A trio of American Grand Slam champions are becoming a member of the Cincinnati subject.
Sloane Stephens, Sofia Kenin and Venus Williams have been awarded main-draw wild playing cards for the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.
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The trio be part of Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios as wild-card recipients.
Along with the WTA 1000 girls’s event, the Western & Southern Open participant fields characteristic the world’s top-ranked 41 males and 39 girls, 11 previous champions and 19 Grand Slam main winners together with Serena Williams and 2021 U.S. Open champions Daniil Medvedev and Emma Raducanu.
Stephens, who reached the Cincinnati semifinals in 2017, is aiming to snap a three-match dropping streak on the event, together with successive losses to Caroline Garcia in 2020 and 2021.
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The event’s first serve will happen at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August thirteenth for the qualifying rounds. The lads’s and ladies’s singles finals might be performed on Sunday, August twenty first.
Reigning girls’s champion Ash Barty retired and reigning males’s champion Alexander Zverev is recovering from torn ligaments in his foot.
Particular person each day tickets for all periods are on sale now. Multi-day ticket packages are offered out. Details about obtainable tickets may be discovered at wsopen.com/tickets.
The Western & Southern Open, an ATP Masters 1000 and a WTA 1000 event, is a part of the US Open Collection and is held on the Lindner Household Tennis Middle in Mason, Ohio.
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