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Excited for Citi Open Tennis

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Player fields for both ATP and WTA sides look quite impressive, wouldn’t you say? Almost like a mini major…

ATP: Berdych, Raonic, Isner, Hewitt, Dimitrov, Estrella Burgos, Gasquet, Monfils, Nishikori, Young, Anderson, Stepanek, F Lopez, Sela, Tomic, Pospisil, Sock, Karlovic, Chardy, Paire, Smyczek, and the Bryans.

WTA: Bouchard, Stephens, Larcher De Brito, Kuznetsova, Cornet, Flipkens, Cirstea, Watson, McHale, Riske, Keys, Safarova, Peng, L Davis.

The tournament runs through July 28 to August 3rd and Tennis-prose.com will be there for the duration bringing you all the scoops and stories.

26 comments

  • Andrew Miller · July 24, 2014 at 2:38 pm

    Wow this is like miami. That is a big time legitimate field of players.

  • Dan Markowitz · July 24, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    Miami? Do you see Nadal, Djoko, Fed or Murray in the draw?

  • Dan Markowitz · July 24, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    How about QBall losing 2 and 3 to Sela in Atlanta. Q is definitely taking big steps backward. Granted, Sela’s been playing good of late, but Q should beat a player like Sela in the states during the hard court summer season.

    US Men’s tennis, you’ve got Izzie doing his Top 15 stuff and possibly a riser with Sock, SteveJo is respectively, but everyone else is really backing down or not stepping up. Even Jamere Jenkins lost to Bemelmans in Lexington. Not a good sign as Bemels is a good Challenger player at best.

  • Andrew Miller · July 24, 2014 at 3:31 pm

    Dan u.s. guys playing decent. Rankings bump year over year for a lot of guys. Harrison on the downs. Querrey inconsistent . Other guys like you said career highs. Patmac said u.s. guys 1 year behind u.s. wonen in stephens davis riske etc sounds for once patmac is right.

    Listen dc used to get guys like schalken . Since then delpo now dimitrov and raonic as well as a nice wta draw. Compared to itself dc tourney is blooming like spadea getting hinself back in top twenty.

  • Andrew Miller · July 24, 2014 at 3:33 pm

    Ok dc had agassi blake roddick. Now not just top u.s. player but three of top ten plus great wta players. Good draw and step up from hotlanta.

  • Dan Markowitz · July 24, 2014 at 5:10 pm

    Why are the American hardcourt summer events all in scorching places like DC, Atlanta and Cincy? Why don’t they try to place tourneys in Boston, Seattle and cooler places?

  • Scoop Malinowski · July 24, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    Querrey had a big chance to build up his confidence at Wimbledon but he lost that marathon to Tsonga and he’s still in his dreadful slump. Sela is pretty ON his game right now, playing Dr. Ivo very close on grass and hard court is nothing to sneeze at. Sela is playing good ball right now. I gave him a complimentary copy of Facing Hewitt in Newport for giving me his Hewitt memories at US Open last year and he was happy to get it. I think Facing Hewitt may have pumped him up.

  • Scoop Malinowski · July 24, 2014 at 8:54 pm

    Because these are tennis hotbeds Dan.

  • CS3 · July 24, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    This is a nice secondary field filled with lower Top 10 players & YOUNG GUNS making real noise these days… The Citi Open should be a nice kickoff to the US Open Series… Isner is always a threat this time of year but given his RAPIDLY ASCENDING FORM, I think Dimitrov has a good shot to win another title for 2014 & build some momentum heading into the truly significant, Masters 1000 series pre-US Open tune-ups in Canada (Rogers Cup) & Cincinnati respectively… Always 1 of the best times of year for both the ATP & WTA tours… I don’t see as many players to add intrigue on the ladies’ side personally but I am sure some fine tennis will be played nonetheless… Been very busy with my ever expanding duties at work but I wanted to chime in again on this interesting & entertaining site, which I will be doing more of as time permits… Hello & all the best to my fellow Avid Tennis FANS! CS-III

  • Andrew Miller · July 24, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Field looks good to me and they are smart for getting players who are the sports future. I bet tiafoe is in qualies draw he trains all of ten miles away in college park.md one of premier programs. Paul goldstein hails from these parts met guys who played him. Steady ball. That said jeff salzenstein really beat goldstein.humphries and all the top juniors that were at stanford losing only to the usc player who then played for phillipines .

  • Dan Markowitz · July 25, 2014 at 8:18 am

    The Nadal grip change sounds ridiculous, but we’ve seen guys alter their serves mid-career and hit it much better. Djoko is No. 1 case in point. He used to have a real problem with his serve.

    Look, I’ve said for years now, I would bet my bottom dollar Nadal has been taking extra-curricular drugs/supplements to help his magnificent stamina and physical skills. People will argue and call me a heel for it, but I think there’s too much evidence right at the surface–his ridiculous strength and stamina, pro players telling me they think Nadal is juicing, his mysterious injuries, his hair loss and now the 10 mph increase from a service grip change (who does he think his coach is Boris Becker?)–to not think the guy has some very good doctors supplying him stuff.

    His affiliation with poker might not be such a good practice to expose either.

  • Andrew Miller · July 25, 2014 at 9:50 am

    Nadal likely takes Flintstones. They are addictive!

  • Scoop Malinowski · July 25, 2014 at 10:16 am

    I saw Nadal play at a seventeen year old, he was great then, he’s great now.

  • jg · July 25, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    scoop/(Dan if you are coming) when do you want to hit? Anyone going to qualifying this weekend?

  • Dan Markowitz · July 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    Jon,

    I hope you and Scoop meet up and hit. He said he’s going for the full week. I’ve got too much work and my son is in the heart of his 8U Travel Summer Baseball team season–someone compared him to Greg Luzinski “the Bull”–so I can’t make it. If you’re coming in for the USO, qualis and first week particularly, let me know and we’ll swat a few yellow ones.

  • jg · July 25, 2014 at 4:13 pm

    Definitely, I just saw they gave Tiafoe direct entry in the main draw, kind of ridiculous for a 16 year old, make him earn it by qualifying.

  • Scoop Malinowski · July 25, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    JG what days are you going? I can hit Tuesday or Weds morning or early aft.

  • Scoop Malinowski · July 25, 2014 at 5:44 pm

    Giving Tiafoe a WC is a smart move. He’s from the area and he’s earned it with his junior results. I’m sure he can compete with some or most ATP pros. Newport gave Kozlov a WC into the tournament last year after Kozlov, age fifteen, made the quarters of juniors at Wimbledon. And he played Michael Prszyszniey and extended him to 64 in the third set. Przszyeny then won his next match in two sets. So Tiafoe deserves a break. Fans like to see the young potential future stars.

  • JG · July 25, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    He won the local tournament to get into the Qualies, koslov is playing the Qualies. I will be there Tuesday, want to hit wed morning? I play at Georgetown Prep in Bethesda ( I usually play early, but can be flexible. It’s near a metro and/ or I can pick you up, or can play somewhere else.

  • Andrew Miller · July 25, 2014 at 7:10 pm

    “Spadea: radio tennis”. I think it works.

  • jg · July 26, 2014 at 11:51 am

    Watching Kozlov Groth, Kozlov is impressive win the first set, had Groth in tie break second set but Groth hit a behind the back volley to save it and won second set, Kozlov is taller and hits bigger than I thought, Groth is a monster

  • Bryan · July 26, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    Isner vs Sock in an All-American semifinal tonight. Great to see Isner bounce back from a poor summer now that he’s back in the States. Even better to see Sock make his 2nd semi within weeks. If he keeps it up American tennis gets a much needed shot in the arm.

  • Dan Markowitz · July 27, 2014 at 1:52 am

    Didn’t see Izzie and Sock, but Izzie got revenge for Newport. Is there a more beautiful take back and hit than Dudi Sela’s backhand? It’s Gasquet-like in it’s flourish. The Israeli takes the racquet back over his head, perpendicular to the ground, like a baseball hitter, before unleashing one of the most free and powerful shots for a small man. And boy is Sela quick. He’s no longer young, but he covers the court like he’s on a scooter.

    Still, when you have a Sela-Benjamin Becker semi in an ATP event, it’s not exactly a big time match.

  • Bryan · July 27, 2014 at 2:41 am

    Dan, you didn’t see Isner vs Sock because none of us did. The crackheads at the Atlanta Open apparently scheduled it for before the TV coverage began and we saw a couple no-names nobody wanted to watch instead of the day’s marquee match up.

  • Dan Markowitz · July 27, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    Wow, that’s a bummer. I imagine they gave Izzie-Sock the afternoon semi so that they have more time to recover than Sela who won the night semi. I’m rooting for Sela big time though against Izzie. I just really like the guy’s game and deportment on court.

  • Scoop Malinowski · July 27, 2014 at 2:36 pm

    Would love to see Sela win this, he deserves it and I like him personally, he’s always been a great and friendly help for all my books. But Isner is too tough a mountain to climb, he should win in straights.

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