2018 Western & Southern Open
Date	August 13–19
Edition	117th (men) / 90th (women)
Category	ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (men) WTA Premier 5 (women)
Surface	Hard
Location	Mason, Ohio, United States
Venue	Lindner Family Tennis Center
Champions
Men's singles
Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Kiki Bertens
Men's doubles
Jamie Murray / Bruno Soares
Women's doubles
Lucie Hradecká / Ekaterina Makarova
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The 2018 Western & Southern Open was a men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts from August 13–19, 2018. It took place at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio, a northern suburb of Cincinnati, in the United States. It was a Masters 1000 tournament on the 2018 ATP World Tour and a WTA Premier 5 tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour.^[1][2] The tournament was one of two headline events in the 2018 US Open Series. The 2018 tournament was the 117th men's edition and the 90th women's edition of the Cincinnati Masters.

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q	Q2	Q1
Men's singles[3]	1000	600	360	180	90	45	10	25	16	0
Men's doubles[3]						0	—	—	—	—
Women's singles[4]	900	585	350	190	105	60	1	30	20	1
Women's doubles[4]						5	—	—	—	—

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q2	Q1
Men's singles[5]	$1,020,425	$500,340	$251,815	$128,050	$66,490	$35,055	$18,930	$4,360	$2,220
Women's singles	$501,975	$243,920	$122,190	$58,185	$28,030	$14,360	$7,745	$3,150	$1,905
Men's doubles[6]	$316,000	$154,710	$77,600	$39,830	$20,590	$10,860	—	—	—
Women's doubles	$143,600	$72,534	$35,910	$18,075	$9,170	$4,530	—	—	—

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of August 6, 2018. Rankings and points before are as of August 13, 2018.

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Rafael Nadal	10,220	180	0	10,040	Withdrew due to schedule change
2	2	Roger Federer	6,480	0	600	7,080	Runner-up, lost to Novak Djokovic [10]
3	4	Alexander Zverev	4,845	10	10	4,845	Second round lost to Robin Haase
4	3	Juan Martín del Potro	5,410	90	180	5,500	Quarterfinals lost to David Goffin [11]
5	5	Grigor Dimitrov	4,700	1,000	90	3,790	Third round lost to Novak Djokovic [10]
6	6	Kevin Anderson	4,535	10	90	4,615	Third round lost to David Goffin [11]
7	7	Marin Čilić	4,085	0	360	4,445	Semifinals lost to Novak Djokovic [10]
8	8	Dominic Thiem	3,665	180	0	3,485	Withdrew due to illness
9	9	John Isner	3,570	360	10	3,220	First round lost to Sam Querrey
10	10	Novak Djokovic	3,445	0	1,000	4,445	Champion, defeated Roger Federer [2]
11	11	David Goffin	3,085	10	360	3,435	Semifinals retired against Roger Federer [2]
12	12	Diego Schwartzman	2,380	10	10	2,380	First round lost to Stan Wawrinka [WC]
13	13	Pablo Carreño Busta	2,290	90	180	2,380	Quarterfinals lost to Marin Čilić [6]
14	16	Kyle Edmund	1,950	10	45	1,985	Second round lost to Denis Shapovalov
15	18	Nick Kyrgios	1,855	600	90	1,345	Third round lost to Juan Martín del Potro [3]
16	17	Lucas Pouille	1,870	0	45	1,915	Second round lost to Leonardo Mayer

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Reason
14	Fabio Fognini	2,145	45	2,190†	Fatigue

† Fognini is entitled to use an exemption to skip the tournament and substitute his 18th best result (90 points) in its stead. Accordingly, his points after the tournament will remain unchanged.

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:

• Mackenzie McDonald
• Andy Murray^[7]
• Frances Tiafoe
• Stan Wawrinka

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

• Marius Copil
• Hubert Hurkacz
• Bradley Klahn
• Denis Kudla
• Dušan Lajović
• Daniil Medvedev
• Michael Mmoh

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

• Guillermo García López
• Malek Jaziri

Before the tournament

• Roberto Bautista Agut → replaced by Benoît Paire
• Tomáš Berdych → replaced by João Sousa
• Fabio Fognini → replaced by Jérémy Chardy
• Gaël Monfils → replaced by Márton Fucsovics
• Rafael Nadal → replaced by Malek Jaziri
• Dominic Thiem → replaced by Guillermo García López

• David Goffin

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
AUT	Oliver Marach	CRO	Mate Pavić	5	1
USA	Mike Bryan	USA	Jack Sock	9	2
FIN	Henri Kontinen	AUS	John Peers	9	3
GBR	Jamie Murray	BRA	Bruno Soares	19	4
POL	Łukasz Kubot	BRA	Marcelo Melo	25	5
NED	Jean-Julien Rojer	ROU	Horia Tecău	28	6
COL	Juan Sebastián Cabal	COL	Robert Farah	31	7
FRA	Nicolas Mahut	FRA	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	32	8

• Rankings are as of August 6, 2018

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Ryan Harrison / Nicholas Monroe
• Mackenzie McDonald / Daniel Nestor

The following pair received entry as alternates:

• Leonardo Mayer / Albert Ramos Viñolas

Before the tournament

• Dominic Thiem

During the tournament

• Alexander Peya

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
ROU	Simona Halep	1	1
DEN	Caroline Wozniacki	2	2
USA	Sloane Stephens	3	3
GER	Angelique Kerber	4	4
UKR	Elina Svitolina	5	5
FRA	Caroline Garcia	6	6
ESP	Garbiñe Muguruza	7	7
CZE	Petra Kvitová	8	8
CZE	Karolína Plíšková	9	9
GER	Julia Görges	10	10
LAT	Jeļena Ostapenko	11	11
RUS	Daria Kasatkina	12	12
USA	Madison Keys	13	13
USA	Venus Williams	14	14
BEL	Elise Mertens	15	15
AUS	Ashleigh Barty	16	16
JPN	Naomi Osaka	17	17

• ¹ Rankings are as of August 6, 2018

The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:

• Amanda Anisimova^[8]
• Victoria Azarenka^[7]
• Svetlana Kuznetsova^[8]
• Bethanie Mattek-Sands^[8]
• Markéta Vondroušová^[8]

The following player received entry using a protected ranking:

• Serena Williams

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

• Ana Bogdan
• Alizé Cornet
• Kaia Kanepi
• Allie Kiick
• Viktória Kužmová
• Varvara Lepchenko
• Tatjana Maria
• Petra Martić
• Rebecca Peterson
• Aliaksandra Sasnovich
• Ajla Tomljanović
• Stefanie Vögele

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

• Camila Giorgi

Before the tournament

• Mihaela Buzărnescu → replaced by Danielle Collins
• Dominika Cibulková → replaced by Tímea Babos
• Maria Sharapova → replaced by Kateřina Siniaková
• Venus Williams → replaced by Camila Giorgi
• Zhang Shuai → replaced by Aleksandra Krunić

• Caroline Wozniacki

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
CZE	Barbora Krejčíková	CZE	Kateřina Siniaková	6	1
HUN	Tímea Babos	FRA	Kristina Mladenovic	11	2
CZE	Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková	CZE	Barbora Strýcová	15	3
SLO	Andreja Klepač	ESP	María José Martínez Sánchez	26	4
USA	Nicole Melichar	CZE	Květa Peschke	30	5
BEL	Elise Mertens	NED	Demi Schuurs	45	6
CZE	Lucie Hradecká	RUS	Ekaterina Makarova	52	7
ROU	Irina-Camelia Begu	ROU	Monica Niculescu	57	8

• Rankings are as of August 6, 2018

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Jennifer Brady / Caroline Dolehide
• Lauren Davis / Nicole Gibbs

The following pair received entry as alternates:

• Kaitlyn Christian / Sabrina Santamaria

Before the tournament

• Ashleigh Barty

• Bethanie Mattek-Sands

• Novak Djokovic def. Roger Federer, 6–4, 6–4

• Kiki Bertens def. Simona Halep, 2–6, 7–6^(8–6), 6–2

• Jamie Murray / Bruno Soares def. Juan Sebastián Cabal / Robert Farah, 4–6, 6–3, [10–6]

• Lucie Hradecká / Ekaterina Makarova def. Elise Mertens / Demi Schuurs, 6–2, 7–5

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