CINCINNATI (July 26, 2023) – The Western & Southern Open participant subject gained three extra Grand Slam champions after awarding essential draw wild playing cards to 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu, 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephensand three-time Main winner Stan Wawrinka. The wild card recipients be part of the participant subject set to look in Mason this August.
With these additions, the collective variety of Grand Slam titles within the males’s and girls’s fields will increase to 17, for a complete of 49 Majors gained by the Western & Southern Open opponents. Wawrinka is the seventh participant on this 12 months’s event subject to have gained a number of Main titles, joined by Novak Djokovic (23), Iga Swiatek (4), Andy Murray (3), Victoria Azarenka (2), Petra Kvitova (2) and Carlos Alcaraz (2). These gamers will all participate within the Western & Southern Open Aug. 12-20 on the Lindner Household Tennis Heart in Mason.
Andreescu gained the 2019 US Open defeating Serena Williams within the closing. In the identical 12 months, she reached a career-high rating of No. 4 and was named the WTA Newcomer of the 12 months. Regardless of lacking the 2020 season on account of a knee harm, she reached the ultimate of Miami in 2021. In 2022 she recorded two wins over high 10 gamers and this 12 months, Andreescu defeated two Grand Slam champions in Miami and reached the third spherical at each the French Open and Wimbledon. This 12 months will mark her second time competing in Cincinnati. She is at the moment ranked No. 44.
The 2023 Western & Southern Open will likely be Stephens’ twelfth look in Cincinnati, tying the file for lively gamers. In 2017, Stephens returned from harm ranked No. 151 and was awarded a wild card into the Western & Southern Open the place she defeated 4 gamers within the high 40 to achieve the semifinals earlier than successful the US Open. Previously 12 months she has defeated three Western & Southern Open winners – defending champion Carolina Garcia in Guadalajara final October, 2016 champion Karolina Pliskova en path to the fourth spherical of the French Open, and 2006 champion Vera Zvonareva on the best way to the semifinals in Morocco. Having ranked as excessive as No. 3 on the earth, she is at the moment No. 40.
Wawrinka, winner of the 2014 Australian Open, 2015 French Open and 2016 US Open, is one in every of solely 12 males who gained a Grand Slam title between 2004 and 2023 and is one in every of solely 5 to win three or extra Main titles in that timeframe. Wawrinka was out with a left foot harm for almost a 12 months in 2021, inflicting him to fall out of the highest 300 within the rankings, however since has labored his method again to world No. 72. This 12 months he has reached two quarterfinals and the fourth spherical at Indian Wells with a victory over world No. 8 Holger Rune. In Cincinnati, he was a semifinalist in 2012 and is a three-time quarterfinalist. At 38 years outdated, Wawrinka is the oldest participant within the males’s subject.
Andreescu, Stephens and Wawrinka be part of beforehand introduced wild playing cards JJ Wolf, Caroline Wozniacki and Peyton Stearns. Two extra males’s wild playing cards and one girls’s will likely be awarded.
The Western & Southern Open is one in every of solely 5 occasions globally to host an ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 event in the identical week on the similar venue, becoming a member of Madrid, Miami, Rome and Indian Wells, California. The preliminary entry record for the 2023 occasion, which was launched July 18, consists of the world’s high 41 males and 39 girls, eight present or former world No. 1-ranked gamers and 11 previous event champions.
The 2022 singles championships have been gained by Caroline Garcia and Borna Coricwhile the doubles titles have been claimed by Lyudmyla Kichenok & Jelena Ostapenko and Rajeev Ram & Joe Salisbury.
Since turning into a single-week event in 2011, the Western & Southern Open has attracted almost 2 million spectators, together with ticket patrons who’ve traveled to Cincinnati from all 50 states and 40 totally different international locations. Worldwide broadcast agreements ship protection to greater than 126 million viewers in over 192 world markets.
Tickets for single classes to the 2023 event are on sale now at wsopen.comand Ticketmaster.com. All multi-day ticket packages for this 12 months’s event bought out by mid-June.
