Citi Open, Washington DC, USA, ATP 500

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DATE: July 31 - August 6, 2017
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: $1,750,080
FIELD SIZE: 48
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Gael Monfils

Seeds:

1 THIEM, Dominic
2 NISHIKORI, Kei
3 RAONIC, Milos
4 DIMITROV, Grigor
5 ZVEREV, Alexander
6 MONFILS, Gael
7 POUILLE, Lucas
8 SOCK, Jack

The Tournament:

The Washington Open (currently sponsored by Citi bank) is a joint professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts, and held annually at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C., United States. The tournament hosts both the womens and mens tennis tours.

About Washington DC

Washington, DC, the U.S. capital, is a compact city on the Potomac River, bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia. It's defined by imposing neoclassical monuments and buildings including the iconic ones that house the federal government's 3 branches: the Capitol, White House and Supreme Court, but also its museums and performing-arts venues such as the Kennedy Center.

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Tourism Guide:

 

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The Draw

 

[isabelle]

Zverev's new coach is Ferrero, first step of this team in Washingotn, let's see what happens

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

I got ticket to go Tuesday, it'll be fun.
I'll post some pictures.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

It's 85F in DC, it'll reach 90F
Sunny and fairly dry, perfect for some Tennis, I'll post some pix tonight.

 

[Moxie]

Jim Courier, commentating Thiem Laaksonen, said that the AO was playing like an ice rink this year. Interesting, in the conversations about surfaces.

 

[Moxie]

Watching the end of Young v. Nishikori. Young has hung in valiantly, and they're in a 3rd set TB.

 

[isabelle]

Kei / Delpo should be great

 

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Results from the Washington Open Men's Singles matches on Tuesday

Round 2
2-Kei Nishikori (Japan) beat Donald Young (U.S.) 6-3 4-6 7-6(5)
13-Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina) beat Lukas Lacko (Slovakia) 7-5 6-2
Guido Pella (Argentina) beat 12-Mischa Zverev (Germany) 6-7(5) 7-6(2) 6-3
1-Dominic Thiem (Austria) beat Henri Laaksonen (Switzerland) 6-3 6-3
8-Jack Sock (U.S.) beat Marius Copil (Romania) 7-6(2) 7-6(6)

Round 1
Tennys Sandgren (U.S.) beat Go Soeda (Japan) 7-6(2) 6-3
Malek Jaziri (Tunisia) beat Alessandro Bega (Italy) 7-5 7-5
Kyle Edmund (Britain) beat Chung Hyeon (South Korea) 6-3 6-1
Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) beat Mitchell Krueger (U.S.) 6-4 6-7(4) 6-4
Jordan Thompson (Australia) beat Ruben Bemelmans (Belgium) 6-3 6-2
Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) beat Edan Leshem (Israel) 7-6(1) 6-0

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Order of play, which is about to start:

I will also post a couple of pictures I took last night:

 

[Moxie]

Nice pics, Kiu! How was your day at the tournament?

 

[kskate2]

Sasha barely held on for a deciding TB win. I have no clue who this guy is hanging w/ Le Monf.

 

[Moxie]

Sasha barely held on for a deciding TB win. I have no clue who this guy is hanging w/ Le Monf.

Me either, and he's giving him a fight.

 

[Moxie]

He's seems to be a new Mystery Guest, like Yannick Hanfmann. Both 25, by coincidence. From India.

 

[kskate2]

on serve in the decider. 4-3 Le Monf

 

[kskate2]

He's seems to be a new Mystery Guest, like Yannick Hanfmann. Both 25, by coincidence. From India.

Yannick named after Noah I presume?

 

[kskate2]

With all this drama on stadium, Dimi also finds himself in a decider that he just won.

 

[kskate2]

ruhroh, 0-30 on Le Monf serve

 

[Moxie]

Yannick named after Noah I presume?

No idea. But Bhambri is on fire.

 

[Moxie]

Monfils just realized he'd better up the ante.