CITI OPEN: DAY 3 MEDIA NOTES Wednesday, August 5, 2015 William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, Washington D.C., USA | August 3 – 9, 2015 Draw: S-48, D-16 | Prize Money: $1,753,020| Surface: Outdoor Hard ATP Info: Tournament Info: ATP PR & Marketing: www.ATPWorldTour.com www.citiopentennis.com Maria Garcia-Planas: [email protected] @ATPWorldTour @CitiOpen Robin Holtermann: [email protected] facebook.com/ATPWorldTour facebook.com/CitiOpen Press Room: +1 202-250-8515 MURRAY, ISNER, GASQUET, HEWITT FEATURED ON DAY 3 Day 3: Andy Murray, John Isner, Richard Gasquet and Lleyton Hewitt are featured on Wednesday at the Citi Open. In second match on Stadium Court, 2004 winner Lleyton Hewitt meets No. 7 seed Feliciano Lopez for the sixth time (Hewitt leads 4-1). Following is a first time ATP World Tour meeting between the No. 1 American John Isner and Dominican Republic native Victor Estrella Burgos. In the third match on, top seed Andy Murray begins his title quest when he takes on Teymuraz Gabashvili. In the last match the No. 4 seed Richard Gasquet faces the 32-year-old Gilles Muller for the fifth time (series tied 2-2). All together there are 14 matches (11 singles and 3 doubles). Murray Returns…As Top Seed: World No. 3 Murray is making his second appearance in Washington, first since 2006 when he came in ranked No. 35 and reached the final (l. to Clement). The 28-year-old Brit is playing in his first tournament since reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon (l. to Federer). The following weekend he helped his country to a 3-1 Davis Cup quarter-final victory over France by accounting for all three wins (two singles, one doubles).Great Britain will appear in the semi-finals for the first time in 34 years, hosting Australia in September Hewitt Extends Final Appearance: Lleyton Hewitt, who captured the 2004 title (d. Muller), extended his final appearance here with a 63 64 win over countryman John-Patrick Smith on Tuesday. He is one of two former champions in the draw along with Alexandr Dolgopolov (2012. The 34-year-old Aussie has a 11-6 career record in Washington. He was the hero in Australia’s 3-2 Davis Cup quarter-final victory over Kazakhstan, winning the doubles match (w/Groth) and then capturing the fifth and decisive match in singles over Aleksandr Nedovyesov. Hewitt plans to retire after next year’s Australian Open. Grigor Eyes JumpStart: No. 6 seed Grigor Dimitrov comes in with a 22-13 record on the season and his best results are the SFs in Brisbane and Istanbul. The 24-year-old Bulgarian is playing in his first event since the 3R at Wimbledon (l. to Gasquet). This is Dimitrov’s third visit to Washington and two years ago he reached the QF. A year ago at this time he compiled a 35-10 record and was coming off a SF at Wimbledon. He just broke into the Top 10. He also was a three-time winner on the ATP World Tour. Dimitrov split with coach Roger Rasheed after Wimbledon. Isner Three-Peat: On Sunday the No. 1 American John Isner become the 8th different active player to achieve a three-peat on the ATP World Tour. Here are the other seven players to three-peat titles: Federer: Halle (2x), Dubai, Basel, Indian Wells, Wimbledon, US Open Nadal: Roland Garros (2x), Barcelona (2x), Monte-Carlo, Rome Djokovic: Tour Finals, Australian Open, Dubai Ferrer: Auckland, Acapulco, Buenos Aires, Valencia Raonic: San Jose Hewitt: Queen's Club Nishikori: Memphis Citi Open Day 3 – Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Page 2 of 9 www.ATPWorldTour.com WEDNESDAY FEDEX ATP HEAD 2 HEADS – In Order of Play by Court Stadium Court (7) Feliciano Lopez (ESP) vs (WC) Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) Hewitt Leads 4-1 04 US Open (U.S.A.) Hard R32 Lleyton Hewitt 6-1 6-4 6-2 05 Wimbledon (England) Grass QF Lleyton Hewitt 7-5 6-4 7-6(2) 07 Las Vegas (U.S.A.) Hard QF Lleyton Hewitt 6-3 6-2 14 Brisbane (Australia) Hard R16 Lleyton Hewitt 7-5 6-3 14 London / Queen's Club (Great Britain) Grass R32 Feliciano Lopez 6-3 6-4 Lopez FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: F: Quito (l Estrella Burgos); SF: Gstaad (l Thiem); QF(2): ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells (l Murray); Houston (l Querrey) YTD W-L: 19-17 (7-5 on hard) YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 4 Date of Birth: September 20, 1981 Emirates ATP Ranking: 19 Washington W-L (Best Result-Year): 1-3 (3R 2006-1R bye) The 33-year-old Spaniard is playing here for the fourth time and has a 1-3 tournament record. His best result was 3R (1R bye, l. to Murray) in his tournament debut Last week reached his second ATP World Tour SF of the year at Gstaad (l. to Thiem) Reached 12th career ATP World Tour final at Quito (l. to Estrella Burgos)…dropped to 4-8 in finals (0-3 on clay) In 2R his 67(5) 76(9) 67(4) loss to Isner at London / Queen’s Club, he struck 29 aces to Isner’s 36 aces for the most combined aces struck in a best-of-three sets match since the ATP World Tour began tracking aces in 1991 In Grand Slam play (4-3 record), reached 4R at Australian (l. to Raonic), 2R at Wimbledon (l to Basilashvili), fell in 1R at Roland Garros (l.to Gabashvili) Best ATP Masters 1000 result was QF at Indian Wells (1R bye, d, Nishikori in 4R, l. to Murray) Playing second tournament as a newlywed. On July 17, married Alba Carrillo in his hometown of Toledo, Spain. Several of the guests included Fernando Verdasco, Alex Corretja, Alberto Berasategui, David Ferrer, Marcel Granollers Hewitt FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: YTD W-L: 3-7 (2-3 on hard) YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 30 Date of Birth: February 24, 1981 Emirates ATP Ranking: 283 Washington W-L (Best Result-Year): 11-6 (Winner 2004) The 34-year-old Aussie opened with a 63 64 win over countryman John-Patrick Smith on Tuesday. He captured the 2004 title (d. Muller), is one of two former champions in the draw along with Alexandr Dolgopolov (2012). Has a 11-6 career tournament record Helped Australia to reach the Davis Cup semi-finals for the first time since 2006 with two wins. In doubles he teamed with Sam Groth to defeat Golubev / Nedovyesov 64 76(4) 62 and then defeated Aleksandr Nedovyesov 76(2) 62 63 in the deciding rubber. It was first Australias comeback from 0-2 deficit in 76 years In Grand Slam play (1-2 record), reached 2R at Australian Open (l. to Becker), fell in1R at Wimbledon (l. to Nieminen) Citi Open Day 3 – Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Page 3 of 9 www.ATPWorldTour.com Victor Estrella Burgos (DOM) vs (8) John Isner (USA) First ATP Meeting Other meeting: 08 Tunica Resorts CH (U.S.A.) Clay R16 John Isner 6-4 4-6 6-4 Estrella Burgos FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: W: Quito (d Lopez); QF(2): Munich (l Bautista Agut); Bogota (l Berrer) YTD W-L: 17-14 (4-5 on hard) YTD Titles: 1 / Career Titles: 1 Date of Birth: August 2, 1980 Emirates ATP Ranking: 51 Washington W-L (Best Result-Year): 3-1 (3R 2014) The 35-year-old Dominican Republic native knocked off wild card Nicolas Jarry 46 63 64 in the 1R on Monday. Last year fell to Santiago Giraldo in the 3R Two weeks ago reached third ATP World Tour QF of the year at Bogota (l. to Berrer) In February at Quito (d. Lopez), became the oldest first-time winner in the Open Era at 34-years- old and the first player from the Dominican Republic to win a ATP World Tour title Also reached QF at Munich (l. to Bautista Agut) in May, also on clay In Grand Slam play (1-3 record), best result was 2R at Wimbledon (l. to Wawrinka), fell in 1R at Australian Open (l. to Melzer) and Wimbledon (l. to Pablo Carreno Busta) Isner FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: W: Atlanta (d Baghdatis); SF (2): ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Miami (l Djokovic); Nice (l Thiem); QF(3): Memphis (l Querrey); ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Madrid (l Berdych); London / Queen's Club (l Troicki) YTD W-L: 27-16 (13-7 on hard) YTD Titles: 1 / Career Titles: 10 Date of Birth: April 26, 1985 Emirates ATP Ranking: 18 Washington W-L (Best Result-Year): 19-7 (RUP 2007, 13) The 30-year-old American is a two-time finalist here – 2007 (l. to Roddick) and 2013 (l. to del Potro). He is making his 8th appearance here and has a 19-7 tournament record Last week captured his 10th career ATP World Tour title and third in a row at Atlanta (d. Baghdatis)). With the win he became the 8th active player to achieve a three-peat on the ATP World Tour. He also became the 16th 30 and over winner on the ATP World Tour this year The No. 1 American has a 27-16 record this year (13-7 on hard). Reached SF at ATP Masters 1000 SF at Miami (l. to eventual champion Djokovic). Also reached SF at Nice (l. to eventual champion Thiem) Reached QF at ATP Masters 1000 Madrid (l. to Berdych). He became first American to reach a clay court ATP Masters 1000 QF since Roddick at 2008 Madrid In Grand Slam play (5-3 record), reached 3R at Australian Open (l.