Video: Everything you need to know about the Cincinnati Open 2024
The Cincinnati Open tennis tournament returns to Mason Aug. 11-19. Here’s everything to know.
MASON, Ohio − The Cincinnati Open kicked off Sunday from the Lindner Family Tennis Center. This year’s field includes seven former champions of the event and over 100 players who participated in the Paris Olympics, though many won’t take the court until the main draw begins.
However, the Cincinnati Open is an ATP Masters 1000 and WTA Tour 1000 level event, meaning the qualifying rounds that began on Sunday morning still featured some of the best players in professional tennis. World No. 94 Borna Coric Former Cincinnati Open champion Borna Coric fell to Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego to open qualifying play Sunday in a three-set clash.
Former World No. 1 Naomi Osaka is back in Cincinnati and, after a brief travel issue, kicked off her qualifying play with a three-set victory as a wild card over Anna Blinkova.
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There will be eight qualifiers from both the men’s and women’s field who win two matches over the next two days to advance to the main singles draw. Qualifying rounds will wrap up and the men’s main draw will begin during the evening session on Monday. The women’s main draw begins Tuesday.
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ATP
WC Brandon Holt d. No. 4 Dusan Lajovic 2-6, 6-3, 7-5; No. 11 Corentin Moutet d. Daniel Altmaier 6-1, 6-4; Marton Fucsovics d. No. 7 Alexander Shevchenko 6-2, 6-4; No. 3 Yoshihito Nishioka d. Taro Daniel 6-3, 6-1; WC Zachary Svajda d. Facundo Diaz Acosta 2-6, 6-4, 6-3; No. 5 Alex Michelsen d. Zizou Bergs 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; WC Mackenzie McDonald d. No. 12 Sumit Nagal 6-2, 6-4; Alt. Arthur Cazaux d. No. 13 Roberto Bautista Agut 6-7, 6-3, 7-5; No. 6 Lorenzo Sonego d. Borna Coric 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; No. 14 Rinky Hijikata d. Jaimee Floyd Angele 6-1, 6-1; Jaume Munar d. No. 8 Hugo Gaston 7-6, 6-2; Aleksander Kovacevic d. No. 2 Pedro Martinez 4-6, 6-2, 6-4; Aleksander Vukic d. No. 10 Jakub Mensik 7-6, 6-2; No. 1 Nuno Borges d. WC J.J. Wolf 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
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WTA
No. 1 Magdalena Frech d. Hailey Baptiste 6-2, 2-1 (ret); No. 14 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro d. Lesia Tsurenko 6-2, 6-2; Aliaksandra Sasnovich d. No. 2 Xiyu Wang 6-3, 1-6, 6-1; Varvara Gracheva d. Bernarda Pera 6-3, 6-1; No. 3 Lulu Sun d. Shelby Rogers 6-3, 6-0; No. 15 Harriet Dart d. Kamilla Rakhimova 6-4, 2-6, 6-0; Elina Avanesyan d. WC Lauren Davis 6-3, 6-1; No. 9 Lucia Bronzetti d. WC Marina Stakusic 6-3, 6-7, 6-2; No. 16 Martina Trevisan d. Arina Rodionova 6-1, 4-6, 7-6; Ashlyn Krueger d. No. 8 Moyuka Uchijima 6-2, 6-0; WC Naomi Osaka d. No. 11 Anna Blinkova 6-2, 2-6, 6-2; Erika Andreeva d. No. 7 Clara Tauson 6-2, 6-2; No. 13 Yafan Wang d. Sara Errani 6-3, 6-0; WC Robin Montgomery d. No. 6 Cristina Bucsa 4-6, 6-4, 6-0; No. 4 Katie Volynets d. Tamara Korpatsch 6-2, 7-5; No. 12 Taylor Townsend d. Chloe Paquet 6-3, 6-4.
ATP
11 a.m. (Grandstand): WC Brandon Holt (USA) vs. WC Zachary Svajda (USA)
11 a.m. (Court 4): Yoshihito Nishioka (Japan) vs. Alt. Arthur Cazaux (France)
11 a.m. (Court 7): Marton Fucsovics (Hungary) vs. Corentin Moutet (France)
Not before 12:30 p.m. (Grandstand): Alex Michelsen (USA) vs. WC Mackenzie McDonald (USA)
Not before 12:30 p.m. (Stadium 3): Nuno Borges (Portugal) vs. Aleksander Vukic (Australia)
Not before 12:30 p.m. (Court 4): Lorenzo Sonego (Italy) vs. Jaume Munar (Spain)
Not before 12:30 p.m. (Court 7): Aleksander Kovacevic (USA) vs. Rinky Hijikata (Australia)
WTA
11 a.m. (Center Court): Elina Avanesyan (Armenia) vs. Harriet Dart (Great Britain)
11 a.m. (Stadium 3): Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Belarus) vs. Varvara Gracheva (France)
11 a.m. (Court 10): Magdalena Frech (Poland) vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Spain)
12:30 p.m. (Center Court): Ashlyn Krueger (USA) vs. Naomi Osaka (Japan)
12:30 p.m. (Court 10): Lulu Sun (New Zealand) vs. Lucia Bronzetti (Italy)
Not before 2:30 p.m. (Grandstand): Katie Volynets (USA) vs. Taylor Townsend (USA)
Not before 2:30 p.m. (Court 10): Robin Montgomery (USA) vs. Martina Trevisan (Italy)
Not before 2:30 p.m. (Court 4): Erika Andreeva (Russia) vs. Yafan Wang (China)
Not before 2 p.m. (Court 7): Sander Gille (Belgium)/Jordan Vliegen (Belgium) vs. Arthur Fils (France)/Nicolas Jarry (Chile)
Not before 3 p.m. (Center Court): Flavio Cobolli (Italy) vs. No. 10 Tommy Paul (USA)
Not before 4 p.m. (Grandstand): Jiri Lehecka (Czechia)/Casper Rudd (Norway) vs. Wesley Koolhof (Netherlands)/Nikola Mektic (Croatia)
Not before 4 p.m. (Court 7): Lloyd Glasspool (Great Britain)/Ugo Humbert (France) vs. No. 6 Santiago Gonzalez (Mexico)/Edouard Roger-Vasselin (France)
Not before 6 p.m. (Center Court): Robert Cash (USA)/JJ Tracy (USA) vs. No. 8 Max Purcell (Australia)/Jordan Thompson (Australia)
Followed by (Center Court): Karen Khachanov (Russia) vs. Francisco Cerundolo (Argentina)
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