One of the biggest events in tennis, the Cincinnati Open, will be bigger and better than ever for its 2025 edition. The famed professional tennis tournament — established in 1899 — will expand to two full weeks and nearly double the field for its men’s and women’s singles draws.
Tennis fans are abuzz about the expansion, which directly coincides with a $260 million transformation of the tournament’s campus at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. The countless upgrades to the facility include increased fan amenities and entertainment options for the hundreds of thousands of fans who attend the event each year.
The Cincinnati Open is the oldest tennis tournament in the United States still played in its original city. A combined ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 event, it will feature some of the best tennis players in the world starting on August 5 and concluding with the Finals at Center Court on Monday, August 18.
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Both the men’s and women’s tournaments will expand from 56 players to 96 players, a monumental increase for one of the world’s premiere singles championships. As mentioned, the expansion will also increase the tournament duration from nine to 14 days. The change aligns the Ohio event with other distinguished pro tournaments like Indian Wells, Madrid, and Miami, in terms of player numbers and tournament length.
Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka — the world No. 1s for the men and women — will be looking to defend their 2024 Cincinnati Open titles (the first for each). Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić won the doubles Final last year, while Asia Muhammad and Erin Routliffe won the women’s doubles.
Interested in attending this elite professional tennis event? Here’s everything you need to know about the 2025 Cincinnati Open, including the full schedule and links to the best and most affordable tickets.
Cincinnati Open tennis tickets 2025
Tickets to every session of the 2025 Cincinnati Open tennis tournament are available on StubHub. There’s plenty of options to choose from, as it’s now a two-week tournament.
There are two types of tickets to choose from each day – single-session grandstand passes or day-session grounds passes. Over the first few days of competition, the qualifying rounds, tickets can go as cheap as $8. Once it gets to Session 10, you’ll start to see tickets going for closer to $50. Championship tickets are starting at $134 (grounds) and $350 (grandstand).
Ticket prices will likely fluctuate between now and the championship round, so be sure to click the link below for up-to-date pricing and ticket availability.
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Cincinnati Open tennis dates, schedule 2025
- Dates: August 5-18, 2025
- Venue: Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, OH
Qualifying rounds begin for the 2025 Cincinnati Open tournament on August 5 from the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, OH. The championship round will take place on Monday, August 18 from the facility’s Center Court.
Below is a complete look at the schedule of events for the famed pro tennis tournament.
| Date | Session | Time | Event |
| Tue, Aug. 5 | 1 | 10:30 a.m. | Qualifying matches |
| Wed, Aug. 6 | 2 | 11 a.m. | Qualifying matches |
| Thu, Aug. 7 | 3 | 11 a.m. | First round |
| 4 | 7 p.m. | First round | |
| Fri, Aug. 8 | 5 | 11 a.m. | First round |
| 6 | 7 p.m. | First round | |
| Sat, Aug. 9 | 7 | 11 a.m. | Second round |
| 8 | 7 p.m. | Second round | |
| Sun, Aug. 10 | 9 | 11 a.m. | Second round |
| 10 | 7 p.m. | Second round | |
| Mon, Aug. 11 | 11 | 11 a.m. | Third round |
| 12 | 7 p.m. | Third round | |
| Tue, Aug. 12 | 13 | 11 a.m. | Third round |
| 14 | 7 p.m. | Third round | |
| Wed, Aug. 13 | 15 | 11 a.m. | Round of 16 |
| 16 | 7 p.m. | Round of 16 | |
| Thu, Aug. 14 | 17 | 11 a.m. | WTA Round of 16, ATP Quarterfinals |
| 18 | 7 p.m. | WTA Round of 16, ATP Quarterfinals | |
| Fri, Aug. 15 | 19 | 11 a.m. | Quarterfinals |
| 20 | 7 p.m. | Quarterfinals | |
| Sat, Aug. 16 | 21 | 11 a.m. | Semifinals |
| 22 | 6 p.m. | Semifinals | |
| Sun, Aug. 17 | 23 | 1 p.m. | WTA Semifinals |
| Mon, Aug. 18 | 24 | 3 p.m. | Finals |
Cincinnati Open 2025 player fields
The world’s best will be competing at the 2025 Cincinnati Open, including last year’s winners and world No. 1 ranked Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner. Six other Cincinnati Open champions will join them in this year’s tournament, including three-time winner Novak Djokovic (2023, 2020, 2018), Alexander Zverev (2021), Daniil Medvedev (2019) and Grigor Dimitrov (2017) on the men’s side as well as Americans Coco Gauff (2023) and Madison Keys (2019) on the women’s.
The Cincinnati Open official site adds this about the 2025 field:
Every player who has won a title this season is in the field, led by Carlos Alcaraz who has already claimed five. The 2024 Cincinnati Open finalists Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula are tied for the most WTA titles this season with three apiece. Those champions also include the winners of this year’s other 1000-level tournaments, where Alcaraz, Sabalenka and 18-year-old Mirra Andreeva have won two apiece with the other titles being collected by Amanda Anisimova, Jasmine Paolini, Jack Draper, Jakub Mensik and Casper Ruud.
There will be 96 players in each singles field this year, up from 56 in 2024. The initial entrants include:
- Players representing 37 nations. The United States has the largest contingent in the field with 24 players, including six who are in the Top 10 of their tour’s rankings: No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 8 Madison Keys, No. 10 Emma Navarro, No. 5 Taylor Fritz and No. 10 Ben Shelton.
- Forty-nine players who have won a title this year are entered, and collectively they have won all 65 of this season’s tournaments.
- A total of 117 players who have won a title during their career, combining for 698 trophies. Novak Djokovic has the most with 100. Six other players have claimed 20 or more: Petra Kvitova 31; Alexander Zverev, 24; Iga Swiatek, 22; Carlos Alcaraz, 21; Aryna Sabalenka, 20; Daniil Medvedev, 20.
- Eighteen players with college tennis experience, including former University of Kentucky standout Gabriel Diallo, who won his first career ATP Tour title last month, and Mason native Peyton Stearns, who won NCAA singles and team titles for the University of Texas.
- Five teenagers, led by 18-year-olds Mirra Andreeva, who is ranked No. 7 on the WTA Tour, and Brazilian Joao Fonseca. They are joined by a trio of 19-year-olds: Maya Joint, Jakub Mensik and Learner Tien.
Former Cincinnati Open finalist and two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is one of eight players to enter using a protected ranking following an extended layoff. The others are Nick Kyrgios, Jenson Brooksby, Sebastian Ofner, Sorana Cirstea, Marketa Vondrousova, Zhu Lin and Anastajia Sevastova.
Twelve players will be added to each field through a two-round qualifying event that will take place Aug. 5-6. Additional players will be awarded wild cards.
For more information on the player fields for the 2025 Cincinnati Open, view the tournament’s official player lists here.
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