The D.C. Open, the only combined ATP/WTA 500 event on the pro tennis circuit, has signed a new, expanded sponsorship deal with Mubadala Investment Company to make the Abu Dhabi state-controlled investment firm the tournament’s exclusive title sponsor through 2030. Financial terms were not disclosed. The new, five-year-deal, for which no agencies were used, will see the tournament rebranded as the Mubadala D.C. Open; it had been co-branded the Mubadala Citi D.C. Open since 2023, when tournament owner Mark Ein combined the Citi Open ATP 500 event in D.C. (for which he purchased the management rights in 2019) and the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic WTA 500 in San Jose (for which Ein leased the tournament sanction). “They [Mubadala] came to us preemptively and said, ‘Why don’t we become the sole title? We love the event. We love D.C. We love the charity it supports,’” Ein told SBJ. “They’ve embraced the totality of this.”
Mubadala will receive expanded signage and hospitality assets as part of the new deal and continue its work with the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation to provide tennis/education programming and internship opportunities to young people. Citi will no longer sponsor the event. Mubadala also sponsors the Rio Open ATP 500 in Brazil and is the title sponsor of the Abu Dhabi Open WTA 500 in the U.A.E.
This year’s D.C. Open (July 25-August 2) will be the tournament’s 57th edition, all of which have been held at Rock Creek Park in D.C. The event has sold out 59 consecutive sessions since 2019.
