2013 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S BIOS

Lauren Albanese Age: 23 (10/1/1989) Hometown: Coral Springs, FL Career-High Ranking: 158 (June 2009) Albanese reached at least one USTA Pro Circuit final each year from 2006-09 and advanced to two semifinals in an injury-shortened 2011. She won the USTA Girls’ 18s title in 2006 to earn a wild card into the US Open, where she advanced to the second round of the women’s singles main draw.

Madison Brengle Age: 23 (4/3/1990) Hometown: Dover, Del. Career-High Ranking: 152 (April 2011) Brengle won her fourth career professional title in February 2013 at the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. In 2011, she ascended to a career-best ranking of No. 152 and won the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Hammond, La. In her career, Brengle has played in the main draw at three of the four Grand Slam events, winning USTA wild-card playoffs to earn entry into the Australian Open (2007-08) and the French Open (2008), as well as competing in the US Open main draw in 2007. An outstanding junior competitor, she rose to No. 4 in the world junior rankings in 2007 after reaching the girls’ singles final at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon.

Mallory Burdette Age: 22 (1/28/1991) Hometown: Jackson, GA Career-High Ranking: 88 (April 2013) Burdette recently turned pro after reaching the third round of the US Open, losing to Maria Sharapova in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Burdette received a wild card into the 2012 US Open based on her USTA Pro Circuit results this summer, which included a title at the $100,000 event in Vancouver. She also reached the second round of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif., in her WTA debut. This year, she broke into the Top 100 after reaching the semifinals of the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, Mich., and qualifying for and reaching the third round of the WTA events in Indian Wells, Calif., and Charleston, S.C. Burdette played for Stanford the last three years, clinching the NCAA team title as a freshman in 2010, winning the NCAA doubles crown in 2011 and 2012, and reaching the final of the 2012 NCAA singles (where she fell to teammate and doubles partner Nicole Gibbs).

Louisa Chirico Age: 16 (6/16/1996) Hometown: Harrison, N.Y. Career-High Ranking: 424 (April 2013) Chirico, who, through March, joined Taylor Townsend as the only two American 16-year-olds ranked in the WTA Top 500. Along with Townsend, Chirico helped lead the U.S. to the Junior Fed Cup title in Barcelona, Spain, in 2012, before vaulting into the Top 70 of the world junior rankings in 2013. Chirico also qualified and reached the final of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Surprise, Ariz., in February. She trains at the USTA Training Center – East at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.

Julia Cohen Age: 24 (3/23/1989) Hometown: Philadelphia Career-High Ranking: 97 (July 2012) Cohen broke into the WTA Top 100 in late July 2012, reaching a career-high No. 97 after advancing to her first WTA final, in Baku, Azerbaijan, prior to playing in her first US Open main draw in August. She is a veteran of all levels of competitive tennis, excelling as a junior and collegiate player and having competed in USTA adult events and on the USTA Pro Circuit. As a collegian, Cohen earned All-America honors as a sophomore for the University of Miami (Fla.) after being named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rookie of the Year as a freshman for the University of Florida. In 2008, she won three USTA adult national championships and added another in 2009, all in doubles events with her parents. Cohen peaked at No. 4 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2007, when she reached the Australian Open girls’ doubles final.

Samantha Crawford Age: 18 (2/18/1995) Hometown: Atlanta Career-High Ranking: 240 (April 2013) Crawford qualified for the main draw of the 2012 US Open and pushed Great Britain’s Laura Robson, now a Top-50 player, in the first round. Crawford then won the US Open girls’ singles title, becoming the second consecutive American (after Min) to do so. At 6-foot-2, Crawford’s big serve and aggressive baseline game helped her rise to No. 5 in the world junior rankings in 2012. She also twice won the USTA Girls’ 18s doubles title. Crawford, whose mother is from China, speaks Chinese. She trains at the USTA National Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla.

Jill Craybas Age: 38 (7/4/1974) Hometown: Huntington Beach, Calif. Career-High Ranking: 39 (April 2006) Craybas finished in the Top 100 each year from 2001-10 and reached a career-high No. 39 in 2006. She competed in the main draw of all four Grand Slams each year from 2001-11, a streak of 44 straight Slam singles main draws. In 2012, she played in the qualifying of all four Grand Slam events and qualified for WTA events in Paris, Charleston, Madrid and Bastad. Her best Slam result came at Wimbledon in 2005, when she knocked off Serena Williams en route to the fourth round. Craybas won the 2002 Japan Open on the WTA Tour and has also won five tour-level doubles titles. She has represented the U.S. in the Olympics (2008 Beijing) and in Fed Cup (2004-06). She is the only woman to be a member of a national championship team with two different schools (Texas in 1993, Florida in 1996), and she won the NCAA singles championship in 1996.

Lauren Davis Age: 19 (10/9/1993) Hometown: Boca Raton, Fla. Career-High Ranking: 63 (April 2013) Davis started 2013 by reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open tune-up event in Hobart, losing to fellow young American Sloane Stephens in three sets. She then won the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, Mich., a few weeks later. Also, in 2013, she reached the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Monterrey, Mexico, and qualified and reached

the second round in Miami. Davis broke into the Top 100 for the first time in her career in 2012. She qualified for and reached the second round of the French Open and advanced to the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Quebec City, Canada, following the US Open. Davis also ended the 2012 season strong on the USTA Pro Circuit, winning the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Las Vegas. She reached the final of the $75,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Albuquerque the week prior to finish second among American women in WTA points earned on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2012. Davis peaked at No. 3 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2010, when she won the Orange Bowl and reached the final of the Easter Bowl.

Victoria Duval Age: 17 (11/30/1995) Hometown: Bradenton, Fla. Career-High Ranking: 294 (April 2013) Duval earned a wild card into the main draw of the 2012 US Open by winning the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships as the No. 17 seed, knocking off five Top-10 seeds en route. In the first round at the US Open, she faced former US Open champion Kim Clijsters, who was playing in her final Grand Slam event before retiring. Duval also reached the singles semifinals at the 2012 US Open Junior Championships. She formerly trained at the USTA Certified Regional Training Center in Atlanta, and members of the club helped save her father, a doctor in Port-auPrince, who was injured in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Irina Falconi Age: 23 (5/4/1990) Hometown: Jupiter, Fla. Career-High Ranking: 73 (October 2011) A one-time college star at Georgia Tech, Falconi has played in every Grand Slam event at least twice. Her highlight at a major came at the US Open in 2011, when she upset No. 14 Dominika Cibulkova in the second round in Arthur Ashe Stadium and carried an American flag around the court following the win. Also in 2011, Falconi won a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the French Open, where she advanced to the second round, and qualified for the Australian Open and Wimbledon to rise to No. 73 in the world rankings. In addition, she was selected to represent the U.S. in the 2011 Pan Am Games, where she won the gold medal in singles and the silver medal in doubles (with Christina McHale). In two seasons at Georgia Tech, Falconi was a two-time All-American and ranks first in school history in all-time winning percentage (.824; 70-15). Falconi was born in Ecuador and moved to New York at age 3, learning to play on public courts in Manhattan.

Nicole Gibbs Age: 20 (3/3/1993) Hometown: Cincinnati Career-High Ranking: 185 (April 2013) Gibbs is the reigning NCAA Division I singles champion. Gibbs defeated Stanford teammate Mallory Burdette in the title match as a sophomore in 2012, for which she was awarded a wild card into the main draw of the US Open. (She also teamed with Burdette to win the NCAA doubles title.) Following the collegiate season, Gibbs qualified and won the USTA Pro Circuit event in Denver in July and received a wild card into the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Stanford, where she fell to Serena Williams in the round of 16. This year, Gibbs reached the final of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., in February. As a freshman at Stanford in 2010-11, Gibbs advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Championships to earn All-America honors. She also helped lead the Cardinal to the NCAA team final. Gibbs then rejoined the junior ranks, reaching the semifinals of the 2011 US Open Junior Championships as a qualifier in singles and the semifinals in doubles (with Kyle McPhillips); she also competed in the main draw of the women’s doubles with Lauren Davis.

Alexa Glatch Age: 23 (9/10/1989) Hometown: Newport Beach, Calif. Career-High Ranking: 102 (August 2009) Glatch started the 2012 season strong by reaching the semifinals of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and later qualified and reached the second round of the 2012 French Open. She closed the year by winning consecutive $25,000 ITF Circuit events in Japan. After an injury-marred 2010, Glatch began her comeback in 2011 by qualifying for Wimbledon and also for the WTA events in Memphis and Copenhagen, Denmark, advancing to the quarterfinals in Memphis. In 2009, Glatch propelled the U.S. to the Fed Cup final 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; her victories included a straight-sets win over 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. As a junior, Glatch reached the girls’ singles and doubles finals at the 2005 US Open—losing to Victoria Azarenka in the singles final—but she suffered career-threatening injuries in a motor scooter accident shortly thereafter. 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.

Madison Keys Age: 17 (2/17/1995) Hometown: Boca Raton, Fla. Career-High Ranking: 62 (April 2013) Keys earned a wild card into the main draw of the 2013 Australian Open by winning the USTA Australian Open Wild Card Playoffs in Norcross, Ga., in December 2012, and in turn, reached the third round—her best Grand Slam result. The USTA and Tennis Australia have a reciprocal agreement where the two national tennis federations exchange one women’s main-draw wild card for the 2012 US Open and 2013 Australian Open. With her victory in the wild-card playoff, Keys captured the wild-card event for the second year in a row, becoming the first woman and second player overall to do so in the tournament’s five-year history, along with Ryan Harrison (2009-10). Keys reached the quarterfinals of the 2013 Australian Open tune-up event in Sydney, losing to No. 4 seed Li Na, and also reached the quarterfinals of the 2013 Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C., losing to Venus Williams, to peak at No. 62 in the world in April. In 2011, Keys became the youngest player to win a main-draw match at the US Open since Nicole Vaidisova in 2005. And in 2009, she became the youngest player (14 years, 48 days) since Martina Hingis in 1994 to win a WTA match. Keys trains at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla.

Allie Kiick Age: 17 (6/30/1995) Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Career-High Ranking: 323 (April 2013) Kiick, once one of the Top-25 juniors in the world, is a former International Spring Championships and Orange Bowl girls’ 16s champion. In 2012, she reached the singles quarterfinals of the junior French Open and the round of 16 at the junior US Open and junior Wimbledon. Her father is Jim Kiick, who played running back for the Miami Dolphins. She previously trained at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla.

Grace Min Age: 19 (5/6/1994) Hometown: Norcross, Ga. Career-High Ranking: 162 (April 2013) Min won her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title in Innisbrook, Fla., last year. She went on to win back-to-back USTA Pro Circuit singles titles at $50,000 events in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and Raleigh, N.C., in the spring to crack the Top 200 for the first time in her career. This year, she has qualified for the WTA events in Indian Wells, Calif., and Acapulco, Mexico. Min was one of the top juniors in the world in 2011, defeating the No. 2 seed in the first round and the No. 1 seed in the final to win the US Open girls’ singles title without dropping a set. That same year, she also won the girls’ doubles title at Wimbledon and reached the singles semifinals at the Easter Bowl and the USTA International Spring Championships. Those results propelled her to No. 4 in the world junior rankings. Min has trained full-time at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., since fall 2009.

Alexandra Mueller Age: 25 (2/14/1988) Hometown: Abington, Pa. Career-High Ranking: 280 (July 2009) Mueller won the US Open National Playoffs women’s singles titles both in 2010 and 2012, earning a wild card into the US Open Qualifying Tournament on each occasion. She has captured three USTA Pro Circuit singles titles (two at the $10,000 event in Hilton Head Island, S.C., and one at the $10,000 event in Landisville, Pa.) and five doubles titles.

Asia Muhammad Age: 22 (4/4/1991) Hometown: Las Vegas Career-High Ranking: 348 (October 2009) Muhammad, who learned to play tennis at the Andre Agassi Boys and Girls Club in Las Vegas, won two USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles last year, at the $50,000 event in Sacramento and the $75,000 event in Albuquerque. She holds seven USTA Pro Circuit titles overall (six in doubles). She won the doubles title at the $25,000 event in Rancho Santa Fe, with Allie Will.

Melanie Oudin Age: 21 (9/23/1991) Hometown: Marietta, Ga. Career-High Ranking: 31 (April 2010) Oudin won her first career WTA title at the Wimbledon tune-up event in Birmingham in 2012, where she won eight matches as a qualifier and upset No. 5 seed Jelena Jankovic in the final. Oudin then competed in Wimbledon as a wild card. She also earned a 2012 French Open wild card based on her results on the USTA Pro Circuit, which included a title at the event in Charlottesville, Va.. (She reached the second round at Roland Garros.) Oudin burst onto the tennis scene in 2009, defeating former world No. 1 Jankovic to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon and beating four-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova en route to the US Open quarterfinals. She notched one of the biggest victories of her career at the 2011 US Open, claiming the mixed doubles title with countryman Jack Sock. The two upset defending champions Bob Bryan and Liezel Huber in the second round to become the first teenage pair in the Open Era to win the US Open mixed doubles title. Oudin peaked at No. 31 in the world in singles in April 2010 and has been a consistent performer for the U.S. Fed Cup team. Oudin, who has a twin sister, Katherine, trains full-time at the USTA Training Center-East at the home of the US Open in Flushing, N.Y.

Jessica Pegula Age: 19 (2/24/1994) Hometown: Buffalo, N.Y. Career-High Ranking: 134 (April 2013) Pegula advanced to her first professional final at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Sacramento in May 2012, before making a run to the final of the $100,000 event in Vancouver the following month. Pegula played in the US Open doubles main draw in 2011 and 2012, when she partnered with Madison Keys. This year, she has reached the quarterfinals of the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland, Mich., and advanced to the doubles semifinals of the WTA event in Memphis. Pegula is the daughter of Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula.

Alison Riske Age: 22 (7/3/1990) Hometown: McMurray, Pa. Career-High Ranking: 104 (May 2011) Riske nearly broke through to the WTA Top 100 in 2011, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 104. She qualified for the 2012 Australian Open, losing to Urszula Radwanska in the first round, and also competed in the US Open qualifying tournament later in the year. On the USTA Pro Circuit last year, Riske reached the semifinals at the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, N.M., and the $50,000 event in the Bronx, N.Y. In 2011, she reached the quarterfinals at the WTA event in Birmingham, England, and competed in the main draws at the US Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon. As a junior, Riske rose to No. 2 in the USTA Girls’ 18s national standings and was a finalist at the 2007 USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships.

Shelby Rogers Age: 20 (10/13/1992) Hometown: Mt. Pleasant, S.C. Career-High Ranking: 207 (October 2012) Rogers 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 women’s singles main-draw wild card into the French Open to an American player based on her results on the USTA Pro Circuit. The winner of the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge was determined by the player who accumulated the greatest number of WTA ranking points at two of three USTA Pro Circuit $50,000 clay-court events in Dothan, Ala., Charlottesville, Va., and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. Rogers rose to the top of the standings by winning the Charlottesville title, reaching the quarterfinals in Dothan and the round of 16 in Indian Harbour Beach. She peaked at No. 190 in the world this April. Last year, she made a run to the final of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Las Vegas and claimed one singles title, beating US Open junior girls’ champion Samantha Crawford in the final of the $50,000 event in Yakima, Wash. Despite missing much of the spring and summer of 2011 due to injury, Rogers managed to reach the quarterfinals at three events. As a junior player, she won the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships to earn a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 US Open for her first appearance in a Grand Slam (in the either main draw or the juniors).

Maria Sanchez Age: 23 (11/26/1989) Hometown: Modesto, Calif. Career-High Ranking: 109 (March 2013) Sanchez, who since the end of the 2011 season, when she was ranked No. 687 in the world, has ascended 560 places in the WTA rankings. Formerly the No. 1-ranked college singles player while at the University of Southern California, Sanchez won two USTA Pro Circuit titles in 2012,

at the $50,000 event in Sacramento, Calif.—her first professional singles title—and the $75,000 event in Albuquerque, where she defeated Lauren Davis in the title match. Sanchez finished the year by making the final of the $75,000 event in Phoenix to finish as the top WTA points earner among Americans on the 2012 USTA Pro Circuit. She was an ITA All-American at USC, winning the 2011 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship singles title. As a junior player, she was ranked No. 1 in the United States as a 16-year-old and No. 4 in the country as an 18-year-old.

Chiara Scholl Age: 20 (7/5/1992) Hometown: Pompano Beach, Fla. Career-High Ranking: 164 (October 2011) Scholl, who goes by the nickname “Chi Chi,” won her first two career singles titles on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2011, at a $50,000 event in Lexington, Ky., and at a $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas. In 2012, she played in qualifying at the Australian Open, French Open and US Open, and she also reached the semifinals of two USTA Pro Circuit events at the $50,000 levels and above. Scholl’s younger sister, Chalena, is a world Top-15 junior who trains at the USTA Player Development Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla.

Taylor Townsend Age: 17 (4/16/1996) Hometown: Chicago Career-High Ranking: 348 (April 2013) Townsend was formerly the No. 1-ranked junior in the world and clinched the year-end ITF No. 1 junior ranking for 2012 in December, becoming the first American girl to hold that position since Gretchen Rush in 1982. In 2012, Townsend also won the Australian Open junior singles title and the junior doubles titles at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. She also led the United States to the 2012 Junior Fed Cup championship. Townsend trains at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla.

CoCo Vandeweghe Age: 21 (12/6/1991) Hometown: Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Career-High Ranking: 69 (July 2012) Vandeweghe reached her first pro final in 2012 at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif., as a qualifier, losing to Serena Williams. She then faced Williams in the first round of the 2012 US Open. Vandeweghe also qualified for Wimbledon a year ago. Vandeweghe broke into the Top 100 for the first time in her career in early 2011 after qualifying for the Australian Open and reaching the quarterfinals of the WTA event in Memphis, Tenn. She also reached the second round of the 2011 US Open and competed in the French Open and Wimbledon that year. Vandeweghe was named to the U.S. Fed Cup team for the 2010 final versus Italy. As a junior, she won the 2008 US Open girls’ singles title. Vandeweghe’s mother, Tauna, was a member of the U.S. national team in both swimming and volleyball, and her uncle is former NBA star Kiki Vandeweghe.

Sachia Vickery Age: 21 (5/11/1991) Hometown: Hollywood, Fla. Career-High Ranking: 302 (April 2013) Vickery reached the girls’ doubles semifinals at 2012 Wimbledon and advanced to the third round of the 2012 US Open junior event. She is currently ranked No. 27 in the ITF World Junior Rankings and has worked with Richard Williams, Venus and Serena’s father. Vickery won her first pro title this year, claiming the doubles crown at the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Surprise, Ariz., with Crawford, and reached the semifinals of the $25,000 clay-court event in Innisbrook, Fla.

Ashley Weinhold Age: 23 (6/20/1989) Hometown: Spicewood, TX Career-High Ranking: 181 (October 2011) Weinhold won the 2007 USTA Girls’ 18s national championship, in turn receiving a wild card into the 2007 US Open. Weinhold holds eight combined USTA Pro Circuit singles and doubles titles, winning her sixth doubles title in 2012 at the $25,000 event in El Paso, Texas. She qualified for the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Midland in February.