Western & Southern Open Qualifying Fields Announced Qualifying Event Part of First Watch Opening Weekend CINCINNATI (July 23, 2019) – Players who have won a total of 11 tour titles this season are among the entrants into the qualifying tournament for the 2019 Western & Southern Open. The qualifying event will take place over First Watch Opening Weekend, August 10-11, at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio. A total of 15 players – seven women and eight men – will advance out of the two-round qualifying tournament into the 56-player main draw fields for the Western & Southern Open. The winners of seven ATP titles – Nicolas Jarry (Bastad), Juan Ignacio Londero (Cordoba), Feliciano Lopez (Queen’s), Reilly Opelka (New York), Tennys Sandgren (Auckland), Lorenzo Sonego (Antalya) and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Montpellier) – will be joined by four WTA champions – Polona Hercog (Lugano), Alison Riske (‘s-Hertogenbosch), Elena Rybakina (Bucharest) and Yafan Wang (Acapulco) – in the qualifying fields. In addition, players in the qualifying fields have combined to reach another 14 tour-level finals in 2019. The women’s field also features a duo coming off deep runs at Wimbledon in semifinalist Barbora Strycova and quarterfinalist Riske. “The qualifying tournament often provides some of the most compelling action because there is a lot on the line for these players who are battling to reach the main draw,” said tournament director Andre Silva. “We think these two days are a great opportunity for our fans to not only see these matches across eight courts but also provide a chance to get up-close-and-personal to main draw competitors who are practicing across the other nine courts.” Tickets for First Watch Opening Weekend start at $14. Tickets for these and all other sessions of the tournament are on sale now at wsopen.com. Below are the initial player entry lists for the qualifying fields for the 2019 tournament: WTA Rank • Name (Nationality) Age ATP Rank • Name (Nationality) Age 32 Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) 33 38 Nicolas Jarry (Chile) 23 35 Shuai Zhang (China) 30 43 Jordan Thompson (Australia) 25 37 Alison Riske (USA) 29 44 Hubert Hurkacz (Poland) 22 43 Ajla Tomljanovic (Australia) 26 45 Mikhail Kukushkin (Kazakhstan) 31 44 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) 28 46 Ugo Humbert (France) 21 45 Monica Puig (Puerto Rico) 25 49 Joao Sousa (Portugal) 30 48 Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russia) 24 50 Marton Fucsovics (Hungary) 27 49 Viktoria Kuzmova (Slovakia) 21 52 Lorenzo Sonego (Italy) 24 50 Kristina Mladenovic (France) 26 54 Cameron Norrie (Great Britain) 23 52 Yafan Wang (China) 25 55 Dan Evans (Great Britain) 29 53 Alize Cornet (France) 29 56 Juan Ignacio Londero (Argentina) 25 54 Polona Hercog (Slovenia) 28 57 Reilly Opelka (USA) 21 55 Veronika Kudermetova (Russia) 22 59 Pablo Carreno Busta (Spain) 28 57 Margarita Gasparyan (Russia) 24 60 Feliciano Lopez (Spain) 37 58 Mihaela Buzarnescu (Romania) 31 61 John Millman (Australia) 30 59 Ons Jabeur (Tunisia) 24 62 Martin Klizan (Slovakia) 30 60 Magda Linette (Poland) 27 66 Miomir Kecmanovic (Serbia) 19 61 Iga Swiatek (Poland) 18 67 Federico Delbonis (Argentina) 28 64 Anastasia Potapova (Russia) 18 68 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) 34 65 Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) 20 69 Casper Ruud (Norway) 20 67 Kateryna Kozlova (Ukraine) 25 70 Tennys Sandgren (USA) 28 68 Kaia Kanepi (Estonia) 34 71 Alexander Bublik (Kazakhstan) 22 69 Viktorija Golubic (Switzerland) 26 72 Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) 35 70 Rebecca Peterson (Sweden) 23 73 Yoshihito Nishioka (Japan) 23 71 Tatjana Maria (Germany) 31 73 Lauren Davis (USA) 25 74 Bernarda Pera (USA) 24 76 Jennifer Brady (USA) 24 Four players will be added to each of these fields through wild card entries. In 2018, the Western & Southern Open attracted more than 194,000 spectators. The reigning singles champions are ATP No. 1 Novak Djokovic and WTA No. 5 Kiki Bertens. In addition to the tennis, the W&S Open features more than 50 musical acts, 20 food vendors, six signature bar areas and a retail plaza for patrons to enjoy between matches. The Western & Southern Open is an ATP Masters 1000 and a WTA Premier 5 tournament and is a member of the US Open Series. Started in 1899, the tournament annually supports a number of charities in the Cincinnati area. About the Western & Southern Open The Western & Southern Open will be held August 10-18, 2019, 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 WTA. The event has drawn more than 190,000 spectators in four of the last five years, including fans from all 50 states and more than 35 countries. In addition, the tournament reached a worldwide audience of more than 63 million people in 165 markets in 2018. The tournament is 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 $10 million to various beneficiaries including Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the UC Health Barrett Cancer Center and Tennis for City Youth. For more information, visit www.wsopen.com. About the US Open Series Now in its 16th season, the world's best players on the WTA and ATP Tour are coming together for the US Open Series. Linking six summer WTA and ATP Tour tournaments to the US Open, the US Open Series serves as a true “regular season” of hard court tennis. Featuring a cohesive 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 1,800 players representing 85 nations competing for a record $164 million in prize money. In 2018, the WTA was watched by a record-breaking global audience of 600 million. The 2019 WTA competitive season includes 55 events and four Grand Slams in 29 countries, culminating with the WTA Finals Shenzhen, offering an unprecedented $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 63 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 2019 ATP Tour will battle for prestigious titles and ATP Rankings points at ATP Masters 1000, 500 and 250 events, as well as Grand Slams (non ATP events). At the end of the season only the world’s top 8 qualified singles players and doubles teams will qualify to compete for the last title of the season at the Nitto ATP Finals. Held at The O2 in London, the event will officially crown the 2019 ATP Tour No. 1. For more information, please visit www.ATPTour.com. .