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Site:

River Hills Country Club - Jackson, Miss.

Websites:

www.riverhillsclub.net, procircuit.usta.com

Qualifying draw begins:

Sunday, April 4

Main draw begins:

Tuesday, April 6

Main Draw:

32 Singles / 16 Doubles

Surface:

Clay / Outdoor

Prize Money:

$25,000

Tournament Director:

Dave Randall, (601) 987-4417

daverandall@riverhillsclub.net

Tournament Press Contact:

Kendall Poole, (601) 987-4454

kpoole@riverhillsclub.net

USTA Public Relations Contacts:

Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, schuster@usta.com

Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, korba@usta.com

SINGLES:

Prize Money Ranking Points

Winner

$2,940 50

Runner-Up

$1,666 34

Semifinalist

$1,078 24

Quarterfinalist

$686 14

Round 16

$490 8

Round 32

$294 1

DOUBLES:

Prize Money (per team)

Winner

$1,176

Runner-Up

$686

Semifinalist

$392

Quarterfinalist

$196

Round 16

$98

Tuesday, April 6

Make A Wish Foundation

on-court presentation, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, April 7

Meet the Players Dinner, 5 p.m.

THE RIVER HILLS USTA $25,000 WOMEN'S CHALLENGER

The River Hills USTA $25,000 Women's

Challenger

is the 10th $25,000 women's tournament of the year and the only $25,000 women's event held in Mississippi. Jackson is the second of three consecutive clay court events on the USTA Pro Circuit in the lead-up to the 2010 French Open.

This year's main draw is expected to include

Julia Cohen

, an All-American at the University of Miami who reached the semifinals of the

NCAA tournament as a sophomore in 2009,

Lauren Albanese

, who won the 2006 USTA

Girls' 18s National Championships to earn an

automatic wild card into the US Open, and

Kimberly Couts

, a frequent competitor on the

USTA Pro Circuit who won the 2006 Easter

Bowl as a junior and was a former USTA Girls'

16s No. 1.

International players in the main draw include

Mirjana Lucic

of Croatia, a singles semifinalist at 1999 Wimbledon and the 1998 Australian

Open doubles champion with Martina Hingis,

and 16-year-old

Laura Robson

of Great Britain, the 2008 Junior Wimbledon champion and girls' singles runner-up at the Australian Open in 2009 and 2010.

A strong Jackson qualifying draw is expected to

include:

Ukrainian-born

Lena Litvak

of Bronx, N.Y., who played at Harvard for one year before turning pro; reigning Intercollegiate Tennis Association

National Player of the Year

Mallory Cecil

, who won the NCAA Division I singles title as a freshman in 2009 and led Duke University to its first-ever NCAA team title; 22-year-old

Alexandra Mueller

, who claimed her first pro singles title at the age of 15, winning a $10,000 event in Canada; 2005 Jackson runner-up

Ahsha Rolle

, an eight-time champion on the USTA Pro Circuit who upset then-world

No. 18 Tatiana Golovin en route to the third

round of the 2007 US Open;

Jamie Hampton

a finalist at two $25,000 events this year, both as a qualifier; and 17-year-old

Nicole Gibbs

, an up-and-coming junior who won the Girls' 16s

Easter Bowl title in 2007.

Many current Sony Ericsson WTA Tour stars

have found success in Jackson. 1999 singles champion

Daniela Hantuchova

rose to world

No. 5 in 2003 and is currently ranked No. 25

on the WTA Tour. She also has won three WTA

Tour singles titles and eight doubles titles and

reached the singles semifinals of Wimbledon in 2008. 1999 doubles champion

Lindsay

Lee-Waters

has cracked the Top 100 twice in her career and was the 2009 women's USTA

Pro Circuit prize money leader. She also is a

mother of two.

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Lauren Albanese won the 2006 USTA Girls'

18s National Championships to earn an

automatic wild card into the US Open.

1999 Jackson singles champion Daniela

Hantuchova has won three Sony Ericsson WTA

Tour singles titles and eight doubles titles.

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USTA PRO CIRCUIT

With more than 90 tournaments throughout the country and prize money ran ging 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 professiona

l ranking points and has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, o ffering 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.

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.

PLAYER DEVELOPMENT

The

USTA Player Development

program identifies and develops the next generation of American champ ions 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 bas ed 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. Melanie Oudin

US OPEN NATIONAL P

LAYO ffS

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. JAC k SON P AST

WINNERS

SinglesDoubles

YearWinnerRunner-UpYearWinner

2009Yuliana Fedak (UKR)Laura Siegemund (GER)2009Monique Adamczak (AUS) / Arina Rodionova (RUS)

2008Soledad Esperon (ARG)Tetiana Luzhanska (UKR)2008Soledad Esperon (ARG) / Maria Irigoyen (ARG)

2007Olga Govortsova (BLR)Melissa Torres-Sandoval (MEX)2007Eva Hrdinova (CZE) / Michaela Pastikova (CZE)

2006Vasilisa Bardina (RUS)Stephanie Dubois (CAN)2006 Maria Kondratieva (RUS) / Sofie Lefevre (FRA)

2005Varvara Lepchenko (UZB)Ahsha Rolle (USA)2005Anastasia Rodionova (RUS) / Kristen Schlukebir (USA)

2004Eugenia Linetskaya (RUS)Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)2004Stephanie Dubois (CAN) / Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)

2003Peng Shuai (CHN)Tina Schiechtl (AUT)2003Teryn Ashley (USA) / Abigail Spears (USA)

2002Gisela Dulko (ARG)Evelyn Fauth (AUT)2002Lisa McShea (AUS) / Christina Wheeler (AUS)

2001Irina Selyutina (KAZ)Gabriela Volekova (SVK)2001Amanda Augustus (USA) / Irina Selyutina (KAZ)

2000Jessica Steck (RSA)Dawn Buth (USA)2000Joana Cortez (BRA) / Miriam D'Agostini (BRA)

1999Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)Milagros Sequera (VEN)1999Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA) / Julie Steven (USA)

Eight-time USTA Pro Circuit champion Ahsha Rolle was a 2005 Jackson nalist, losing to Uzbekistan native Varvara Lepchenko, who became a

U.S. citizen in 2007.

Jonathan Moore/Getty Images

** All players American unless otherwise noted. * All information as of february 1, 2010 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

Heidi El Tabakh (CAN)

Lauren Embree

Irina falconi

Nicole Gibbs

Alexa Glatch pg. 5

Ester Goldfeld

Laura Granville

Carly Gullickson

Angela HaynesVania king pg. 6

Michaella krajicek (NED)

Lindsay Lee-Waters

Varvara Lepchenko

Mirjana Lucic (CRO)

Bethanie Mattek-Sands pg. 7

Christina McHale

Alexandra Mueller

Asia Muhammad

Lilia Osterloh

Shenay Perry pg. 8

Alison Riske

Ahsha Rolle

Abigail Spears

Sloane Stephens

Alexandra Stevenson pg. 9

Valerie Tetreault (CAN)

CoCo Vandeweghe

Mashona Washington

Caitlin Whoriskey

Brittany Augustine pg. 10

Hilary Barte

Tarakaa Bertrand

Gail Brodsky

Mallory Burdette

Jacqueline Cako

Audra Cohen

Lauren Davis

Courtney Dolehide

Jennifer Elie

Amanda fink pg. 11

kristy frilling

Nadja Gilchrist

Chelsey Gullickson

Jamie Hampton

Chloe Jones

Sacha Jones (NZL)

Sesil karatantcheva (kAZ)

Madison keys

Raquel kops-JonesRegina kulikova (RUS) pg. 12

Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA)

Lena Litvak

Elizabeth Lumpkin

Amanda McDowell

kyle McPhillips

Grace Min

kristina Mladenovic (fRA)

Megan Moulton-Levy

Alexis Prousis

katherine Ruckert pg. 13

Anna Tatishvili (GEO)

Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO)

Ellen Tsay

Story Tweedie-Yates

Chanelle Van Nguyen

Sachia Vickery

Heather Watson (GBR)

Ashley Weinhold

Allie WillU 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

ADDITIONAL PLAYERS TO WATCHPLAYERS TO WATCH

2 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H * All information as of February 1, 2010

Kristie Ahn

Age: 17 (6/15/92) Hometown: Upper Saddle River, N.J. 2009 year-end ranking: 345

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 seminalist Dinara Sana in the rst round. Ahn won her third USTA Pro Circuit title in

March 2009 at the $25,000 event in Hammond, La., and, in May, advanced to the quarternals at the $50,000 event in

Carson, Calif. Ahn won a singles title at her rst pro tournament, at the $10,000 event in Landisville, Pa., in May 2008, and

followed that up a month later with a win at the $10,000 event in Houston as a qualier. 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.

Lauren Albanese

Age: 20 (10/1/89) Hometown: Coral Springs, Fla. 2009 year-end ranking: 178

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. In 2009, Albanese started

the year by reaching the nal at $25,000 events in Lutz, Fla., and Rancho Mirage, Calif., before moving up a step and

reaching the seminals at the $50,000 event in Raleigh, N.C., and the quarternals at the $75,000 event in Vancouver. She

also played doubles at the 2009 US Open. 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. 2009 year-end ranking: 740

Boserup had her breakthrough at the 2008 Dunlop Orange Bowl, winning her rst title on the ITF World Junior Circuit. On

the pro level in 2009, she qualied for the $50,000 ITF event in Toronto and advanced to the second round. Boserup also

advanced to the nal round of qualifying for the $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Vancouver and reached the doubles

nal at the $50,000 event in Kansas City, Mo., with partner Laura Granville. As a junior, Boserup advanced to the second

round at the 2009 US Open girls' singles and also reached the singles and doubles seminals 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: 19 (4/3/90) Hometown: Dover, Del. 2009 year-end ranking: 155

Brengle was one of America's top junior players in 2007, when she advanced to the girls' singles nal 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. On the USTA Pro Circuit in 2009, Brengle advanced to the seminals of $50,000

events in Boston and Troy, Ala., and the doubles nal at the $75,000 event in Vancouver. In 2008, she reached the

seminals of $50,000 events in San Diego and Vancouver. Brengle won her rst career USTA Pro Circuit event at the

$10,000 event in Baltimore in 2005.

Beatrice Capra

Age: 17 (4/6/92) Hometown: Ellicott City, Md. 2009 year-end ranking: 859

Capra won her rst professional singles title in October 2009 at the USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 event in Williamsburg, Va.

On the junior level, she reached the girls' singles quarternals at the 2009 US Open and the girls' doubles seminals

at Wimbledon. Capra, the top-ranked player in the USTA Girls' 18s national standings for much of last year, also

won the USTA Girls' 18s Spring National Championships and reached the seminals at the USTA Girls' 18s National

Championships. In 2008, she won the ITF Pan American Closed Championships and was a nalist at the USTA Girls' 18s

National Clay Court Championships. She also reached the seminals at the $10,000 event in Houston and won doubles

titles at $10,000 events, in Sumter, S.C., and Southlake, Texas. 3 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H * All information as of February 1, 2010

Mallory Cecil

Age: 19 (7/18/90) Hometown: Spartanburg, S.C. 2009 year-end ranking: 413

As a freshman in 2009, Cecil won the NCAA Division I singles title and led Duke University to its rst-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. In September, Cecil qualied for the Sony Ericsson WTA event in Quebec City and,

in July, reached the quarternals of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Grapevine, Texas. In 2008, Cecil captured

back-to-back titles at $10,000 events in Sumter, S.C., and Hilton Head Island, S.C., and qualied for the Olympus US

Open Series event in New Haven, Conn. As a junior, Cecil reached the doubles nal at the 2008 Girls' 18s National

Championships and won the doubles title at the 2007 Dunlop Orange Bowl.

Julia Cohen

Age: 20 (3/23/89) Hometown: Philadelphia 2009 year-end ranking: 251

Cohen, an All-American at the University of Miami, reached the seminals of the NCAA tournament as a sophomore in

2009. As a freshman, she was selected as the SEC and ITA Rookie of the Year playing for the University of Florida. Cohen

also thrived on the pro level in 2009, reaching the seminals at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif.,

the quarternals at a $100,000 event in Bronx, N.Y., and the seminals at $25,000 ITF events in Waterloo, Canada, and

Mexico City. 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). Cohen peaked at

No. 4 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2007, when she reached the Australian Open girls' doubles nal.

Kimberly Couts

Age: 20 (5/9/89) Hometown: Bradenton, Fla. 2009 year-end ranking: 295

Demonstrating steady progress up the professional ladder, Couts won her rst 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. Last year, she advanced to

the seminals at $25,000 events in El Paso, Texas, and Laguna Niguel, Calif., the second round at the $75,000 event in

Albuquerque, N.M., and qualied for $50,000 events in Clearwater, Fla., and Las Vegas. Couts also won doubles titles

at $25,000 events in Lutz, Fla., and Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and reached the doubles nal in Las Vegas and Grapevine,

Texas, also a $50,000 event. In 2008, Couts reached the singles seminals at the $25,000 events in Raleigh, N.C., and El

Paso, Texas, and captured the doubles championship in Raleigh and at the $50,000 event in Lexington, Ky. 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. 2009 year-end ranking: 77

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. 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 also 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 2007.

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. 2009 year-end ranking: 264

Ditty is the all-time leader in career USTA Pro Circuit titles with 34. In 2009, the Vanderbilt graduate won the doubles

title at the $75,000 event in Dothan, Ala., with Carly Gullickson, giving her 25 career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles to

go along with nine singles titles. Also last year, 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 rst round. She competed in the singles main draw of the Australian

Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 2008, as well as the doubles main draw of the 2008 US Open, where she reached

the round of 16 with Gullickson. Ditty broke into the Top 100 in November 2007 after advancing to the seminals at the

Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Quebec City, Canada. 4 P L A Y E R S T O W A T C H * All information as of February 1, 2010

Stephanie Dubois (CAN)

Age: 23 (10/31/86) Hometown: Laval, Canada 2009 year-end ranking: 108

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. In 2009, she reached the second round of the US

Open and the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C., on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, and qualied for the main draw at

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