Defending Champions Keys, Medvedev Lead 2020 Western & Southern Open Singles Fields CINCINNATI (July 29, 2020) – Ten former champions headline the players on the initial singles entry lists for the 2020 Western & Southern Open that will be held Aug. 20-28 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. The initial entries include both defending champions: Daniil Medvedev for the ATP Tour and Madison Keys for the WTA. Former men’s champions who have entered the ATP Masters 1000 also include the top two players in the ATP Rankings – No. 1 Novak Djokovic (2018 winner) and No. 2 Rafael Nadal (2011) – along with Grigor Dimitrov (2017) and Marin Cilic (2016). Two-time champion Serena Williams (2014-15) will join Keys, Kiki Bertens (2018), Garbiñe Muguruza (2017) and Karolina Pliskova (2016) as past WTA champions in the Premier 5 field. The women’s field includes five Major champions in Williams, Muguruza, Sofia Kenin, Petra Kvitova and Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 2019 W&S Open runner-up. Three men’s entrants – Cilic, Djokovic and Nadal – are past Major winners. The women’s field, which features 39 of the top 53 players in the WTA Rankings, includes seven players aged 21-or-under. Sixteen-year-old Coco Gauff will make her Western & Southern Open debut and will be joined by fellow teens Amanda Anisimova (18) and Iga Swiatek (19) to join a youth movement that also includes 20-year-old Dayana Yastremska. Kenin, a 2019 Western & Southern Open semifinalist who won the 2020 Australian Open, leads a group of 21-year-olds that includes Elena Rybakina and Marketa Vondrousova. Forty of the top 43 ranked ATP players have entered on the men’s side. One teenager, 19-year-old Felix Auger Aliassime, leads five men aged 21-or-under in the field. Four of the entrants from the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings are under the age of 25: No. 5 Medvedev (24), No. 6 Stefanos Tsitsipas (21), No. 7 Alexander Zverev (23) and No. 8 Matteo Berrettini (24). The top eight seeds in both draws will receive first round byes. Twelve players will be added to each field through a two-round qualifying tournament that will be held Aug. 20-21. The deadline for players to enter the qualifying event is Aug. 3. Four men and five women will be awarded wild card entries into the main draw singles fields. The initial entrants to both fields appear below: Rank Name Age Nat. Rank Name Age Nat. 1 Novak Djokovic 33 SRB 3 Karolina Pliskova 28 CZE 2 Rafael Nadal 34 ESP 4 Sofia Kenin 21 USA 3 Dominic Thiem 26 AUT 7 Kiki Bertens 28 NED 5 Daniil Medvedev 24 RUS 8 Belinda Bencic 23 SUI 6 Stefanos Tsitsipas 21 GRE 9 Serena Williams 38 USA 7 Alexander Zverev 23 GER 11 Aryna Sabalenka 22 BLR 8 Matteo Berrettini 24 ITA 12 Petra Kvitova 30 CZE 10 David Goffin 29 BEL 13 Madison Keys 25 USA 12 Roberto Bautista Agut 32 ESP 14 Johanna Konta 29 GBR 13 Diego Schwartzman 27 ARG 16 Garbiñe Muguruza 26 ESP 14 Andrey Rublev 22 RUS 17 Elena Rybakina 21 KAZ 15 Karen Khachanov 24 RUS 18 Marketa Vondrousova 21 CZE 16 Denis Shapovalov 21 CAN 19 Alison Riske 30 USA 18 Cristian Garin 24 CHI 20 Maria Sakkari 24 GRE 19 Grigor Dimitrov 29 BUL 22 Anett Kontaveit 24 EST 20 Felix Auger-Aliassime 19 CAN 23 Elise Mertens 24 BEL 21 John Isner 35 USA 24 Donna Vekic 24 CRO 22 Benoit Paire 31 FRA 25 Dayana Yastremska 20 UKR 23 Dusan Lajovic 30 SRB 26 Karolina Muchova 23 CZE 24 Taylor Fritz 22 USA 27 Ekaterina Alexandrova 25 RUS 25 Pablo Carreno Busta 29 ESP 28 Amanda Anisimova 18 USA 26 Alex de Minaur 21 AUS 31 Barbora Strycova 34 CZE 27 Nikoloz Basilashvili 28 GEO 32 Svetlana Kuznetsova 35 RUS 28 Daniel Evans 30 GBR 33 Yulia Putintseva 33 KAZ 29 Hubert Hurkacz 23 POL 35 Shuai Zhang 31 CHN 30 Milos Raonic 29 CAN 36 Magda Linette 28 POL 31 Kei Nishikori 30 JPN 39 Ons Jabeur 27 TUN 32 Filip Krajinovic 28 SRB 40 Veronika Kudermetova 23 RUS 33 Borna Coric 23 CRO 42 Kristina Mladenovic 27 FRA 34 Jan-Lennard Struff 30 GER 43 Anastasia Sevestova 30 LAT 35 Guido Pella 30 ARG 44 Rebecca Peterson 24 SWE 36 Casper Ruud 21 NOR 46 Caroline Garcia 26 FRA 37 Marin Cilic 31 CRO 47 Marie Bouzkova 22 CZE 38 Adrian Mannarino 32 FRA 48 Jennifer Brady 25 USA 39 Reilly Opelka 22 USA 49 Iga Swiatek 19 POL 40 Nick Kyrgios 25 AUS 50 Heather Watson 28 GBR 41 Albert Ramos-Vinolas 32 ESP 51 Danielle Collins 26 USA 42 Ugo Humbert 22 FRA 52 Coco Gauff 16 USA 43 John Millman 31 AUS 53 Fiona Ferro 23 FRA 123* Kevin Anderson 34 RSA BOLD Indicates Past Western & Southern Open Champion *Using injury protected ranking Main draw play for the Western & Southern Open will begin on Aug. 22. Both singles finals will be held on Friday, Aug. 28, with the WTA final taking place at 2 p.m., and the ATP Tour’s at 4 p.m. Further details for the 2020 tournament will be announced in the coming weeks, and all aspects of the event are subject to change. MEDIA NOTE: At this time, all media access to the tournament will be remote. Further information on the virtual media operations will follow in due course. About the Western & Southern Open The Western & Southern Open takes place at the Lindner Family Tennis Center, 20 miles north of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio. The tournament is one of the prestigious ATP Masters 1000 events on the men's tour and a Premier 5 event for the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The W&S Open is the largest annual summer sporting event in the US Midwest, hosting fans from all 50 states and more than 35 countries with more than 50 million global viewers in more than 160 countries. The tournament is also one of the last stops on the US Open Series before the US Open in New York. Since 1974, the tournament has contributed more than $11 million to various beneficiaries including Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Barrett Cancer Center and Tennis for City Youth. For more information, visit www.wsopen.com. About the US Open Series The US Open Series serves as a true “regular season” of summer tennis in North America, linking nine summer WTA and ATP Tour tournaments to the US Open. Featuring a cohesive weekly schedule, the Series centralizes the way tennis is viewed in North America, across multiple television and digital platforms. Fans will see today's top champions go head-to-head with tomorrow's emerging stars, as storylines develop throughout the summer season. Each tournament also engages its local community with a variety of outreach initiatives, including grass-roots youth tennis clinics and activities. About the WTA Founded by Billie Jean King in 1973 on the principle of equal opportunity for women in sports, the WTA is the global leader in women’s professional sport with more than 1,650 players representing 84 nations competing for a record $180 million in prize money. In 2019, the WTA was watched by a record breaking global audience of 700 million. The 2019 WTA competitive season includes 53 events and four Grand Slams in 28 countries and regions. The season culminates with the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen, offering a $14 million total prize purse and honoring the season’s top singles and doubles players. Further information on the WTA can be found at www.wtatennis.com. About the ATP The ATP is the governing body of the men's professional tennis circuits - the ATP Tour, the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP Champions Tour. With 64 tournaments in 30 countries, the ATP Tour showcases the finest male athletes competing in the world’s most exciting venues. From Australia to Europe and the Americas to Asia, the stars of the 2020 ATP Tour will battle for prestigious titles and FedEx ATP Rankings points at ATP Masters 1000, 500 and 250 events, as well as Grand Slams (non ATP events). The 2020 season launched with the inaugural ATP Cup in Australia and will culminate with only the world’s top 8 qualified singles players and doubles teams competing for the last title of the season at the Nitto ATP Finals in November. Held at The O2 in London, the event will officially crown the 2020 ATP Tour No. 1. For more information, please visit www.ATPTour.com. .