The 2015 Citi Open was a

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tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 47th edition (for the men) and the 5th edition (for the women) of the Washington Open. The event was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the

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, and of the

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of the

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. It took place at the

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in Washington, D.C., United States, from August 3 to August 9, 2015.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

_{¹ Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 64 prize money}
_{* per team}

ATP singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of July 27, 2015

Other entrants

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw: * Tommy Haas * Lleyton Hewitt * Nicolás Jarry * Denis Kudla The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw: * Ryan Harrison *

Darian King Darian King (born 26 April 1992 in Bridgetown) is a Barbadian tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 106 achieved on 8 May 2017, and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. ...

* Marinko Matosevic * Yoshihito Nishioka *

Guido Pella Guido Pella (; born 17 May 1990) is an inactive Argentine professional tennis player. In August 2019, Pella reached his career best world No. 20 in singles. In July 2019, he peaked at No. 55 in doubles. Personal life His father, Carlos, taught ...

* John-Patrick Smith The following player received entry as lucky loser: * Ivan Dodig

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Marcos Baghdatis → replaced by Ivan Dodig * Thanasi Kokkinakis → replaced by

Go Soeda is a former professional Japanese tennis player. He started playing tennis at the age of four and turned professional in April 2003. He has won 18 singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of w ...

Adrian Mannarino Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22, attained on 19 March 2018. He won his first ATP Tour singles title at the 2019 Rosmalen Open on grass. He is c ...

→ replaced by Lukáš Lacko *

Janko Tipsarević Janko Tipsarević ( sr-cyr, Јанко Типсаревић, ; born 22 June 1984) is a Serbian former tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 8, achieved on 2 April 2012. In his career, he won 4 ATP World Tour titles, one AT ...

→ replaced by

Ričardas Berankis Ričardas Berankis (; born June 21, 1990) is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the first and only Lithuanian citizen (not counting Lithuanian American Vitas Gerulaitis) to enter the ATP top 50 rankings, making him the highest ranke ...

ATP doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of July 27, 2015

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Sam Groth / Lleyton Hewitt * Steve Johnson / Sam Querrey The following pair received entry from the doubles qualifying draw: * Austin Krajicek / Nicholas Monroe The following pair received entry as lucky loser: *

Treat Huey Treat Conrad Huey (; born August 28, 1985) is a Filipino-American tennis player who represents the Philippines in international competitions. He turned professional in 2008 and he started representing the Philippines in the Davis Cup and the ...

/ Scott Lipsky

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Pablo Cuevas (back injury)

WTA singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of July 27, 2015

Other entrants

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw: *

Louisa Chirico Louisa Chirico (born May 16, 1996) is an American tennis player. She is of Korean descent through her mother. Chirico, who comes from Harrison, New York, has won five singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 October 2016 ...

Taylor Townsend Taylor Townsend (born April 16, 1996) is an American professional tennis player. She reached career-high WTA rankings of world No. 61 in singles (July 2018) and No. 31 in doubles (December 2022). She also reached the doubles final of the 2022 U ...

* CoCo Vandeweghe The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw: * Naomi Broady * Julia Glushko *

Sanaz Marand Sanaz Marand ( fa, ساناز مرند; born June 21, 1988) is an American former tennis player. In her career, she won two singles titles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In October 2014, she reached her best singles ranking o ...

* An-Sophie Mestach

Withdrawals

;Before the tournament * Victoria Azarenka → replaced by Polona Hercog * Eugenie Bouchard → replaced by Lauren Davis * Sara Errani → replaced by Irina Falconi * Daniela Hantuchová → replaced by Lara Arruabarrena

WTA doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of July 27, 2015

Other entrants

The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw: *

/ Alizé Lim

Champions

Men's singles

* Kei Nishikori def. John Isner, 4–6, 6–4, 6–4

Women's singles

* Sloane Stephens def.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (russian: Анастаси́я "Настя" Серге́евна Павлюче́нкова; born 3 July 1991) is an inactive Russian professional tennis player. A junior prodigy, Pavlyuchenkova won ...

, 6–1, 6–2

Men's doubles

Bob Bryan Robert Charles Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. He has won twenty-three Grand Slam titles: 16 in men's doubles and 7 in mixed doubles. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin ...

/ Mike Bryan def. Ivan Dodig /

Marcelo Melo Marcelo is a given name, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Marcellus. The Italian version of the name is Marcello, differing in having an additional "l". Marcelo may refer to: * Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born 1967), Brazilian serial killer, rapi ...

, 6–4, 6–2

Women's doubles

* Belinda Bencic / Kristina Mladenovic def. Lara Arruabarrena / Andreja Klepač, 7–5, 7–6^(9–7)

References

External links

Official website

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