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Does the White House have any secret tunnels? Andy Murray and his team, including coach Jonas Bjorkman, went on a mission to find out during a private tour. Mardy Fish and Feliciano Lopez gave tennis tips at the Emirates Return Program Clinic.
Top seed Andy Murray has fallen to Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili in his first hard-court match of the U.S. summer, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(4) in Washington on Wednesday.
The top seed in the Citi Open is gone after one match. Andy Murray lost his opener 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(4) to Teymuraz Gabashvili in front of an entertained Washington, D.C. crowd on Wednesday night. Murray failed to serve it out at 5-4 in the third set and ultimately went down in two hours and 42 minutes.
Kei Nishikori recovered after dropping the opening set tie-break to see off Aussie James Duckworth 6-7(8), 6-1, 6-4 at the Citi Open Tuesday night.
ATP World Tour players Feliciano Lopez and Mardy Fish traded strokes with enthusiastic Washington, D.C. juniors at the Takoma Community Center on Tuesday. It is one of many facilities benefitting from the Emirates Returns Program.
Fabio Fognini recorded his 20th clay-court match win of the season Wednesday to book a spot in the Generali Open quarter-finals. The third seed, competing in Kitzbuhel for the third time, saved six of seven break points to knock out 21-year-old wild card Dennis Novak 6-1, 6-2 in just 57 minutes.
Before Lleyton Hewitt and Marin Cilic stole the show on Tuesday night (and Wednesday morning) at the Citi Open, Americans took center stage in the nation's capital.
Former finalist and sixth seed Philipp Kohlschreiber broke a two-match losing streak against his fellow German, qualifier Jan-Lennard Struff, Tuesday at the Generali Open in Kitzbuhel.
Young guns were firing at the Citi Open in Washington on Monday, with rising stars Hyeon Chung and Alexander Zverev advancing to the second round.
Mardy Fish and Grigor Dimitrov saved two match points in a 6-7(2), 7-6(5), 10-8 win over former Wimbledon winners Jack Sock and Vasek Pospisil at the Citi Open on Monday. Fish, who is set to retire after the US Open, reached the quarter-finals of Atlanta with Andy Roddick last week.
Fresh from his win at the BB&T Open in Atlanta, Citi Open’s eighth seed John Isner took a trip to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington on Monday.
In what could potentially be the last match victory of his career, Mardy Fish teamed up with Grigor Dimitrov to pull off a substantial doubles upset on Monday at the Citi Open.
Austrian wild card Dennis Novak scored his first ATP World Tour match win on his home soil at the Generali Open in Kitzbühel on Monday. The 21 year old, who is coached by top seed Dominic Thiem’s father, Wolfgang Thiem, beat Aljaz Bedene 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-1 in two hours and 11 minutes.
Washington, D.C. is actually no longer part of the U.S. Open Series, so it would not be accurate to say that said series is going to heat up this week. But it is true that the American hard-court swing is taking its talents to new heights starting on Monday.
Americans Bob and Mike Bryan defeated Colin Fleming of Great Britain and Gilles Muller of Luxembourg in the final of the BB&T Atlanta Open 4-6, 7-6(2), 10-4 on Sunday. With the win, the Bryans secured their 107th title and fourth of the year (Delray Beach, Miami and Monte-Carlo).
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