2011 US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS UPDATE

Written by: Staff on 14th July 2011

2011 US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS UPDATE |

The 16 US Open National Playoffs Sectional Qualifying Tournaments concluded with the USTA Southern Sectional Qualifying Tournament in Alpharetta, Ga. Current doubles world No. 112 David Martin captured both the men’s singles title and the mixed doubles title. Martin, 30, of Tulsa, Okla., defeated Spaniard Guillermo Gomez, a former Georgia Tech player, in the singles final, 7-6(3), 6-2. He also teamed withChristina Fusano in mixed doubles to defeat Georgians Frank Solana and Jennifer Sinclair, 6-1, 6-1, in the mixed doubles. Martin did not lose one set in any of his singles or doubles matches. He peaked at No. 38 in the world in doubles in 2008, when he won the ATP event in San Jose, Calif., with Scott Lipsky. He has also advanced to five ATP doubles finals, including in Chennai, India, this year with Robin Haase, and competed in US Open doubles main draws in 1998 and from 2007 to 2010. Fusano, 31, of Plymouth, Calif., competed for the University of California and holds 12 career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles.

In the women’s singles, Amanda McDowell, 23, of Atlanta, defeated 15-year-old junior standout Anne-Liz Jeukeng, of Kansas City, Mo., 6-1, 6-2, for the women’s title. McDowell won the 2008 NCAA women’s singles title at Georgia Tech and received All-America honors.

The US Open National Playoffs – Men’s, Women’s and Mixed Doubles Championships will be held in conjunction with the New Haven Open at Yale, an Olympus US Open Series women’s event in August. The US Open National Playoffs – Men’s and Women’s Singles Championships will take place August 18-21, with the champions earning a wild card into the US Open Qualifying Tournament, held the week prior to the US Open. The US Open National Playoffs – Mixed Doubles Championship will take place August 24-27, with the champions receiving a mixed doubles main draw wild card into the 2011 US Open.

BY THE NUMBERS:

1 — Defending champion of the US Open National Playoffs (Strode)

2 — Players who have reached the final of a Grand Slam doubles draw (Tarango as 1999 French Open men’s doubles finalist, Ferreira as 2000 Australian Open men’s doubles champion and 2001 Australian Open mixed doubles champion)

3 — Number of NCAA champions competing in the 2011 US Open National Playoffs (Mamiit in 1996, Bielik in 2002, McDowell in 2008)

3 — Women who will be returning to the 2011 US Open National Playoffs – Women’s Championship (Diaz, Falcon, Tedjakusuma)

5 — Players who have been ranked in the Top 100 in singles (Bardina, Mamiit, Tarabini, Tarango, Washington)

6 — Men who will be returning to the 2011 US Open National Playoffs – Men’s Championship (Larson, Mamiit, Niculescu, Quigley, Strode, Wettengel)

8 — Players who will compete in both singles and mixed doubles of the 2011 US Open National Playoffs (Diaz, Healey, Martin, Morton, Pelletier, Schnack, Strode, Vlaski)

8 — Players who have ranked in the Top 100 in doubles (Ferreira, Fusano, Healey, Martin, Pelletier, Tarabini, Tarango, Washington)

12 — Teenagers who advanced to the 2011 US Open National Playoffs Championships (H. Adams, S. Adams, Anderson, Corning, Dailey, Harrison, Jurova, Melichar, Morton, Niehaus, Rodgers, Withrow)

13 — Players that are over the age of 30 that advanced to the 2011 US Open National Playoffs (Donley, Ferreira, Fusano, Healey, Keronen, Mamiit, Mullins, Nelson-Kortland, Ruegsegger, Tarabini, Tarango, Tedjakusuma, Washington)

192 — Teams who competed in mixed doubles across the 16 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments

306 — Women who competed in singles across the 16 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments

690 — Men who competed in singles across the 16 Sectional Qualifying Tournaments

1,223 — Total players who participated in singles and/or mixed doubles during the 2011 US Open National Playoffs Sectional Qualifying Tournaments

US OPEN NATIONAL PLAYOFFS SECTIONAL QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT FINAL RESULTS

Section	Men’s Winner	Women’s Winner	Mixed Doubles Winners

USTA Eastern	Steve Erickson	Petra Jurova	Beatrix Bielik/Darrin Cohen
	Age: 23; Hometown: Emerson, NJ	Age: 18; Hometown: Bratislava, Slovakia	Ages: 30/27; Hometowns: Valley Stream, NY/Lafayette, CA

USTA Southwest	Bojan Temunovic	Sylvia Kosakowski	Nicole Melichar/Sam Harrison
	Age: 22; Hometown: Scottsdale, AZ	Age: 24; Hometown: Downey, CA	Ages: 17/18; Hometown: Stuart, FL/Gilbert, AZ

USTA New England	Blake Strode	Lena Litvak	Whitney Jones/Blake Strode
	Age: 23; Hometown: St. Louis, MO	Age: 22; Hometown: Ukraine/New York City	Ages: 24/23; Hometowns: St. Louis, MO

USTA Florida	Oleg Dmitriev	Caroline Dailey	Amanda Rodgers/Ellis Ferreira
	Age: 27; Hometown: Russia/Dania Beach, FL	Age: 16; Hometown: Sarasota, FL	Ages: 18/41; Hometowns: Bradenton, FL/Holmes Beach, FL

USTA Mid-Atlantic	Damon Gooch	Skylar Morton	Skylar Morton/Patrick Daciek
	Age: 24; Hometown: South Africa/Bethesda, MD	Age: 17; Hometown: Bethesda, MD	Ages: 17/21; Hometowns: Bethesda, MD/Severna Park, MD

USTA Northern California	Chris Wettengel	Yasmin Schnack	Yasmin Schnack/Eric Roberson
	Age: 29; Hometown: Las Vegas	Age: 23; Hometown: Elk Grove, CA	Ages: 23/24; Hometowns: Elk Grove, CA/Sacramento, CA

USTA Hawaii-Pacific	Angelo Niculescu	Maureen Diaz	Maureen Diaz/Erik Nelson-Kortland
	Age: 30; Hometown: Lake Oswego, OR	Age: 29; Hometown: Glendale, CA	Ages: 29/32; Hometowns: Glendale, CA/Marina del Rey, CA

USTA Midwest	Eric Quigley	Romana Tedjakusuma	Sandy Niehaus/Wil Lofgren
	Age: 22; Hometown: Peewee Valley, KY	Age: 34; Hometown: Tracy, CA	Ages: 16/26; Hometowns: Cincinnati, OH

USTA Intermountain	Angelo Faustino	Vasilisa Bardina	Yana Ruegsegger/Miika Keronen
	Age: 22; Hometown: Littleton, CO	Age: 23; Hometown: Denver, CO	Ages: 34/40; Hometowns: Lakewood, CO/Longmont, CO

USTA Pacific Northwest	Aleksandar Vlaski	Marie-Eve Pelletier	Marie-Eve Pelletier/Aleksandar Vlaski
	Age: 29; Hometown: Kirkland, WA	Age: 29; Hometown: Quebec, Canada	Ages: 29/29; Hometowns: Quebec, Canada/Kirkland, WA

USTA Middle States	Nathan Healey	Robin Anderson	Veronica Corning/Nathan Healey
	Age: 31; Hometown: Wyomissing, PA	Age: 18; Hometown: Matawan, NJ	Ages: 19/31; Hometowns: Beverly, MA/Wyomissing, PA

USTA Southern California	Cecil Mamiit	Macall Harkins	Patricia Tarabini/Jeff Tarango
	Age: 34; Hometown: South Pasadena, CA	Age: 25; Hometown: Palos Verdes, CA	Ages: 42/42; Hometowns: Carlsbad, CA/Manhattan Beach, CA

USTA Texas	Artem Baradach	Mashona Washington	Samantha Adams/Harrison Adams
	Age: 22; Hometown: Dallas, TX	Age: 35; Hometown: Houston, TX	Ages: 19/17; Hometowns: New Braunfels, TX

USTA Missouri Valley	Jackson Withrow	Ashley Murdock	Brook Connelly/David Mullins
	Age: 17; Hometown: Omaha, NE	Age: 23; Hometown: Memphis, TN	Ages: 25/32; Hometowns: Oklahoma City, OK/Norman, OK

USTA Northern	Tony Larson	Megan Falcon	Imke Reimers/Erik Donley
	Age: 27 ; Hometown: Brooklyn Park, MN	Age: 25; Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA	Ages: 25/37; Hometowns: Minneapolis, MN; Duluth, MN

USTA Southern	David Martin	Amanda McDowell	Christina Fusano/David Martin
	Age: 30; Hometown: Tulsa, OK	Age: 23; Hometown: Atlanta, GA	Ages: 31/30; Hometowns: Plymouth, CA; Tulsa, OK