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WWW Washington ATP500?

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WWW Washington ATP500? Main Draw Discussion

2K views 25 replies 18 participants last post by  CHIP72 
#1 ·
Full draw: http://www.protennislive.com/posting/2016/418/mds.pdf
All seeds receive 1st round bye.

Seeds possibly to meet in R3 (Last 16)
Top Half
[1]Isner - [15]Baghdatis
[10]Troicki - [5]Johnson
[3]Tomic - [13]Karlovic
[12]Dimitrov - [6]Sock :eek:

Bottom Half
[7]Zverev - [9]Anderson
[14]Muller - [4]Paire
[8]Querrey - [11]Dolgopolov
[16]Coric - [2] Monfils

With Isner seeded 1, makes a huge change from seedings in previous years. (Murray and Nishikori were seeded 1 and 2 last year). So it's hard not to imagine Isner making the final again and he could possibly win it.

Bottom half hard to pick a clear winner but Monfils, or maybe even Querrey if he is focused.
 
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#2 ·
Without Nishikori or Cilic this tournament looks quite weak / open ;)

It seems like this is every year more or less the same :) It's THE chance of the year for all those players to win an ATP 500 event.
 
#4 · (Edited)
Well the ATP500 pool is widening. Klizan has just won his second ATP500 title this year (Rotterdam and now Hamburg, both in which no top 10 players were present). Cuevas took Rio (beating Nadal though en route), and Thiem took out Acapulco by beating Tomic (both top seeds in Ferrer and Nishikori did not survive past round 2!). Then talk about Stuttgart with Florian Mayer taking that when Federer was knocked out in SF. When the cats are away the mice shall play. Strangely enough Cilic has never made an ATP500 final ever. And he elects not to play here (DC duties maybe). So really big chance for Isner of Monfils to finally nab a title at this level.
Notably Isner 0/5 record in ATP500 finals, including a loss to Nishikori in the final last year.
 
#5 ·
Could see Sock taking out Isner if he gets past Dimitrov.

If he's fit then I'd back Monfils to take the tournament.
 
#6 ·
To tell the truth the 500's are where non-Top 10, Slam seeded players should win, as the Top 10 are the ones aimed to be winning Masters and Slams, while 500's are supposed to be ranking boosters for the tight seedings on the lower tiers. I feel Isner should maybe take his chance now to finally win Washington after so many finals losses to higher ranked players. Monfils has a good draw to get to the final. Surprised Domi is not here seeing that he needed 500's to boost his points now.
 
#9 ·
Isner - Baghdatis - it can be a very good match, they were playing here in 2013 QF. From what I remember I enjoyed watching it.
 
#10 ·
I hope Monfils could take this. Darkhorse could be Paire, on a sidenote Nishioka has a good draw and seems to be in good form winning Winnetka and SF in Winnipeg. Could easily defeat Dodig, tired Muller on hard, Paire (tough ask). He'll reach a career high of 93 this week and is only 20.
 
#12 ·
Seeds possibly to meet in R3 (Last 16)
Top Half
[1]Isner - [15]Baghdatis
[10]Troicki - [5]Johnson
[3]Tomic - [13]Karlovic
[12]Dimitrov - [6]Sock :eek:

Bottom Half
[7]Zverev - [9]Anderson
[14]Muller - [4]Paire
[8]Querrey - [11]Dolgopolov
[16]Coric - [2] Monfils

Bottom half hard to pick a clear winner but Monfils, or maybe even Querrey if he is focused.
Like the hundredth chance for Dimitrov to get back on track this year, since he's practicing in Washington for a week and his half is filled with favorable matchups or players coming from the Davis Cup's week. But most likely he'll lose to some non-entity like Johnson or Troicki again, assuming he doesn't lost to Benny Becker already. Becker is one of the challenger players with around .400 career winning percentage he loves to lose, the other one being Rajeev Ram.

I agree the bottom half looks like Monfils to lose, but he's also very prone to losing to some irrelevant mug.
 
#14 ·
I really hope Shapovalov wins his first round match (and then plays his second round match later in the day on Wednesday) so I can see him play. I did get to see Fritz, Donaldson, and Tiafoe play portions of their matches this evening and probably will see Zverev and Coric later in the week (though I saw Zverev last year at the Citi Open and Coric at the 2014 U.S. Open).

The high number of teenage players who are playing in DC this week is probably the best attribute of this year's Citi Open.
 
#18 · (Edited)
We will have yet another first-time 500 champion, 5th this season (after Cuevas, Klizan, Thiem, Flo Mayer). There were

1 new champion in 2015 (Wawrinka),
3 in 2014 (Dimitrov, Leo Mayer, Raonic),
1 in 2013 (Fognini),
3 in 2012 (J. Melzer, Dolgopolov, Nishikori),
2 in 2011 (Simon, Granollers),
5 in 2010 (Soderling, Querrey, Verdasco, Golubev, Nalbandian),
3 in 2009 (Murray, Davydenko, Tsonga),
6 in 2008 (Llodra, Darcis, Almagro, Del Potro, Berdych, Petzschner),
3 in 2007 (Youzhny, Monaco, Djokovic)...
 
#25 · (Edited)
@CHIP72 Sounds similar to this week's editions of Kitzbuhel and Umag. :lol:

Well, if Isner can't get through this draw, I dunno when he'll ever win Washington D.C., especially next year top players may again play. Monfils looks good though; of course you can't expect him to be ready for finals day but at least it seems to be a doable draw for him. Would be interesting how Zverev does though if he could get to another 500's final. Karlovic and Johnson to attempt getting a higher-level tournament.
 
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