Cincinnati Masters
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The Cincinnati Masters is an annual tennis event held in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio, USA. The event started on September 18, 1899 and is today the oldest tennis tournament in the United States played in its original city.
The men's event is one of nine ATP Masters Series tournaments on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour. The women's event is a Tier III event on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour, and the only WTA Tour event held in the American Midwest. The men's and women's events are currently played in separate weeks during the July-August period. The competition is played on outdoor hardcourts. Because of its sponsorship by the Western & Southern Financial Group, the official names of the men's and women's tournament are the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open.
History
The tournament was started in 1899 as the
Cincinnati Open (it would be later known by several other names, including the
Tri-State Tennis Tournament), and would eventually grow into the tournament now held in Mason. The original tournament was held at the Avondale Athletic Club, and would later be moved to several various locations due to changes in tournament management and surfaces. The first tournament in 1899 was played on
clay courts, and the event stayed on clay (for the most part) until
1979 when it switched permanently to hardcourts.
In 1903, the tournament was moved to the Cincinnati Tennis Club, where it was primarily held until 1972, when it moved to the Queen City Raquet Club in Sharonville, Ohio. In 1974, the tournament was nearly dropped completely from the tennis calendar but moved at the last moment to the Cincinnati Convention Center, where it was played indoors and, for the first time since 1919, without a women's draw. In 1975, the tournament moved to the Old Coney amusement park on the Ohio River, and the tournament began to gain momentum again.
In 1979 the tournament moved to Mason where a permanent stadium was to be built. Later two other permanent stadiums were constructed, making the Cincinnati Masters the only tennis tournament outside the four Grand Slam events with three stadium courts – Center Court, Grandstand Court and Court 3. The women's competition was reinstated in 1988 for one year, and then again in 2004 when the organizers, with the help of the Octagon sports agency, bought a tour tournament previously held in Croatia and moved it to Cincinnati.
Since 1975, the tournament has been guided by Paul M. Flory, current tournament chairman and former executive with the Procter & Gamble Company. During his tenure, the tournament has enriched its considerable heritage, while donating millions of dollars to charity. (Its three charities are Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, The UC Cancer Center/Barrett Cancer Center at University Hospital, and the Cincinnati chapter of the National Junior Tennis League.)
Among his many accolades, Flory has been honored with the ATP's Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award and enhrinement in the USTA/Midwest Hall of Fame and the Cincinnati Tennis Hall of Fame. Flory began his involvement with the tournament in the late 1960s, and to this day he remains a volunteer: he's never accepted a salary or other compensation.
Past results
Men's Singles finals
| Year
| Champion
| Runner-up
| Score in final
|
| 2005
| '''Roger Federer
| Andy Roddick
| 6-3, 7-5
|
| 2004
| '''Andre Agassi
| Lleyton Hewitt
| 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
|
| 2003
| '''Andy Roddick
| Mardy Fish
| 4-6, 7-6, 7-6
|
| 2002
| '''Carlos Moya
| Lleyton Hewitt
| 7-5, 7-6
|
| 2001
| '''Gustavo Kuerten
| Patrick Rafter
| 6-1, 6-3
|
| 2000
| '''Thomas Enqvist
| Tim Henman
| 7-6, 6-4
|
| 1999
| '''Pete Sampras
| Patrick Rafter
| 7-6, 6-3
|
| 1998
| '''Patrick Rafter
| Pete Sampras
| 1-6, 7-6, 6-4
|
| 1997
| '''Pete Sampras
| Thomas Muster
| 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1996
| '''Andre Agassi
| Michael Chang
| 7-6, 6-4
|
| 1995
| '''Andre Agassi
| Michael Chang
| 7-5, 6-2
|
| 1994
| '''Michael Chang
| Stefan Edberg
| 6-2, 7-5
|
| 1993
| '''Michael Chang
| Stefan Edberg
| 7-5, 0-6, 6-4
|
| 1992
| '''Pete Sampras
| Ivan Lendl
| 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
|
| 1991
| '''Guy Forget
| Pete Sampras
| 2-6, 7-6, 6-4
|
| 1990
| '''Stefan Edberg
| Brad Gilbert
| 6-1, 6-1
|
| 1989
| '''Brad Gilbert
| Stefan Edberg
| 6-4, 2-6, 7-6
|
| 1988
| '''Mats Wilander
| Stefan Edberg
| 3-6, 7-6, 7-6
|
| 1987
| '''Stefan Edberg
| Boris Becker
| 6-4, 6-1
|
| 1986
| '''Mats Wilander
| Jimmy Connors
| 6-4, 6-1
|
| 1985
| '''Boris Becker
| Mats Wilander
| 6-4, 6-2
|
| 1984
| '''Mats Wilander
| Anders Jarryd
| 7-6, 6-3
|
| 1983
| '''Mats Wilander
| John McEnroe
| 6-4, 6-4
|
| 1982
| '''Ivan Lendl
| Steve Denton
| 6-2, 7-6
|
| 1981
| '''John McEnroe
| Chris Lewis
| 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1980
| '''Harold Solomon
| Francisco Gonzalez
| 7-6, 6-3
|
| 1979
| '''Peter Fleming
| Roscoe Tanner
| 6-4, 6-2
|
| 1978
| '''Eddie Dibbs
| Raul Ramirez
| 5-7, 6-3, 6-2
|
| 1977
| '''Harold Solomon
| Mark Cox
| 6-2, 6-3
|
| 1976
| '''Roscoe Tanner
| Eddie Dibbs
| 7-6, 6-3
|
| 1975
| '''Tom Gorman
| Sherwood Stewart
| 7-5, 2-6, 6-4
|
| 1974
| '''Marty Riessen
| Robert Lutz
| 7-6, 7-6
|
| 1973
| '''Ilie Năstase
| Manuel Orantes
| 5-7, 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1972
| '''Jimmy Connors
| Guillermo Vilas
| 6-3, 6-3
|
| 1971
| '''Stan Smith
| Juan Gisbert Sr
| 7-6, 6-3
|
| 1970
| '''Ken Rosewall
| Cliff Richey
| 7-9, 9-7, 8-6
|
| 1969
| '''Cliff Richey
| Allan Stone
| 6-1, 6-2
|
| 1968
| '''William Harris
| Tom Gorman
| 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
|
| 1967
| '''Joaquin Loyo-Mayo
| Jaime Fillol
| 8-6, 6-1
|
| 1966
| '''David Power
| William Harris
| 7-5, 3-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-2
|
| 1965
| '''Billy Lenoir
| Herb Fitzgibbon
| 1-6, 6-3, 6-3, 9-7
|
| 1964
| '''Herb Fitzgibbon
| Robert Brien
| 6-1, 6-3, 6-1
|
| 1963
| '''Marty Riessen
| Herb Fitzgibbon
| 6-1, 6-3, 7-5
|
| 1962
| '''Marty Riessen
| Allen Fox
| 1-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3
|
| 1961
| '''Allen Fox
| Billy Lenoir
| 3-6, 8-6, 6-2, 6-1
|
| 1960
| '''Miguel Olvera
| Crawford Henry
| 4-6, 9-7, 6-4
|
| 1959
| '''Whitney Reed
| Donald Dell
| 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3
|
| 1958
| '''Bernard Bartzen
| Sammy Giammalva
| 7-5, 6-3, 6-2
|
| 1957
| '''Bernard Bartzen
| Grant Golden
| 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
|
| 1956
| '''Edward Moylan
| Bernard Bartzen
| 6-0, 6-3, 6-3
|
| 1955
| '''Bernard Bartzen
| Tony Trabert
| 7-9, 11-9, 6-4
|
| 1954
| '''Straight Clark
| Sammy Giammalva
| 8-6, 6-1, 6-1
|
| 1953
| '''Tony Trabert
| Hamilton Richardson
| 10-8, 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1952
| '''Noel Brown
| Fred Haigst
| 6-4, 0-6, 2-0 (retired)
|
| 1951
| '''Tony Trabert
| Bill Talbert
| 5-7, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1950
| '''Glenn Bassett
| Hamilton Richardson
| 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
|
| 1949
| '''James Brink
| Arnold Saul
| 6-4, 6-8, 6-4, 6-0
|
| 1948
| '''Herbert Behrens
| Irvin Dorfman
| 7-5, 11-9, 2-6, 6-8, 6-4
|
| 1947
| '''Bill Talbert
| George Pero
| 6-1, 6-0, 6-0
|
| 1946
| '''Nick Carter
| George Richards
| 6-1, 6-1
|
| 1945
| '''Bill Talbert
| Elwood Cooke
| 6-2, 7-9 6-2
|
| 1944
| '''Pancho Segura
| Bill Talbert
| 9-11, 6-2, 7-5, 2-6, 7-5
|
| 1943
| '''Bill Talbert
| Seymour Greenberg
| 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
|
| 1942
| '''Pancho Segura
| Bill Talbert
| 1-6, 6-2, 6-4, 12-10
|
| 1941
| '''Frank Parker
| Bill Talbert
| 6-2, 6-2, 6-4
|
| 1940
| '''Bobby Riggs
| Arthur Marx
| 11-9, 6-2, 4-6, 6-8, 6-1
|
| 1939
| '''Bryan "Bitsy" Grant
| Frank Parker
| 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4
|
| 1938
| '''Bobby Riggs
| Frank Parker
| 6-1, 7-5, 6-3
|
| 1937
| '''Bobby Riggs
| John McDiarmid
| 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
|
| 1936
| '''Bobby Riggs
| Charles Harris
| 6-1, 6-3, 6-1
|
| 1935
| tournament suspended due to Great Depression
|
| 1934
| '''Henry Prusoff
| Arthur Hendrix
| 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
|
| 1933
| '''Bryan "Bitsy" Grant
| Frank Parker
| 11-9, 6-2, 1-6, 7-5
|
| 1932
| '''George Lott
| Frank Parker
| 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3
|
| 1931
| '''Cliff Sutter
| Bruce Barnes
| 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
|
| 1930
| '''Frank Shields
| Emmett Pare
| 6-2, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-1
|
| 1929
| '''Herbert Bowman
| Julius Seligson
| 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1
|
| 1928
| '''Emmett Pare
| Harris Coggeshall
| 2-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
|
| 1927
| '''George Lott
| Emmett Pare
| 6-4, 6-4, 6-2
|
| 1926
| '''Bill Tilden
| George Lott
| 4-6, 6-3, 7-9, 6-4, 6-3
|
| 1925
| '''George Lott
| Julius Sagalowsky
| 6-3, 7-5, 6-1
|
| 1924
| '''George Lott
| Paul Kunkel
| 2-6, 13-11, 6-4, 6-3
|
| 1923
| '''Louis Kuhler
| Paul Kunkel
| 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
|
| 1922
| '''Louis Kuhler
| Edwin Haupt
| 6-3, 6-1, 6-1
|
| 1921
| tournament suspended
|
| 1920
| '''John Hennessey
| Walter Westbrook
| 8-10, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1919
| '''Fritz Bastain
| John Hennessey
| 2-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4
|
| 1918
| tournament suspended due to World War I
|
| 1917
| '''Fritz Bastain
| John G. MacKay
| 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2
|
| 1916
| '''Bill Johnston
| Clarence Griffin
| default
|
| 1915
| '''Clarence Griffin
| William S. McElroy
| 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
|
| 1914
| '''William S. McElroy
| William Hoag
| 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2
|
| 1913
| '''William S. McElroy
| Gus Touchard
| default
|
| 1912
| '''Gus Touchard
| Richard H. Palmer
| 6-1, 6-2, 7-5
|
| 1911
| '''Richard H. Palmer
| Richard Bishop
| 14-12, 6-4, 8-6
|
| 1910
| '''Richard H. Palmer
| Wallace F. Johnson
| 11-9, 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1909
| '''Robert LeRoy
| Nat Emerson
| 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, 1-6, 6-3
|
| 1908
| '''Robert LeRoy
| Nat Emerson
| 6-0, 7-5, 6-4
|
| 1907
| '''Robert LeRoy
| Robert Chauncey Seaver
| 8-6, 6-8, 6-2, 6-0
|
| 1906
| '''Beals Wright
| Robert LeRoy
| 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 6-2
|
| 1905
| '''Beals Wright
| Kreigh Collins
| 6-3, 7-5, 4-6, 7-9, 6-3
|
| 1904
| '''Beals Wright
| L. Harry Waidner
| 7-5, 6-0, 6-3
|
| 1903
| '''Kreigh Collins
| Raymond D. Little
| 11-9, 4-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4
|
| 1902
| '''Raymond D. Little
| Kreigh Collins
| 3-6, 6-8, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2
|
| 1901
| '''Raymond D. Little
| Kreigh Collins
| 2-6, 8-6, 6-4, 7-5
|
| 1900
| '''Raymond D. Little
| Nat Emerson
| 6-2 6-4 6-2
|
| 1899
| '''Nat Emerson
| Dudley Sutphin
| 8-6, 6-1, 10-8
|
Women's Singles finals
| Year
| Champion
| Runner-up
| Score in final
|
| 2005
| '''Patty Schnyder
| Akiko Morigami
| 6-4, 6-0
|
| 2004
| '''Lindsay Davenport
| Vera Zvonareva
| 6-3, 6-2
|
| 1989-2003
| not held
|
| 1988
| '''Barbara Potter
| Helen Kelesi
| 6-2, 6-2
|
| 1974-87
| not held
|
| 1973
| '''Evonne Goolagong
| Chris Evert
| 6-2, 7-5
|
| 1972
| '''Margaret Court
| Evonne Goolagong
| 3-6, 6-2, 7-5
|
| 1971
| '''Virginia Wade
| Linda Tuero
| 6-3, 6-3
|
| 1970
| '''Rosie Casals
| Nancy Richey
| 6-3, 6-3
|
| 1969
| '''Lesley Turner Bowrey
| Gail Chanfreau
| 1-6, 7-5, 10-10 (retired)
|
| 1968
| '''Linda Tuero
| Tory Fretz
| 6-1, 6-2
|
| 1967
| '''Jane "Peaches" Bartkowicz
| Patsy Rippy
| 6-4, 6-1
|
| 1966
| '''Jane "Peaches" Bartkowicz
| Fern "Peachy" Kellmeyer
| 6-3, 6-3
|
| 1965
| '''Stephanie DeFina
| Roberta Alison
| 10-8, 5-7, 6-4
|
| 1964
| '''Jean Danilovich
| Alice Tym
| 6-1, 6-2
|
| 1963
| '''Stephanie DeFina
| Jane "Peaches" Bartkowicz
| 7-5, 6-2
|
| 1962
| '''Julie Heldman
| Roberta Alison
| 6-4, 6-4
|
| 1961
| '''Fern "Peachy" Kellmeyer
| Carole Caldwell
| 3-6, 12-10, 7-5
|
| 1960
| '''Carol Hanks
| Farel Footman
| 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
|
| 1959
| '''Donna Floyd
| Carol Hanks
| 5-7, 6-2, 6-4
|
| 1958
| '''Gwyn Thomas
| Martha Hernandez
| 6-1, 6-2
|
| 1957
| '''Lois Felix
| Pat Naud
| 7-5, 2-6, 7-5
|
| 1956
| '''Yola Ramirez
| Mary Ann Mitchell
| 7-5, 6-1
|
| 1955
| '''Mimi Arnold
| Barbara Breit
| 6-4, 6-3
|
| 1954
| '''Lois Felix
| Ethel Norton
| 6-1, 6-3
|
| 1953
| '''Thelma Long
| Anita Kanter
| 7-5, 6-2
|
| 1952
| '''Anita Kanter
| Doris Popple
| 6-0, 6-1
|
| 1951
| '''Pat Canning Todd
| Magda Rurac
| 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1950
| '''Beverly Baker
| Magda Rurac
| 5-7, 6-3, 9-7
|
| 1949
| '''Magda Rurac
| Beverly Baker
| 6-4, 2-6, 6-0
|
| 1948
| '''Dorothy Head
| Mercedes "Baba" Madden Lewis
| 6-4, 6-4
|
| 1947
| '''Betty Rosenquest
| Betty Hulbert James
| 9-7, 6-2
|
| 1946
| '''Virginia Kovacs
| Shirley Fry
| 6-4, 6-1
|
| 1945
| '''Pauline Betz
| Dorothy Bundy
| 6-2, 6-0
|
| 1944
| '''Dorothy Bundy
| Pauline Betz
| 7-5, 6-4
|
| 1943
| '''Pauline Betz
| Catherine Wolf
| 6-0, 6-2
|
| 1942
| '''Catherine Wolf
| Monica Nolan
| 6-4, 6-1
|
| 1941
| '''Pauline Betz
| Mary Arnold
| 6-4, 6-3
|
| 1940
| '''Alice Marble
| Gracyn Wheeler
| 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1939
| '''Catherine Wolf
| Virginia Hollinger
| 6-2, 6-3
|
| 1938
| '''Virginia Hollinger
| Margaret Jessee
| 8-6, 1-6, 6-0
|
| 1937
| '''Virginia Hollinger
| Monica Nolan
| 6-3, 6-2
|
| 1936
| '''Lila Porter
| Virginia Hollinger
| 6-4, 6-3
|
| 1935
| tournament suspended due to the Great Depression
|
| 1934
| '''Gracyn Wheeler
| Esther Bartosh
| default (illness)
|
| 1933
| '''Muriel Adams
| Helen Fulton
| 6-4, 6-4
|
| 1932
| '''Dorothy Weisel Hack
| Clara Louise Zinke
| 6-1, 6-0
|
| 1931
| '''Clara Louise Zinke
| Ruth Riese
| 6-1, 6-1
|
| 1930
| '''Clara Louise Zinke
| Ruth Riese
| 6-2, 6-4
|
| 1929
| '''Clara Louise Zinke
| Ruth Riese
| 6-2, 6-3
|
| 1928
| '''Midge Gladman
| Clara Louise Zinke
| 6-4, 6-4
|
| 1927
| '''Clara Louise Zinke
| Marian Leighton
| 6-4, 4-6, 4-1 (retired)
|
| 1926
| '''Clara Louise Zinke
| Olga Strashun Weil
| 6-2, 6-2
|
| 1925
| '''Marian Leighton
| Clara Louise Zinke
| 6-3, 6-2
|
| 1924
| '''Olga Strashun
| Clara Louise Zinke
| 6-4, 6-2
|
| 1923
| '''Ruth Sanders Cordes
| Clara Louise Zinke
| 6-0, 7-5
|
| 1922
| '''Ruth Sanders Cordes
| Olga Strashun
| 6-3, 6-4
|
| 1921
| tournament suspended
|
| 1920
| '''Ruth Sanders Cordes
| Ruth King
| 6-1, 6-0
|
| 1919
| not contested
|
| 1918
| tournament suspended due to World War I
|
| 1917
| '''Katharine Brown
| Mrs. Willis Adams
| 7-5, 0-6, 6-4
|
| 1916
| '''Martha Guthrie
| Marguerite Davis
| 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
|
| 1915
| '''Molla Bjurstedt Mallory
| Ruth Sanders
| 6-0, 6-4
|
| 1914
| '''Ruth Sanders
| Katharine Brown
| 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
|
| 1913
| '''Ruth Sanders
| Marjorie Dodd
| 6-2, 6-3
|
| 1912
| '''Marjorie Dodd
| May Sutton
| default
|
| 1911
| '''Marjorie Dodd
| Helen McLaughlin
| 6-0, 6-2
|
| 1910
| '''Miriam Steever
| Rhea Fairbairn
| 4-6, 8-6, 6-0
|
| 1909
| '''Edith Hannam
| Martha Kinsey
| 6-3, 6-1
|
| 1908
| '''Martha Kinsey
| Marjorie Dodd
| 4-6, 8-6, 6-2
|
| 1907
| '''May Sutton
| Martha Kinsey
| 6-1, 6-1
|
| 1906
| '''May Sutton
| Florence Sutton
| 7-5, 6-2
|
| 1905
| '''May Sutton
| Myrtle McAteer
| 6-0, 6-0
|
| 1904
| '''Myrtle McAteer
| Winona Closterman
| 7-5, 6-3
|
| 1903
| '''Winona Closterman
| Myrtle McAteer
| 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
|
| 1902
| '''Maud Banks
| Winona Closterman
| 6-2, 6-1
|
| 1901
| '''Winona Closterman
| Juliette Atkinson
| 6-2, 8-6, 6-1
|
| 1900
| '''Myrtle McAteer
| Maud Banks
| 6-4, 6-8, 6-2, 6-3
|
| 1899
| '''Myrtle McAteer
| Juliette Atkinson
| 7-5, 6-1, 4-6, 8-6
|
Open Era Men's Doubles champions
Open Era Women's Doubles champions
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