July Title Winners Berrettini, Giron Amongst Cincinnati Open Wild Playing cards
CINCINNATI (Aug. 5, 2024) – American Marcos Giron and Italy’s Matteo Berrettini mixed to win three titles in July and can hope to hold that momentum ahead with wild card entries into the Cincinnati Open fundamental draw. They are going to be joined in the primary draw by American Reilly Opelkaand Australia’s Max Purcell, whereas Cincinnati’s JJ Wolf has acquired a qualifying wild card together with fellow Individuals Mackenzie McDonald, Zachary Svajda and Brandon Holt.
The principle draw wild playing cards will be part of a males’s discipline headlined by World No. 1 Jannik Sinner, No. 2 and Cincinnati Open defending champion Novak Djokovic and final yr’s Cincinnati runner-up, No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz.
Giron has reached a profession excessive rating after successful his first profession title final month at Newport, R.I. He was additionally runner-up in Dallas earlier this season and in San Diego in 2022. The Californian was the 2014 NCAA singles champion whereas enjoying at UCLA and is representing Crew USA on the Paris Olympics.
Berrettini missed the opening two months of the season with an damage however has shortly develop into one of the crucial in-form gamers on tour, compiling a 21-5 file and successful three titles from 4 finals. He has gained his final 10 matches whereas claiming back-to-back trophies in Gstaad, Switzerland, and Kitzbuhel, Austria. The Italian joins Sinner (4) and Alcaraz (3) as the one gamers with three titles this season.
Purcell returns to Cincinnati after reaching the quarterfinals final yr as a qualifier. Final month in Eastbourne, Nice Britain, he reached his first profession ATP singles last, and final week was a quarterfinalist in Atlanta. In doubles, he has three titles in 2024 and earlier this month reached the Wimbledon last.
Opelka returned to the Tour after an almost two-year damage absence and promptly reached the semifinals in Newport earlier this month. The 26-year-old who was born in Michigan owns 4 profession titles and has been ranked as excessive as No. 17.
All 4 qualifying wild playing cards have been awarded to American gamers.
Wolf reached his first profession last in 2022 at Florence, Italy. Final season he superior to the semifinals in Dallas and Atlanta whereas additionally reaching a pair of quarterfinals. The 25-year-old Cincinnatian earned Massive Ten Participant of the Yr and All-American honors throughout his profession at Ohio State.
McDonald was named the ATP’s Comeback Participant of the Yr in 2021 after reaching his first profession ATP last following hamstring surgical procedure. The 29-year-old Californian made his ATP Tour debut as a qualifier on the Cincinnati Open in 2013. He was NCAA singles and doubles champion at UCLA in 2016.
Svajda gained the USTA 18s junior title in 2019 and 2021. The 21-year-old Californian has gained 4 Challenger titles in his profession, together with three throughout the 2023 season.
Holt has claimed one ITF title in 2024 after successful 5 final season. The 26-year-old Californian was a four-time All-American on the College of Southern California and was the 2019 Pac-12 Singles Participant of the Yr.
The girls’s discipline of preliminary entrants consists of World No. 1 Iga Swiatek and No. 2 Coco Gauff, the Cincinnati Open defending champion.
The 2024 event will get underway Saturday, Aug. 10, with Group Day, providing followers early entry to the venue to look at observe classes and take part in a variety of particular actions. The afternoon will probably be headlined by an exhibition starring Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, John Isner and Mardy Fish that includes appearances by Stefanie Graf and Lindsay Davenport.
Based in 1899, the Cincinnati Open will have a good time 125 years in 2024, and joins Madrid, Miami, Rome and Indian Wells, Calif., as the one occasions to concurrently host prime tier ATP Tour and Hologic WTA Tour 1000-level tournaments. Since turning into a single week, mixed occasion in 2011, the event has drawn a mean of practically 189,000 spectators every year.
The Cincinnati Open is proudly supported by its cornerstone companions: Western & Southern Monetary Group, Credit score One Financial institution, Nice American Insurance coverage Group, Procter & Gamble, Fifth Third and Kroger.
Tickets are on sale now at www.cincinnatiopen.com.
