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..DELRAY BEACH—(October 17, 2009)
Three familiar faces have signed up to play in the 2010 Delray
....Beach
International Tennis Championships (ITC), an expanded 9-day tennis extravaganza
at the Delray Beach ....Stadium & Tennis Center Feb. 20-28 that includes both an ATP World Tour and ATP Champions Tour
event. .... .. ..2007 & 2008 Delray Beach finalist James
Blake and 2006 champion Tommy Haas will return
to the ATP ....World
Tour event, while the inaugural ATP Champions Tour event has added Aaron Krickstein, a member of ....the 1990 US winning Davis Cup team and now
the director of tennis at St. Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton.
.... ..
..Both events will be held simultaneously over the 9-day Delray Beach
ITC in February. Already committed ....to the ATP World Tour event are 2009
defending champions Mardy Fish and the No. 1
world-ranked Bryan ....Brothers, while tennis
icon John McEnroe highlights an ATP Champions Tour card that also includes former
....Grand
Slam champions Mats Wilander and Pat
Cash. .... ..
..“The draws for our two events are rounding out nicely,” said Mark
Baron, Delray Beach ITC tournament ....director. “Whether you’ve been a fan for a
year or for 30 years, there’s going to be exciting tennis for everyone
....to watch in
Delray Beach.
With Blake, Haas, and Fish, the 18th annual ATP World Tour tournament will showcase
three players who ....have played in the last four ITC finals. Fish is 13-5 in Delray
Beach, Blake is 9-4 and Haas 7-3. Blake has won ....10 career ATP titles and was the ATP
Comeback Player of the Year in 2006 after recovering from injury and an
....illness—the same
year he reached a career-best No. 4 in the world. The German-born and 18th-ranked Haas has ....won 12 career ATP titles, reached No. 2 in
the world in 2002, and following shoulder surgery, was the 2004 ATP
....Comeback Player
of the Year. He won this year’s Halle title with a win over No. 4
Novak Djokovic and then ....reached the Wimbledon semifinal before losing to No. 1 Roger
Federer. ........Krickstein, who was ranked in the ATP’s Top 10 rankings for five
seasons between 1984 and 1991, played ....in the inaugural ITC in 1993 in Coral
Springs. He owns ATP records for being the youngest title winner (Tel Aviv
....1983) at age 16,
and for his 1984 season where he was the youngest Top 10 ranked player ever at
age 17.
Along
with McEnroe, Wilander and Cash, Krickstein will be a part of an 8-player draw
in the first ATP Champions ....event that will be played in the United States.
....Tickets are
available on the official tournament website at www.YellowTennisBall.com or by calling
....(561) 330-6000.
Single-session tickets go on sale Monday, October 19 at 10 am.
They range in price from ....$15 - $30 for Grandstand seats, $35 - $55
for Reserved seats, and Box seats are $65 - $85. Ticket packages
....range in price
from $230 to $518.
*Fans can order all 17 sessions (Diamond),
sessions 1 – 10
(Ruby),
sessions ....9-17 (Sapphire)
or a package for the ATP World
Tour quarterfinals through the finals (Weekender). Sessions 5
....– 8 (Monday
and Tuesday) include a chance for fans to enjoy both ATP Champions Tour and ATP World ....Tour matches. Box series
packages are also available.
.. ...... .. ..ATP Champions Tour Event ....February 20-23, 2010
....Draw: 8 players,
round robin format, each player plays a minimum of 3 times
....Confirmed
players: John McEnroe, Mats Wilander, Pat Cash, Aaron Krickstein
....ATP World Tour
Event ....Qualifying
Tournament: February 20-21, 2010 ....Main Draw: February 22-28, 2010; Singles 32
players; Doubles 16 players ....Confirmed Players: Mardy Fish, James Blake, Tommy Haas, Bryan
Brothers .... ..
..About the Delray Beach International Tennis
Championships: The Delray Beach International Tennis ....Championships (ITC)
is the only ATP tournament in the world featuring an
ATP Champions Tour event and an
....ATP World Tour event in the
same week. Scheduled for February 20-28, 2010 at the Delray Beach Stadium &
....Tennis Center in
Delray Beach, Florida, the ITC annually attracts the best
tennis players in the world and ....thousands of visitors to Delray Beach and
Palm Beach County. The $500,000 ATP World Tour event is entering
....its 18th year
(12th in Delray Beach) while 2010 will be
the inaugural year for the ATP Champions Tour event.
Celebrated in 2003 with the ATP Award of
Excellence, the privately-owned tournament features one of 11 ATP
....World Tour Events
in the United States and the first-ever ATP Champions Tour event played on US
soil. Total ....player compensation is $1.3 million for both events. For more
information, please visit YellowTennisBall.com.
....WEBSITE LINK TO RELEASE:
....2010 Delray Beach ITC hosts the ATP World Tour and ATP Champions Tour - February 20-28; Check out the starting line-up for '10
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