won it all in 2021.<\/a> Alcaraz and Zverev have split four career meetings on outdoor hard courts and Zverev holds a 6-5 all-time advantage over the Spaniard.<\/p>\nWTA: No. 3 Iga Swiatek vs. No. 9 Elena Rybakina<\/p>\n
Is this the year Iga Swiatek breaks through at the Cincinnati Open?<\/p>\n
Swiatek has been bounced from the semifinals of the event in back-to-back years by the eventual champion (Coco Gauff in 2023, Aryna Sabalenka in 2024), and the Cincinnati Open is one of three WTA 1000 events on the calendar she has not reached the finals in.<\/p>\n
Swiatek has been stellar thus far, winning every set and capturing 36 of 55 total games over four matches thus far. In the quarterfinals, she quickly got past No. 28 seed Anna Kalinskaya, 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n
Swiatek has her toughest test in the semifinals against No. 9 seed Elena Rybakina, who knocked out Aryna Sabalenka in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Swiatek and Rybakina have met nine times with Swiatek holding a 5-4 advantage. Swiatek has prevailed in the last three on hard courts.<\/p>\n
WTA: No. 7 Jasmine Paolini vs. Veronika Kudermetova<\/p>\n
Seeded players were gashed from the top part of this bracket, opening up a nice path on paper for No. 7 Jasmine Paolini or No. 2 Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n
Paolini and Gauff capped off the night session on Center Court Aug. 15 with the 29-year-old Italian pulling out a 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory. Paolini, who is 3-0 against Gauff in 2025, is seeking her third career WTA 1000 title.<\/p>\n
Up next is Veronika Kudermetova, who has been a giant killer in Mason with three wins over seeded foes before a swift 6-1, 6-2 victory over qualifier Varvara Gracheva in the quarterfinals Aug. 15.<\/p>\n
Kudermetova is in the semifinals at a WTA 1000 level event for the third time in her career and is still searching for her first title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lindsay Davenport praises Cincinnati Open\u2019s Tennis Channel coverage Lindsay Davenport talks about the Tennis Channel’s coverage of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[52748,32683,2073,52749,5113,19553,2809,11501,60097,49157,2091,19559,52750,432,3,1474,60095,433,8306,13470,13471,5573,19550,19557,60096,4037,11946,52747,99,2415,428,13542,13696,13692,13689,23707,52751],"class_list":["post-87380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alcaraz","tag-carlos","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-coco","tag-coco-gauff","tag-competitions","tag-djokovic","tag-explainer","tag-federer","tag-gauff","tag-international","tag-international-sports-competitions","tag-jannik","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-news","tag-not","tag-novak","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-open","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-racquet","tag-racquet-sports","tag-roger","tag-roger-federer","tag-sinner","tag-southern","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tennis","tag-ttp","tag-ttp-explainer-not-visual","tag-u0026","tag-visual","tag-western","tag-western-u0026-southern-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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