Cincinnati Open

The Cincinnati Open is an ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 tennis tournament held in Mason, Ohio on hard courts, played in August. Both tours play here in the same fortnight on the same courts, so a single ticket covers men's and women's matches. Each main singles draw holds 96 players.

Cincinnati is the last significant test before the US Open and the courts are among the quicker ones of the summer, which means it rewards players who are already sharp rather than those still building form. A week here is a poor place to look for matches if you are not ready.

August heat and humidity in Ohio are part of the tournament rather than a background detail. Matches scheduled at midday and matches under lights are close to different sports, and the draw sheet tells you less about a result than the time on the order of play does.

It sits in the week directly before the US Open main draw, so the deepest runs here come at a cost: a player who reaches the final arrives in New York with almost no recovery before a best-of-five fortnight.

Cincinnati has been played since 1899 and is the oldest tournament in the United States still held in the city where it started. It moved to the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason in 1979, and in 2025 the singles fields grew from fifty-six players to ninety-six across two weeks.

Entry lists, the order of play and ticketing are on the official Cincinnati Open site.

Qualifying is not counted in the dates above. It is played the week before, and it is the reason two calendars can disagree by seven days about when this tournament starts.

The Cincinnati Open main draw holds 96 players in single elimination, 7 rounds to the title and 95 matches in all, with the top 32 seeds held out of the first round so their route is one match shorter. The guides explain what the numbers beside the names mean and who gets a bye in a draw of 96.

The Cincinnati Open draw with every score is on its own page and updates while the tournament is being played.

Arthur Fils won the men's title in 2026, beating Frances Tiafoe in the final by 6-3, 1-6, 6-0. That put them at number 11 in the world as this page was last built.

Cori Gauff won the women's title in 2026, beating Jessica Pegula in the final by 6-2, 6-4. World number 4 on the list current when this page was built.

7 of the 8 quarter-finalists in the men's draw were seeded, which is close to what the seedings predicted. Arthur Fils took the Cincinnati Open title from the number 21 seeding, and the final went 3 sets.

7 of the 8 quarter-finalists in the women's draw were seeded, which is close to what the seedings predicted. Cori Gauff took the Cincinnati Open title from the number 4 seeding, and the final went 2 sets.

Rights to the Cincinnati Open are sold country by country, so the answer depends entirely on where you are sitting. Nothing here is free to air in the major markets, which is the usual position below Grand Slam level.

The Cincinnati Open is played in Mason, Ohio, and matches follow the local schedule, so check the order of play against your own time zone before committing an evening to it.

Cincinnati plays through August heat, so the schedule loads the main matches into the evening session when the courts have cooled. That evening slot lands in the middle of the European night. The site has a large number of outdoor courts and only the main two are consistently covered, which matters here because the draw is full of top players in the early rounds preparing for the US Open.

Which services carry which part of the season is laid out in the guide.