pg. 4 Lauren Embree Irina Falconi Edina Gallovits (ROU) Alexa Glatch Laura Granville pg. 5 Carly Gullickson Jamie Hampton Angela Haynes Vania King Michaella Krajicek (NED) pg. 6 Lindsay Lee-Waters Varvara Lepchenko Mirjana Lucic (CRO) Bethanie Mattek-Sands Christina McHale pg. 7 Alexandra Mueller Asia Muhammad Lilia Osterloh Shenay Perry Alison Riske pg. 8 Ahsha Rolle Abigail Spears Sloane Stephens Alexandra Stevenson Valerie Tetreault (CAN) pg. 9 Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) CoCo Vandeweghe Mashona Washington Caitlin Whoriskey ADDITIONAL PLAYERS TO WATCH Brittany Augustine pg. 10 Hilary Barte Gail Brodsky Mallory Burdette Jacqueline Cako Audra Cohen Lauren Davis Courtney Dolehide Jennifer Elie Heidi El Tabakh Amanda Fink pg. 11 Kristy Frilling Nicole Gibbs Nadja Gilchrist Ester Goldfeld Chelsey Gullickson Chloe Jones Sacha Jones (NZL) Sesil Karatantcheva (KAZ) Madison Keys Raquel Kops-Jones pg. 12 Regina Kulikova (RUS) Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA) Lena Litvak Elizabeth Lumpkin Kyle McPhillips Grace Min Megan Moulton-Levy Shelby Rogers Katherine Ruckert Maria Sanchez pg. 13 Yasmin Schnack Anna Tatishvili (GEO) Ellen Tsay Story Tweedie-Yates Chanelle Van Nguyen Sachia Vickery Heather Watson (GBR) Ashley Weinhold Allie Will ** All players American unless otherwise noted.

5 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Kristie Ahn Age: 17 (6/15/92) Hometown: Upper Saddle River, N.J. Ranking: 456 Ahn made headlines at the 2008 US Open, winning three matches to become the youngest player to qualify for the main draw before losing to eventual semifinalist Dinara Safina in the first round, 6-3, 6-4. Ahn won her third USTA Pro Circuit title in May, capturing the doubles title at the $50,000 event in Raleigh, N.C., and, in May, advanced to the quarterfinals at the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif. Ahn won a singles title at her first pro tournament, at the $10,000 event in Landisville, Pa., in 2008, and followed that up a month later with a win at the $10,000 event in Houston as a qualifier. As a junior, Ahn won the 2008 USTA Girls 18s Spring National Championships and helped the U.S. capture the 2008 Junior Fed Cup title. Ahn has committed to play at Stanford in the fall. Lauren Albanese Age: 20 (10/1/89) Hometown: Coral Springs, Fla. Ranking: 193 Albanese established herself as a player to watch in 2006 with a tournament title at the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Wichita, Kan. She followed that victory by winning the USTA Girls 18s National Championships to earn an automatic wild card into the US Open, where she advanced to the second round of the women s singles main draw. Albanese has since been a consistent presence in the Top 200, playing primarily on the USTA Pro Circuit. She has played in a number of events on the USTA Pro Circuit this year and won a tournament title at $25,000 event in Mexico. In 2009 Albanese started the year by reaching the final at $25,000 events in Lutz, Fla., and Rancho Mirage, Calif., before moving up a step and reaching the semifinals at the $50,000 event in Raleigh, N.C., and the quarterfinals at the $75,000 event in Vancouver. As a junior in 2007, Albanese served as a practice partner with the U.S. Fed Cup team. Julia Boserup Age: 18 (9/9/91) Hometown: Boca Raton, Fla. Ranking: 422 Boserup had her breakthrough at the 2008 Dunlop Orange Bowl, winning her first title on the ITF World Junior Circuit. She built on that success, reaching the USTA Pro Circuit doubles final at the $50,000 event in Kansas City, Mo., with partner Laura Granville. And this year she reached her first career USTA Pro Circuit semifinal at the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Calif., where she received a wild card. As a junior, Boserup advanced to the second round at the 2009 US Open girls singles and also reached the singles and doubles semifinals at the 2008 USTA Girls 18s National Championships. She is a two-time practice partner for the U.S. Fed Cup team, and trains full-time at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. Madison Brengle Age: 20 (4/3/90) Hometown: Dover, Del. Ranking: 174 Brengle was one of America s top junior players in 2007, when she advanced to the girls singles final at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon. On the pro level, she has played in the main singles draw at three of the four Grand Slams, competing in the 2007 US Open and winning wild card playoffs to gain entry into the 2007 and 2008 Australian Opens as well as the 2008 French Open. This year she qualified for the WTA Tour event in Memphis and upset No. 1 seed Rossana de los Rios en route to the quarterfinals at the $50,000 event in Charlottesville, Va. On the USTA Pro Circuit in 2009, Brengle advanced to the semifinals of $50,000 events in Boston and Troy, Ala., and the doubles final at the $75,000 event in Vancouver. In 2008 she reached the semifinals of $50,000 events in San Diego and Vancouver. Brengle won her first career USTA Pro Circuit event at the $10,000 event in Baltimore in Beatrice Capra Age: 18 (4/6/92) Hometown: Ellicott City, Md. Ranking: 433 Capra won her first professional singles title in October 2009 at the USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 event in Williamsburg, Va. She has also found success on the USTA Pro Circuit this year, qualifying for the $100,000 event in Midland, Mich., and advancing to the second round. She also qualified for two $25,000 events and reached the semifinals of the event in Osprey, Fla. As a junior, Capra won the Italian Open, an ITF Grade A event on clay. Capra was a girls singles quarterfinalist at the 2009 US Open and a girls doubles semifinalist at Wimbledon. She was the top-ranked player in the USTA Girls 18s national standings for much of last year, winning the USTA Girls 18s Spring National Championships and reaching the semifinals at the USTA Girls 18s National Championships. 2

6 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Mallory Cecil Age: 19 (7/18/90) Hometown: Spartanburg, S.C. Ranking: 373 As a freshman in 2009, Cecil won the NCAA Division I singles title and led the Duke University women s team to its first-ever NCAA team title. For her efforts, Cecil was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Player of the Year and earned a wild card into the 2009 US Open. Cecil turned pro following her college success. That September she qualified for the Sony Ericsson WTA event in Quebec City and, in July, reached the quarterfinals of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Grapevine, Texas. In 2008 she captured back-to-back titles at $10,000 events in Sumter, S.C., and Hilton Head Island, S.C., and qualified for the Olympus US Open Series event in New Haven, Conn. As a junior, she was a doubles finalist at the 2008 Girls 18s National Championships and a doubles champion at the 2007 Dunlop Orange Bowl. Julia Cohen Age: 21 (3/23/89) Hometown: Philadelphia Ranking: 176 Cohen, an All-American at the University of Miami, reached the semifinals of the NCAA tournament as a sophomore in As a freshman, she was selected as the SEC and ITA Rookie of the Year playing for the University of Florida. Cohen has since turned pro, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 177 in May. She has competed extensively on the USTA Pro Circuit this year, as well in ITF Circuit events, reaching the final of a tournament in Mexico. She also thrived on the pro level last year, reaching the semifinals at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., and the quarterfinals at a $100,000 event in Bronx, N.Y. She also won the doubles title at a $10,000 event in Celeya, Mexico. In 2008 she won three USTA national championships (Mother & Daughter Grass Courts, Senior Father & Daughter Indoor and Clay Courts) and added another title in 2009 at the Senior Father & Daughter Clay Courts. Cohen peaked at No. 4 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2007, when she reached the Australian Open girls doubles final. Kimberly Couts Age: 20 (5/9/89) Hometown: Bradenton, Fla. Ranking: 292 Demonstrating steady progress up the professional ladder, Couts won her first pro title at the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Evansville, Ind., in 2007, and has since graduated to $25,000 and $50,000 events. She reached the semifinals of four $25,000 doubles events this year after advancing to the singles semifinals of two $25,000 events a year ago. In all, Couts holds four career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles, all with different partners, including the title title at the $50,000 event in Lexington, Ky., in As a junior, Couts won the 2006 Easter Bowl and was a former USTA Girls 16s No. 1. Jill Craybas Age: 35 (7/4/74) Hometown: Huntington Beach, Calif. Ranking: 101 A Top 100 player each of the past nine seasons, Craybas reached a career-high No. 39 in 2006 at age 31. She has competed in all four Grand Slams each year since 2001, a string of 37 straight entering the 2010 French Open. Her best result came at Wimbledon in 2005, when she knocked off current world No. 1 Serena Williams en route to the fourth round. Craybas won the 2002 Japan Open on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour and has also won four tour-level doubles titles. She has represented the U.S. in the Olympics (2008 Beijing) and the Fed Cup, and captured her third career USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the $75,000 event in Midland, Mich., in She is the only woman to be a member of a national championship team with two different schools, winning with the University of Texas in 1993 and the University of Florida in 1996, when she also claimed the NCAA singles championship. Julie Ditty Age: 31 (1/4/79) Hometown: Ashland, Ky. Ranking: 513 Ditty is the all-time leader in career USTA Pro Circuit titles with 35. This year the Vanderbilt graduate won the doubles title at the $50,000 event in Charlottesville, Va., with Carly Gullickson, for her 26th career USTA Pro Circuit doubles title. In 2009 Ditty teamed with Liezel Huber to win the deciding doubles match in the U.S. s 3-2 victory over Argentina in the Fed Cup first round, and advanced to the second round of the doubles at three of the four Grand Slams to reach a career-best doubles ranking of No. 66. In 2008 she competed in the singles main draw of the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon, as well as the doubles main draw of the US Open, where she reached the round of 16 with Gullickson. Ditty broke into the Top 100 in November 2007 after advancing to the semifinals at the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Quebec City, Canada. 3

7 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Stephanie Dubois (CAN) Age: 23 (10/31/86) Hometown: Laval, Canada Ranking: 117 Dubois has ranked in the Top 135 each of the last four years, peaking at No. 95 in 2008, when she competed in the main draws of the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. So far this year, Dubois played in the main draw of the Australian Open and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Memphis, and has reached the quarterfinals at two USTA Pro Circuit events. In 2009 she reached the second round of the US Open and the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C., on the WTA Tour, and qualified for the main draw at Indian Wells. Dubois, the No. 2 Canadian woman behind Aleksandra Wozniak, also went 4-1 in Fed Cup singles play for Canada. She had her best result on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2009, winning the $75,000 event in Vancouver, and was the runner-up to countrywoman Valerie Tetreault at the $50,000 event in Grapevine, Texas. Dubois holds five career USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and five doubles titles. Lauren Embree Age: 19 (1/10/91) Hometown: Naples, Fla. Ranking: 555 Embree made her Grand Slam debut in 2009 after winning a USTA wild card playoff to gain entry into the French Open, where she lost to No. 11 seed Nadia Petrova in the first round. She also competed in the 2009 US Open qualifying, reaching the second round. By advancing, Embree missed her freshman orientation at the University of Florida, but she has quickly made up for it on-court, leading the Gators to the Southern Conference tournament title as the team s No. 1 singles player. Embree was a fixture in the Top 10 of the world junior rankings for most of last year, reaching the singles and doubles finals at both the 2009 USTA Girls 18s National Championships and the 2009 Easter Bowl (where she won the doubles title). In 2008 Embree won the Eddie Herr International Girls 18s title and captured the title at the USTA Girls 18s National Clay Court Championships, in addition to winning her first pro title at the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Wichita, Kan. She reached her first pro final in 2007 as a qualifier at the $10,000 event in Fort Worth, Texas. Irina Falconi Age: 20 (5/4/90) Hometown: Jupiter, Fla. Ranking: 464 Falconi competes for Georgia Tech, where last year she recorded one of the best rookie campaigns in school history, posting 30 singles wins to earn All-America honors as a freshman. Through April of this year she lost just two singles matches for the Yellow Jackets and was No. 1 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. Following the completion of her freshman year, Falconi turned her attention to the USTA Pro Circuit and won three events as a member of the 2009 USTA Summer Collegiate Team: the singles at $10,000 events in Atlanta and St. Joseph, Mo., and the doubles in St. Joseph with Ashley Weinhold. Falconi also reached the semifinals of the $50,000 event in Grapevine, Texas, defeating USTA Pro Circuit veterans Lindsay Lee-Waters and Mashona Washington along the way. Edina Gallovits (ROU) Age: 25 (12/10/84) Hometown: Atlanta Ranking: 96 Gallovits has established herself as a model of consistency in her 10-year professional career. She has played in 13 straight Grand Slam singles main draws, advancing to the second round four times, and improved her ranking each year from 2000 to 2008, when she reached a career-high of No. 54. She has finished in the Top 100 each of the last three years, coming in at No. 93 last season. After playing primarily on the WTA Tour in 2009, Gallovits returned to the USTA Pro Circuit this year with great success, winning three singles titles including two at the $50,000 level to become just the third woman in USTA Pro Circuit history with double-digit singles titles. (She currently has 12, joining Kristina Brandi with 13 and Lindsay Lee-Waters with 11.) In Fed Cup play, Gallovits competed for Romania 2001 and 2003 and went 3-3 in singles, 4-8 overall. Alexa Glatch Age: 20 (9/10/89) Hometown: Newport Beach, Calif. Ranking: 225 Glatch last year propelled the U.S. to its first Fed Cup final in six years by winning two of the U.S. s three points dropping just six games in four sets against two Top 50 players in its 3-2 semifinal victory against the Czech Republic. Also last year, Glatch defeated No. 14 seed Flavia Pennetta, 6-1, 6-1, in the first round of the French Open and advanced to the third round at Indian Wells, and earlier this year she qualified for the main draw of the WTA Tour event in Memphis. Shortly after reaching the final of the girls singles and doubles at the 2005 US Open, Glatch broke her right wrist and left elbow in a motor scooter accident. She returned to the USTA Pro Circuit the following year and won her first career pro title at the $10,000 event in Fort Worth, Texas. 4

8 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Laura Granville Age: 29 (5/12/81) Hometown: Chicago Ranking: 278 A former Top 30 player, Granville made her return to tennis in March 2009 after being sidelined for a year by injury. She won the first event in her comeback, the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Redding, Calif., added a second tournament title at the $10,000 event in Landisville, Pa., and reached the semifinals at the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., where she won the doubles title. She has won 15 career USTA Pro Circuit titles (nine singles), including the singles at the $75,000 event in Midland, Mich., in both 2005 and 2008, and added the doubles title this year in Midland s first $100,000 event. Granville has advanced to the third round or better at all four Grand Slams, including the fourth round at Wimbledon in 2002 and 2007, and the third round of the US Open in She is the only player to win consecutive USTA Girls 18s national titles ( ) and NCAA singles titles ( at Stanford University). Carly Gullickson Age: 23 (11/26/86) Hometown: Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Ranking: 242 An accomplished doubles player, Gullickson captured the mixed doubles title at the 2009 US Open with Travis Parrott, defeating the top three seeds en route to the title and upsetting the defending champions, Cara Black and Leander Paes, in the final. Fully recovered from an assortment of injuries that slowed her ascent in 2007, Gullickson last year qualified for both the French Open and the US Open in singles and reached the round of 16 at the US Open in doubles with Alexa Glatch. Gullickson holds 16 career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles (fourth all-time), including the $50,000 event in Charlottesville, Va., this year with Julie Ditty. Gullickson s father, Bill, was a professional pitcher who led the American League with 20 wins for the 1991 Detroit Tigers. She and her sister, Chelsey, who plays tennis for the University of Georgia, reached the doubles final at the $25,000 event in Hammond, La., in Jamie Hampton Age: 20 (1/8/90) Hometown: Auburn, Ala. Ranking: 238 Hampton has played the best tennis of her career to open 2010, rising nearly 400 spots in the rankings by reaching the final at four $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit events, highlighted by a victory in Osprey, Fla. She has also reached the quarterfinals at the $50,000 event in Dothan, Ala., played in the $100,000 event in Midland, Mich., and won the doubles title at the $25,000 event in Pelham, Ala., with fellow American Mallory Cecil. Hampton s run actually began at the end of 2009, where she won her first career USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the $10,000 tournament in Cleveland. As a junior, Hampton twice won the USTA Girls 18s doubles title ( ) to earn a wild card into the US Open women s doubles draw, and competed in the US Open juniors in singles or doubles each year from 2005 to Angela Haynes Age: 25 (9/27/84) Hometown: Victorville, Calif. Ranking: 234 Haynes found success at the Grand Slams in the early stages of her career, advancing to the third round of the 2004 US Open and taking a set from Serena Williams in the first round of Wimbledon in In 2009 she reached the third round at Indian Wells and also qualified for the Olympus US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif., and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Charleston, S.C. Also, last year Haynes won a round in qualifying at the French Open and Wimbledon, and advanced to the final round of qualifying at the US Open. She holds seven career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles, along with two singles titles. In 2008 she advanced to the semifinals of tour-level Quebec City as a qualifier (falling to thenworld No. 11 Nadia Petrova). Vania King Age: 21 (2/3/89) Hometown: Long Beach, Calif. Ranking: 69 King has been a steady presence around the Top 100 of the singles and doubles rankings since she was 17, and has finished the last three years in the doubles Top 35. King s breakthrough came at the end of 2006, when she swept the singles and doubles title at the tour event in Bangkok to finish the year ranked No. 50 in singles. In her career, King has competed in all four Grand Slams in singles and doubles. She reached the final of the mixed doubles at the 2009 French Open with Marcelo Melo and, in women s doubles, reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2009 and the US Open round of 16 in 2007 and In singles, she reached the third round of the 2009 US Open and, most recently, the second round of the 2010 Australian Open. Also this year, King won the doubles at the WTA Tour event in Memphis for her ninth career tour title. King has been a regular contributor to the U.S. Fed Cup team and is an accomplished vocalist who has performed the national anthem prior to an L.A. Dodgers game and during the 2006 US Open. 5

9 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Michaella Krajicek (NED) Age: 21 (1/9/89) Hometown: Bradenton, Fla. Ranking: 130 Krajicek finished in the Top 40 of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour rankings in 2006 and 2007, reaching the third round of the French Open, where she faced Serena Williams, and the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, where she lost to eventual finalist Marion Bartoli in three sets, in Injuries slowed her progress, but Krajicek has been working her way back up on the USTA Pro Circuit. She holds three WTA tour-level singles titles and this year won her fourth doubles titles in Memphis with Vania King. She captured her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title in 2009 at the $50,000 event in Boston and won her second $50,000 event in Charlottesville, Va., this year. In 2004 the former No. 1 junior in the world won the singles and doubles titles of the junior US Open and took the junior French Open doubles title. Krajicek is the younger sister of former world No. 4 Richard Krajicek, who won Wimbledon in Lindsay Lee-Waters Age: 32 (6/28/77) Hometown: Dunwoody, Ga. Ranking: 247 Lee-Waters, a mother of two, was the leading money winner on the women s USTA Pro Circuit in 2009 and started her bid to repeat in May of this year, reaching the final at the $50,000 event in Raleigh N.C. She first broke into the Top 50 in 1995, when she qualified for Wimbledon and upset Pam Shriver in the opening round. Since taking time off in 2000 to give birth to her daughter, Lee-Waters has played primarily on the USTA Pro Circuit. She has won seven singles titles since 2002 including the $50,000 event in Charlottesville, Va., in 2009 for her first title since the birth of her second child, a son, in For her career, Lee-Waters holds 27 USTA Pro Circuit titles (16 doubles), which ranks third all-time. She has competed in 12 US Opens, either in the qualifying or main draws, and reached the second round in both 1995 and Varvara Lepchenko Age: 24 (5/21/86) Hometown: Allentown, Pa. Ranking: 127 Lepchenko, a native of Uzbekistan, has stepped up her game in the last two years, cracking the Top 100 in 2009 and playing regularly on the WTA Tour this year. After a steady rise on the USTA Pro Circuit she finished sixth or better on the USTA Pro Circuit prize money list each year from 2005 to 2008 Lepchenko last year qualified for Indian Wells and Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., where she upset then-world No. 18 Patty Schnyder. She also won the season-ending $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Phoenix for her seventh career USTA Pro Circuit singles title. This year she qualified for events in Miami and Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and played in the Australian Open. Lepchenko has been living in the U.S. since 2001 after receiving political asylum. She gained U.S. citizenship in 2007, allowing her unrestricted travel for the first time since arriving in the country. Mirjana Lucic (CRO) Age: 28 (3/9/82) Hometown: Tampa, Fla. Ranking: 206 Lucic was one of the tennis rising stars in the late 1990s, peaking at No. 32 in 1998 and advancing to the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1999 before falling to Steffi Graf. She also won the 1998 Australian Open doubles title with Martina Hingis and, in singles, advanced to the third round at the US Open in 1997 and 1998, and at the French Open in Lucic went into a semi-retirement in She played just two events between the 2003 US Open and the 2007 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Memphis both at the $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Dothan, Ala. and is now attempting a comeback on the USTA Pro Circuit. She won her first USTA Pro Circuit title in her comeback earlier this year, capturing the singles title at the $25,000 event in Jackson, Miss., in April, and reaching the semifinals of the $50,000 tournament in Raleigh, N.C., a week later. Bethanie Mattek-Sands Age: 25 (3/23/85) Hometown: Phoenix Rankings: 124 Mattek-Sands, known for her eclectic outfits as well as her powerful ground strokes, reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon in 2008 (losing to Serena Williams) and has advanced to five Grand Slam doubles quarterfinals in her career, including the US Open and French Open in 2009 (both with Nadia Petrova), and the 2010 Australian Open. On the WTA Tour, Mattek-Sands has won eight doubles titles and peaked at a career-high No. 12 in the individual doubles ranking this April. She has also been a strong force for the U.S. Fed Cup team. In the semifinals against Russia, she became the first American player to win her singles and doubles matches back-to-back for a 3-2 U.S. victory. In 2008 Mattek-Sands cracked into the Top 40 in singles by reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon and the final of tour-level Quebec City, and collected her eighth career USTA Pro Circuit title (five in singles) by winning the $75,000 event in Dothan, Ala. 6

10 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Christina McHale Age: 18 (5/11/92) Hometown: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Ranking: 165 McHale has made great strides toward a successful pro career in the last 18 months. She recently won a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 French Open, the third Grand Slam appearance of her young career. She also won a playoff to earn a wild card into the 2009 Australian Open winning the junior doubles title with Croatia s Alja Tomljanovic and won the USTA Girls 18s National Championships becoming the first girl to sweep the singles and doubles since 2000 to earn a wild card into the 2009 US Open. There, she defeated then-world No. 81 Polona Hercog to become just the second USTA Girls 18s champion this century to win her first round match. In 2010 McHale has reached the round of 16 at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C. and the quarterfinals or better in three USTA Pro Circuit $25,000 events. As a junior, she won the 2009 Easter Bowl to crack the Top 10 in the world junior rankings. Alexandra Mueller Age: 22 (2/14/88) Hometown: Abington, Pa. Ranking: 515 Mueller claimed her first pro singles title at the age of 15, winning the $10,000 ITF event in Mont Tremblant, Canada. Since then she has made steady progress toward a professional career on the USTA Pro Circuit. This May, she swept the singles and doubles titles at the $10,000 event in Landisville, Pa., in front of a hometown crowd, and also won the doubles title at the $10,000 event in Sumter, S.C., the following week. In 2009 Mueller won the $10,000 event in Hilton Head Island, S.C., and reached the quarterfinals in four singles events, including $50,000 tournaments in Charlottesville, Va., and Boston. Mueller was a member of the U.S. Junior Fed Cup team in Asia Muhammad Age: 19 (4/4/91) Hometown: Henderson, Nev. Ranking: 371 Muhammad learned to play tennis at the Andre Agassi Boys and Girls Club in Las Vegas, where she trained to become a Top 10 junior. In 2009 she won the doubles title at the USTA Girls 18s National Championships with partner Christina McHale, earning a wild card into the main draw of the women s doubles at the US Open. Also at the Open, Muhammad upset the top seed Kristina Mladenovic in the first round of the girls singles and advanced to the round of 16. Muhammad reached her first $50,000 final on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2008 in Las Vegas defeating three Top 150 players along the way. She has since become a USTA Pro Circuit regular, qualifying for two events this year (including the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.) and reaching the doubles final of the $25,000 event in Osprey, Fla., with Madison Brengle. Muhammad s father, Ronald, played basketball at Southern Cal, and her mother, Faye, was an All- American basketball player at Long Beach State. Lilia Osterloh Age: 32 (4/7/78) Hometown: Aliso Viejo, Calif. Ranking: 129 Osterloh has been competing on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour for more than a decade, finishing in the year-end Top 100 from 1999 to 2001, and again in She achieved a career-high ranking of No. 41 in April 2001 after reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon and the US Open in On the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, Osterloh has advanced to the singles semifinals in three events and has captured two doubles titles. She won USTA Pro Circuit singles titles at the $75,000 event in Pittsburgh in 2005 and the $50,000 event in Waikoloa, Hawaii, in 2006, and has reached nine USTA Pro Circuit singles finals since Osterloh also owns seven USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles and reached the doubles final of the $100,000 event in Midland, Mich., this year. She is one of just four women to have won both the NCAA singles title (at Stanford) and USTA Girls 18s Championships. Shenay Perry Age: 25 (7/6/84) Hometown: Coral Springs, Fla. Ranking: 128 Once ranked as high as No. 40 in the world, Perry is now working her way back to form and back to the Top 100. She earned her career-high ranking after reaching the third round at the French Open and the fourth round at Wimbledon in Her rise up the rankings was halted, however, when she suffered a knee injury that kept her from playing singles events from mid-2007 to mid Healthy once again in 2009, Perry won the $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Dothan, Ala., and qualified for the US Open, where she advanced to the second round. Following the Open, Perry won the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, N.M. This year she qualified for the Australian Open, losing to Ana Ivanovic in the first round, and also qualified for the WTA event in Indian Wells. For her career, Perry holds 15 USTA Pro Circuit titles (seven doubles), and she has reached the quarterfinals or better four times on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. 7

11 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Alison Riske Age: 19 (7/3/90) Hometown: McMurray, Pa. Ranking: 197 Riske improved her Sony Ericsson WTA ranking more than 700 places from the start of 2009 to mid She won her first pro title last year at the USTA Pro Circuit $50,000 event in Troy, Ala., as a qualifier, and reached the semifinals this year at the $50,000 tournament in Raleigh, N.C., and the $25,000 event in Rancho Mirage, Calif. In between, she reached the quarterfinals of a $25,000 event in Mexico and competed in the main draw of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C. As a junior, Riske rose to No. 2 in the USTA Girls 18s national standings. She was a finalist at the 2007 USTA Girls 18s National Championships and a quarterfinalist at the 2007 Dunlop Orange Bowl. Riske also served as a practice partner for the U.S. s 2008 Fed Cup semifinal against Russia. Ahsha Rolle Age: 25 (3/21/85) Hometown: Miami Shores, Fla. Ranking: 366 Rolle broke through at the 2007 US Open, where she upset then-world No. 18 Tatiana Golovin en route to the third round. That same year she qualified for the Australian Open and reached the third round at the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Indian Wells, defeating No. 29 seed Meghann Shaughnessy in the second round. This year Rolle qualified for backto-back $25,000 events in April, and then reached back-to-back doubles finals at $50,000 tournaments with Alexandra Mueller. In 2008 Rolle qualified for the Olympus US Open Series event in Los Angeles and won a singles match as a member of the U.S. Fed Cup team in the World Group semifinals against Russia. She is an eight-time champion on the USTA Pro Circuit. Her most prominent victories include a singles title at the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2006, and the doubles title at the $75,000 event in Vancouver with Riza Zalameda last year. Abigail Spears Age: 28 (7/12/81) Hometown: San Diego Ranking: 228 Spears has played extensively on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, having advanced to the singles final of Quebec City in 2004 and the third round of the Australian Open in 2005, when she reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 66 in the world. She has also won five tour-level doubles titles, one in each year from 2003 to 2005, and two in 2009, when she climbed to No. 40 in the individual world doubles rankings. On the USTA Pro Circuit, Spears holds 15 doubles titles spanning 2001 to 2008, which ranks fifth all-time, with her last one coming at the $25,000 event in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in February. Spears also captured her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title since 2004 this year at the $25,000 event in Surprise, Ariz. She played one season of college tennis at UCLA in and, as a junior, won USTA Girls 18s doubles titles in 1998 and 1999 with different partners. Sloane Stephens Age: 17 (3/20/93) Hometown: Lauderhill, Fla. Ranking: 333 Stephens won her first professional match this year at the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Indian Wells, Calif., beating Lucie Hradecka, 7-6(5), 7-6(7), and saving three set points in the second-set tie-break. She also reached the final and quarterfinals of two $25,000 ITF-level events in Italy this year. Stephens was the top American junior in 2009, peaking at No. 4 in the ITF junior world rankings. She advanced to the girls singles semifinals at Roland Garros and the girls singles quarterfinals at Wimbledon, and also swept the singles and doubles titles at the USTA International Spring Championships. In 2008 she was a semifinalist at the Dunlop Orange Bowl and helped the U.S. capture the Junior Fed Cup title. In the 2008 US Open Stephens teamed with Robert Kendrick to upset the No. 1 seeds in the first round of the mixed doubles and also reached the girls doubles final. On the USTA Pro Circuit in 2008, Stephens reached the semifinals at the $10,000 event in Sumter, S.C., and the quarterfinals of two $10,000 events. Alexandra Stevenson Age: 29 (12/21/80) Hometown: San Diego Ranking: 246 Stevenson, a former Top 20 player, emerged in 1999 by advancing to the Wimbledon semifinals as a qualifier becoming the first female qualifier in the tournament s history to reach the semifinals. She was ranked in the year-end Top 100 each year from 1999 to 2003, and peaked at No. 18 in the world in 2002 after reaching her second Sony Ericsson WTA Tour final of the year. Injuries drove her rankings into the 600s in 2005, but Stevenson rebounded to climb back into the Top 200 last year, reaching the final at the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., for her best result on the USTA Pro Circuit since winning the $50,000 event in Midland, Mich., in Stevenson is the daughter of basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving. 8

12 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Valerie Tetreault (CAN) Age: 22 (1/21/88) Hometown: Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada Ranking: 119 Tetreault drove her ranking up nearly 300 places by winning three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles in 2009 $50,000 events in Carson, Calif., and Grapevine, Texas, and a $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas. She also reached the doubles final in Grapevine with American Kimberly Couts. Tetreault qualified for the 2009 US Open, her first Grand Slam event, extending then-no. 46 Magdalena Rybarikova to three sets in the first round. She also qualified for the 2010 Australian Open, losing to No. 15 Kim Clijsters in the first round, and went 2-0 for the Canadian Fed Cup team this year. In 2006, at age 18, Tetreault played in her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Quebec City. In addition to playing on the USTA Pro Circuit, Tetreault has competed in ITF events all over the world, including Russia, Mexico and Italy. Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) Age: 16 (7/5/93) Hometown: Zagreb, Croatia Ranking: 180 Tomljanovic has risen more than 150 places in the WTA Tour rankings this year alone, largely on the strength of her USTA Pro Circuit results. She opened the season by qualifying and winning the $25,000 event in Plantation, Fla., and in April reached the final in Pelham, Ala., and the quarterfinals in Jackson, Miss., both $25,000 events. In between, she reached the round of 16 at a tour event in Memphis and went 2-1 in Fed Cup play for Croatia. Tomljanovic peaked at No. 4 in the junior world rankings in 2009, when she reached the semifinals of the Dunlop Orange Bowl and won the doubles title at the Australian Open with American Chirstina McHale. CoCo Vandeweghe Age: 18 (12/6/91) Hometown: Rancho Mirage, Calif. Ranking: 310 Vandeweghe took a significant step in her professional career in May, capturing the singles title at the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., for her first career professional championship. Vandeweghe s breakthrough came at the 2008 US Open, where she competed in her first Grand Slam main draw and became the first American to win the girls singles title since Tara Snyder in Also in 2008, she reached the singles final and won the doubles at the USTA Girls 18s National Championships. In 2009 Vandeweghe reached the quarterfinals of $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit events in Troy, Ala., and Phoenix, both as a qualifier. She also advanced to the second round at the Olympus US Open Series stop in Los Angeles and capped the year by winning an eight-player USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 Australian Open. Vandeweghe is the niece of former NBA star, coach and general manager Kiki Vandeweghe. Mashona Washington Age: 34 (5/31/76) Hometown: Houston Ranking: 289 Washington finished 2004 ranked No. 50 in the world after reaching her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour final in Tokyo and advancing to the quarterfinals at the Olympus US Open Series events in Stanford, Calif., and New Haven, Conn., where she defeated then-world No. 7 Maria Sharapova. In 2005 Washington achieved her best showing in a Grand Slam by reaching the third round at Wimbledon. She suffered a knee injury in July 2006 while playing for the U.S. Fed Cup team in Belgium and did not compete in singles again for more than a year. Washington returned to the winner s circle in May 2008, qualifying and taking the title at the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., for her third career USTA Pro Circuit singles title. She also holds 10 career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles, including back-to-back $25,000 crowns in Florida this past January. Caitlin Whoriskey Age: 22 (4/19/88) Hometown: East Sandwich, Mass. Ranking: 821 Whoriskey was named the 2010 Intercollegiate Tennis Association s National Senior Player of the Year for Division I women s tennis after leading the University of Tennessee to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in eight seasons. In 2009 Whoriskey was named to the 2009 USTA Summer Collegiate Team, a training program for top American college players, after earning All-America honors in doubles during her junior year. She competed in six USTA Pro Circuit tournaments last summer, making her main draw debut at the $10,000 event in Hilton Head, S.C., where she reached the quarterfinals in singles and the final in doubles. Whoriskey reached two doubles finals and two doubles semifinals on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2009 and advanced to her first pro singles final at the $10,000 event in St. Joseph, Mo., upsetting No. 7 seed Kaitlyn Christian en route. 9

13 A D D I T I O N A L P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Augustine Barte Brodsky Burdette Cako Player Name Age / Hometown Ranking Player Information Brittany Augustine 18 (9/19/91) El Segundo, Calif. 563 Reached the semifinals of the $10,000 event in Brownsville, Texas, in 2009, her best USTA Pro Circuit showing. Practiced with the Williams sisters and Lindsay Davenport while on the 2003 Junior U.S. Fed Cup Team. Dad was a pro soccer player in Trinidad and Tobago. Hilary Barte 21 (11/17/88) Chatsworth, Calif. 971 All-American at Stanford University won the NCAA Division I doubles title this year. Named 2009 Pac-10 Player of the Year. Received a wild card into 2009 Olympus US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif., her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles main draw appearance (lost to Melanie Oudin in the first round). Gail Brodsky 18 (6/5/91) Brooklyn, N.Y. 722 Reached two USTA Pro Circuit doubles semifinals this year. Earned a main draw wild card into the 2008 US Open after winning the 2008 USTA Girls 18s National Championships. Born in the Ukraine and immigrated to Brooklyn at age 5. Mother was a gymnast and father was a professional rower in Ukraine. Mallory Burdette 19 (1/28/91) Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Won the NCAA Division I doubles title this year playing for Stanford University. Attends Stanford with her sister, Lindsay, where she has compiled a 32-5 record as a freshman and is ranked No. 32 by the ITA. Reached the girls doubles final at the 2008 US Open with partner Sloane Stephens. Jacqueline Cako 18 (8/30/91) Brier, Wash. 487 Won her second career professional title in 2009 at the USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 event in Wichita, Kan. Qualified for four USTA Pro Circuit events this year. As a junior, reached the final at the 2008 International Spring Championships. Formerly competed in gymnastics, but stopped competition after growing too tall (currently 5-foot-10). Audra Cohen 24 (4/21/86) Plantation, Fla. 482 Won the 2007 NCAA women s singles title at the University of Miami (Fla.). Only woman in history to reach the final of the NCAA Championships competing for two different schools (Miami, Northwestern). Holds one USTA Pro Circuit title ($10,000 Evansville, Ind., in 2006). Lauren Davis 16 (10/9/93) Cleveland Finished 2009 season ranked No. 2 in the USTA Girls 18s national standings. Reached the girls 18s final at the 2010 Easter Bowl. Reached the quarterfinals in girls singles at the 2009 US Open. Won back-to-back USTA Girls 16s National Championships, Courtney Dolehide 18 (3/25/92) Hinsdale, Ill. 454 Reached first pro final at $10,000 event in Wichita, Kan., in Took third place in singles and doubles at the 2008 USTA Girls 18s National Winter Championships. Featured on ESPNRise.com, an ESPN website celebrating high school athletics. Committed to play for UCLA this coming fall. Jennifer Elie 23 (9/22/86) New York 352 Holds two USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles. Qualified for the $50,000 event in Dothan, Ala., this year.... Competed in ITF events in Mexico, Sweden, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Coached by her father. Heidi El Tabakh (CAN) 23 (9/25/86) Bradenton, Fla. 166 Climbed nearly 200 spots in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour rankings in 2009 Qualified for the Rogers Cup in Toronto, an Olympus US Open Series event, last year... Holds four career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles. 10

14 A D D I T I O N A L P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Fink Gibbs Gullickson S. Jones Keys Player Name Age / Hometown Ranking Player Information Amanda Fink 23 (12/4/86) Calabasas, Calif. 721 Four-year letter winner at the University of Southern California. Named ITA Rookie of the Year. Won both the Pac-10 singles and doubles championships her senior year. Won her first USTA Pro Circuit title in 2008 at the $10,000 event in Atlanta. Kristy Frilling 20 (1/8/90) Sidney, Ohio All-American posted one of the best freshman seasons in Notre Dame history with appearances in both the NCAA singles and doubles championships. Reached the doubles semifinal at the 2008 Olympus US Open Series event in Cincinnati with Madison Brengle. Nicole Gibbs 17 (3/3/93) Manhattan Beach, Calif. 463 Top American junior has committed to play at Stanford University in the fall. Reached final at the junior Canadian Open and competed at Wimbledon and US Open juniors in Qualified for $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Charlottesville, Va., in April and reached the quarters at $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., in Nadja Gilchrist 19 (6/7/90) Webster, N.Y. Earned All-America honors in doubles at the University of Georgia her freshman year after playing No. 1 doubles with Chelsey Gullickson. Was a finalist at the 2007 Easter Bowl, defeating Melanie Oudin in the quarterfinal. Ester Goldfeld 16 (7/4/93) Brooklyn, N.Y. 439 Won her first pro tournament last year in doubles in Wichita, Kan., and reached her first singles final in Brownsville, Texas, both $10,000 events on the USTA Pro Circuit. As a junior, she reached the singles and doubles quarterfinals at the 2010 Australian Open, and won the singles title at the 2009 International Hard Court Championships. Chelsey Gullickson 19 (8/29/90) Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. All-American for the University of Georgia won the NCAA Division I singles title this year Named 2009 ITA Rookie Player of the Year with 69 total wins (tied school record). Reached doubles final at the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Hammond, La., in 2008 with sister, Carly. Chloe Jones 20 (2/1/90) Baldwin City, Kan. 709 Has competed in Thailand and Mexico, with a runner-up showing at the $10,000 event in Cordoba, Mexico, in Reached back-to-back quarterfinals at $10,000 events in Landisville, Pa., and Sumter, S.C., in May Doubles finalist at the 2007 Easter Bowl with Asia Muhammad. Sacha Jones (NZL) 19 (11/8/90) New Zealand 158 No. 1 player in New Zealand. Broke her shoulder while mountain biking in early 2009; returned and won four consecutive $25,000 titles (three in Australia and one in Rock Hill, S.C., on the USTA Pro Circuit) starting in September Went 4-4 in singles and doubles for New Zealand s Fed Cup team this year. Sesil Karatantcheva (KAZ) 20 (8/8/89) Bulgaria 134 Peaked at a career-high No. 35 in Advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2005 French Open, upsetting Venus Williams in the third round. Received wild card into 2010 Australian Open. Suspended from play in after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone. Madison Keys 15 (2/17/95) Boca Raton, Fla. Became the youngest player since Martina Hingis in 1994 to win a tour-level match, defeating Alla Kudryavtseva in 2009 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Was a girls 16s finalist at the 2008 Dunlop Orange Bowl. Youngest player ever to compete in World TeamTennis, defeating Serena Williams in a match during summer

15 A D D I T I O N A L P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Kulikova Litvak McPhillips Min Moulton-Levy Player Name Age / Hometown Ranking Player Information Raquel Kops-Jones 27 (12/8/82) Fresno, Calif. 952 Won two Sony Ericsson WTA Tour doubles titles in Holds 13 career USTA Pro Circuit titles (12 doubles). Was a five-time All-American at the University of California-Berkeley and became the first Cal player named ITA National Senior Player of the Year (2004). Regina Kulikova (RUS) 21 (1/30/89) Switzerland 70 Born in Kazakhstan. Reached the third round of 2009 Wimbledon as a qualifier, defeating No. 27 seed Alisa Kleybanova. Qualified for the 2010 Australian Open. Reached the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Dubai as a qualifier this year. Won two $50,000 Challengers in 2009 (Kansas City and Las Vegas). Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA) 18 (11/18/91) Thailand 329 First Asian named the ITF Junior World Champion after finishing 2008 ranked No. 1. In 2009, swept the girls singles and doubles titles at Wimbledon and reached the girls doubles final at the French Open and US Open. Won first ITF-level title in 2008 at a $25,000 event in Indonesia. Lena Litvak 21 (11/15/88) Bronx, N.Y. 356 Born in the Ukraine. Played at Harvard for one year before turning pro. Qualified for two $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit events in 2009 (Dothan, Ala., and Vancouver) Competed in ITF-level events in Mexico, Korea, Greece, Israel and Portugal. Elizabeth Lumpkin 24 (5/24/86) Naperville, N.M. 604 Won her first professional title at the $10,000 event in Evansville, Ind., in July Reached doubles final of the $25,000 event in Laguna Niguel, Calif., this year. Helped lead UCLA to the NCAA team title in Served on the Bruin Athletic Council for three years and earned the West Region Arthur Ashe Leadership Award. Reached her first professional final at the $10,000 event in Cleveland in Swept the girls 16s singles and doubles titles at the 2010 Easter Bowl. Won the girls 14s title in 2008 and the girls 16s title in 2009 at the USTA National Clay Court Championships. Was a member of the winning U.S. team at the 2008 World Junior Tennis finals. Won her first international junior title in February at an ITF event in Chile. Recently won the girls 18s doubles title at the Easter Bowl. Reached the final at both the International Spring Championships and the International Hard Court Championships in Reached the girls doubles quarterfinals at the 2009 US Open. Helped lead the U.S. to the 2008 World Junior Tennis title. Kyle McPhillips 16 (4/5/94) Cleveland Grace Min 15 (6/5/94) Lawrenceville, Ga. 708 Megan Moulton-Levy 25 (3/11/85) Monroe, Mich. 522 Former All-American at the College of William & Mary was the first player in school history to advance to the singles semifinals of the NCAA Championships (2006). Reached the doubles final of the 2007 NCAA Championships. Holds one USTA Pro Circuit singles title ($10,000 Evansville, Ind., in 2008). Shelby Rogers 17 (10/13/92) Daniel Island, S.C. 392 Up-and-coming junior qualified and made it to the final of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., in May. Reached the quarterfinals in her pro tournament debut, at the $10,000 event in St. Joseph, Mo., last year Quarterfinalist at the 2009 Easter Bowl. Katherine Ruckert 27 (5/3/83) Madison, Va. 520 Played for three years at the University of Texas, earning All-America honors and named ITA Southwest Region Rookie of the Year as a freshman in Won back-to-back $10,000 ITF-level events in Venezuela in both 2007 and

16 A D D I T I O N A L P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H Tatishvili Tsay Vickery Weinhold Will Player Name Age / Hometown Ranking Player Information Maria Sanchez 20 (11/26/89) Modesto, Calif. USC junior is the No. 2 singles player in the collegiate rankings. In 2009 she won the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Evansville, Ind., with Yasmin Schnack, and qualified and reached the semis in singles at a $10,000 event in St. Joseph, Mo. Yasmin Schnack 22 (5/4/88) Sacramento, Calif. UCLA senior is No. 5 in the collegiate singles rankings after earning All-America honors in singles and doubles as a junior. In 2009 she won the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Evansville, Ind., with Maria Sanchez. Competed in all four Grand Slams as a junior. Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 20 (2/3/90) Boca Raton, Fla. 152 Qualified for Sony Ericsson WTA Tour events in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and Charleston, S.C., this year. Won three USTA Pro Circuit titles in 2008, including $50,000 events in Boston and Troy, Ala. Won first WTA Tour match in 2006 in Miami. Competed on the 2009 Georgian Fed Cup team. Ellen Tsay 16 (10/8/93) Pleasanton, Calif. 688 Won the doubles title at the 2010 International Spring Championships, and won the singles at the 2009 Girls 18s Winter National Championships. Took third place in singles and reached the doubles final at the 2009 USTA Girls 18s National Clay Court Championships. Swept the girls 16s singles and doubles titles at the 2008 Easter Bowl. Has won prize money in piano and writing competitions. Story Tweedie-Yates 27 (5/2/83) Redmond, Wash. 687 Won team national championships at Stanford University in 2002 and 2004 (earning All-America honors) before transferring to Texas Christian for her senior year. Reached two $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit singles finals during the summer of 2005 (Southlake, Texas, and Fort Worth, Texas). Chanelle Van Nguyen 16 (1/19/94) Miami Won an ITF Grade 2 event in February in Argentina. Won the girls 16s title at the 2008 Dunlop Orange Bowl. Reached the final at both the 2009 USTA Girls 16s National Championships and the 2008 USTA Girls 14s National Clay Court Championships. Sachia Vickery 15 (5/11/95) Miramar, Fla. 975 Reached the final at the 2010 International Spring Championships. Reached the semifinals at the $10,000 event in Evansville, Ind., in Won the girls 14s title at the 2008 Easter Bowl. Helped lead the U.S. to consecutive titles at the World Junior Tennis Championships in Worked with Richard Williams, father of the Williams sisters, for one summer. Reached the quarterfinals of $25,000 events in Jackson, Miss., and Hammond, La., in No. 3 junior player in the world at the end of Won the girls singles title at the 2009 US Open and the girls doubles title at the 2009 French Open. Won her first pro title in 2009 at a $10,000 ITF-level event in Great Britain. Trains in Florida. Heather Watson (GBR) 18 (5/19/92) Great Britain 346 Ashley Weinhold 20 (6/20/89) Austin, Texas 498 Won the 2007 USTA Girls 18s title, earning a singles wild card into the main draw of the US Open. Captured her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title in 2006 at the $10,000 event in Southlake, Texas. Played for the World TeamTennis St. Louis Aces in Allie Will 19 (4/20/91) Boca Raton, Fla. 792 Freshman at the University of Florida won her first USTA Pro Circuit event by capturing the doubles title at the $10,000 event in Sumter, S.C., in Compiled a 43-3 singles record for UF this season and is ranked No. 8 by the ITA. Reached the doubles final at the 2009 USTA Girls 18s National Championships. Once attempted to return Andy Roddick s serve, while using Jim Courier s racquet. 13