Jordan Thompson headlines the Cincinnati Open participant checklist, as he competes in his first event since Wimbledon 2025.
Cincinnati, USA, 6 August 2025 | Jackson Mansell
Jordan Thompson will return to the ATP Tour for the primary time since Wimbledon on the Cincinnati Open, the place the principle draw commences on Friday (AEST).
The 31-year-old is considered one of eight Australians set to function in main-draw singles motion on the mixed ATP-WTA 1000 event; he joins Alex de Minaur, Alexei Popyrin, Chris O’Connell, Adam Walton, Daria Kasatkina, Maya Joint, and Ajla Tomljanovic.
Thompson will compete in his first event since reaching the fourth spherical at Wimbledon, the place he performed via a persistent again damage to progress to the ultimate 16 at SW19 for the primary time.
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He’ll open his Cincinnati account towards an undetermined qualifier, as he targets a round-of-16 return. Thompson achieved that feat in 2024 after defeating top-20 opponents Ugo Humbert and Sebastian Baez.
Like in Toronto, De Minaur and Popyrin enter Cincinnati with first-round byes, one thing all 32 seeds within the draw obtain.
The pair symbolize Australia’s greatest probabilities of seeing a singles champion topped in Cincinnati since Pat Rafter triumphed in 1998. This outcome supplied the best preparation for Rafter, who went on to win the US Open three weeks later.
Walton and O’Connell, together with Thompson, will intention to hitch De Minaur and Popyrin within the second spherical in Cincinnati.
Walton will make his event debut towards a qualifier, whereas O’Connell battles 2022 champion Borna Coric.
Aleksandar Vukic and Li Tu are focusing on main-draw spots through the qualifying; Tu defeated compatriot James Duckworth within the opening spherical on Wednesday, whereas Vukic resumes his match towards American Murphy Cassone on Thursday, trailing 5-7 7-6(3) 6-5.
Within the ladies’s fundamental draw, Kasatkina and Joint search to hitch Lesley Bowrey, Margaret Courtroom, Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Ash Barty on the ladies’s singles honour roll.
Kasatkina will probably be seeded at a nineteenth consecutive WTA 1000 event.
Priscilla Hon and Maddison Inglis are one step nearer to creating their main-draw debuts in Cincinnati after advancing to the ultimate spherical of qualifying on Wednesday. In the meantime, Olivia Gadecki resumes her qualifying first-round match on Thursday after play was suspended, trailing American Clervie Ngounoue 6-7(2) 6-3 3-2.
A number of Australians will function in doubles motion, together with Jordan Thompson, Matt Ebden, and John Friends. The attracts are but to be introduced.
AUSSIES IN ACTION
CINCINNATI 1000
Aussies in males’s singles: Alex de Minaur (world No.8), Alexei Popyrin (world No.26), Jordan Thompson (world No.44), Chris O’Connell (world No.78), Adam Walton (world No.88)
Aussies in ladies’s singles: Daria Kasatkina (world No.18), Maya Joint (world No.45), Ajla Tomljanovic (world No.88)
Aussies in males’s qualifying: Aleksandar Vukic (world No.99), Li Tu (world No.164)
Aussies in ladies’s qualifying: Olivia Gadecki (world No.114), Priscilla Hon (world No.129), Maddison Inglis (world No.157)
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