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2010

Saturday 17th July - Saturday 24th July

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Tennis Ireland would like to wish our Academy members,

James McGee, Colin O'Brien, Barry King, James Cluskey, Tristan Farron Mahon, Roman Grogan,

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Message from the FLTC President

It’s a pleasure for me to welcome the players, visitors and members to the 2010 Men’s Irish Open Tennis Championships. I am delighted that Fitzwilliam LTC is hosting the event again this year, 131 years since these historic championships were first held in Fitzwilliam Square.

This is a $15000 International Tennis Federation “Futures” event providing “home” players a valuable opportunity to gain world-ranking points while playing on our own courts.

We are very pleased to have new main sponsors, Green Property Ltd, for these champion-ships and thank them for their generous support. We also acknowledge with thanks, and

bring to your attention in this programme, our members and friends whose companies are acting as support sponsors.

Our thanks are also due to the tournament organising committee led by Garbhán ó’Nualláin, the tournament referee Aileen Rogan of Tennis Ireland, and our dedicated Club staff under General Manager Terry Jermyn.

We can look forward to a very enjoyable week’s tennis - come along and support the players as often as you can during the week.

Robin Gibney, President FLTC

Message from the President of Tennis Ireland

As President of Tennis Ireland it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Green Property Men’s Irish Open Tennis Championships. We are delighted that Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club is hosting this prestigious event on the hallowed courts in Appian Way. Fitzwilliam has an association with the Men’s Irish Open that runs back as far as 1879 and is one of the oldest tennis events in the world.

Following on from Davis Cup, it guarantees that July will be a great month for Irish tennis fans, giving them the opportunity to see our players in action on home soil.

To date, 2010 has been one of the most successful years in recent history for our senior and junior players. Many, in both singles and doubles at senior and junior levels have,

through their continued success, gained access to many major tournaments across the globe.

To our players we wish them every success both in this tournament and for the rest of the year as they leave at the end of this event to travel to other tournaments overseas.

I would like to thank our Sponsors, Green Property, the Referee Michel Williams, the Tournament Director Aileen Rogan, the Chair umpires, Irish Tennis Umpires Association and the ball kids for their involvement in this tourna-ment in what promises to be a great week of tennis.

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History of the Event

The Championship is the second oldest in the world following the inaugural All-England Championship in 1877. Fitzwilliam followed two years later and has the distinction of being the first club to stage championships embrac-ing all disciplines, Mens and Ladies Singles, Mens and Ladies Doubles and Mixed Doubles, in 1879.

This year the event reverts to a men only Championship and is designated as an ITF Men’s Circuit Futures Tour-nament. This is the entry level of professional tournaments enabling players to eventually reach the higher level tournaments on the ATP World Tour. Futures tournaments are single week tournaments that offer either $10,000 or $15,000 each in prize money. In general the ITF Men’s Circuit offers over 400 weeks of tennis which take place in over 60 different countries each year.

Traditionally the Irish Open Tournament was held after Wimbledon and great champions from the past including Neale Fraser, Budge Patty, Tom Okker, Tony Roche and the great Rod Laver appear on the Irish Open Men’s Singles Trophy. More recent competitors include Janko Tipsarevic, currently ranked 47 in the world and John Isner who recently competed in the longest tennis match in history.

This year, the President and the Organising Committee are delighted to welcome new sponsor in the form of Green Property.

Message from Green Property CEO

Green Property is delighted to have been given the opportunity to sponsor the 2010 Men’s Irish Open Tennis Tournament. The competition has become, in recent times, a major part of the tennis year in Ireland and is an opportunity for both young and experienced players, from Ireland and elsewhere, to make their mark. Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club is the ideal Dublin venue for the occasion and is a fine host. We hope that all involved, both players and spectators enjoy the matches and may the best man win!

Stephen Vernon, Chairman

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SCHEDULE OF DAILY/EVENING PLAY

DAY DATE PLAY

Saturday and Sunday 17th and 18th July 2010 Qualifiers

Monday to Friday 19th to 23rd July 2010 Tournament

Friday evening 23rd July 2010 Doubles Final

Saturday 24th July 2010 Singles Final

The times above could be subject to change at the Referees discretion and weather conditions.

ATP WORLD TOUR – SINGLES RANKING – IRISH PLAYERS –AS AT 5TH JULY 2010162 – Niland, Conor

238 – Sorensen, Louk

508 – McGee, James

644 – O’Brien, Colin

716 – King, Barry

967 – Glancy, Daniel

1120 – Farron–Mahon, Tristan

1614 – Cluskey, James

ATP WORLD TOUR – DOUBLES RANKING – IRISH PLAYERS – AS AT 5TH JULY 2010358 – O’Brien, Colin

448 – King, Barry

497 – McGee, James

556 – Farron–Mahon, Tristan

618 – McCluskey, James

777 - Niland, Conor

827 - Sorensen, Louk

1151 – Glancy, Daniel

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Players

Since the start of the Open era and especially over the last number of years we have wit-nessed unprecedented success for Irish men’s tennis. From Grand Slam appearances at senior and junior level to victories on the Challenger and Futures tour, Irish tennis players have earned the respect they deserve on the professional tennis circuit. Anybody who plays tennis competitively knows how brutal the professional circuit can be and each of our players should be very proud of their achievements to-date. We sat down with our top players to see what makes them tick and their expectations for the future.

Conor Niland

Colin O’Brien Tristan Farron-Mahon

James Cluskey John Morrissey Ciarán FitzgeraldSam Barry

Daniel Glancy

Louk Sorensen James McGee Barry King

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Conor Niland

Recent HighlightsConor is enjoying his strongest 12-months on the tour achieving his highest world ranking of 165. Conor’s highlights this year include winning a $100,000 challenger event at the Israel Open, qualifying for his first ATP Tour event in Houston

and an outstanding performance for Ireland in the Davis Cup against Turkey earlier this year.

At what age did you start playing tennis?I always had a racket in my hand

Did you go to college or straight on the tour?I took a year off after school and played fulltime, and then went to Berkeley for 4 years

What tennis racket do you use?Babolat, Pure Storm Tour.

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?My sister Gina and Owen Casey. They were both very consistent and great competitors.

What are your pre-match rituals?30 minute warm up, some stretching, and always have a new grip and fresh string.

What do you spend your time doing in the evenings during tournaments?You have to conserve energy, so usually dinner and relax in the hotel.

Best Player ever played against?Marcos Baghdatis.

Tennis Ambitions? Break into top 100, and win main draw matches in all four Grand Slams.

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Family and friends

Favourite sport other than tennis?Soccer

Favourite Grand Slam? Wimbledon

Rafa or Fed?Rafa!

Louk Sorensen

Recent HighlightsLouk Sorensen had a great start to 2010 qualifying for the Aus-tralian Open in Janu-ary reaching the second round losing to world number 28 John Isner in three closely contested sets. As a result of his excellent performance

Louk reached a career high ranking of 213. Unfor-tunately injury has plagued Louk over the last num-ber of months and we look forward to his return, hopefully for Ireland’s crucial Davis Cup tie against Lithuania.

At what age did you start playing tennis?I started playing tennis at 3

Did you go to college or straight on the tour?I went straight on the tour

What tennis racket do you use?Prince Ozone

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?Sean and Kevin Sorensen

What are your pre-match rituals?Listening to music and preparing my rackets

What do you spend your time doing in the evenings during tournaments?Reading and surfing the web

Best Player ever played against?Marcos Baghdatis

Tennis Ambitions? Break into top 100 and help Ireland get into Group 1 of Davis Cup

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Family


Favourite Grand Slam? Australian Open

Rafa or Fed?Rafed :)

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James McGee

Recent HighlightsJames produced an im-pressive performance for Ireland in the Davis Cup against Turkey earlier this year with a compre-hensive three set victory to open the tie. James has been touted as one of Ireland’s most exciting players and he will be

looking to improve his career high ranking of 430 over the coming 12 months. James is also looking forward to teaming up with Conor Taylor who will be coaching him on a full time basis.

What age did you start playing tennis at?I started playing tennis at 7

Did you go to college or straight on the tour?Played two seasons with North Carolina State Uni-versity earning a top 50 ranking

What tennis racket do you use?Head Prestige

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?Enjoyed watching Irish players but grew up idolis-ing Agassi and Sampras

What are your pre-match rituals?Practice, change into match outfit, listen to music that motivates me and I think about what I need to do to play well.

What do you spend your time doing in the evenings during tournaments?Chill out, watch a movie, read a book and make phone calls home

Best Player ever played against?Marcos Baghdatis in doubles Davis Cup 2009

Tennis Ambitions? Break into top 100 and play all of the Grand Slams

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Family, Friends and Avonmore milk!

Favourite sport other than tennis?Hurling


Rafa or Fed?Rafa, of course!

Barry King

Recent HighlightsAfter an impressive vic-tory against Conor Niland in the Irish Close in Don-nybrook in 2008, Barry decided to lose his suit and give up a career in financial services and realise his potential as a professional tennis player. His wise decision has seen

him put in a string of impressive performances on the professional circuit that saw him make the final of the Futures event in Brookfield last year and reaching a career high ranking of 600. Barry also realised his dream of playing for Ireland in the Davis Cup.

What age did you start playing tennis at?I started playing tennis at age 7

Did you go to college or straight on the tour?Spent four years at the University of Notre Dame and spent one year working as a ‘big time’ bond trader. I realised the financial sector was in trouble and had the foresight to get out!!!!!!!!

What tennis racket do you use? Wilson K Factor

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?Conor Taylor’s work ethic and passion for the game at the National Tennis Centre

What are your pre-match rituals?Food, light practice, listen to music and re-grip racket

What do you spend your time doing in the evenings during tournaments?Watching DVDs, internet, studying for CFA exams

Best Player ever played against?Giles Muller

Tennis Ambitions? To be able to look in the mirror when I am finished playing and say to myself that I gave it everything I possibly could

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Home comforts and my dog Toby

Favourite sport other than tennis?Football


Rafa or Fed?Fed

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Colin O’Brien

Recent HighlightsColin is currently Ire-land’s top ranked dou-bles player and made an impressive career high ranking of 332 earlier this year. Colin has come into top form recently making the semi finals in a singles Futures event in Tunisia, while making

the doubles final with Davis Cup teammate James Cluskey. O’Brien and Cluskey had also teamed up earlier in this year to take the doubles title at a Fu-tures event in Edinburgh.

At what age did you start playing tennis?At age 2 with my Dad

Did you go to college or straight on the tour?Played four years with the College of William and Mary in Virginia

What tennis racket do you use?Head Microgel Prestige

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?Conor Niland for his attitude and determination

What are your pre-match rituals?Preparing energy drinks, putting on sun cream and a dynamic warm up!

What do you spend your time doing in the eve-nings during tournaments?Surfing the net, occasionally watching a movie and stretching

Best Player ever played against?John Isner

Tennis Ambitions? Helping Ireland gain promotion in Davis Cup and to play in Grand Slams

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour? Family and Friends

Favourite sport other than tennis?Football

Favourite Grandslam? Wimbledon

Rafa or Fed?Federafa, Rafederer, I can’t decide!

Daniel Glancy

Recent HighlightsDaniel recently made an im-pressive return to action after a long spell sidelined by injury with victory in a very tough field in the new senior open that is held at Naas. Last sum-mer Daniel picked up his first ATP points in Finland and put in an excellent display in Greece making the semi-finals

at a Futures event. Daniel is one to watch over the coming 12-months as he puts his injury problems behind and goes from strength to strength

At what age did you start playing tennis?I started playing tennis at age 9

Did you go to college or straight on the tour?I studied at DCU for a year before going full time

What tennis racket do you use?Custom made Head racket

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?Peter Clarke

What are your pre-match rituals?Get a good warm up in and try to get focused on my match tactics

What do you spend your time doing in the eve-nings during tournaments?Hang out with some of the other payers, watch a movie on laptop

Best Player ever played against?Recently practiced with Horacio Zeballos ranked 42 in world

Tennis Ambitions? Get ranking as high as possible to play Davis Cup

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Miss friends and most importantly not being able to see my girlfriend!



Rafa or Fed?Fed on grass, Rafa on clay!

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Tristan Farron-Mahon

Recent HighlightsTristan is on the come-back trail following a dif-ficult period with injury. Last September he had surgery to repair damage to his shoulder and has been out of tournament action ever since. Thank-fully he is back practising and we look forward to

his return to tournament action. Before his injury Tristan was having a successful time on the Futures tour capturing three doubles titles bringing his dou-bles ranking to a career high 501. Tristan is combin-ing his comeback while also studying for a BA in Business Studies.

At what age did you start playing tennis?At age 6

Did you go to college or straight on the tour?I went straight on the tour after school

What tennis racket do you use?Head Microgel Radical

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?All of the current group of players – great support while on tour

What are your pre-match rituals?Scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast, putting on match shirt minutes before game

What do you spend your time doing in the eve-nings during tournaments?Studying, playing cards and relaxing

Best Player ever played against?Andy Murray in the Juniors

Tennis Ambitions? Reach my maximum ability whatever that may be

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Family and home life

Favourite sport other than tennis?Rugby


Rafa or Fed?Fed

James Cluskey

Recent HighlightsJames Cluskey has come to the tour with a strong background from the US collegiate system hav-ing been one of the top ranked doubles players in the States where he partnered current Great Britain Davis Cup player Ken Skupski. James has

continued his strong doubles form into this year where he has won a number of doubles titles at fu-tures level. James made the quarter final of the Irish Open last year and will be looking to go further this year. For a guy his size, he has incredibly soft hands. His mother must have had him washing the dishes with fairy liquid!!

At what age did you start playing tennis?I started playing tennis at age six in the Parks pro-gram in Swords

Did you go to college or straight on the tour?Graduated from Louisiana State University

What tennis racket do you use?Babolat Pure Drive

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?Colin O’Brien – a true pro

What are your pre-match rituals?I don’t have many but usually sit alone for 5 to 10 minutes before the match to get focused

What do you spend your time doing in the eve-nings during tournaments?Watch TV, surf the web. Anything to keep my mind off the tournament

Best Player ever played against?John Isner

Tennis Ambitions? Keep progressing up the rankings

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Family and my bed Favourite sport other than tennis?Soccer


Rafa or Fed?Fed

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John Morrissey

Recent HighlightsJohn is one of Ireland’s brightest tennis pros-pects and will surely be lining up for Ireland in the Davis Cup over the coming years. John reached a career high combined junior singles and doubles world rank-ing of 30 earlier this

year, the highest ranking any Irish junior has ever received. He has played the Australian, French and Wimbledon juniors this year and hopefully we will see him competing in these senior Grand Slam events some day. John was recently selected to travel on the ITF/Grand Slam Junior Touring team on the back of his excellent performances over the last number of years.

At what age did you start playing tennis?I started playing tennis at age 8

Did you go to college or straight on the tour?Part-time schooling while playing full time

What tennis racket do you use?Wilson K Blade

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?Owen Casey

What are your pre-match rituals?Make sure grips and strings are all fresh in order. Try to stay as relaxed as possible What do you spend your time doing in the eve-nings during tournaments?Relaxing/Chatting with other players, internet and reading.

Best Player ever played against?Recently practiced with Rafael Nadal at French Open

Tennis Ambitions? Break top 50 in senior rankings and play Davis Cup

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Family and Friends

Favourite sport other than tennis?Rugby

Favourite Grand Slam? US Open

Rafa or Fed?Fed

Sam Barry

Recent HighlightsLike John, Sam is also one of the brightest prospects in Irish ten-nis and will surely be an integral part of the Irish Davis Cup team over the coming years. Sam has had a fantastic year beating three top ten players in the world

under 18. He has also taken part in the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon juniors. We look forward to watching Sam’s progress as he en-ters the senior ranks.


Did you go to college or straight on the tour?Straight on the tour. Just finished the Leaving!

What tennis racket do you use?Wilson K Factor

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?Ciaran Fitzgerald / Barry King

What are your pre-match rituals?Listen to iPod, warm up and get my rackets ready What do you spend your time doing in the eve-nings during tournaments?Internet, watch a movie and prepare for the next day

Best Player ever played against?Exhibition with John McEnroe in Belfast

Tennis Ambitions? To be the best that I can be

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Friends / Family and of course the Late Late Show!

Favourite sport other than tennis? Rugby (as a Limerick man it is a religion)


Rafa or Fed?Could argue this all day. Rafa’s spirit, Roger’s ability, Rafa’s temperament, Rogers strokes! (Thanks for the clear answer Sam!!)

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Ciarán Fitzgerald

Recent HighlightsCiaran is one of Ireland’s top ranked junior players and recently won the IrishIndoors Senior Double Title. He will be representing Ireland in the EuropeanJunior Championships in July


Did you go to college or straight on the tour?Hope to go to college following completion of my Leaving Certificate next year

What tennis racket do you use?Babolot Pure Storm Tour

Irish tennis player that has most influenced you?Conor Niland and Conor Taylor

What are your pre-match rituals?Listen to iPod and get bag ready What do you spend your time doing in the evenings during tournaments?Surfing the net, occasionally watching a movie and stretching

Best Player ever played against?John McEnroe…..it was close.

Tennis Ambitions? Turn Pro and Play Davis Cup

What do you miss about Ireland while on the tour?Family and Friends

Favourite sport other than tennis?Football (Big Man U fan)


Rafa or Fed?Always Rafa

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