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Donald Dell, the tournament chairman and co-founder of the Citi Open, said Fish contacted him about playing in Washington in March.
“He called us about a month ago, and said, Look, I’m not planning to play the Olympics, so I want to enter Washington early,” Dell said, paraphrasing.
“He had just moved into the top 10. And I said: ‘God, we’d love to have you! Can we announce it?’ Make him sort of the poster boy of the tournament.
“So I then said to him, Why aren’t you playing the Olympics? Well, first of all, I’ve played the Olympics and won a silver, in ’04. And he said, I’ve had that experience. I’d rather play the American circuit, and get points and move my ranking up than go to Wimbledon where I’ll have just played, you know, a month before. So I said, hey, that’s fine!”