| CINCINNATI, Ohio (July 28, 2021) – Six players who have won tour titles this season highlight the qualifying field entrants for the 2021 Western & Southern Open. The qualifying tournament occurs during Opening Weekend, presented by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Aug. 14-15. Fifteen players – seven women and eight men – will advance out of the two-round qualifying tournament into the 56-player main draw fields for the Western & Southern Open. Four players who have won WTA titles in 2021 highlight the women’s qualifying field, including Sara Sorribes Tormo (Guadalajara), Liudmila Samsonova (Berlin), 18-year-old Leylah Fernandez (Monterrey) and 19-year-old Maria Camila Osorio Serrano (Bogota). The field also includes Olympic quarterfinalist Camila Giorgi, who is fresh off two singles wins over opponents ranked in the top 15. Former US Open champion and 2017 WTA Comeback Player of the Year Sloane Stephens has also entered the qualifying field. Carlos Alcaraz and Sebastian Korda have claimed titles on the ATP tour in 2021, with Alcaraz, 18, winning in Umag and Korda conquering the championship in Parma. The 21-year-old Korda is the son of two-time Western & Southern Open quarterfinalist Petr Korda. The men’s qualifying field also features players who went deep in previous Western & Southern Opens, including Jan-Lennard Struff (2020 Quarterfinals), Richard Gasquet (2019 Semifinals) and Yoshihito Nishioka (2019 Quarterfinals). |
| ATP Tour Rank – Name (Age) Nat. 46 – Federico Delbonis (30) ARG 47 – Sebastian Korda (21) USA 48- Jan-Lennard Struff (31) GER 49 – Benoit Paire (32) FRA 50 – Laslo Djere (26) SRB 51 – Lloyd Harris (24) RSA 52- Miomir Kecmanovic (21)SRB 53- Richard Gasquet (35) FRA 54- Frances Tiafoe (23) USA 55- Carlos Alcaraz (18) ESP 56- Tommy Paul (24) USA 57- Yoshihito Nishioka (25) JPN 59- Dominik Koepfer (27) GER 61- Lorenzo Musetti (19) ITA 62- Vasek Pospisil (31) CAN 63- Jordan Thompson (27) AUS 64- Federico Coria (29) ARG 65- Marcos Giron (28) USA 66- Ilya Ivashka (27) BLR 67- Jaume Munar (24) ESP 76*- Guido Pella (31) ARG *Using injury protected ranking WTA Tour Rank – Name (Age) Nat. 45- Magda Linette (29) POL 47- Sara Sorribes Tormo (24) ESP 49- Viktorija Golubic (28) SUI 50- Donna Vekic (25) CRO 51- Ajla Tomljanovic (28) AUS 53- Shuai Zhang (32) CHN 54- Marie Bouzkova (23) CZE 55- Liudmila Samsonova (22) RUS 56- Rebecca Peterson (25) SWE 57- Katerina Siniakova (25) CZE 60- Kristina Mladenovic (28) FRA 61- Camila Giorgi (29) ITA 63- Alize Cornet (31) FRA 64- Tereza Martincova (26) CZE 65- Anastasija Sevastova (31) LAT 66- Heather Watson (29) GBR 67- Jil Teichmann (24) SUI 69- Sloane Stephens (28) USA 71- Caroline Garcia (27) FRA 72- Leylah Fernandez (18) CAN 73- Su-Wei Hsieh (35) TPE 76- Patricia Maria Tig (27) ROU 77- Maria Camila Osorio Serrano (19) COL 78- Irina-Camelia Begu (30) ROU 88*- Vera Zvonareva (36) RUS 97*- Andrea Petkovic (33) GER 303*- Elena Vesnina (34) RUS 456*- Yaroslava Shvedova (33) KAZ |
| An additional four players will be awarded wild cards for each qualifying field while an additional three players may join the ATP field through a special exemption. Dominic Thiem and Stan Wawrinka have both withdrawn from the ATP main draw entry list due to injuries. Alternates John Millman and Dusan Lajovic will now join the field. While the qualifying matches take place over opening weekend, many main draw players will also be on the grounds practicing. The main draw action begins Sunday for the ATP with a full slate of main draw play on top from Monday, Aug. 16. The full schedule is available here. All tickets, including full series, mini-plans, single session and hospitality packages, are now on sale and information about available tickets can be found here. The Western & Southern Open will be held Aug. 14-22, with first serve taking place at 10 a.m. on Aug. 14 for the qualifying tournament. The men’s and women’s singles finals will take place on Sunday, Aug. 22. The schedule is available here. The Western & Southern Open, an ATP Masters 1000 and a WTA 1000, is part of the US Open Series and is held at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio. |
