Washington Open (tennis)

The Washington Open (branded as the Mubadala Citi DC Open for sponsorship reasons and sometimes called the DC Open) is an annual professional outdoor hardcourt tennis tournament played at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. The event is categorized as an ATP 500 event on the ATP Tour and a WTA 500 event on the WTA Tour. The tournament is owned and operated by Mark Ein in partnership with IMG.

Washington Open
Tournament information
TourATP Tour
WTA Tour
Founded1969 (1969)
LocationWashington, D.C.
VenueWilliam H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center
CategoryATP Tour 500
WTA 500
SurfaceHardcourt
Draw48S/24Q/16D (men) 32S/16Q/16D (women)
Prize moneyUS$2,013,940 (2023) (men)
US$780,637 (2023) (women)
Websitehttps://www.mubadalacitidcopen.com/en/
Current champions (2023)
Men's singlesUnited Kingdom Daniel Evans
Women's singlesUnited States Coco Gauff
Men's doublesArgentina Máximo González
Argentina Andrés Molteni
Women's doublesGermany Laura Siegemund
Vera Zvonareva

Organized annually in the summer schedule of events on North American hardcourts leading up to the US Open, known as the US Open Series, the Washington Open was first held in 1969 as the Washington Star International. It was held on clay courts until 1986, when the surface was changed to hardcourts. In 2011, the event expanded to include its first women's tournament, a WTA International (now WTA 250) competition held in a separate venue in College Park, Maryland. The following year, the men's and women's events were consolidated at the Washington venue.

In 2023, the WTA 500-level Silicon Valley Classic was discontinued and merged into the Washington Open, forming the first and only joint-500-level event on the ATP and WTA tours.

History

The tournament was first held on the men's tour in 1969, known as the Washington Star International from 1969 to 1981, as the Sovran Bank Classic from 1982 to 1992, as the Newsweek Tennis Classic in 1993, and as the Legg Mason Tennis Classic from 1994 to 2011. It was known as the Citi Open from 2012 to 2022. Competition was held on outdoor clay courts until 1986 when it switched to the current hard courts. A co-founder was Donald Dell, founder of ProServ International, who has since remained closely involved. The location of the event in Washington, D.C., was chosen at the urging of Arthur Ashe, an early supporter.

The tournament's center court

The women's event was first held in 2011 in College Park, Maryland, as the Citi Open, and for the 2012 season, the ATP and WTA decided to merge their Maryland and Washington spots into a joint tournament, with the women's event moving to the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, and Citi taking over Legg Mason as title sponsor of the joint event.[1]

In 2015, the Washington Open dropped out of the US Open Series because of disagreements with ESPN, which that year took over broadcast rights to the US Open and US Open Series events. ESPN would not commit to air more than four hours of the tournament on its ESPN2 network; the remainer would be relegated to ESPN3 online streaming. (In 2014, coverage was split between ESPN and Tennis Channel.)[2] Donald Dell criticized ESPN for using ESPN3 to acquire sports rights without any intent to broadcast them on television: "If you're running a tournament, and it's $2 million, and sponsorship money in the $6 million-to-$8 million range, you've got sponsors that don't want to be having only four or six hours on television." Citi Open organizers withdrew from the US Open Series so it could establish a new broadcast rights agreement with Tennis Channel. The four-year, $2.1 million deal included funding for additional amenities and 171 hours of television coverage.[3][4]

In 2019, the tournament was acquired by venture capitalist and USTA board member Mark Ein. It returned to the US Open Series, signing a five-year extension of its media rights with the Tennis Channel.[5] In June 2023, Ein and IMG announced that the Washington Open would merge with the Silicon Valley Classic to form a single tournament in Washington, D.C.; this therefore promoted the Washington Open from a WTA 250 event to a WTA 500 event. Players had usually been divided between the two tournaments, as the Silicon Valley Classic was more prestigious, but the Washington Open was located closer to the rest of the US Open Series events. As a result of the merger, the Silicon Valley Classic's title sponsor Mubadala Investment Company became a co-title sponsor of the event, and the tournament was renamed the Mubadala Citi DC Open. The tournament is the first-ever joint 500-level event on the ATP and WTA tours.[6][7][8]

Past finals

A night match in 2018.
Grandstand in 2017.
A side court in 2017.

In the men's singles, Andre Agassi (1990–91, 1995, 1998–99) holds the records for most titles (five) and most finals overall (six, runner-up in 2000). He also shares with Michael Chang (1996–97), Juan Martín del Potro (2008–09) and Alexander Zverev (2017–18) the record for most consecutive titles, with two. In the women's singles, Magdaléna Rybáriková (2012–13) holds the record for most titles (two) and co-holds the record for most finals (two) with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (runner-up in 2012, 2015). In the men's doubles, Marty Riessen (1971–72, 1974, 1979) and the Bryan brothers (2005–07, 2015) hold the record for most titles (four), with the Bryans also holding the record for most consecutive titles (three). The Bryans co-hold the record for most finals (six, runners-up in 2001–02) with Raúl Ramírez (winner in 1976, 1981–82, runner-up in 1975, 1978–79). In the women's doubles, Shuko Aoyama (2012–14) holds alone the record for most titles, most consecutive titles and most finals (three).

Men's singles

American legend Arthur Ashe won the 1973 title.
Andre Agassi has won the most titles of any man, with five titles.
Gael Monfils, shown here serving in 2016, won the 2016 Washington Open title.
Alexander Zverev holding the trophy after winning the 2018 title.
YearChampionsRunners-upScore
1969 Brazil Thomaz Koch United States Arthur Ashe 7–5, 9–7, 4–6, 2–6, 6–4
Grand Prix circuit
1970 United States Cliff Richey United States Arthur Ashe 7–5, 6–1, 6–2
WCT circuit
1971 Australia Ken Rosewall United States Marty Riessen 6–2, 7–5, 6–1
1972 Australia Tony Roche United States Marty Riessen 3–6, 7–6, 6–4
Grand Prix circuit
1973 United States Arthur Ashe Netherlands Tom Okker 6–4, 6–2
1974 United States Harold Solomon Argentina Guillermo Vilas 1–6, 6–3, 6–4
1975 Argentina Guillermo Vilas United States Harold Solomon 6–1, 6–3
1976 United States Jimmy Connors Mexico Raúl Ramírez 6–2, 6–4
1977 Argentina Guillermo Vilas (2) United States Brian Gottfried 6–4, 7–5
1978 United States Jimmy Connors (2) United States Eddie Dibbs 7–5, 7–5
1979 Argentina Guillermo Vilas (3) Paraguay Víctor Pecci Sr. 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)
1980 United States Brian Gottfried Argentina José Luis Clerc 7–5, 4–6, 6–4
1981 Argentina José Luis Clerc Argentina Guillermo Vilas 7–5, 6–2
1982 Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl United States Jimmy Arias 6–3, 6–3
1983 Argentina José Luis Clerc (2) United States Jimmy Arias 6–3, 3–6, 6–0
1984 Ecuador Andrés Gómez United States Aaron Krickstein 6–2, 6–2
1985 France Yannick Noah Argentina Martín Jaite 6–4, 6–3
1986 Czechoslovakia Karel Nováček France Thierry Tulasne 6–1, 7–6(7–4)
1987 Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl (2) United States Brad Gilbert 6–1, 6–0
1988 United States Jimmy Connors (3) Ecuador Andrés Gómez 6–1, 6–4
1989 United States Tim Mayotte United States Brad Gilbert 3–6, 6–4, 7–5
ATP Tour 500[lower-alpha 1]
1990 United States Andre Agassi United States Jim Grabb 6–1, 6–4
1991 United States Andre Agassi (2) Czechoslovakia Petr Korda 6–3, 6–4
1992 Czechoslovakia Petr Korda Sweden Henrik Holm 6–4, 6–4
1993 Israel Amos Mansdorf United States Todd Martin 7–6(7–3), 7–5
1994 Sweden Stefan Edberg Australia Jason Stoltenberg 6–4, 6–2
1995 United States Andre Agassi (3) Sweden Stefan Edberg 6–4, 2–6, 7–5
1996 United States Michael Chang South Africa Wayne Ferreira 6–2, 6–4
1997 United States Michael Chang (2) Czech Republic Petr Korda 5–7, 6–2, 6–1
1998 United States Andre Agassi (4) Australia Scott Draper 6–2, 6–0
1999 United States Andre Agassi (5) Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov 7–6(7–3), 6–1
2000 Spain Àlex Corretja United States Andre Agassi 6–2, 6–3
2001 United States Andy Roddick Netherlands Sjeng Schalken 6–2, 6–3
2002 United States James Blake Thailand Paradorn Srichaphan 1–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–4
ATP Tour 250[lower-alpha 2]
2003 United Kingdom Tim Henman Chile Fernando González 6–3, 6–4
2004 Australia Lleyton Hewitt Luxembourg Gilles Müller 6–3, 6–4
2005 United States Andy Roddick (2) United States James Blake 7–5, 6–3
2006 France Arnaud Clément United Kingdom Andy Murray 7–6(7–3), 6–2
2007 United States Andy Roddick (3) United States John Isner 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
2008 Argentina Juan Martín del Potro Serbia Viktor Troicki 6–3, 6–3
ATP Tour 500
2009 Argentina Juan Martín del Potro (2) United States Andy Roddick 3–6, 7–5, 7–6(8–6)
2010 Argentina David Nalbandian Cyprus Marcos Baghdatis 6–2, 7–6(7–4)
2011 Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek France Gaël Monfils 6–4, 6–4
2012 Ukraine Alexandr Dolgopolov Germany Tommy Haas 6–7(7–9), 6–4, 6–1
2013 Argentina Juan Martín del Potro (3) United States John Isner 3–6, 6–1, 6–2
2014 Canada Milos Raonic Canada Vasek Pospisil 6–1, 6–4
2015 Japan Kei Nishikori United States John Isner 4–6, 6–4, 6–4
2016 France Gaël Monfils Croatia Ivo Karlović 5–7, 7–6(8–6), 6–4
2017 Germany Alexander Zverev South Africa Kevin Anderson 6–4, 6–4
2018 Germany Alexander Zverev (2) Australia Alex de Minaur 6–2, 6–4
2019 Australia Nick Kyrgios Russia Daniil Medvedev 7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–4)
2020 Canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak
2021 Italy Jannik Sinner United States Mackenzie McDonald 7–5, 4–6, 7–5
2022 Australia Nick Kyrgios (2) Japan Yoshihito Nishioka 6–4, 6–3
2023 United Kingdom Dan Evans Netherlands Tallon Griekspoor 7–5, 6–3

Women's singles

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
2011Russia Nadia PetrovaIsrael Shahar Pe'er7–5, 6–2
2012Slovakia Magdaléna RybárikováRussia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova6–1, 6–1
2013Slovakia Magdaléna Rybáriková (2) Germany Andrea Petkovic6–4, 7–6(7–2)
2014Russia Svetlana KuznetsovaJapan Kurumi Nara6–3, 4–6, 6–4
2015United States Sloane StephensRussia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova6–1, 6–2
2016Belgium Yanina WickmayerUnited States Lauren Davis6–4, 6–2
2017Russia Ekaterina MakarovaGermany Julia Görges3–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–0
2018Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova (2)Croatia Donna Vekić4–6, 7–6(9–7), 6–2
2019United States Jessica PegulaItaly Camila Giorgi6–2, 6–2
2020–21 Canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak
WTA 250
2022[lower-alpha 3] Liudmila SamsonovaEstonia Kaia Kanepi4–6, 6–3, 6–3
WTA 500
2023United States Coco GauffGreece Maria Sakkari6–2, 6–3

Men's doubles

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
1969Chile Patricio Cornejo
Chile Jaime Fillol
United States Robert Lutz
United States Stan Smith
4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Grand Prix circuit
1970South Africa Bob Hewitt
South Africa Frew McMillan
Romania Ilie Năstase
Romania Ion Țiriac
7–5, 6–0
WCT circuit
1971Netherlands Tom Okker
United States Marty Riessen
Australia Bob Carmichael
Australia Ray Ruffels
7–6, 6–2
1972Netherlands Tom Okker (2)
United States Marty Riessen (2)
Australia John Newcombe
Australia Tony Roche
3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Grand Prix circuit
1973Australia Ross Case
Australia Geoff Masters
Australia Dick Crealy
Zimbabwe Andrew Pattison
2–6, 6–1, 6–4
1974United States Tom Gorman
United States Marty Riessen (3)
Chile Patricio Cornejo
Chile Jaime Fillol
7–5, 6–1
1975United States Robert Lutz
United States Stan Smith
United States Brian Gottfried
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
7–5, 2–6, 6–1
1976United States Brian Gottfried
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
United States Arthur Ashe
United States Jimmy Connors
6–3, 6–3
1977Australia John Alexander
Australia Phil Dent
United States Fred McNair
United States Sherwood Stewart
7–5, 7–5
1978United States Arthur Ashe
South Africa Bob Hewitt (2)
United States Fred McNair
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
6–3, 6–4
1979United States Marty Riessen (4)
United States Sherwood Stewart
United States Brian Gottfried
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
2–6, 6–3, 6–4
1980Chile Hans Gildemeister
Ecuador Andrés Gómez
United States Gene Mayer
United States Sandy Mayer
6–4, 7–5
1981Mexico Raúl Ramírez (2)
United States Van Winitsky
Czech Republic Pavel Složil
United States Ferdi Taygan
5–7, 7–6(9–7), 7–6(8–6)
1982Mexico Raúl Ramírez (3)
United States Van Winitsky (2)
Chile Hans Gildemeister
Ecuador Andrés Gómez
7–5, 7–6
1983United States Mark Dickson
Brazil Cássio Motta
Australia Paul McNamee
United States Ferdi Taygan
6–2, 1–6, 6–4
1984Czech Republic Pavel Složil
United States Ferdi Taygan
United States Drew Gitlin
United States Blaine Willenborg
7–6, 6–1
1985Chile Hans Gildemeister (2)
Paraguay Víctor Pecci
Australia David Graham
Hungary Balázs Taróczy
6–3, 1–6, 6–4
1986Chile Hans Gildemeister (3)
Ecuador Andrés Gómez (2)
Brazil Ricardo Acioly
Brazil César Kist
6–3, 7–5
1987United States Gary Donnelly
United States Peter Fleming
Australia Laurie Warder
United States Blaine Willenborg
6–2, 7–6
1988United States Rick Leach
United States Jim Pugh
Mexico Jorge Lozano
United States Todd Witsken
6–3, 6–7, 6–2
1989United Kingdom Neil Broad
South Africa Gary Muller
United States Jim Grabb
United States Patrick McEnroe
6–7, 7–6, 6–4
ATP Tour 500[lower-alpha 1]
1990Canada Grant Connell
Canada Glenn Michibata
Mexico Jorge Lozano
United States Todd Witsken
6–3, 6–7, 6–2
1991United States Scott Davis
United States David Pate
United States Ken Flach
United States Robert Seguso
6–4, 6–2
1992United States Bret Garnett
United States Jared Palmer
United States Ken Flach
United States Todd Witsken
6–2, 6–3
1993Zimbabwe Byron Black
United States Rick Leach (2)
Canada Grant Connell
United States Patrick Galbraith
6–4, 7–5
1994Canada Grant Connell (2)
United States Patrick Galbraith
Sweden Jonas Björkman
Switzerland Jakob Hlasek
6–4, 4–6, 6–3
1995France Olivier Delaître
United States Jeff Tarango
Czech Republic Petr Korda
Czech Republic Cyril Suk
1–6, 6–3, 6–2
1996Canada Grant Connell (3)
United States Scott Davis (2)
United States Doug Flach
United States Chris Woodruff
7–6, 3–6, 6–3
1997United States Luke Jensen
United States Murphy Jensen
South Africa Neville Godwin
Netherlands Fernon Wibier
6–4, 6–4
1998South Africa Grant Stafford
Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett
South Africa Wayne Ferreira
United States Patrick Galbraith
6–2, 6–4
1999United States Justin Gimelstob
Canada Sébastien Lareau
South Africa David Adams
South Africa John-Laffnie de Jager
7–5, 6–7(2–7), 6–3
2000United States Alex O'Brien
United States Jared Palmer (2)
United States Andre Agassi
Armenia Sargis Sargsian
7–5, 6–1
2001Czech Republic Martin Damm
Germany David Prinosil
United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan
7–6(7–5), 6–3
2002Zimbabwe Wayne Black
Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett (2)
United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan
3–6, 6–3, 7–5
ATP Tour 250[lower-alpha 2]
2003Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Armenia Sargis Sargsian
South Africa Chris Haggard
Australia Paul Hanley
7–5, 4–6, 6–2
2004South Africa Chris Haggard
South Africa Robbie Koenig
United States Travis Parrott
Russia Dmitry Tursunov
7–6(7–3), 6–1
2005United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan
Zimbabwe Wayne Black
Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett
6–4, 6–2
2006United States Bob Bryan (2)
United States Mike Bryan (2)
Australia Paul Hanley
Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett
6–3, 5–7, [10–3]
2007United States Bob Bryan (3)
United States Mike Bryan (3)
Israel Jonathan Erlich
Israel Andy Ram
7–6(7–5), 3–6, [10–7]
2008France Marc Gicquel
Sweden Robert Lindstedt
Brazil Bruno Soares
Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett
7–6(8–6), 6–3
ATP Tour 500
2009Czech Republic Martin Damm (2)
Sweden Robert Lindstedt (2)
Poland Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Poland Marcin Matkowski
7–5, 7–6(7–3)
2010United States Mardy Fish
The Bahamas Mark Knowles
Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych
Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek
4–6, 7–6(9–7), [10–7]
2011France Michaël Llodra
Serbia Nenad Zimonjić
Sweden Robert Lindstedt
Romania Horia Tecău
6–7(3–7), 7–6(8–6), [10–7]
2012Philippines Treat Conrad Huey
United Kingdom Dominic Inglot
South Africa Kevin Anderson
United States Sam Querrey
7–6(9–7), 6–7(9–11), [10–5]
2013France Julien Benneteau
Serbia Nenad Zimonjić (2)
United States Mardy Fish
Czech Republic Radek Štěpánek
7–6(7–5), 7–5
2014Netherlands Jean-Julien Rojer
Romania Horia Tecău
Australia Sam Groth
India Leander Paes
7–5, 6–4
2015United States Bob Bryan (4)
United States Mike Bryan (4)
Croatia Ivan Dodig
Brazil Marcelo Melo
6–4, 6–2
2016Canada Daniel Nestor
France Édouard Roger-Vasselin
Poland Łukasz Kubot
Austria Alexander Peya
7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–4)
2017Finland Henri Kontinen
Australia John Peers
Poland Łukasz Kubot
Brazil Marcelo Melo
7–6(7–5), 6–4
2018United Kingdom Jamie Murray
Brazil Bruno Soares
United States Mike Bryan
France Édouard Roger-Vasselin
3–6, 6–3, [10–4]
2019South Africa Raven Klaasen
New Zealand Michael Venus
Netherlands Jean-Julien Rojer
Romania Horia Tecău
3–6, 6–3, [10–2]
2020Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021South Africa Raven Klaasen (2)
Japan Ben McLachlan
United Kingdom Neal Skupski
New Zealand Michael Venus
7–6(7–4), 6–4
2022Australia Nick Kyrgios
United States Jack Sock
Croatia Ivan Dodig
United States Austin Krajicek
7–5, 6–4
2023Argentina Máximo González
Argentina Andrés Molteni
United States Mackenzie McDonald
United States Ben Shelton
6–7, 6–2, [10-8]

Women's doubles

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
2011 India Sania Mirza
Kazakhstan Yaroslava Shvedova
Belarus Olga Govortsova
Russia Alla Kudryavtseva
6–3, 6–3
2012 Japan Shuko Aoyama
Chinese Taipei Chang Kai-chen
United States Irina Falconi
South Africa Chanelle Scheepers
7–5, 6–2
2013 Japan Shuko Aoyama (2)
Russia Vera Dushevina
Canada Eugenie Bouchard
United States Taylor Townsend
6–3, 6–3
2014 Japan Shuko Aoyama (3)
Canada Gabriela Dabrowski
Japan Hiroko Kuwata
Japan Kurumi Nara
6–1, 6–2
2015 Switzerland Belinda Bencic
France Kristina Mladenovic
Spain Lara Arruabarrena
Slovenia Andreja Klepač
7–5, 7–6(9–7)
2016 Romania Monica Niculescu
Belgium Yanina Wickmayer
Japan Shuko Aoyama
Japan Risa Ozaki
6–4, 6–3
2017 Japan Shuko Aoyama (4)
Czech Republic Renata Voráčová
Canada Eugenie Bouchard
United States Sloane Stephens
6–3, 6–2
2018 China Han Xinyun
Croatia Darija Jurak
Chile Alexa Guarachi
New Zealand Erin Routliffe
6–3, 6–2
2019 United States Caty McNally
United States Coco Gauff
United States Maria Sanchez
Hungary Fanny Stollar
6–2, 6–2
2020–21 Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
WTA 250
2022 United States Jessica Pegula
New Zealand Erin Routliffe
Anna Kalinskaya
United States Caty McNally
6–3, 5–7, [12–10]
WTA 500
2023 Germany Laura Siegemund
Vera Zvonareva
Chile Alexa Guarachi
Romania Monica Niculescu
6–4, 6–4

See also

Notes

  1. Known as Championship Series from 1990 till 1999. International Series Gold from 2000 till 2008.
  2. Known as International Series from 2000 till 2008.
  3. As of March 1, 2022, the WTA announced that players from Russia and Belarus will not compete under the name or flag of Russia or Belarus due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

References

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