MASON, Ohio − The Cincinnati Open , formerly called the Western & Southern Open , battled multiple weather delays before charging into the weekend's quarterfinal matchups beginning on Saturday.
Sunday's schedule at the Cincinnati Open
The semifinals of the singles draws feature WTA World No. 1 Iga Swiatek and ATP World No. 1 Jannik Sinner . The women's doubles final will also be contested between Leylah Fernandez/ Yulia Putintseva and Erin Routliffe/ Asia Muhummad. The full order of plan can be found here .
There will be newcomers advancing to Sunday as 10 of the 16 remaining players have never made it to the Cincinnati Open semifinals.
Saturday's WTA/ATP tennis results from the Cincinnati Open
World No. 16 Holger Rune was already the first Danish man to appear in the quarterfinals in Cincinnati. Now he's on to the semifinals after a 6-4, 6- defeat of Jack Draper. He will face Frances Tiafoe for the first time.
In the final women's quarterfinal night, Paula Badosa made quick work of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, winning 6-3, 6-2. She is now guaranteed a career-best finish in Cincinnati; her previous best was a quarterfinal appearance in 2021.
It probably wasn't the semifinal the American Frances Tiafoe expected, as Poland's Hubert Hurkacz retired after a 3-6 defeat in the first set. Tiafoe is through to his first Cincinnati Open semifinal after previously not making it past the Round of 32.
No. 3 Alexander Zverev came back to defeat No. 12 Ben Shelton, 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 on Center Court. The 2021 champion is the only men's singles champion left in the field. He will face No. 1 Jannik Sinner in Sunday's semifinals.
In a three-hour, four-minute match at the P&G Grandstand, No. 6 Jessica Pegula defeated Canadian Leylah Fernandez, 7-5, 6-7, 7-6 (3). Pegula surrendered leads of 4-0 in the second set and 3-0 in the third set, but is on to her first Cincinnati Open semifinal.
No. 1 Jannik Sinner denied Andrey Rublev a second appearance in the men's semifinals with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory. The Italian is now tied with Carlos Alcaraz for most top 10 victories on the ATP Tour this year with eight.
It was business as usual for World No. 3 Aryna Sabalenka , who advanced to her third consecutive Cincinnati Open semifinals with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Liudmila Samsonova Saturday at the P&G Grandstand.
After losing the first set on Center Court Saturday, World No. 1 Iga Swiatek recovered nicely against upset-minded 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva . Swiatek took the second set, 6-3, then won the final three games of the third to take it, 7-5. Swiatek is through to the Cincinnati Open semifinals for the second consecutive year.
How to watch the Cincinnati Open
Gates at the Lindner Family Tennis Center open at 9:30 a.m. for Saturday's day session with the first matches scheduled for 11 a.m. Gates open at 5 p.m. for the night session and matches will begin at 7 p.m.
Matches can be watched live on the Tennis Channel while select matches throughout the tournament will be available to watch live on Amazon Prime, Roku, Samsung+, YouTube TV and Hulu+Live.
How to get tickets for the Cincinnati Open
Single-session tickets for the remainder of the tournament are still available at CincinnatiOpen.com/tickets/tickets.
Full-series and multi-day ticket packages are sold out.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati Open 2024 Saturday results for ATP, WTA
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