Citi Open - Washington, DC (Women)

[Kirijax]

Name: Citi Open
Place: Washington, D.C.
Date: Aug 03 - Aug 09
Tier: International
Prize Money: $250,000
Surface: Hard
Defending Champion: Svetlana Kuznetsova

Tournament Central
Draws: Singles / Doubles

Seeds
No. 1 Ekaterina Makarova (retired during semifinal)
No. 2 Samatha Stosur (lost in the semifinals)
No. 3 Belinda Bencic (lost in the 2nd round)
No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova (dropped out in 2nd round)
No. 5 Alize Cornet (lost in 2nd round)
No. 6 Irina-Camelia Begu (lost in the quarterfinals)
No. 7 Coco Vandeweghe (lost in 1st round)
No. 8 Zarina Diyas (retired in 1st round)

 

[tossip]

RE: Citi Open (Women)

lets go Zarina and Bencic.!....Belinda reached the qtrs last year at the Open.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

RE: Citi Open (Women)

Ha, finally a tourney where I can recognize all top 8 seeds.

 

[ToffeeAlex]

RE: Citi Open (Women)

Go Belinda! Her 2nd WTA title will be won very soon, I'm sure...

Also, thanks for making these tournament threads. I always found it hard to keep up with who was playing where before I joined this forum!

 

[Kirijax]

RE: Citi Open (Women)

Order of Play
Monday, August 03, 2015
Day 3

STADIUM COURT STARTS AT 1:50 PM
1ST RD
(WC) Louisa Chirico VS Heather Watson
NOT BEFORE 4:00 PM
1ST RD James Duckworth VS (Q) Ryan Harrison
NOT BEFORE 5:30 PM
1ST RD
(Q) Yoshihito Nishioka VS Alexander Zverev
NOT BEFORE 7:30 PM
1ST RD Donald Young VS (WC) Tommy Haas
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(3) Rohan Bopanna-Florin Mergea VS Andy Murray-Daniel Nestor

GRANDSTAND 1 STARTS AT 2:15 PM
1ST RD
Madison Brengle VS (6) Irina-Camelia Begu
NOT BEFORE 4:00 PM
1ST RD
Dudi Sela VS Hyeon Chung
NOT BEFORE 5:00 PM
1ST RD
(PR) Grigor Dimitrov-Mardy Fish VS Vasek Pospisil-Jack Sock
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(WC) Taylor Townsend VS Irina Falconi
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(8) Zarina Diyas VS Lauren Davis

GRANDSTAND 2 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
1ST RD
Victor Estrella Burgos VS (WC) Nicolas Jarry
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(Q) Marinko Matosevic VS Ruben Bemelmans
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Shuko Aoyama-Eri Hozumi VS Elena Bogdan-Naomi Broady
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(5) Alizé Cornet VS (Q) An-Sophie Mestach

COURT 1 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
1ST RD
Kurumi Nara VS Yulia Putintseva
NOT BEFORE 5:30 PM / WTA-AFTER SUITABLE REST
1ST RD
(4) Belinda Bencic-Kristina Mladenovic VS Irina-Camelia Begu-CoCo Vandeweghe
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Teymuraz Gabashvili VS Benjamin Becker
-
COURT 2 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
1ST RD
Monica Niculescu VS Lara Arruabarrena
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(Q) Darian King VS Go Soeda
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Ricardas Berankis VS Yen-Hsun Lu

 

[colleen66]

Nice to see Taylor Townsend's name as a wc for the Citi Open. I was starting to wonder where she disappeared to.

 

[colleen66]

Who is this Louisa Chirico? She is playing a great match against Heather Watson!

 

[ToffeeAlex]

Who is this Louisa Chirico? She is playing a great match against Heather Watson!

I hadn't heard of her before - just Google searched her, only 19 years old! Haven't seen her being classed as a "rising star" at all though. Perhaps just having a one-off fantastic match?

Either way, it's a shame that Heather has gone out

 

[Kirijax]

Monday's Results!

Round 1
(5) A Cornet (FRA) bt A Mestach (BEL) 6-3, 6-3
(6) I Begu (ROU) bt M Brengle (USA) 6-4, 6-0
L Davis (USA bt (8) Z Diyas (KAZ) 7-5, 2-1 ret.
L Chirico (USA) bt H Watson (GBR) 6-3, 6-0
M Niculescu (ROU) bt L Arruabarrena-Vecino (SPA) 7-5, 6-4
Y Putintseva (RUS) bt K Nara (JPN) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(4)
I Falconi (ECU) bt T Townsend (USA) 6-7(4), 6-1, 6-3

USA's Davis upsets No. 8 seed Diyas. Townsend took the first set but faded after that. Fails to take advantage of her draw.

Tuesday, August 04, 2015
Day 4 Order of Play

STADIUM COURT STARTS AT 1:50 PM
1ST RD
Christina Mchale VS (7) CoCo Vandeweghe
NOT BEFORE 4:00 PM
2ND RD
(13) Sam Querrey VS Go Soeda
NOT BEFORE 5:30 PM
1ST RD
(Q) John-Patrick Smith VS (WC) Lleyton Hewitt
NOT BEFORE 7:30 PM
2ND RD
James Duckworth VS (2) Kei Nishikori
FOLLOWED BY
2ND RD
Hyeon Chung VS (3) Marin Cilic
-
GRANDSTAND 1 STARTS AT 2:15 PM
1ST RD
Kristina Mladenovic VS (2) Samantha Stosur
NOT BEFORE 4:00 PM
1ST RD
Lukas Lacko VS Steve Johnson
NOT BEFORE 5:30 PM
2ND RD
Ruben Bemelmans VS (15) Jack Sock
FOLLOWED BY
2ND RD
(12) Vasek Pospisil VS Donald Young
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(Q) Sanaz Marand VS (4) Svetlana Kuznetsova

GRANDSTAND 2 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
1ST RD
Sam Groth VS Thomaz Bellucci
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(WC) Denis Kudla VS Blaz Rola
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Sloane Stephens VS Magda Linette
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova VS Magdalena Rybarikova

COURT 1 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
1ST RD
(1) Ekaterina Makarova VS Alison Van Uytvanck
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(Q) Guido Pella VS Marcos Baghdatis
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Alexandr Dolgopolov VS Tim Smyczek
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Raven Klaasen-Rajeev Ram VS (2) Ivan Dodig-Marcelo Melo
-
COURT 2 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
1ST RD
(Q) Naomi Broady VS Jarmila Gajdosova
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(LL)Treat Huey-Scott Lipsky VS Alexander Peya-Bruno Soares
1ST RD
(3) Belinda Bencic VS Tereza Smitkova
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Malek Jaziri VS Gilles Muller

COURT 3 STARTS AT 4:00 PM
1ST RD
Polona Hercog VS
(Q) Julia Glushko
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
(WC) Louisa Chirico-Alizé Lim VS Jocelyn Rae-Anna Smith
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Julie Coin-Nicole Melichar VS (3) Lara Arruabarrena-Andreja Klepac
FOLLOWED BY
1ST RD
Chia-Jung Chuang-Chen Liang VS (2) Anastasia Rodionova-Arina Rodionova

 

[ToffeeAlex]

Bencic and Mladenovic through to Round 2! They defeated Begu and Vandeweghe, 7-5 6-2.

 

[Kirijax]

Tuesday's Results!

Round 1
(1) E Makarova (RUS) bt A Van Uytvanck (BEL) 7-5, 7-5
(2) S Stosur (AUS) bt K Mladenovic (FRA) 6-2, 6-2
(3) B Bencic (SWI) bt T Smitkova (CZE) 7-5, 6-4
(4) S Kuznetsova (RUS) bt S Marand (USA) 6-2, 6-4
C Mchale (USA) bt (7) C Vandeweghe (USA) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
P Hercog (SLO) bt J Glushko (ISR) 6-2, 7-5
N Broady (GBR) bt J Gajdosova (AUS) 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(6)
S Stephens (USA) bt M Linette (POL) 6-2, 6-1
A Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) bt M Rybarikova (SVK) 7-6(2), 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
-
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

 

[tossip]

tired of watching Townsend imploding...this girl needs help and a real coach.She doesnt need the Young family as her coaches,if she cant afford a coach . ..start with doubles earn a bit of money to pay a good coach.She is still young enough to adjust from singles to doubles she has a lot of potential to be stuck at first round exit

 

[kskate2]

tired of watching Townsend imploding...this girl needs help and a real coach.She doesnt need the Young family as her coaches,if she cant afford a coach . ..start with doubles earn a bit of money to pay a good coach.She is still young enough to adjust from singles to doubles she has a lot of potential to be stuck at first round exit

I agree. While I was glad she accepted a WC for this tournament, it's a little disheartening to see her flaming out of these tournaments against winnable opponents. Why not play singles and doubles? Since she's not getting to the business end of a tournament, she should have plenty of gas to play both events and that would guarantee her some money as you say and experience of playing matches where she can work on her serve, return and volley.

I find it hard to believe the USTA wouldn't take her under their wing and assign her a mentor she can work with until she finds her game. What exactly is Katrina Adams role in her new position?

 

[tossip]

tired of watching Townsend imploding...this girl needs help and a real coach.She doesnt need the Young family as her coaches,if she cant afford a coach . ..start with doubles earn a bit of money to pay a good coach.She is still young enough to adjust from singles to doubles she has a lot of potential to be stuck at first round exit

I agree. While I was glad she accepted a WC for this tournament, it's a little disheartening to see her flaming out of these tournaments against winnable opponents. Why not play singles and doubles? Since she's not getting to the business end of a tournament, she should have plenty of gas to play both events and that would guarantee her some money as you say and experience of playing matches where she can work on her serve, return and volley.

I find it hard to believe the USTA wouldn't take her under their wing and assign her a mentor she can work with until she finds her game. What exactly is Katrina Adams role in her new position?

she has to swallow her pride and ask Katrina Adams for help with a coach and personal trainer...enter the small events in doubles and singles.I noticed yesterday that she was tired after second set,she needs to work on her fitness and she seems to carrying a lot of weight.
I am not shaming her but I believe if she gets her body in order she will be great.That serve and volley is not easy for more than an hour you have to be in peak physical shape..
I hope she gets it together because her game is very good and a joy to watch..plus she has a sunny personality.

 

[kskate2]

Chirico does it again. Sends Alize to Toronto early by winning a final set breaker. :clap

 

[Kirijax]

Chirico does it again. Sends Alize to Toronto early by winning a final set breaker. :clap

If i saw the score right, Chiroco was leading 5-3, got broken for 5-5 and it was tied 3-all in the TB before she won the last four points. Cornet really let that one get away.

 

[colleen66]

I hope my Louisa Chirico goes far in the tournament. I love watching how she plays!

 

[kskate2]

Chirico does it again. Sends Alize to Toronto early by winning a final set breaker. :clap

If i saw the score right, Chiroco was leading 5-3, got broken for 5-5 and it was tied 3-all in the TB before she won the last four points. Cornet really let that one get away.

Actually it's the opposite. She really should have put Cornet away in straights. She was up a break in the 2nd set and then proceeded to lose 3 straight games. She did the same thing the 3rd set. She was up a break two different times and served for it at 5-4 until she got to the TB and finally closed it out.

 

[Kirijax]

Chirico does it again. Sends Alize to Toronto early by winning a final set breaker. :clap

If i saw the score right, Chiroco was leading 5-3, got broken for 5-5 and it was tied 3-all in the TB before she won the last four points. Cornet really let that one get away.

Actually it's the opposite. She really should have put Cornet away in straights. She was up a break in the 2nd set and then proceeded to lose 3 straight games. She did the same thing the 3rd set. She was up a break two different times and served for it at 5-4 until she got to the TB and finally closed it out.

Ah, I see now. I came in at the end and saw here give up a 5-3 lead in the third.

 

[kskate2]

Taylor and her partner Marand win their 1R doub match.