Cincinnati Open 2024 Thursday results for ATP, WTA

Posted by Admin August 15, 2024 Tennis

Mason, Ohio − The Cincinnati Open, formerly called the Western & Southern Open, continued to heat up on Thursday as some of the top-ranked ATP and WTA players took the court.

Thursday’s order of play featured 40 total matches spread out between two sessions and eight courts.

Friday’s schedule at the Cincinnati Open

A revised order of play is expected to be announced soon.

Thursday’s WTA/ATP tennis results from the Cincinnati Open:

At 8:50 p.m., play was suspended on all courts due to weather conditions. At 10:42 p.m., the Cincinnati Open announced on X, formerly Twitter, that the remainder of the night’s session had been cancelled.

World No. 5 Jasmine Paolini took down Anastasia Potapova in straight sets, 7-6 (2), 6-3, on Tuesday to move on to the second round. She was a quarterfinalist at last year’s tournament. Paolini is set to play No. 24 Mirra Andreeva in the third round.

World No. 28 Jack Draper came back to upset No. 11 Stefanos Tsitsipas 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 in round two. Draper, playing in his first Cincinnati Open, will play the winner of No. 8 Casper Ruud vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime in the round of 16. Ruud and Auger-Aliassime play tonight at 8:15.

Peyton Stearns and her partner Magda Linette are out of the Cincinnati open after losing a doubles match to Linda Noskova and Diana Shnaider 6-3, 7-6 (6) on Tuesday. Stearns lost to Paula Badosa in the first round of singles competition, so she’s officially done in her hometown tournament for this year.

World No. 16 Holger Rune survived a close second set to defeat Nuno Borges 6-3, 7-6 (8) to move on to the round of 16. Rune is set to play the winner of No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz vs. Gael Monfils. Alcaraz and Monfils play at 7 p.m.

Ben Shelton executed an impressive comeback to defeat Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the second round 6 (6)-7, 7-6 (7), 6-3. Etcheverry had Shelton against the ropes multiple times in the second set, at one point a serve away from moving on, but the American hung on to extend the match and eventually won. Shelton will play world No. 50 Fabian Marozsan in the round of 16 after Maroszan upset former Cincinnati Open champ Grigor Dimitrov 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 earlier today.

Seventeen-year-old Mirra Andreeva defeated Karolina Pliskova in straight sets 6-2, 6-3 to move on in the Cincinnati Open. Andreeva is a name fast on the rise this year, as she earned her first top ten win this year and made the semifinal of the French Open. She will play the winner of Anastasia Potapova and No. 5 Jasmine Paolini in the round of 16

Coco Gauff, the world’s No.2 player and the reigning Cincinnati Open champion, fell to world No. 34 Yulia Putintseva 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in the second round on Thursday.

More: Reigning Cincinnati Open champion Coco Gauff upset in Round of 32 by Yulia Putintseva

World No. 36 Paola Badosa upset No. 15 Anna Kalinskaya in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the third round. Badosa will face Yulia Putintseva, who beat No. 2 Coco Gauff earlier today.

It wasn’t your typical straight-set win, but World No. 49 Brandon Nakashima weathered the storm in a 7-5, 7-6 (3) victory over France’s Arthur Fils Thursday. Nakashima has now made the Round of 16 in back-to-back events after a run in last week’s Canadian Open.

Wimbledon doubles champion Taylor Townsend has now won four singles matches in the last five days after beating No. 12 Daria Kasatkina Thursday 6-1, 2-6, 6-1. Townsend is now one win away from back-to-back WTA 1000 quarterfinal runs after making a run in the National Bank Open in Toronto.

Townsend and partner Katerina Siniakova are the top-seeded doubles team in Mason. They will play during Thursday’s night session.

World No. 50 Fabian Marozsan came to Mason just 17-22 in singles this season, but with back-to-back wins he’s into the Cincinnati Open Round of 16 for the first time. On Thursday, the 24-year-old Hungarian defeated World No. 9 Grigor Dimitrov 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

After coming out on top of a 22-point first-set tiebreaker, World No. 17 Liudmila Samsonova finished off Poland’s Magda Linette in straights. This is the furthest Cincinnati Open run of her career after Round of 64 exits in 2021 and 2023.

In his first appearance since losing the Canadian Open final, World No. 6 Andrey Rublev handled Zhizhen Zhang in one hour, 6-4, 6-3. Rublev dished up 10 aces, played double fault-free and landed 69% of his first serves.

World No. 3 Aryna Sabalenka is looking to breakthrough in Cincinnati after reaching the semifinals three times (2018, 2022, 2023). The first step in a deeper Mason run came Thursday, when Sabalenka easily dispatched Italy’s Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-3, 6-4.

It was far from pretty in a match with 30 combined double faults, but Leylah Fernandez notched her first career win over a top 5 opponent with a 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4 victory over World No. 4 Elena Rybakina.

The 21-year-old Canadian survived 20 aces from Rybakina to advance to the Round of 16 for the first time in five Cincinnati Open appearances.

World No. 20 Diana Shnaider has not dropped a set in Mason so far after Thursday’s 7-5, 6-0 victory over American qualifier Ashlyn Krueger.

One day after becoming the lowest-ranked (No. 513) match winner in Cincinnati since 2015, Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta knocked down the door the Round of 16 with a swift, 105-minute 6-3, 6-3 victory over qualifier Max Purcell.

The 33-year-old Spaniard is competing in just his fourth event this season after missing over a year with a right elbow injury. He will face Alexander Zverev in the third round.

Making her Cincinnati debut, Lucky Loser Elina Avanesyan notched her sixth career top 50 victory win on Thursday, defeating World No. 11 Jelena Ostapenko 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1.

World No. 7 Hubert Hurkacz rallied to beat qualifier Yoshihito Nishioka after losing the first set 6-3, improving to 26-2 this season against players ranked outside the top 50.

World No. 4 Alexander Zverev, who won the Cincinnati Open three years ago, made quick work of Karen Khachanov, 6-3, 6-2, to advance to the Round of 16. Zverev now had a tour-best 50 wins this year.

World No. 31 Flavio Cobolli improved to 27-21 in singles this season after a 7-6 (4), 3-1, ret. victory over fellow Italian Luciano Darderi.

World No. 29 Elina Svitolina is through to the Cincinnati Open Round of 16 for the sixth time after defeating Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, 6-4, 6-1. Maneiro was a Lucky Loser, replacing two-time Cincinnati Open champion Victoria Azarenka, who withdrew from the tournament Wednesday.

How to watch the Cincinnati Open

Gates at the Lindner Family Tennis Center open at 9:30 a.m. for Thursday’s day session with the first matches scheduled for 11 a.m. Gates open at 5 p.m. for the night session and matches will begin at 7 p.m.

Matches can be watched live on the Tennis Channel while select matches throughout the tournament will be available to watch live on Amazon Prime, Roku, Samsung+, YouTube TV and Hulu+Live.