The Western and Southern Open (Cincinnati Open) is on schedule and organizers are picking up speed in their preparation for hosting one of the most important events of the ATP Tours.
The Cincinnati Open, which features an ATP Masters 1000 and a WTA Premier 5, will take place between 20 August-28 August at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is scheduled to be completed just before the US Open which will be held from 31 August at the same venue.
Meanwhile, as the preparations are going on among the Tennis players to be on court after a break of five months, new names have come up to join the hard-court event.
Three time Grand Slam Champion Andy Murray along with Tommy Paul, Tennys Sandgren and Frances Tiafoe have been awarded wild cards for the Western & Southern Open. Murray, who claimed the Cincinnati title in 2008 and 2011, is the sixth Western & Southern Open champion entered in this year’s tournament, joining Daniil Medvedev, Novak Djokovic, Grigor Dimitrov, Marin Cilic and Rafael Nadal in the ATP Masters 1000 field.
.@CincyTennis announces wild card recipients for 2020 Western & Southern Open
— ATP Tour (@atptour) August 3, 2020
