WASHINGTON, July 21, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Just 23 days before its start, the Citi Open has become the latest casualty of the 2020 tennis calendar due to the escalating coronavirus in the United States. For the first time in […]
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Defending champion Nick Kyrgios of Australia is missing from the provisional draw that was recently revealed for the ATP 500 Citi Open, which re-starts the ATP Tour next month after being sidelined by the novel […]
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) “Tennis Restarts In DC!” exclaims a Citi Open image that is posted on the tournament’s social media channels. The ATP Tour will restart the locked down 2020 season with the Citi Open at the […]
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) The Citi Open has been a summer fixture in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital city, for the past 50 years – going all the way back to its founding in 1969 by Donald […]
WASHINGTON, December 6, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Coco Gauff, the 15-year-old American teen sensation who garnered worldwide attention during this summer’s Wimbledon Championships with a first-round upset victory over her idol, five-time champion Venus Williams, announced she is returning to […]
WASHINGTON, August 6, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) When Nick Kyrgios lifted the Donald Dell Trophy after winning the Citi Open men’s singles title Sunday evening, it culminated a record-setting week to a reimagined tennis classic. As confetti rang down upon […]
WASHINGTON, August 5, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Unheralded and under the radar of American tennis thanks to a plethora of injuries, Jessica Pegula cried tears of joy after winning her first career WTA singles title at the Citi Open in […]
WASHINGTON, August 5, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) There was so very little margin for error during Sunday’s Citi Open men’s singles final between unseeded Nick Kyrgios and third seed Daniil Medvedev – just a single point separated them out of the 143 […]
WASHINGTON, August 4, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Saturday evening’s featured men’s semifinal at the ATP 500 Citi Open, between top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas and mercurial Nick Kyrgios, was a box office smash that proved entertaining and gave fans a lot […]
WASHINGTON, August 3, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) While Peter Gojowczyk isn’t recognized as the face of German tennis – that distinction goes to World No. 5 Alexander Zverev and then, perhaps No. 35 Jan-Lennard Struff – the 122nd-ranked native of […]
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