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1 as of June 26, 2013 NIELSEN PRO TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP WINNETKA, IL JUNE 29-JULY 6 TOURNAMENT INFORMATION Site: A.C. Nielsen Tennis Center Winnetka, Ill. Websites: procircuit.usta.com Facebook: Nielsen Pro Tennis Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, June 29 Main Draw Begins: Monday, July 1 Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Surface: Hard / Outdoor Prize Money: $50,000 USTA PRO CIRCUIT MEN S CHALLENGER RETURNS TO WINNETKA The Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship returns to Winnetka for the eighth consecutive year and the 22nd year overall. It is the sixth Challenger on the 2013 USTA Pro Circuit calendar and is one of five USTA Pro Circuit men s events held in Illinois. (Champaign hosts a $50,000 Challenger in November, and three $10,000 Futures are held later this summer.) It is also the first hard-court Challenger of the summer season. This tournament will be streamed live on procircuit.usta.com. Players competing in the main draw in Winnetka are: BoMonKwon Tournament Director: Linda Goodman, (312) lgoodco@aol.com Tournament Press Contact: Alexandra Maestre, (847) alexandra.maestre@gmail.com USTA Communications Contact: Amanda Korba, (914) , korba@usta.com Prize money / points SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Winner $7, Runner-up $4, Semifinalist $2, Quarterfinalist $1, Round of 16 $860 7 Round of 32 $520 - DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Winner $3,100 Runner-up $1,800 Semifinalist $1,080 Quarterfinalist $640 Round of 16 $360 COMMUNITY EVENTS Sunday, June 30 Pro-Am, 3:30 p.m. Mike Olivella Steve Johnson, who in 2012 cemented his place as one of the best college players of all time, going undefeated to claim his second straight NCAA singles title and leading USC to its fourth team title in his four years at the school. He turned professional shortly thereafter. Johnson received a wild card into Wimbledon this year, becoming the first American man since 2008 to receive a wild card into the main draw of The Championships, after he won the grass-court ATP Challenger in Nottingham, England, just before Wimbledon. Also as a pro, Johnson reached the third round of the 2012 US Open, becoming the first reigning NCAA champion to advance to the third round of the men s singles event since Sargis Sargsian in He also captured the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Aptos, Calif., in 2012 and reached the semifinals of two additional Challengers. Johnson qualified for the 2013 Australian Open and lost in five sets in the first round to No. 10 seed Nicolas Almagro. In addition, Johnson reached the quarterfinals of the ATP event in San Jose, Calif., in February and Steve Johnson, one of the best college tennis players of all time while at USC, reached the third round of the 2012 US Open, earned a wild card into this year s Wimbledon Championships and qualified for the 2013 French Open. qualified for the 2013 French Open. Johnson entered Wimbledon ranked in the Top 100 for the first time in his career. Denis Kudla, who won his first-round match at Wimbledon this year as a qualifier, having previously reached the quarterfinals of the ATP World Tour event at Queens Club leading into Wimbledon his best ATP result this season. Also prior to Wimbledon, Kudla made his French Open debut as a qualifier. He qualified for the 2012 Australian Open to make his Grand Slam tournament main-draw debut. Earlier this year, Kudla won the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Tallahassee, Fla., for his fifth USTA Pro Circuit singles title and third Challenger title. Kudla competed in the 2012 US Open as a wild card and, last year, played a mix of ATP and USTA Pro Circuit events, 2009 Winnetka singles champion Alex Kuznetsov earned a main-draw wild card into the 2013 French Open by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge and also qualified for Wimbledon this year.

2 reaching the second round of the ATP event in San Jose as a qualifier before losing to Andy Roddick in three sets and reaching the second round of Indian Wells, where he faced Roger Federer. On the USTA Pro Circuit in 2012, Kudla finished the year as the top ATP points earner among Americans and the leader in prize money. Also in 2012, he served as a practice partner for the U.S. Davis Cup team for its quarterfinal tie against France and for its semifinal tie against Spain. As a junior player, Kudla was ranked as high as No. 3 in the world and reached the boys singles final at the 2010 US Open, losing an all-american title match to Jack Sock in three sets. Kudla was born in Ukraine and came to the United States with his parents on his first birthday. Donald Young, who broke into the world s Top 40 in February 2012 and qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. He competed in all four Grand Slam events a year ago, reaching the second round of the Australian Open. In 2011, he reached the round of 16 at the US Open, upsetting two Top 30 players en route as he registered his best Grand Slam tournament result. He also reached the final of the ATP event in Bangkok and the semifinals of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Washington, D.C. In April 2013, Young won an ITF Circuit Challenger in Leon, Mexico, for his first title since A standout junior player, Young was a two-time Grand Slam tournament junior champion (2005 Australian Open, 2007 Wimbledon) and, at age 16 years, 5 months, became the youngest-ever year-end world junior No. 1 in Winnteka singles champion Alex Kuznetsov, the 2004 junior French Open runner-up (to Gael Monfils), who earned a main-draw wild card into the 2013 French Open by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge. The USTA awarded one men s singles main-draw wild card into the French Open to an American player based on his results on the USTA Pro Circuit. Kuznetsov earned 115 points in the Wild Card Challenge, winning the title in Sarasota to collect 100 points and earning 15 points by reaching the quarterfinals in Savannah and Tallahassee. Kuznetsov was a qualifier in Sarasota and won seven consecutive matches to take the title. The Sarasota Challenger was Kuznetsov s fourth career USTA Pro Circuit Challenger crown. Following the French Open, Kuznetsov also qualified for Wimbledon. In 2012, he qualified for the Australian Open to make his first appearance in a Grand Slam main draw since 2007 and faced Rafael Nadal in the first round. Kuznetsov had a strong end to 2012, reaching two USTA Pro Circuit Challenger finals. A native of Kiev, Ukraine, where his grandfather was a handball champion, Kuznetsov suffered a severe leg injury in a 2005 car accident. He came back to play in his first US Open main draw in In 2007, he won his first Grand Slam match at the Australian Open and reached the round of 16 in doubles at the US Open. Robby Ginepri, who is the only active U.S. man to have advanced to a Grand Slam semifinal (2005 US Open, where he lost to Andre Agassi in five sets). Ginepri was one of the top Americans in the world in the mid-2000s, winning three ATP singles titles. Ginepri, who has reached the fourth round or better at all four Grand Slam events, peaked at No. 15 in 2006 and has competed for the United States in Davis Cup (2004) and the Olympics (2008). He is on the comeback trail following a broken elbow suffered in late 2010, when he fell off his bicycle trying to avoid a squirrel. The injury kept him sidelined through the middle of Ginepri won the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit Futures in Sunrise, Fla., in early January 2013 and reached the final of the $50,000 Challenger in Dallas in February. Ginepri also qualified and reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Men s Clay Court Championship in Houston in April Ginepri married his longtime girlfriend, Josephine Stafford, in September 2012 in Atlanta. He owns the Olde Towne Athletic Club in Marietta, Ga., with his longtime coach, Jerry Baskin and 2010 Winnetka singles runner-up Tim Smyczek, who returned to the Grand Slam stage after earning a lucky loser spot into the 2013 Australian Open and winning his first-round match against former Top 20 player Ivo Karlovic, who is 6-foot-10 to Smyczek s 5-foot-9. Smyczek s success Down Under, on the heels of qualifying for and reaching the second round of the 2012 US Open, helped bring him to the cusp of the Top 100 for the first time in his career, and he subsequently qualified for three ATP events, including the ATP Masters Series event in Miami. Smyczek made his first appearance in the main draw of the US Open in 2010 after winning an eight-man USTA wild-card playoff. He backed that up by winning a similar six-man USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the 2011 French Open. Last year, Smyczek won the final USTA Pro Circuit Challenger of the season in Champaign, Ill., in addition to the $50,000 Challenger in Tallahassee. Smyczek regularly trains at Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, Fla., with fellow Americans James Blake, Mardy Fish and John Isner. Bradley Klahn, who won the 2010 NCAA men s singles title for Stanford before going pro. Following his pro debut, Klahn received a wild card into qualifying of the 2012 US Open and subsequently won three matches to advance to the main draw, where he upset Top 50 player and fellow lefty Jurgen Melzer in the first round in five sets. In doing so, Klahn became the first-ever men s qualifying wild card to win a round at the US Open. Following the US Open, Klahn advanced to three USTA Pro Circuit Challenger quarterfinals. This year, he was a practice partner for the U.S. Davis Cup team in Jacksonville, Fla., where the United States defeated Brazil. On the USTA Pro Circuit, Klahn reached the final of the $10,000 Futures in Calabasas, Calif., in March 2013, and then won the singles title at the $10,000 Futures in Costa Mesa, Calif., the following week. He also reached the doubles final of the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Sarasota, Fla., in April with Steve Johnson. Tennys Sandgren, who turned pro following his sophomore season at the University of Tennessee, having reached the semifinals of the 2011 NCAA tournament, losing to former Tennessee teammate Rhyne Williams in three sets. Sandgren, whose name is pronounced like the sport, won three USTA Pro Circuit Futures titles (in four finals) in 2012 before transitioning to Challenger-level events for the remainder of the year. He also competed in qualifying at the 2012 US Open and, overall, climbed nearly 300 spots in the ATP World Tour rankings. In 2013, he has won the doubles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Tallahassee, Fla., with Austin Krajicek and reached doubles finals at the $100,000 Challenger in Dallas and the $50,000 Challenger in Maui, Hawaii, with Williams. Also this year, Sandgren served as a Davis Cup practice partner for the U.S. team in Boise, Idaho, in early April against Serbia. Sandgren s brother, Davey, was a two-time All-American for Tennessee, lettering in Winnetka singles champion Rajeev Ram, who has established himself as a steady presence in the Top 50 of the world doubles rankings, reaching the second round or better in doubles at all four Grand Slam events, including the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. In 2012, he reached the doubles quarterfinals at the French Open with Scott Lipsky and won the ATP doubles title in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Nenad Zimonjic. Overall, Ram has won seven ATP doubles crowns. In 2009, he won his first ATP singles title in Newport, R.I., where he also captured the doubles title. In 2012, he reached the singles semifinals of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Los Angeles, losing to Sam Querrey, and in Newport, losing to Lleyton Hewitt. An Indiana state high school champion, Ram played collegiately for one semester in 2003 at the University of Illinois then coached by current Australian Open Tournament Director Craig Tiley and helped the Illini win their first NCAA team title and post their first undefeated season.

3 Austin Krajicek, a five-time All-American for Texas A&M and the 2011 NCAA men s doubles champion with Jeff Dadamo. Krajicek won his first professional title at a $15,000 Futures in China in January 2012 and claimed his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the Futures in Austin, Texas, last summer, where he also captured the doubles title. He also captured the singles and doubles crowns at the Little Rock, Ark., Futures in April and won the singles title in Tampa in mid-may. In addition, he won the singles and doubles titles at an ITF Circuit event in Canada in March and reached the singles final at another ITF Circuit event the week prior. A standout junior player, Krajicek won the 2008 USTA Boys 18 National Championships, earning a wild card into the 2008 US Open men s singles main draw. He has been a practice partner on three occasions for the U.S. Davis Cup team and is a distant relative of former Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek. Players competing in qualifying are: Teenager Christian Harrison, who started 2013 by playing in ITF Circuit events in Great Britain, where he won his first pro title and reached another singles final. The younger brother of Ryan Harrison, Christian teamed with Ryan to reach the doubles quarterfinals at the 2012 US Open, upsetting the No. 4 seeds in the opening round. Christian reached his first $50,000 Challenger semifinal last summer in Lexington, Ky., and reached the final of the $10,000 Futures in Tampa this year. Last May, he reached back-to-back Futures semifinals in Tampa, Fla., and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. Winnetka s defending doubles champion Jeff Dadamo, who recently defeated Jesse Witten in the 2013 US Open National Playoffs Florida Sectional Qualifying Tournament to advance to the US Open National Playoffs Men s Championship in New Haven, Conn., later this summer. The winner of the National Playoffs earns a US Open qualifying wild card. Dadamo played for Texas A&M and won the 2011 NCAA men s doubles title with Austin Krajicek. Dadamo holds two USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles claiming one in 2011 with Krajicek and one in 2012 with Devin Britton. 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 two years. Witten is a former University of Kentucky standout who reached the NCAA singles final in Despite losing to Jeff Dadamo in singles, 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., later this summer, where he will compete 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 competed overseas in ITF Circuit events for most of In addition, he won his second career USTA Pro Circuit singles title last year at the $15,000 Futures in Oklahoma City, and he holds four career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles. Winnetka s defending doubles champion Devin Britton, who captured the 2009 NCAA singles title in his freshman year at the University of Mississippi before turning pro. Britton s NCAA title earned him a main-draw wild card into the 2009 US Open, where he pushed fivetime defending champion Roger Federer in a 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 defeat. After touring for more than two years, Britton broke through with his first career singles title at the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit Futures in Sacramento, Calif., in June He has also excelled in doubles, winning six USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles in 2012 (and 11 doubles titles overall, including ITF Circuit events). As a junior player, Britton reached the 2008 US Open boys singles final as a wild card. Former University of Michigan standout Jason Jung, who won his first professional singles title at the USTA Pro Circuit Futures event in Godfrey, Ill., last summer and completed 2012 by playing in ITF Circuit tournaments in Hong Kong, where he won a doubles title. Jung is playing in his first USTA Pro Circuit tournament since April after competing in ITF Circuit events in Korea and China, where he won one doubles title and reached one singles final and two singles semifinals. Sekou Bangoura, who 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. Many current and former ATP World Tour stars have found success in Winnetka singles champion and 1999 doubles champion James Blake peaked at No. 4 in the world in 2006 after he reaching the quarterfinals of the US Open and the final of the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup. He has won 10 career singles titles. Blake also was a longtime member of the U.S. Davis Cup team, helping lead the United States to the Davis Cup title in Sam Querrey, the 2006 singles champion, is currently ranked No. 19 and is the highest-ranked American man. Querrey has won seven ATP World Tour singles titles, including a title on every surface. He has also been a consistent force on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Todd Martin, the singles runner-up in Winnetka in 1989 and 1991, went on to reach the final of the 1999 US Open and 1994 Australian Open. He achieved a career-best ranking of No. 4 in the world and won eight career ATP singles titles. He currently serves on the USTA s Board of Directors.

4 winnetka Past WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2012 John-Patrick Smith (AUS) Ricardas Berankis (LTU) 2012 Devin Britton (USA) Jeff Dadamo (USA) 2011 James Blake (USA) Bobby Reynolds (USA) 2011 Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) Bobby Reynolds (USA) 2010 Brian Dabul (ARG) Tim Smyczek (USA) 2010 Ryler DeHeart (USA) Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (CAN) 2009 Alex Kuznetsov (USA) Tim Smyczek (USA) 2009 Carsten Ball (AUS) Travis Rettenmaier (USA) 2008 Rajeev Ram (USA) Scoville Jenkins (USA) 2008 Todd Widom (USA) Michael Yani (USA) 2007 Noam Okun (ISR) Kevin Anderson (RSA) 2007 Patrick Briaud (USA) Chris Drake (USA) 2006 Sam Querrey (USA) Andrea Stoppini (ITA) 2006 Cecil Mamiit (PHI) Eric Taino (USA) Tournament not held Tournament not held Tournament not held 2000 Takao Suzuki (JPN) Yong-Il Yoon (KOR) 2000 Hyung-Taik Lee (KOR) Yong-Il Yoon (KOR) 1999 Alex O Brien (USA) Max Mirnyi (BLR) 1999 James Blake (USA) Thomas Blake (USA) 1998 Geoff Grant (USA) Diego Nargiso (ITA) 1998 Grant Silcock (AUS) Myles Wakefield (RSA) 1997 Gianluca Pozzi (ITA) Wayne Black (ZIM) 1997 Michael Sell (USA) Myles Wakefield (RSA) 1994 Vince Spadea (USA) Cristiano Caratti (ITA) 1994 Brian MacPhie (USA) David Witt (USA) 1993 Kevin Ullyett (ZIM) Maurice Ruah (VEN) 1993 Wayne Arthurs (AUS) Mark Petchey (GBR) 1992 Chuck Adams (USA) Steve Bryan (USA) 1992 Andrew Kratzmann (AUS) Roger Rasheed (AUS) 1991 Byron Black (ZIM) Todd Martin (USA) 1991 Bryon Black (ZIM) Scott Melville (USA) 1990 Cristiano Caratti (ITA) Chris Garner (USA) 1990 Zeeshan Ali (IND) Menno Oosting (NED) 1989 Brian Garrow (USA) Todd Martin (USA) 1989 Ville Jansson (SWE) Scott Warner (USA) 1988 Jeff Tarango (USA) Gianluca Pozzi (ITA) 1988 Recardo Acuna (CHI) Royce Deppe (RSA) 1987 Simon Youl (AUS) Roberto Saad (ARG) 1987 Tobias Svantesson (SWE) John Treml (USA) 1985 Barry Moir (RSA) Harold Solomon (USA) 1985 Ricky Brown (USA) Luke Jensen (USA) 1984 Marc Flur (USA) Mike Leach (USA 1984 Dan Goldie (USA) Michael Kures (USA)

5 USTA PRO CIRCUIT 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. The USTA launched its Pro Circuit 34 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and it has since 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. More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped launch the careers of two young Americans Jack Sock and Grace Min. Jack Sock Sock began 2012 by winning the singles title and reaching the doubles final at the $10,000 Futures in Plantation, Fla. He then reached the quarterfinals of the $50,000 Challenger in Honolulu. With his strong USTA Pro Circuit results, Sock received wild cards into numerous Emirates Airline US Open Series events in the summer, reaching the quarterfinals in Atlanta. Sock then achieved the best result of his pro career by reaching the third round of the 2012 US Open as a wild card. Sock followed up his US Open results by winning his first career USTA Pro Circuit Challenger title at the $100,000 event in Tiburon, Calif., in the fall and finished 2012 ranked a career-high No. 150 in the world. After winning the 2011 US Open girls singles title, Min moved to the USTA Pro Circuit to develop her game. She opened the year by winning the first women s tournament of 2012 at the $25,000 event in Innisbrook, Fla. Later in the spring, she won back-to-back tournaments at the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and the $25,000 tournament in Raleigh, N.C. She competed in qualifying in Emirates Airline US Open Series events throughout the summer and qualified in Stanford, Calif. Min, who trains at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., entered the Top 200 for the first time in her career in 2012, climbing nearly 250 spots in the rankings by year s end. Andrew Ong 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. 10 AND UNDER TENNIS Tennis is now scaled to a child s age and size, using lowerbouncing and slower-moving balls, lighter and shorter racquets, and smaller courts. The modified equipment and smaller courts will allow kids to rally and play the game early on, increasing the likelihood that kids will return to the court and continue to improve all while having fun! For more information, visit NJTL Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, the USTA/National Junior Tennis & Learning (NJTL) network is a nation-wide group of more than 660 non-profit youth development organizations that provide free or low cost tennis, education and life skills programming to more than 300,000 children each year, ages 6-18, making NJTL one of the USTA s largest community-based offerings. US OPEN NATIONAL PlayoffS 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 1,200 players competed in 13 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments nationwide for a 2012 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. Clement Reix, a 28-year-old Frenchman living in Reno, Nev., won the US Open National Playoffs men s title and USTA Pro Circuit regular Alexandra Mueller, 24, of Abington, PA, won the women s wild card for the second time in three years. Nicole Melichar and Brian Battistone won the mixed doubles tournament. Registration for the 2013 US Open National Playoffs opened on March 15.