The second WTA 1000 event of the North American hard-court season will take place in Cincinnati, and there will be some high-profile absentees.<\/p>\n
This will be the 97th edition of the women\u2019s tournament in Mason, Ohio, which is staged at the\u00a0Lindner Family Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n
The 2025 Cincinnati Open will be a\u00a012-day event held from August 7-18, having been held over a week in previous editions.<\/p>\n
World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> is the reigning champion in Cincinnati and she will play for the first time since her Wimbledon semi-final exit, having skipped the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n With the new 12-day format, the singles main draw for the Cincinnati Open has increased from 56 players to 96 players for both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tournaments.<\/p>\n Of the 96 players in the WTA<\/a> draw, there will be 72 direct entrants, 16 qualifiers and eight wildcards.<\/p>\n Three top 10 players have pulled out of Cincinnati due to injuries: Mirra Andreeva, Qinwen Zheng and Paula Badosa.<\/p>\n Lois Boisson, Ons Jabeur, Alex Eala and Petra Kvitova are the other women who have withdrawn.<\/p>\n Two of the six women\u2019s wildcard recipients have been announced, and they are both American: Caty McNally and Venus Williams.<\/p>\n Williams, a 45-year-old who is a seven-time major singles champion and former world No 1, won her first match in over a year in Washington last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025 WTA Cincinnati Open: When is the draw? Prize money and points on offer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n 5 youngest women to beat No 1 seed at a WTA 1000 event: Victoria Mboko joins Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Three former Cincinnati champions will compete: Sabalenka (2024), Coco Gauff (2023) and Madison Keys (2019).<\/p>\n Players who have been unable to compete in any tournaments due to injury or pregnancy for a minimum of six months are eligible to use the WTA protected ranking system.<\/p>\n The rule allows players to use the ranking they held at the time of their absence\u00a0to enter eight tournaments, or 12 if they missed more than a year.<\/p>\n Bianca Andreescu,\u00a0Marketa Vondrousova,\u00a0Sorana Cirstea,\u00a0Anastasija Sevastova,\u00a0Lin Zhu and\u00a0Wang Yafan have all entered Cincinnati using a special ranking.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu<\/a> has dropped to 38th in the Live WTA Rankings, but she is set to be seeded 30th at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n This is because the latest edition of the WTA Rankings<\/a>, which were published last week, are used to determine seedings in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n Since Raducanu\u2019s ranking of world No 33 is used, the 22-year-old Brit will be seeded 30th due to the withdrawals of Andreeva, Zheng and Badosa.<\/p>\n 1. Aryna Sabalenka READ NEXT:\u00a0Clara Tauson becomes 5th woman to beat Iga Swiatek & Aryna Sabalenka in 2025 with Canadian Open upset<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post 2025 WTA Cincinnati Open Entry List: Aryna Sabalenka returns as\u00a03 top 10 stars missing; Why Emma Raducanu is seeded<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second WTA 1000 event of the North American hard-court season will take place in Cincinnati, and there will be some high-profile absentees. This will be the 97th edition of the women\u2019s tournament in Mason, Ohio, which is staged at the\u00a0Lindner Family Tennis Centre. The 2025 Cincinnati Open will be a\u00a012-day event held from August […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How many players will feature in the main draw of the 2025 Cincinnati Open?<\/h2>\n
Have any big-name players withdrawn?<\/h2>\n
Which players have received wildcards?<\/h2>\n
WTA Tour News<\/h1>\n
Who are the former champions in the main draw?<\/h2>\n
Have any players used a special ranking to enter?<\/h2>\n
Why Emma Raducanu will be seeded<\/h2>\n
2025 WTA Cincinnati Entry List<\/h2>\n
\n2. Coco Gauff
\n3. Iga Swiatek
\n4.\u00a0Jessica Pegula
\n5. Amanda Anisimova
\n6. Madison Keys
\n7.\u00a0Jasmine Paolini
\n8.\u00a0Emma Navarro
\n9. Elena Rybakina
\n10.\u00a0Elina Svitolina
\n11.\u00a0Karolina Muchova
\n12. Ekaterina Alexandrova
\n13.\u00a0Liudmila Samsonova
\n14.\u00a0Diana Shnaider
\n15.\u00a0Daria Kasatkina
\n16. Clara Tauson
\n17.\u00a0Belinda Bencic
\n18.\u00a0Beatriz Haddad Maia
\n19.\u00a0Elise Mertens
\n20.\u00a0Linda Noskova
\n21. Leylah Fernandez
\n22.\u00a0Magdalena Frech
\n23.\u00a0Jelena Ostapenko
\n24.\u00a0Sofia Kenin
\n25. Marta Kostyuk
\n26.\u00a0Ashlyn Krueger
\n27.\u00a0Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
\n28.\u00a0Anna Kalinskaya
\n29. McCartney Kessler
\n30.\u00a0Emma Raducanu
\n31.\u00a0Magda Linette
\n32. Dayana Yastremska
\nYulia Putintseva
\nRebecca Sramkova
\nBarbora Krejcikova
\nPeyton Stearns
\nOlga Danilovic
\nDonna Vekic
\nXinyu Wang
\nSuzan Lamens
\nMaya Joint
\nGreet Minnen
\nKatie Boulter
\nAnastasia Potapova
\nMaria Tatjana
\nVeronika Kudermetova
\nLulu Sun
\nMarie Bouzkova
\nElina Avanesyan
\nKimberly Birrell
\nSonay Kartal
\nJaqueline Cristian
\nNaomi Osaka
\nDanielle Collins
\nHailey Baptiste
\nRenata Zarazua
\nCamila Osorio
\nElena-Gabriela Ruse
\nYuliia Starodubtseva
\nAlycia Parks
\nEva Lys
\nJessica Bouzas Maneiro
\nLucia Bronzetti
\nPolina Kudermetova
\nAnn Li
\nMoyuka Uchijima
\nCaroline Dolehide
\nWang Yafan (SR)
\nMarketa Vondrousova (SR)
\nSorana Cirstea (SR)
\nLin Zhu (SR)
\nBianca Andreescu (SR)
\nAnastasija Sevastova (SR)
\nCats McNally (WC)
\nVenus Williams (WC)
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