| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@cincytennis.com Eleven Past Champions Headline Western & Southern Open Fields Two-time Champion Serena Williams Returns to Cincinnati CINCINNATI (July 19, 2022) –The world’s top men’s and women’s tennis players again highlight the initial singles entry list for the 2022 Western & Southern Open, including two-time winner and 23-time major champion Serena Williams. The fields include the world’s top 41 men and 39 women, led by No.1 players Daniil Medvedev and Iga Swiatek. Together, 11 former tournament winners and 19 Grand Slam major champions are on the entry list for the Western & Southern Open, Aug. 13-21. The tournament will welcome five former champions in the WTA field, featuring two-time champions Williams(2015, 2014) and Victoria Azarenka (2020, 2013), as well as winners Madison Keys (2019), Garbiñe Muguruza (2017) and Karolina Pliskova (2016). In addition toMedvedev who won in2019, five other former men’s champions on the entry list in 2022 include Alexander Zverev (2021), Grigor Dimitrov (2017), Marin Cilic (2016) and Rafael Nadal (2013), as well as two-time champion Novak Djokovic (2020, 2018). The women’s field is also highlighted by 13 champions of Grand Slam majors. In addition to Williams, Swiatek, Azarenka and Muguruza, major champions include Naomi Osaka, Emma Raducanu, Simona Halep, Elena Rybakina, Bianca Andreescu, Jelena Ostapenko, Barbora Krejcikova, Angelique Kerber and Petra Kvitova. Seven entrants have held WTA’s No. 1 ranking, with former winners Azarenka, Muguruza, Pliskova and Williams being joined by three-time Cincinnati finalist Halep, Kerber and current No. 1 Swiatek. The six men’s Grand Slam major champions in the field include Medvedev, Djokovic, Nadal, Stan Wawrinka, Dominic Thiem and Cilic. In addition to current No. 1 Medvedev, Djokovic and Nadal are former No. 1 players. Joining 19-year-old Raducanu in the youth charge are teens Coco Gauff and Leylah Fernandez in the women’s draw, and Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune in the men’s draw. Boris Becker won the tournament as a 17-year-old, but any of the three teen women would become the youngest winner of the women’s title in the professional era of the event (since 1969). The initial entrants to both fields are as follows: |
| ATP Tour Rank – Name – Age 1. Daniil Medvedev, 26 2. Alexander Zverev, 25 3. Rafael Nadal, 36 4. Stefanos Tsitsipas, 23 5. Casper Ruud, 23 6. Carlos Alcaraz, 19 7. Novak Djokovic, 35 8. Andrey Rublev, 24 9. Felix Auger-Aliassime, 21 10. Jannik Sinner, 20 11. Cameron Norrie, 26 12. Hubert Hurkacz, 25 13. Taylor Fritz, 24 14. Diego Schwartzman, 29 15. Matteo Berrettini, 26 16. Marin Cilic, 33 17. Reilly Opelka, 24 18. Grigor Dimitrov, 31 19. Roberto Bautista Agut, 34 20. Gael Monfils, 35 21. Denis Shapovalov, 23 22. John Isner, 37 23. Pablo Carreno Busta, 31 24. Alex de Minaur, 23 25. Botic van de Zandschulp, 26 26. Karen Khachanov, 26 27. Holger Rune, 19 28. Nikoloz Basilashvili, 30 29. Frances Tiafoe, 24 30. Francisco Cerundolo, 23 31. Miomir Kecmanovic, 22 32. Sebastian Baez, 21 33. Maxime Cressy, 25 34. Tommy Paul, 25 35. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, 23 36. Daniel Evans, 32 37. Aslan Karatsev, 28 38. Oscar Otte, 29 39. Alexander Bublik, 25 40. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, 34 41. Jenson Brooksby, 21 183*Borna Coric, 25 274*Dominic Thiem, 28 290*Stan Wawrinka, 37 *Using injury protected ranking WTA Tour Rank – Name – Age 1.Iga Swiatek, 21 2.Anett Kontaveit, 26 3.Maria Sakkari, 26 4.Paula Badosa, 24 5.Ons Jabeur, 27 6.Aryna Sabalenka, 24 7.Jessica Pegula, 28 8.Danielle Collins, 28 9.Garbine Muguruza, 28 10.Emma Raducanu, 19 11.Coco Gauff, 18 12.Daria Kasatkina, 25 13.Belinda Benic, 25 14.Leylah Fernandez, 19 15.Karolina Pliskova, 30 16. Simona Halep, 30 17.Jelena Ostapenko, 25 18.Veronika Kudermetova, 25 19.Barbora Krejcikova, 26 20.Victoria Azarenka, 32 21.Jil Teichmann, 25 22.Amanda Anisimova, 20 23.Elena Rybakina, 23 24.Martina Trevisan, 28 25.Petra Kvitova, 32 26.Beatriz Haddad Maia, 26 27.Madison Keys, 27 28.Ekaterina Alexandrova, 27 29.Camila Giorgi, 30 30.Elise Mertens, 26 31.Angelique Kerber, 34 32.Alison Riske-Amritraj, 32 33.Sorana Cirstea, 32 34.Kaia Kanepi, 37 35.Aliaksandra Sasnovich, 28 36.Shuai Zhang, 33 37.Alize Cornet, 32 38.Naomi Osaka, 24 39.Yulia Putintseva, 27 52*Bianca Andreescu, 22 164*Karolina Muchova, 25 —*Serena Williams, 40 The top eight seeds in both draws will receive first round byes. Eight women and seven men will be added to the fields through a two-round qualifying tournament that will be held Aug. 13-14. Four men and five women will be awarded wild card entries into the main draw singles fields. One additional player may be added into each draw as a special exempt. Tournament action will take place Aug. 13-21, where first serve will take place at 10 a.m. on Aug. 13 for the qualifying tournament. The men’s and women’s singles finals will take place on Sunday, Aug. 21. The schedule is available here. All individual daily tickets for all sessions are on sale now. Multi-day ticket packages are sold out. Information about available tickets can be found at wsopen.com/tickets. 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. |
