Masters · hard court · Cincinnati · Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 24, 2026.
Defending Champion (2025): Carlos Alcaraz · Iga Swiatek.
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The Cincinnati Open is older than almost everything around it. The event started on September 18, 1899, making it the oldest tennis tournament in the United States still played in or near its original city, and the third-largest US tennis event behind the US Open and Indian Wells. Among combined American tournaments only the US Open is older, and Cincinnati predates the Rose Bowl, the Indianapolis 500 and the Masters. It carried the Tri-State Tennis Tournament name from 1901 until 1969 and was played mostly on clay — described in period newspapers as "crushed brick dust" — until 1979.
That clay-to-hard pivot is the event's defining transformation. In 1979 the tournament moved to Mason, where a permanent stadium was built and the surface switched from Har-Tru clay to DecoTurf hardcourt. Its calendar slot is the real source of prestige: it is the last major stop before the season's final Slam, the point where the world's best reconvene in Ohio before the US Open, making it one of the sport's most important warm-up tournaments as well as one of its most historic. A Court 3 added in 2010 gave the Lindner Family Tennis Center four stadium courts — a footprint matched outside the Slams only by Madrid.
The modern champions list reads like a US Open dress rehearsal. Coco Gauff won in 2023 over Karolina Muchova and again in 2026; in between, Aryna Sabalenka edged Jessica Pegula in 2024 and Iga Swiatek beat Jasmine Paolini in 2025. On the men's side, Roger Federer (seven titles) and Novak Djokovic built large pieces of their legacies here.
The current era is one of reinvention. Owner Beemok Capital committed to keeping the event at Lindner for the next 25 years, backed by a $260 million on-site investment. The tournament reverted to its original Cincinnati Open name for its 125th anniversary in 2024, and from 2025 expanded to 14 days with both singles draws growing from 56 to 96 players.