USTA Pro Circuit action returns to the USTA National Campus next week, with the women’s $15,000 National Campus Pro Tennis Classic kicking off Sunday, March 4, and running through Sunday, March 11. Qualifying action begins March 4 and will wrap up two days later, while the first round of the main draw gets underway March 6.

Among the top Americans in the main draw are Usue Maitane Arconada, Sophie Chang, Maria Mateas, Katerina Stewart and Jessica Pegula.

Arconada is the tournament’s top seed with a WTA ranking of No. 254. She has one singles title to her name after claiming the crown at the $10,000 event in Saint Martin during the 2015 season. More recently, she advanced to the final of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit tournament in Pelham, Ala., last year. Arconada was a standout junior, reaching No. 5 in the ITF World Junior Rankings. She teamed up with Claire Liu to win the junior doubles title at Wimbledon in 2016 while also moving through to the singles quarterfinals.

Chang, ranked No. 304 in the WTA Rankings, has experienced past success on the Har-Tru courts of the National Campus, combining with fellow American Madeleine Kobelt for the doubles title at the first-ever USTA Pro Circuit event held at the facility. That was one of her two Pro Circuit doubles titles in 2017, giving her a total of six for her career. Chang made her US Open debut in 2016 following winning the US Open National Playoffs that year, giving her a wild card in the qualifying singles draw.

Mateas brings in a WTA ranking of No. 417. A commit to Duke University, the 18-year-old reached No. 26 in the ITF World Junior Rankings and reached the quarterfinals of the Easter Bowl during her junior career. Stewart, who spent a year on the Army women’s tennis team at West Point, won her ninth USTA Pro Circuit title last year with her victory at the $25,000 event in Fort Worth, Texas. Of those nine titles, two have come in the city of Orlando. She is currently ranked No. 444 in the WTA Rankings.

Pegula continues to be on the comeback trail of missing eight months of the 2017 season due to injury. That is reflected in her ranking of No. 448, but she has been ranked as high as 123rd on the WTA Tour in singles and 92nd in doubles. At the $25,000 USTA National Campus Pro Tennis Classic in January, Pegula came through the qualifying to make a run to the singles semifinals before falling to eventual tournament champion Anhelina Kalinina. She also paired up with American Maria Sanchez to reach the doubles final of the $100,000 event in Midland, Mich.

Other notable entrants include 15-year-old Whitney Osuigwe, the world’s top-ranked junior who won both the 2017 French Open and the 2017 Orange Bowl girls’ singles title; 16-year-old Caty McNally, the 29th-ranked junior in the world who helped Team USA to its fourth Junior Fed Cup title and reached her second Wimbledon junior doubles final during the 2017 season; and Australian representative Astra Sharma, a current senior on the Vanderbilt women’s tennis team who earned SEC Player of the Year honors last year.

For more information on the $15,000 USTA National Campus Pro Tennis Classic, a USTA Pro Circuit women’s clay-court event, click here.