WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN PREVIEW & DAY 1 MEDIA NOTES Sunday, August 16, 2015 Lindner Family Tennis Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | August 16 – 23, 2015 Draw: S-56, D-24 | Prize Money: $4,457,065 ($3,826,655 on-site) | Surface: Outdoor Hard ATP Info: Tournament Info: ATP PR & Marketing: www.ATPWorldTour.com www.cincytennis.com Martin Dagahs:
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[email protected] CINCINNATI TALKING POINTS SPOTLIGHT ON OHIO: The Western & Southern Open, the seventh ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the season, gets under way on Sunday in Cincinnati. The decorated 56-man field features 28 of the Top 30 players in the Emirates ATP Rankings (Aug. 10), including nine of the Top 10 (excluding No. 7 Ferrer, No. 29 Garcia-Lopez). Leading the way are world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, who is bidding to equal his record of 31 consecutive ATP Masters match wins in the Rogers Cup final in Montreal today (vs. Andy Murray), and defending champion Roger Federer, looking for a record seventh Cincinnati title. Djokovic is a four-time finalist at the Western & Southern Open (2008, ’09, ’11, ’12), the only ATP Masters 1000 tournament he has never won. Federer (winner in 2005, ’07, ’09-10, ’12, ’14) is one of three former champions in the draw, alongside Murray (2008, ’11) and Rafael Nadal (2013). DAY 1 PREVIEW: The tournament opens with two singles and one doubles match on Sunday’s Order of Play.