Here is every part it’s worthwhile to know concerning the Cincinnati Open, together with the draw, who’s taking part in and the schedule. You possibly can watch all of the drama unfold dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis.
What Brits are in motion? Why no Emma Raducanu?
Emma Raducanu didn’t obtain a wild card for the event in Cincinnati, however British No 1s Katie Boulter and Jack Draper will function within the girls’s and males’s singles respectively.
Draper crashed out of the Canadian Open in Montreal after a straight-sets defeat to Jordan Thompson within the first spherical
Draper will face Spanish qualifier Jaume Munar within the first spherical, forward of a possible second-round conflict with ninth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, whereas Boulter is up in opposition to Poland’s Magda Linette.
Cameron Norrie was additionally on account of take part within the males’s draw however has pulled out of a 3rd consecutive event on account of damage which casts his participation on the US Open unsure. Norrie has not performed for the reason that Swedish Open in mid-July, withdrawing from the Paris Olympics and Canadian Open.
The Cincinnati Open serves up as tune-up for the final Grand Slam of the yr at Flushing Meadows, which begins on August 26 and can also be dwell on Sky Sports activities.
Emma Raducanu missed out on a semi-final spot within the Citi Open after shedding to Paula Badosa in a mammoth three-set match that lasted slightly below three hours
Raducanu, the US Open champion in 2021, reached the quarter-finals of the Mubadala Citi Open in Washington earlier this month earlier than shedding to eventual champion Paolo Badosa.
That’s now more likely to be the 21-year-old’s final aggressive motion earlier than heading to New York.
Harriet Dart has additionally added to the British curiosity on the event after she got here by way of 6-4 6-1 in her qualifying closing in opposition to Elina Avanesyan.
Who’s in first-round motion on Tuesday?
British No 1 Boulter begins her event on Tuesday, taking up Linette of Poland from 10pm UK time, with Dart‘s opening match in opposition to Putintseva following instantly after its conclusion – each dwell on Sky Sports activities Tennis.
Watch highlights of the match between Katie Boulter and Aryna Sabalenka on the Canadian Open.
Wimbledon semi-finalist and Olympic silver-medallist Donna Vekic, the Croatian seeded sixteenth within the girls’s draw, is in motion in opposition to the USA’s Ashlyn Krueger from 8pm, whereas three-time Grand Slam semi-finalist Elina Svitolina of the Ukraine faces China’s Yafan Wang from midnight.
Within the males’s draw, one other Wimbledon semi-finalists, Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti, seeded 14th, opens up in opposition to Chile’s Nicolas Jarry from roughly 8pm, whiled US eleventh seed Taylor Fritz takes on fellow American Brandon Nakashima from midnight.
Additional American hopefuls Blake Shelton and Frances Tiafoe, who met on the quarter-final stage of final yr’s US Open, additionally kick off their campaigns in Cincinnati on Tuesday.
Shelton, seeded tenth, faces countryman Reilly Opelka from roughly 8pm, whereas Tiafoe has a difficult opener in opposition to Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina from roughly 6pm.
Defending champion Djokovic withdraws
Defending Cincinnati Open champion Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the event following on from finishing the golden slam together with his Olympic gold medal at Paris 2024.
Novak Djokovic celebrates after successful a primary Olympic gold medal on the Paris Video games
The file 24-time Grand Slam champion beat Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 7-6 within the males’s singles closing.
It was additionally Alcaraz who Djokovic beat to take the Cincinnati title final yr, the Serbian rising victorious 5-7 7-6 7-6 from an epic closing which lasted for 3 hours and 49 minutes.
Djokovic gained the Cincinnati Open final yr, beating Carlos Alcaraz in an epic closing
Djokovic is the defending champion of the US Open, having claimed his fourth title at Flushing Meadows and his most up-to-date slam success there final yr.
Who’re the large names that includes in Cincinnati?
Alcaraz makes his return to exhausting courts following his Olympic silver medal on the Parisian Clay of Roland Garros.
The reigning French Open and Wimbledon champion is seeded second and can subsequently enter the boys’s singles within the second spherical the place he’ll face both Gael Monfils or Alexei Popyrin.
Ought to he win that match, Alcaraz might find yourself going through Holger Rune within the third spherical, with the Danish fifteenth seed beginning in opposition to former Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini in a blockbuster first-round match.
Alcaraz might then doubtlessly play Draper within the quarter-final, with the Brit having obtained the higher of him 7-6 6-3 of their final assembly at Queen’s Membership earlier this summer time.
Highlights of Jannik Sinner’s shock defeat to Andrey Rublev within the quarter-final of the Canadian Open
Males’s world No 1 Jannik Sinner performs Tallon Griekspoor or a qualifier in his opening second-round match, with German third seed Alexander Zverev a possible semi-final opponent for the Italian.
Within the girls’s draw, Coco Gauff appears to be like to defend her title which helped tee up her first Grand Slam triumph on the US Open just a few weeks later.
Coco Gauff gained the Cincinnati Open final yr on her manner in the direction of a primary Grand Slam success on the US Open
In the meantime, world No 1 Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina and Jasmine Paolini will all be aiming to achieve their maiden closing in Cincy.
Cincinnati Open schedule
- Tuesday, August 13 – First spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities+ from 4pm (evening session midnight)
- Wednesday, August 14 – Second spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities+ from 4pm (evening session at midnight)
- Thursday, August 15 – Second and third spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities+ from 4pm (evening session at midnight)
- Friday, August 16 – Third spherical, dwell on Sky Sports activities+ from 4pm (evening session at midnight)
- Saturday, August 17 – Quarter-finals, dwell on Sky Sports activities+ from 4pm (evening session at midnight)
- Sunday, August 18 – Semi-finals, dwell on Sky Sports activities+ from 4pm (evening session at 11pm)
- Monday, August 19 – Males’s and Girls’s singles finals, dwell on Sky Sports activities+ from 6pm
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