2020 Western & Southern Open

The 2020 Western & Southern Open was a men's and women's tennis tournament being played on outdoor hard courts from August 22–29, 2020. It was the first Masters 1000 tournament on the 2020 ATP Tour and the second WTA Premier 5 tournament on the 2020 WTA Tour.[1][2] This was the first ATP tournament since the Tour was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 Western & Southern Open
DateAugust 22–29
Edition119th (men) / 92nd (women)
CategoryATP Tour Masters 1000 (men)
WTA Premier 5 (women)
SurfaceHard
LocationNew York City, United States
VenueUSTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
Champions
Men's singles
Serbia Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Belarus Victoria Azarenka
Men's doubles
Spain Pablo Carreño Busta / Australia Alex de Minaur
Women's doubles
Czech Republic Květa Peschke / Netherlands Demi Schuurs
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The 2020 tournament was the 119th men's edition and the 92nd women's edition of the Cincinnati Open. This event normally took place in Cincinnati, Ohio, but was held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, United States, in order to reduce unnecessary player travel by centralizing the tournament and the subsequent US Open in the same venue.[3]

Prize money

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Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Q2 Q1
Men's singles $285,000 $185,015 $124,000 $98,500 $73,250 $43,450 $24,560 $12,595 $6,655
Women's singles $285,000 $152,999 $75,000 $43,000 $22,000 $14,200 $11,000 $3,575 $2,265
Men's doubles $80,000 $68,000 $55,040 $41,000 $24,320 $12,910
Women's doubles $85,000 $45,000 $25,000 $15,000 $9,860 $4,500

ATP singles main-draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Rank1 Seed
  SRB Novak Djokovic 1 1
  AUT Dominic Thiem 3 2
  RUS Daniil Medvedev 5 3
  GRE Stefanos Tsitsipas 6 4
  GER Alexander Zverev 7 5
  ITA Matteo Berrettini 8 6
  BEL David Goffin 10 7
  ESP Roberto Bautista Agut 12 8
  ARG Diego Schwartzman 13 9
  RUS Andrey Rublev 14 10
  RUS Karen Khachanov 15 11
  CAN Denis Shapovalov 16 12
  CHI Cristian Garín 18 13
  BUL Grigor Dimitrov 19 14
  CAN Félix Auger-Aliassime 20 15
  USA John Isner 21 16

1 Rankings are as of March 16, 2020.

Other entrants

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The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:

The following player used a protected ranking into the main singles draw:

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

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Before the tournament

ATP doubles main-draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
  COL Juan Sebastián Cabal   COL Robert Farah 3 1
  POL Łukasz Kubot   BRA Marcelo Melo 10 2
  USA Rajeev Ram   GBR Joe Salisbury 16 3
  CRO Ivan Dodig   SVK Filip Polášek 18 4
  ESP Marcel Granollers   ARG Horacio Zeballos 20 5
  GER Kevin Krawietz   GER Andreas Mies 27 6
  RSA Raven Klaasen   AUT Oliver Marach 35 7
  NED Wesley Koolhof   CRO Nikola Mektić 39 8

1 Rankings are as of August 10, 2020

Other entrants

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The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

WTA singles main-draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Rank1 Seed
  CZE Karolína Plíšková 3 1
  USA Sofia Kenin 4 2
  USA Serena Williams 9 3
  JPN Naomi Osaka 10 4
  BLR Aryna Sabalenka 11 5
  CZE Petra Kvitová 12 6
  USA Madison Keys 13 7
  GBR Johanna Konta 14 8
  KAZ Elena Rybakina 17 9
  CZE Markéta Vondroušová 18 10
  USA Alison Riske 19 11
  EST Anett Kontaveit 20 12
  GRE Maria Sakkari 21 13
  BEL Elise Mertens 22 14
  CRO Donna Vekić 24 15
  UKR Dayana Yastremska 25 16

1 Rankings are as of August 17, 2020.

Other entrants

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The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawals

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Before the tournament

WTA doubles main-draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
  BEL Elise Mertens   BLR Aryna Sabalenka 11 1
  USA Nicole Melichar   CHN Xu Yifan 29 2
  CZE Květa Peschke   NED Demi Schuurs 35 3
  USA Bethanie Mattek-Sands   CHN Zhang Shuai 41 4
  JPN Shuko Aoyama   JPN Ena Shibahara 47 5
  BLR Victoria Azarenka   USA Sofia Kenin 51 6
  GER Anna-Lena Friedsam   CZE Kateřina Siniaková 55 7
  CZE Lucie Hradecká   SLO Andreja Klepač 60 8

1 Rankings are as of August 17, 2020

Other entrants

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The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

Champions

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Men's singles

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Women's singles

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Men's doubles

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Women's doubles

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References

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  1. ^ "Masters 1000 Cincinnati - Overview". atptour.com. ATP Tour, Inc. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  2. ^ "Western & Southern Open". wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Baum, Dave Clark and Adam. "The 2020 Western & Southern Open will be played in New York this summer". The Enquirer. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
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