# 2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open

The 2009 Cincinnati Masters (also known as the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 108th edition of the Cincinnati Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events were held at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, near Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, with the men playing from August 17 through August 23, 2009, and the women from August 10 through August 16, 2009. It was the third women's event and the fifth men's event on the 2009 US Open Series. Former world No. 1 Kim Clijsters made her return to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in Cincinnati.

## WTA entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| RUS | Dinara Safina | 1 | 1 |
| USA | Serena Williams | 2 | 2 |
| USA | Venus Williams | 3 | 3 |
| RUS | Elena Dementieva | 4 | 4 |
| SRB | Jelena Janković | 5 | 5 |
| RUS | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 6 | 6 |
| RUS | Vera Zvonareva | 7 | 7 |
| DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 8 | 8 |
| BLR | Victoria Azarenka | 9 | 9 |
| RUS | Nadia Petrova | 10 | 10 |
| SRB | Ana Ivanovic | 11 | 11 |
| FRA | Marion Bartoli | 12 | 12 |
| POL | Agnieszka Radwańska | 13 | 13 |
| ITA | Flavia Pennetta | 14 | 14 |
| SVK | Dominika Cibulková | 16 | 15 |
| FRA | Virginie Razzano | 18 | 16 |
* $^1$ As of August 3, 2009

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
* Kim Clijsters
* Maria Kirilenko
* Meghann Shaughnessy
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* Kateryna Bondarenko
* Olga Govortsova
* Tatjana Malek
* Ayumi Morita
* Melanie Oudin
* Urszula Radwańska
* Yaroslava Shvedova
* Yanina Wickmayer

## ATP entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^*$ | Seed |
| SUI | Roger Federer | 1 | 1 |
| ESP | Rafael Nadal | 2 | 2 |
| GBR | Andy Murray | 3 | 3 |
| SRB | Novak Djokovic | 4 | 4 |
| USA | Andy Roddick | 5 | 5 |
| ARG | Juan Martín del Potro | 6 | 6 |
| FRA | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | 7 | 7 |
| RUS | Nikolay Davydenko | 8 | 8 |
| FRA | Gilles Simon | 9 | 9 |
| CHI | Fernando González | 10 | 10 |
| ESP | Fernando Verdasco | 11 | 11 |
| SWE | Robin Söderling | 12 | 12 |
| FRA | Gaël Monfils | 13 | 13 |
| CRO | Marin Čilić | 15 | 14 |
| ESP | Tommy Robredo | 16 | 15 |
| CZE | Radek Štěpánek | 17 | 16 |
* Seedings are based on the rankings of August 10, 2009

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw
* Robby Ginepri
* John Isner
* Wayne Odesnik
* Marat Safin
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* Simone Bolelli
* Chris Guccione
* Jan Hernych
* Łukasz Kubot
* Ivan Ljubičić
* Lu Yen-hsun
* Mikhail Youzhny
The following players received the lucky loser spot:
* Julien Benneteau

## Finals
### Men's singles

Roger Federer defeated Novak Djokovic 6–1, 7–5.
* It was Federer's fourth title of the year and 61st overall. It was his third win at the event, also winning in 2005 and 2007.

### Women's singles

Jelena Janković defeated Dinara Safina 6–4, 6–2.
* It was Janković's second title of the year and 11th overall.

### Men's doubles

Daniel Nestor / Nenad Zimonjić defeated Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan, 3–6, 7–6$^{(7–2)}$, [15–13].

### Women's doubles

Cara Black / Liezel Huber defeated Nuria Llagostera Vives / María José Martínez Sánchez, 6–3, 0–6, [10–2].