In addition, daily tickets for the Pilot Pen are now on sale, and fans will want to take advantage of a special promotion: from June 1-4, middle tier tickets for the first evening session on Monday, August 23, which typically are $20, will be available for $1. Last year, more than 5,000 tickets were sold through this unique offering, so fans will want to take advantage before they are gone. The tournament will announce other exceptional ticket offers leading up to the Pilot Pen, which will feature World No. 3 and two-time defending champion Caroline Wozniacki, in addition to Querrey and Baghdatis.

 

Querrey, currently 23 years-old and ranked No. 22 in the world, has had a strong start to the 2010 season winning the third and fourth singles titles of his career at Memphis and Belgrade, and capturing two doubles titles at San Jose (with Mardy Fish) and Memphis (with John Isner). In 2009 Querrey had the best season of his young career highlighted by a strong summer hardcourt season that included a victory in Los Angeles and finals appearances at Newport, Indianapolis and the Pilot Pen where he captured the 2009 Olympus US Open Series title. His 2009 campaign was cut short, quite literally, at a tournament in Bangkok when the glass table he was sitting on collapsed, cutting his right arm, which required stitches. The cut narrowly missed damaging nerves in his serving arm that could have ended his career. This will be his third trip to the Pilot Pen.

 

Baghdatis, once one of the fastest rising stars in the game, has battled back from debilitating injuries and is once again fulfilling the potential that all fans had come to admire. In 2006 he reached the finals of the Australian Open, semifinals at Wimbledon, and rose to No. 8 in the world. After an injury marred 2008, the Cypriot won three challenger titles and captured the third ATP title of his career at Stockholm in 2009. He continued his impressive play this year by winning his fourth career title at Sydney, and then this spring he defeated arguably the greatest player of all-time, and current World No. 1, Roger Federer at Indian Wells. Afterwards Baghdatis called it the best win of his career. He is currently ranked No. 30 in the world, and this will be his fourth trip to the Pilot Pen.