{"id":836848,"date":"2026-08-01T01:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836848\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:51:09","slug":"monfils-wawrinka-dimitrov-and-draper-among-cincinnati-wild-card-recipients-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836848\/","title":{"rendered":"Monfils, Wawrinka, Dimitrov and Draper Among Cincinnati Wild Card Recipients \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Fuzz<\/p>\n<p class=\"deck\">Stan Wawrinka and Gael Monfils will both be in Cincinnati this year.<\/p>\n<p>CO<\/p>\n<p>By Chris Oddo<br \/>07\/31\/2026<\/p>\n<p><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wawrinka-Heart-MustafaYalcin-Anadolu.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A pair of massive names will be making their final Cincinnati Open appearances. Stan Wawrinka and Gael Monfils will come to the Lindner Family Tennis Center as wild cards, along with Grigor Dimitrov and Jack Draper, the tournament announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Main draw play kicks off on August 13th at Cincinnati, with the final on August 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz is expected to make his return, and the rest of the Top 10 is also expected to be in action at the last Masters 1000 before the US Open.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"adslot inline-ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\/womens-racquets?utm_source=tennisnow&amp;utm_medium=article_ad&amp;utm_campaign=inarticle_racquets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tennis Express<\/p>\n<p>Grass-Court RacquetsThe frames the pros swing<\/p>\n<p>Shop racquets \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, JJ Wolf, Kei Nishikori, Darwin Blanch and and two other men were given qualifying wild cards.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Oddo. Chris Oddo is a freelance sportswriter, podcaster, blogger and social media marker who is a lead contributor to Tennisnow.com. He also writes for USOpen.org, Rolandgarros.com, BNPParibasOpen.com, TennisTV.com, WTAtennis.com and the official US Open program.<\/p>\n<p>\u2460 Stay in the loopGet Tennis Now in your inbox<\/p>\n<p>Daily match reports, interviews and Tennis Now TV \u2014 free, every morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Fuzz Stan Wawrinka and Gael Monfils will both be in Cincinnati this year. CO By Chris Oddo07\/31\/2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-836848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}