Citi Open - Washington, DC (Men)

[GameSetAndMath]

Is Grigor now coachless here in Washington?

They should produce a sequel to "Sleepless in Seattle" titled "Coachless in Cincinnatti" with Grigor playing lead role, Maria playing heroine (of course only in the first half) and Fed making cameo appearance as Dad. Finally, everything ends happily when he finds his new coach on top of Empire State Building just in time for USO.

 

[Kirijax]

Just heard that Baghdatis has dropped out of Washington because of a groin injury he got in Atlanta.

 

[Kirijax]

Tuesday's Results

Round 1
S Querrey (USA) (13) bt G Soeda (JPN) 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
J Sock (USA) (15) bt R Bemelmans (BEL) 7-6(7), 6-3
S Groth (AUS) bt T Bellucci (BRA) 7-6(8), 4-6, 6-3
S Johnson (USA) bt L Lacko (SVK) 7-5, 6-3
L Hewitt (AUS) bt J P Smith (AUS) 6-3, 6-4

 

[Fiero425]

OMG, did they have a rain delay? Kei is out there losing the 1st set with another match to follow! Do these people know how to tell time? Strange I heard Young was losing his match! He played yesterday and they're already going with 2nd round for him? So hellishly humid; guys clothes are sticking to them! "Hot" in more ways than one! ;-)

Update: Looks like the Aussies are going to have a formidable team in the futire with all this new young blood! Never heard of this Duckworth person until tonight! Over-hits a bit, but sooner or later he'll reign that in! ;-)

 

[Kirijax]

Tuesday's Results

Round 1
S Groth (AUS) bt T Bellucci (BRA) 7-6(8), 4-6, 6-3
S Johnson (USA) bt L Lacko (SVK) 7-5, 6-3
G Pella (ARG) bt I Dodig (CRO) 6-3, 6-7(7), 7-5
B Rola (SLO) bt D Kudla (USA) 2-6, 6-4, 7-6(5)
L Hewitt (AUS) bt J Smith (AUS) 6-3, 6-4
A Dolgopolov (UKR) bt T Smyczek (USA) 6-4, 6-2
G Muller (LUX) bt M Jaziri (TUN) 6-3, 7-5
Round 2
(2) R2K Nishikori (JPN) bt J Duckworth (AUS) 6-7(8), 6-1, 6-4
(3) M Cilic (CRO) bt H Chung (KOR) 7-6(2), 6-3
(12) R2V Pospisil (CAN) bt D Young (USA) 7-5, 6-3
(13) S Querrey (USA) bt G Soeda (JPN) 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
(15) J Sock (USA) bt R Bemelmans (BEL) 7-6(7), 6-3

Wednesday, August 05, 2015
Day 5

STADIUM COURT STARTS AT 1:50 PM
2ND RD
Irina Falconi VS (2) Samantha Stosur
NOT BEFORE 4:00 PM
2ND RD
(7) Feliciano Lopez VS (WC) Lleyton Hewitt
NOT BEFORE 5:30 PM
2ND RD
Victor Estrella Burgos VS (8) John Isner
NOT BEFORE 7:30 PM
2ND RD
(1) Andy Murray VS Teymuraz Gabashvili
FOLLOWED BY
2ND RD
(4) Richard Gasquet VS Gilles Muller

GRANDSTAND 1 STARTS AT 2:15 PM
2ND RD
(5) Alizé Cornet VS (WC) Louisa Chirico
NOT BEFORE 4:00 PM
2ND RD
(11) Bernard Tomic VS Steve Johnson
NOT BEFORE 5:30 PM
2ND RD
(Q) Guido Pella VS (6) Grigor Dimitrov
FOLLOWED BY
2ND RD
(5) Kevin Anderson VS Alexander Zverev
FOLLOWED BY
2ND RD
Alexandr Dolgopolov VS (10) Ivo Karlovic
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GRANDSTAND 2 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
2ND RD
Lauren Davis VS Monica Niculescu
FOLLOWED BY
2ND RD
Polona Hercog VS (6) Irina-Camelia Begu
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(WC) Sam Groth-Lleyton Hewitt VS (4) Marcin Matkowski-Nenad Zimonjic
FOLLOWED BY
2ND RD
Ricardas Berankis VS (14) Pablo Cuevas

COURT 1 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
2ND RD
Sam Groth VS (9) Viktor Troicki
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(Q) Austin Krajicek-Nicholas Monroe VS Juan Sebastian Cabal-Robert Farah
FOLLOWED BY
2ND RD
(16) Leonardo Mayer VS Blaz Rola
FOLLOWED BY
QF
Shuko Aoyama-Eri Hozumi VS (3) Lara Arruabarrena-Andreja Klepac

COURT 2 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
1ST RD
Chieh-Yu Hsu-Hiroko Kuwata VS Sanaz Marand-Taylor Townsend
NOT BEFORE 5:00 PM / WTA-AFTER SUITABLE REST
1ST RD
(1) Alla Kudryavtseva-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova VS Alizé Cornet-Magda Linette
FOLLOWED BY / WTA-AFTER SUITABLE REST
1ST RD
An-Sophie Mestach-Alison Van Uytvanck VS Irina Falconi-Monica Niculescu
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(WC)Steve Johnson-Sam Querrey VS Feliciano Lopez-Max Mirnyi
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Raven Klaasen-Rajeev Ram VS (2) Ivan Dodig-Marcelo Melo

 

[herios]

By the way doubles, here in Washington Murray played along Daniel Nestor and lost in R1 to Mergea & Bopanna, SF iteam in Wimbledon, team which now plays against Fish & Dimitrov.

 

[kskate2]

Dimi relegated to Grandstand 1 while Reeshard plays on Stadium. :snicker

 

[herios]

Dimi relegated to Grandstand 1 while Reeshard plays on Stadium. :snicker

It makes sense
Between former #1 and US Open champion who is seen last time live by the fans and a struggling Great-wanna-be, who would you pick?
I would have also picked Rusty on the show court

 

[kskate2]

Dimi relegated to Grandstand 1 while Reeshard plays on Stadium. :snicker

It makes sense
Between former #1 and US Open champion who is seen last time live by the fans and a struggling Great-wanna-be, who would you pick?
I would have also picked Rusty on the show court

I don't question the court assignments at all. Obviously Rusty will be out there continuing his farewell tour, Murray and Isner are no-brainers. I thought it was funny that Reeshard plays on Stadium and Dimi doesn't. I gotta think that given his new single status, he may find himself relegated to more outside courts until he starts winning again.

 

[Kirijax]

Dimi relegated to Grandstand 1 while Reeshard plays on Stadium. :snicker

It makes sense
Between former #1 and US Open champion who is seen last time live by the fans and a struggling Great-wanna-be, who would you pick?
I would have also picked Rusty on the show court

I don't question the court assignments at all. Obviously Rusty will be out there continuing his farewell tour, Murray and Isner are no-brainers. I thought it was funny that Reeshard plays on Stadium and Dimi doesn't. I gotta think that given his new single status, he may find himself relegated to more outside courts until he starts winning again.

Now that Dimitrov is unfettered and free, I think he might surprise us during the summer tournaments. Watch out for Grigor.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

finally andy murray is oncourt...........and sir grigor. oooooweeeeeeeooooooooooo.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

sir grigor is unfettered and free, just like a shimmering sunflopped buttercup.

 

[Carol]

Muzz losing the first set but he breaks in the second one, I see a third set .......
Feli has beaten Hewitt, not bad, not bad result his "honeymoon" :basiate

 

[kskate2]

Muzz is getting hammered. Gab is whacking the ball and Muzz still hasn't adjusted.

 

[kskate2]

Muzz finally levels the match at 6-4. The 3rd set will be very interesting if he comes out passive again.

 

[Carol]

4-6 6-4 and third set now, gooo Muzz, wake up!

 

[Carol]

Gabash is giving a hard time to Muzz

 

[kskate2]

Muzz is allowing Gab to give him a hard time playing all that defense. He's 8ft behind the baseline. :cover

 

[kskate2]

Gab receives a MTO. Gets his left calf taped up.

 

[herios]

It makes sense
Between former #1 and US Open champion who is seen last time live by the fans and a struggling Great-wanna-be, who would you pick?
I would have also picked Rusty on the show court

I don't question the court assignments at all. Obviously Rusty will be out there continuing his farewell tour, Murray and Isner are no-brainers. I thought it was funny that Reeshard plays on Stadium and Dimi doesn't. I gotta think that given his new single status, he may find himself relegated to more outside courts until he starts winning again.

Now that Dimitrov is unfettered and free, I think he might surprise us during the summer tournaments. Watch out for Grigor.

I know your point of view, that Maria was a a distraction. I do not buy that. They were together since 2011, and for a while Grigor was improving and moving up.
He just hit a wall, and the problem was HIM.
I think you will be more disappointed going forward.