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Women’s Open Players Play Mini Tennis Match Atop Great American Tower at Queen City Square

What: Melanie Oudin (USA) and Julie Boserup (USA) celebrated the 2010 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women’s Open today with a mini tennis match inside the tiara atop Great American Tower at Queen City Square. The event highlights Western & Southern Financial Group’s title sponsorship of the annual tournament. It also showcases the unique features of Western & Southern’s newest development and Cincinnati’s tallest skyscraper, Great American Tower.
When: Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: Great American Tower at Queen City Square
Downtown Cincinnati
Who: Tennis players Melanie Oudin (USA) and Julia Boserup (USA), who are competing in the Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open tournament Aug. 7 – Aug. 15, played a brief match held on a concrete platform nearly 600 feet above the ground surrounded by the 130-foot tall tiara structure. A helicopter captured aerial images of the match for possible use by local television stations and ESPN when covering the tournament.

Oudin (USA) is an 18-year-old from Marietta, Ga. The No. 3 ranked American, she was a quarterfinalist at the 2009 US Open. In 2010, she’s reached the semifinals in Paris as well as three other quarterfinals. She is a member of the US Fed Cup team that has reached back-to-back finals.

Boserup (USA) is an 18-year-old from Southern California. She has climbed nearly 400 spots in the WTA Tour rankings already this year and has reached a career high just this week. In 2008, she won the prestigious Orange Bowl Junior tournament and is a member of the US Fed Cup Team.

Great American Tower Background
Queen City Square is a development of Eagle Realty Group, a member of Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern), and is co-sponsored by Eagle Realty Group’s funding partners, the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority and the City of Cincinnati. Construction is the responsibility of Turner Construction. The Great American Tower at Queen City Square is the second phase of an office, parking and retail complex located on Sycamore Street between Third and Fourth streets. The project will have three major components: a 1,600-car parking garage on 11 levels; an 800,000 sq. ft., 33-level office tower above a portion of the garage; and a public pedestrian/walking area with retail space. The tower is adjacent and will be connected to 303 Broadway, an office building also developed by Eagle Realty Group in 2006. 303 Broadway contains about 188,500 sq. ft. of office space and a 650-car parking garage. In its entirety, the Queen City Square complex contains more than 1 million square feet of office and retail space, and more than 2,200 parking spaces and required a total investment of about $400 million from Western & Southern.