FRENCH OPEN BOYS’ CHAMPION BJORN FRATANGELO PARTICIPATES IN US OPEN WILDCARD

Written by: Staff on 18th August 2011

FRENCH OPEN BOYS’ CHAMPION BJORN FRATANGELO PARTICIPATES IN US OPEN WILDCARD |

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., August 17, 2011 – USTA Player Development announced today the eight

men and eight women who will participate in the second annual US Open Wild Card Playoff, being

held at the Junior Tennis Champions Center, a USTA Certified Regional Training Center in College

Park, Md., August 18-20. The winners will receive main draw singles wild cards into the men’s and

women’s draws at the 2011 US Open.

The men’s field includes top-seeded Bobby Reynolds (Acworth, Ga.), a former All-American at

Vanderbilt who has been as high as No. 63 in the world on the ATP World Tour and is currently No.

120; and Bjorn Fratangelo (Plum, Pa.), who in June became the first American since John

McEnroe in 1977 to win the French Open boys’ singles title.

The local favorites will be Denis Kudla (Arlington, Va.), and Mitchell Frank (Annandale, Va.), who

both train at the Junior Tennis Champions Center. Kudla, who reached the quarterfinals of the Hall

of Fame Championships in Newport, R.I., in July, is currently ranked No. 325 in the world and was

the US Open boys’ singles runner-up last year. Frank, an incoming freshman at the University of

Virginia, was the runner-up at the USTA Boys’ 18s National Championships last week.

Four of last season’s top collegians round out the men’s field. Daniel Kosakowski (Huntington Park,

Calif.) turned professional after his freshman year at UCLA and recently won his first Tour-level

match at the Farmers Classic in Los Angeles. Tennys Sandgren (Gallatin, Tenn.), a rising junior at

the University of Tennessee, recently won back-to-back Futures titles on the USTA Pro Circuit.

Rhyne Williams (Knoxville, Tenn.), the 2011 NCAA singles runner-up for the University of

Tennessee, turned pro after winning his second professional title in June at the USTA Pro Circuit

Futures in Innisbrook, Fla. Bradley Klahn (Poway, Calif.) won the 2010 NCAA men’s singles title

and will be a senior at Stanford this fall.

The women’s field includes top-seeded Julia Cohen (Philadelphia), a former All-American for the

University of Miami who in May reached the final of an ITF Pro Circuit $25,000 event in Thailand;

and local favorite Beatrice Capra (Ellicott City, Md.), who won this event last year and subsequently

reached the third round of the 2010 US Open.

The women’s field also includes two former USTA Girls’ 18s National Champions in 2007 champion

Ashley Weinhold (Austin, Texas), and 2008 champion Gail Brodsky (Brooklyn, N.Y.), as well as

two-time USTA Girls’ 18s runner-up Nicole Gibbs (Santa Monica, Calif.), who as a freshman helped

lead Stanford to the final of the 2011 NCAA women’s team championships.

Rounding out the field are Madison Keys (Boca Raton, Fla.), who won her first professional title in

2010 at the USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 event in Cleveland; Jessica Pegula (Boca Raton, Fla.), who

reached her first professional final in January at the USTA Pro Circuit $25,000 event in Lutz, Fla.;

and Ahsha Rolle (Miami Shores, Fla.), a 10-time champion on the USTA Pro Circuit who reached

the third round of the 2007 US Open.

Seeding for the event is based on this week’s ATP World Tour and WTA Rankings, and there will be

media availability with the players on Wednesday, August 17. For additional information including

ticket pricing, please visit www.jtcc.org.

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