CLEVELAND, Ohio — For the fourth consecutive 12 months a number of the world’s greatest girls’s tennis execs are headed to the West Financial institution of the Flats for Tennis within the Land.
Tennis within the Land is a warmup event for the U.S. Open the next week. The qualifying rounds are set to start Saturday, Aug. 17, at 10 a.m. on the Nautica Leisure Complicated with the Cuyahoga River and a view of downtown serving as a backdrop for the largest weekend {of professional} tennis Cleveland has to supply.
Tickets can be found now and the beginning costs vary from $10 for Session 1 within the qualifying rounds to $63 for Session 12′s finals. A entrance row seat to a title match may run you as much as $450, although there are additionally a number of totally different ticket packages obtainable.
The 22-woman singles area is led by the Ladies’s Tennis Affiliation’s (WTA) Seventeenth-ranked participant, Liudmila Samsonova, who returns this 12 months after taking residence the Tennis within the Land crown in 2022.
Samsonova got here to Cleveland ranked forty fifth throughout that run two years in the past, and the championship match was her tenth consecutive win on the time.
Among the many seven different ranked opponents on this 12 months’s group are No. 26 Leylah Fernandez, No. 38 Kateřina Siniaková, No. 41 Wang Xinyu, No. 44 Anastasia Potapova, No. 46 Peyton Stearns, No. 56 Sofia Kenin and No. 57 Clara Burel.
The event culminates with the Aug. 23 semifinals and Aug. 24 title matches.
Additionally happening on the event grounds will likely be Navy Appreciation Day, Ladies in Sports activities Day, Ladies in Enterprise Day, Children Day, Senior Day, School Night time and the free Meijer Fan Fest, which has beforehand featured concessions, distributors, reside music, pickleball and interviews with the athletes amongst different festivities.
