Citi Open Tennis July 29 - Aug 4,2013

The City Open (known as such for sponsorship reasons) is a joint professional Tennis Tournament played on Outdoor Hard Courts and held annually in late July at the William H G FitzFerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C., United States

 The Citi Open is part of the ATP World Tour 500 Series on the Association of  Tennis Professionals on the  (ATP) World Tour, and of the WTA International Tournaments on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour

The tournament was first held on the men's tour in 1969 -

• known as the Washington Star International between 1969 and 1981

• as the Sovran Bank Classic from 1982 to 1992

• as the Washington Open in 1993 and

• as the Legg Mason Tennis Classic  from 1994 to 2011

The women's event was first held in 2011 in College Park,Maryland  as the Citi Open and for the 2012 season, the ATP and the WTA decided to merge their Maryland and Washington spots into a men and women joint tournament, with the women's event moving to the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, and Citi taking over Legg Mason as title sponsor of the joint event


2013 Citi Open Final Sunday Aug 4,2013
Juan Martin del Potro(Argentina) Defeats John Isner(USA)3-6, 6-1, 6-2 

Previous Years Winners of Women's Singles Title

Year	Winner	Runner-Up	Score
2011	Nadia Petrova(Russia)	Shahar Pe’er(Israel)	7-5,6-2
2012	Magdalena Rybarikova(Slovakia)	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova(Russia)	6-1,6-2