Citi Open, USA – Preview

Washington Open is generally known as Citi Open though is the sponsored by the Citi Bank since 2010. This tournament is playning since 1969 and first lt was known as Washington Stars. Since 1969 to 1981 as International sponsored by Sovran Bank and since 1982 to 1992 it’s was classic form. Citi Open was the Washington Open in 1993 and in the Hard Court played in the tennis classic form since 1994 to 2011 as the Legg Mason. Formally Citi Open played at Clay court but it was switched at hard curt at 1986.

Tournament Overview:

Tournament                       :               Citi Open, United States

Dates                                    :               3^rd August to 9^th August

Venue                                  :               William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center

Category                              :               ATP World Tour 500

WTA International

Location                               :               Kitzbühel, Austria

Surface                                 :               Hard

Established                        :               1969

Prize money                      :               US$1,049,760 (men)

US$220,000 (women)

2015 Citi Open will it’s 47^th edition at men’s and 5^th in the Women edition. Here the last year winner list

Men’s Single                      :               Milos Raonic

Women’s Single                               :               Svetlana Kuznetsova

Men’s Doubles                 :               Jean-Julien Rojer / HoriaTecău

Women’s Doubles          :               Shuko Aoyama / Gabriela Dabrowski

Here is the entrance name of the tournament. Some big name is here like, 5 Grand Slam Winner British Andy Murray, last year US Open winner Japanis Lei Nishikori, also Marin Cilic and in the WTA entrance former world no. 1 Victoria Azarenka, Sara Errani also in the list.

Men’s Singles main draw (ATP):

                Name                           Ranking

1. Andy Murray 3
2. Kei Nishikori 5
3. Marin Čilić 9
4. Richard Gasquet 13
5. Kevin Anderson 15
6. GrigorDimitrov 16
7. Feliciano López 18
8. John Isner 19
9. Viktor Troicki 20
10. Ivo Karlović 22
11. Bernard Tomic 25
12. Adrian Mannarino 27
13. VasekPospisil 29
14. Sam Querrey 30
15. Pablo Cuevas 31
16. Jack Sock 35

Women’s Single’s Main Draw (WTA)

Name                           Ranking

1. Ekaterina Makarova 11
2. Sara Errani 17
3. Victoria Azarenka 19
4. Samantha Stosur 21
5. Belinda Bencic 22
6. Svetlana Kuznetsova 24
7. Eugenie Bouchard 26
8. Alizé Cornet 28

In the men’s single Andre Agassi is the most title holder, where his first title holed up at 1990-91. And he have most 5 title so far. And also he was the most finalist of the tournament, where he was lost only finals at 2000. Michael Chang and Argentine Juan Martin del Porto is holding the most consecutive title, it is 2 in a row.

This is the 5^th episode of WTA this tournament and most title holder is Magdaléna Rybáriková (2) also comes consistently.