The entry list of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, which is part of the Emirates Airline Us Open Series, has been revealed.
The Master 1000 tournament event will be held a week after the Olympic games between the 15th to the 21st of August during the American hard court season and is located in Mason (Ohio), near to Cincinnati. Seven of the last eleven editions were won by Roger Federer, while Novak Djokovic has lost all the five of his finals played, including last year. The usually quick surface in Cincinnati seems to suit Federer’s game, who currently has a win-loss record of 42-8 in the tournament.
Every player currently ranked inside the top-50 has entered the 2016 edition, while Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic and France’s Julien Benneteau will use their protected ranking to get in the main draw. The youngest player in the field is German Alexander Zverev at the age of aged 19, whilst the oldest is 37-year-old Croatian Ivo Karlovic. With the cut-off at 43, the first ten alternates currently are Vasek Pospisil, Andreas Seppi, Pablo Carreno-Busta, Nicolas Almagro, Juan Monaco, Martin Klizan, Paolo Lorenzi, Borna Coric, Nicolas Mahut and Guido Pella; all of whom will need some withdrawals to avoid playing qualifying. Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro is currently not on the entry list and will not play unless he receives a wild card.
ATP CINCINNATI (OH,USA) acceptance list:
1.Novak Djokovic(SRB) 26.Jack Sock(USA)
2.Andy Murray(GBR) 27.Viktor Troicki(SRB)
3.Roger Federer(SUI) 28.Alexander Zverev(GER)
4.Rafael Nadal(ESP) 29.Steve Johnson(USA)
5.Stan Wawrinka(SUI) 30.Lucas Pouille(FRA)
6.Kei Nishikori(JPN) 31.Joao Sousa(POR)
7.Milos Raonic(CAN) 32.Ivo Karlovic(CRO)
8.Dominic Thiem(AUT) 33.Alexander Dolgopolov(UKR)
9.Tomas Berdych(CZE) 34.Jeremy Chardy(FRA)
10.Richard Gasquet(FRA) 35.Fabio Fognini(ITA)
11.David Goffin(BEL) 36.Albert Ramos-Vinolas(ESP)
12.Jo-Wilfried Tsonga(FRA) 37.Grigor Dimitrov(BUL)
13.Marin Cilic(CRO) 38.Federico Delbonis(ARG)
14.David Ferrer(ESP) 39.Gilles Muller(LUX)
15.Roberto Bautista-Agut(ESP) 40.Julien Benneteau(FRA) PR
16.Gael Monfils(FRA) 41.Janko Tipsarevic(SRB) PR
17.John Isner(USA) 42.Marcos Baghdatis(CYP)
18.Nick Kyrgios(AUS) 43.Sam Querrey(USA)
19.Bernard Tomic(AUS) 44.Andrey Kuznetsov(RUS)
20.Gilles Simon(FRA) 45.Marcel Granollers(ESP)
21.Feliciano Lopez(ESP) 46.Special Exempt
22.Philipp Kohlschreiber(GER) 47.Wild Card
23.Benoit Paire(FRA) 48.Wild Card
24.Pablo Cuevas(URU) 49.Wild Card
25.Kevin Anderson(RSA) 50.Wild Card
Qualifying draw for the Toronto Open
Elsewhere, the qualifying entry list of Toronto Master 1000 has also been announced. The Rogers Cup will start on the 25th of July. Only fourteen of the first sixty alternates to main draw entered the qualifying draw, making the cutoff quite low at 147. The highest ranked player is Croatian Borna Coric, while some other big names are those of Frenchmen Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert, Croatian Ivan Dodig and Americans Denis Kudla and Rajeev Ram. First alternates, who are likely to get in, include Ryan Harrison, Mischa Zverev, Alejandro Gonzalez, James Duckworth and Marius Copil.
ATP TORONTO(CAN) qualifying draw acceptance list:
1.Borna Coric(CRO)
2.Nicolas Mahut(FRA)
3.Ricardas Berankis(LTU)
4.Dudi Sela(ISR)
5.Denis Kudla(USA)
6.John Millman(AUS)
7.Kyle Edmund(GBR)
8.Donald Young(USA)
9.Rajeev Ram(USA)
10.Ivan Dodig(CRO)
11.Yen-Hsun Lu(TPE)
12.Stephane Robert(FRA)
13.Pierre-Hugues Herbert(FRA)
14.Yuichi Sugita(JPN)
