The Cincinnati Open has served as the warmup tournament for the US Open for many years. In the past two years, the winners of men’s and women’s singles at the Cincinnati Open made the impressive and rapid turnaround and won the US Open a few weeks later.
WE’VE OFFICIALLY GONE 4/4 IN CINCINNATI CHAMPIONS WINNING THE US OPEN 🤯
Coco Gauff, Novak Djokovic, Aryna Sabalenka, and now Jannik Sinner! pic.twitter.com/chr8Ff7fh3
— Cincinnati Open (@CincyTennis) September 8, 2024
ATP winners in 2023 and 2024 are Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner. WTA winners in 2023 and 2024 are Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka.
Will this trend continue in 2025?
Who Could Win Both – ATP?
The most obvious choice is World No. 1 Jannik Sinner who is the defending champion of both events. He has barely broken a sweat in the brutal Cincinnati heat working his way through the draw. Barring a massive upset, he should at least be a semifinalist.
Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev, and Ben Shelton seem like the other logical choices. Shelton is riding a nine match winning streak which included a huge win at the Canadian Open.
Zverev and Shelton would like to continue the trend of winning Cincinnati and cruising into New York for their first career Grand Slam title.
Who Could Win Both – WTA?
Aryna Sabalenka has been pushed in the Cincinnati Open especially in her match against Emma Raducanu. However, she tends to play better as the tournament goes on. She has a big quarterfinal match against Elena Rybakina.
Coco Gauff faces Jasmine Paolini.
Iga Swiatek will battle against a surging Anna Kalinskaya who played late on Wednesday and is not pleased with an early Friday match time which gives her the least amount of recovery time. (She will need to channel her inner Daniil Medvedev who is famous for winning long matches on short turnarounds to pull off an upset against Swiatek.)
Schedule is not out for tomorrow yet but it would appear that Kalinskaya-Swiatek will be getting an 11am start:
(I agree with Kalinskaya’s point, if by chance you get the late finish you should be staying at night) pic.twitter.com/uotXgS1GbY
— Tennis Updates (@TennisUpdates25) August 14, 2025
The women’s draw is more complicated and difficult to predict, but any one of these women is capable of winning both the Cincinnati Open and the US Open.
