“That year I played one of the top three Masters 1000 finals of my career.<\/p>\n
“I really look forward to coming back, playing in front of you again, and seeing all the fans from around the world. See you soon!”<\/p>\n
The tournament will mark the 39-year-old’s first action since Wimbledon, having again withdrawn from the Canadian Open in Montreal<\/a>.Djokovic joins a star-studded line-up for the final tune up ahead of the US Open<\/a> at the end of August.Carlos Alcaraz is expected to feature for the first time since suffering a wrist injury in Barcelona<\/a> earlier this year.Jannik Sinner will also compete for the first time since his Wimbledon triumph earlier this month,<\/a> having, like Djokovic, pulled out of the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n Additionally, Alexander Zverev, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff will also participate in Ohio.<\/p>\n “We are excited to welcome the world\u2019s best players back to the Cincinnati Open next month,” Tournament Director Bob Moran told the official Cincinnati Open website<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n “To have the available top 75 men and women sign up to compete for this highly coveted title speaks volumes about the importance of this event on the respective calendars.<\/p>\n “We set an incredibly high bar in 2025 with the extensive and expansive changes made to the player facilities, so it\u2019s extremely satisfying to see the amazing strength of this field come to life.”<\/p>\n Prelude to the US Open<\/p>\n The Cincinnati Open is the final hard-court warm-up for the US Open in New York, which gets underway next month.<\/p>\n The main draw starts at the end of August and runs through until mid-September.<\/p>\n Best bits: Alcaraz wows New York to beat Sinner and claim second US Open title<\/p>\n Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n And defending 2025 champions Alcaraz and Sabalenka will hope to defend their respective men’s and women’s singles titles at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n Sabalenka, meanwhile, has partnered with Djokovic<\/a> for the US Open mixed doubles, while Jack Draper will play alongside Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n Swiatek and Norwegian Casper Ruud is another standout pairing for the two-day event.<\/p>\n Add TNT Sports as a preferred source here<\/a> to enjoy more content like this.Download the TNT Sports app on iPhone<\/a>\u00a0and Android.<\/a>Watch and stream top tennis action, including the Australian Open and French Open, live on TNT Sports and HBO Max<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Djokovic is ‘an exception to every rule right now’ – Courier and Henman explain Video credit: TNT Sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[238535,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-cincinnati-2026","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"picture\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-8ea5c57e-2ce9-4c72-bf42-72bc74e5f878-85-2560-1440.jpeg\")
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