{"id":170810,"date":"2026-08-12T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=170810"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T12:52:01","slug":"cincinnati-open-reveals-2026-main-draw-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/cincinnati-open-reveals-2026-main-draw-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Open reveals 2026 main draw field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic will return to ATP Tour action at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/cincinnatiopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cincinnati Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The third-seeded Serbian has a first round BYE. He will meet either Thiago Agustin Tirante (ARG) or Jan Choinski (GBR) in the second round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World no.4 Jack Draper, 31st seed Matteo Arnaldi and NextGenATP star Martin Landaluce are potential <strong>third-round<\/strong> opponents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Jakub Mensik (CZE, 14), Luciano Darderi (ITA, 19)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-final:<\/strong> Alex De Minaur (AUS, 5), Jiri Lehecka (CZE, 9), Arthur Fils (FRA, 21), Arthur Fery (GBR, 32)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-final:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev (GER, 1), Flavio Cobolli (ITA, 7), Tommy Paul (USA, 18), Rafael Jodar (ESP, 12)<br \/>\n<strong>Final:<\/strong> Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 2), Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 4), Taylor Fritz (USA, 6), Ben Shelton (USA, 8), Lorenzo Musetti (ITA, 10), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 13), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak is a three-time champion in Cincinnati (2018, 2020, 2023), where he holds a 45-12 record.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hard-court ATP Masters 1000 event in Ohio will take place from August 13 to August 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic will return to ATP Tour action at the upcoming Cincinnati Open. The third-seeded Serbian has a first round BYE. He will meet either Thiago Agustin Tirante (ARG) or Jan Choinski (GBR) in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":170821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101013543,118,101011267,101011960],"class_list":["post-170810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-draw","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170823,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170810\/revisions\/170823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}