Citi Open Betting Tips and Predictions

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Tennis Betting Tips

5 August, 2024

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Tournament Preview 

The US Hard Court season gathers pace as both the ATP and WTA Tour roll into Washington, D.C, with plenty of big names looking for form before the US Open next month. With the added interest of Andy Murray announcing he will continue his comeback by playing in the men’s doubles event, alongside brother Jamie – there is sure to be plenty of scrutiny across the event this week. Here are our Citi Open betting tips.

Tournament History

The Citi Open is now into its 50^th year as an event on the ATP Tour and has been an established part of the USTA’s US Open Series, kicks off, a seven-week conglomerate of tournaments that all feed into the final major of the year in New York. The Citi Open has been on the WTA Tour since 2011 and despite being a relatively new event on the tour; it has become one of the flagship events across the world with many big names using it to acclimatise to US Hard Court conditions.

Format

The Citi Open is a 48 player draw for men with the top 16 seeds in the draw receiving byes to the second round, whilst it is a 32 player draw for women.

Venue 

The tournament has been held at William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Centre in Washington and has been for the past 50 years.

Dates

Monday 29^th July 2019 – Sunday 4^th August 2019.

Previous Winners (Men’s)

The Citi Open has an illustrious roll call in terms of past winners as it enters its 50^th season as an ATP Tour event. Andre Agassi holds the record in Washington for the most title wins with 5 whilst greats of the game Ivan Lendl and Guillermo Vilas have won the event three times each. Home favourite Andy Roddick and big serving Argentine Juan Martin del Potro have also picked up the top the spoils in the capital three times apiece whilst 2018 champion Alexander Zverev has won the event twice.

Previous Winners (Women’s)

Despite not having the length of time to generate a winners list as prestigious as the men’s the roll call of female Citi Open winners is testament to the events standing in the game. Svetlana Kuznetsova has tasted glory in Washington twice as has Magdalena Rybarikova. Elsewhere the likes of Nadia Petrova, Sloane Stephens and Yanina Wickmayer have also triumphed in Washington since its introduction to the tour in 2011.