The 6th Annual Sheriff Jim Coats Clearwater Women's Open, benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Suncoast and the Pinellas Sheriff’s Police Athletic League, will be held at the Henry L. McMullen Tennis Complex (1000 Edenville Ave., Clearwater, FL) March 6th through 14th, 2010.

This is a $25,000 event.  Most tournaments at this level will attract players from approximately 20 different countries and may attract players with rankings as high as 50-100.  To put this into perspective, players ranked between 106 and 227 are direct acceptances into the U.S. OPEN.

Two of the competitors from the 2009 Clearwater Open, Yanina Wickmayer and Melanie Oudin, went on to play in the U.S. Open, advancing to the semifinals and quarterfinals respectively.