Washington - 500 - July 29

[DBBN]

OUT Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried FRA 7
2 Nishikori, Kei JPN 11
3 Haas, Tommy GER 13
4 Raonic, Milos CAN 15
5 Simon, Gilles FRA 17
6 Querrey, Sam USA 19
7 Isner, John USA 21
8 Anderson, Kevin RSA 23
9 Dolgopolov, Alexandr UKR 24
10 Dimitrov, Grigor BUL 31
11 Benneteau, Julien FRA 32
12 Lopez, Feliciano ESP 39
13 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 40
14 Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 42
15 Fish, Mardy USA 43
16 Istomin, Denis UZB 45
17 Stepanek, Radek CZE 48
18 Llodra, Michael FRA 52
19 Zemlja, Grega SLO 53
20 Dodig, Ivan CRO 54
21 Sijsling, Igor NED 59
22 Malisse, Xavier BEL 60
23 Monfils, Gael FRA 62
24 Tomic, Bernard AUS 64
25 Tursunov, Dmitry RUS 65
26 Matosevic, Marinko AUS 66
27 Kamke, Tobias GER 68
28 Berankis, Ricardas LTU 69
29 Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 70
30 Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 74
31 Falla, Alejandro COL 75
32 Lacko, Lukas SVK 79
33 Bogomolov Jr., Alex RUS 83
34 Harrison, Ryan USA 84
35 Goffin, David BEL 85
36 Ram, Rajeev USA 87
37 Blake, James USA 93
38 (Q)
39 (Q)
40 (Q)
41 (Q)
42 (Q)
43 (Q)
44 (WC) Kudla, Denis USA
45 (WC) del Potro, Juan Martin ARG
46 (WC)
47 (WC)
48 (WC)

Alternates
IN Giraldo, Santiago COL 94
1. Russell, Michael USA 97
2. Johnson, Steve USA 100
3. Sock, Jack USA 104
4. Kudla, Denis USA 105 (WC to MD)
5. Ebden, Matthew AUS 110
6. Levine, Jesse CAN 112
7. Marchenko, Illya UKR 120
8. Smyczek, Tim USA 121
9. Baker, Brian USA 124
10. Kubot, Lukasz POL 126
11. Przysiezny, Michal POL 127
12. Williams, Rhyne USA 128

[janie]

Mardy Fish won.

[lexpretend]

Pony disposes of two B2B hyped brats, Harrison and Tomic. Haas struggling through three-setters vs Smyczek and I Do Dig but makes the QF, if Grisha shows up that could be an interesting match next. What happened to Nishikori to lose so heavily to Baghdatis? Raonic losing to Matosevic is a shocker, too.

QFs:

(1) Juan Martin DEL POTRO (ARG) vs. (7) Kevin ANDERSON (RSA)
(3) Tommy HAAS (GER) vs. (11) Grigor DIMITROV (BUL)
Dmitry TURSUNOV (RUS) vs. Marinko MATOSEVIC (AUS)
(8) John ISNER (USA) vs. (16) Marcos BAGHDATIS (CYP)

I hope Dimitrov and Tursunov are reprising their infamous photo...

[janie]

This is turning out to be a good tournament! JMDP disposing of Tomic so easily was a high point. Good luck to Haas today; things don't seem to be coming as easily for him lately.

Don't know what's going on with poor Mardy.

[lexpretend]

Matosevic started cramping in his leg and racquet hand at 3-1 up in the third set TB - a stroke of luck for Tursunov, who'd spent most of that set bashing aimlessly and idiotically.

[janie]

So Haas beat El Dim.

[Grarliner]

The final was awesome! Rarely have I seen someone trash Isner's serve like Del Potro did in the last two sets.

[Old Hag]

It's partly because Isner's a big moper when he gets broken, but Delpo was really impressive. It helps that he's so tall and negates the kicker, but it took a fine strategy and a change from his normal return style to succeed like he did. I hope Pony keeps it up, the tour will really need him.