CINCINNATI/WASHINGTON, August 19, 2025 (by Michael Dickens) From her opening-round match at the WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open last week through to Monday evening’s championship match at the Lindner Family Tennis Center, No. 3 seed Iga Swiatek of Poland played like […]
CINCINNATI/WASHINGTON, August 18, 2025 (by Michael Dickens) Coming into Sunday afternoon’s Cincinnati Open women’s singles semifinals at the Lindner Family Tennis Center, major champions Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina had met 11 previous times, with the six-time Grand Slam champion […]
CINCINNATI/WASHINGTON, August 20, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) Though familiar foes Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula were facing each other for the seventh time in a WTA Tour event at the Cincinnati Open Monday afternoon, it was just their first head-to-head meeting […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 22, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) It should come as no surprise that World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty found herself playing for the title of the Western & Southern Open in the Cincinnati suburbs on Sunday afternoon. After […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 22, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Russia’s Andrey Rublev had never taken a set let alone win a match against countryman Daniil Medvedev in four previous meetings. That all changed in his fifth attempt at the Western & […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 21, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) What a difference a year makes. Just ask the Czech Republic’s Barbora Krejcikova, who a year ago was ranked 118th among WTA singles players and shut out from direct entry into the […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 20, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) With the five active players with the most Grand Slam titles – Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic (men) and Serena Williams and Venus Williams (women) – all missing from this […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 19, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) On a day in which nine of the WTA’s top 10 players were in action at the Western & Southern Open in Mason, Ohio, in the last major tuneup before the US […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 18, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Three-time Western & Southern Open finalist Simona Halep is no stranger to playing on Center Court at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati. On Tuesday, she opened play […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 17, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) After a year’s respite in New York due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Western & Southern Open has returned to its familiar digs at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio, […]
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