Coco Gauff, Novak Djokovic To Headline Cincinnati Open
Former champions Coco Gauff and Novak Djokovic will headline the Cincinnati Open which runs Aug. 5-18 tournament at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.
The world's No. 1 ranked players, Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner, will both come back to defend their titles. Both are in the Wimbledon semifinals this week.
They will be joined by six other Cincinnati Open champions in the field, led by three-time winner Djokovic (2023, 2020, 2018) as well as Gauff (2023), Madison Keys (2019), Alexander Zverev (2021), Daniil Medvedev (2019) and Grigor Dimitrov (2017).
Every player who has won a title this season is in the field, led by Carlos Alcaraz who has already claimed five and will play the Wimbledon semifinals on Friday against Taylor Fritz. The 2024 Cincinnati Open finalists Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula are tied for the most WTA titles this season with three apiece. Those champions also include the winners of this year's other 1000-level tournaments, where Alcaraz, Sabalenka and 18-year-old Mirra Andreeva have won two apiece with the other titles being collected by Amanda Anisimova, Jasmine Paolini, Jack Draper, Jakub Mensik and Casper Ruud.
'We look forward to welcoming the world's best tennis stars to compete for the Cincinnati Open title in August,' said Tournament Director Bob Moran. 'We have received a lot of excitement from the players about coming back to see our transformed campus and experiencing the new player amenities. Players and fans alike will enjoy the re-imagined venue and world-class atmosphere as the sport's best compete for the title.'
There will be 96 players in each singles field this year, up from 56 in 2024. The initial entrants include:Former Cincinnati Open finalist and two-time Wimbledon champion Kvitova is one of nine players to enter using a protected ranking following an extended layoff. The others are Nick Kyrgios, Jenson Brooksby, Sebastian Ofner, Bianca Andreescu, Sorana Cirstea, Marketa Vondrousova, Zhu Lin and Anastajia Sevastova.
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