Women's Tennis:
Cincinnati Masters, Singles Champions by Year
Full list of singles winners, year by year, of the Cincinnati Masters for women, including champions, runner-ups and finals results of each tournament edition.
The Cincinnati Masters has crowned its women's singles champion in 93 editions, in which a total of 70 players have won at least one title. The first champion was Myrtle McAteer in 1899 and the most recent was Aryna Sabalenka in 2024.
The last 10 editions of this tournament were won by 10 different players.
Among the players that won titles, the most successful in the Cincinnati Masters are Clara Louise Zinke and Ruth Sanders Cordes with 5 trophies each.
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= WTA Tier III Women's Tennis: Cincinnati Masters, Singles Champions by Year
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1000
2025
* tournament to be played (starting on the week of August 4)
Year
Champion
Runner-up
Year
Champion
Runner-up
T.III
2008
Nadia Petrova
Nathalie Dechy
6-2, 6-1
Year
Champion
Runner-up
T.III
2007
Anna Chakvetadze
Akiko Morigami
6-1, 6-3
T.III
2005
Patty Schnyder
Akiko Morigami
6-4, 6-0
2003
not played
2002
not played
Year
Champion
Runner-up
2001
not played
2000
not played
1999
not played
1998
not played
1997
not played
1996
not played
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1995
not played
1994
not played
1993
not played
1992
not played
1991
not played
1990
not played
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1989
not played
T.III
1988
Barbara Potter
Helen Kelesi
6-2, 6-2
1987
not played
1986
not played
1985
not played
1984
not played
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1983
not played
1982
not played
1981
not played
1980
not played
1979
not played
1978
not played
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1977
not played
1976
not played
1975
not played
1974
not played
1972
Margaret Court
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
3-6, 6-2, 7-5
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1971
Virginia Wade
Linda Tuero
6-3, 6-3
1970
Rosemary 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 Bartkowicz
Patsy Rippy
6-4, 6-1
1966
Jane Bartkowicz
Peachy Kellmeyer
6-3, 6-3
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1965
Stephanie DeFina
Roberta Alison
10-8, 5-7, 6-4
1964
Jean Danilovich
Alice Tym
6-1, 6-2
1963
Stephanie DeFina
Jane Bartkowicz
7-5, 6-2
1962
Julie Heldman
Roberta Alison
6-4, 6-4
1961
Peachy Kellmeyer
Carole Caldwell Graebner
3-6, 12-10, 7-5
1960
Carol Hanks Aucamp
Farel Footman
6-2, 4-6, 6-3
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1959
Donna Floyd
Carol Hanks Aucamp
5-7, 6-2, 6-4
1958
Gwyn Thomas
Marta Hernández
6-1, 6-2
1957
Lois Felix
Pat Naud
7-5, 2-6, 7-5
1956
Yola Ramírez
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
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1953
Thelma Coyne Long
Anita Kanter
7-5, 6-2
1952
Anita Kanter
Doris Popple
6-0, 6-1
1951
Patricia Canning Todd
Magda Rurac
6-3, 6-4
1950
Beverly Baker Fleitz
Magda Rurac
5-7, 6-3, 9-7
1949
Magda Rurac
Beverly Baker Fleitz
6-4, 2-6, 6-0
1948
Dorothy Head Knode
Mercedes Madden Lewis
6-4, 6-4
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1947
Betty Rosenquest
Betty Hulbert James
9-7, 6-2
1946
Virginia Kovacs
Shirley Fry
6-4, 6-1
1945
Pauline Betz
Dorothy Bundy Cheney
6-2, 6-0
1944
Dorothy Bundy Cheney
Pauline Betz
7-5, 6-4
1943
Pauline Betz
Catherine Wolf
6-0, 6-2
1942
Catherine Wolf
Monica Nolan
6-4, 6-1
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1941
Pauline Betz
Mary Arnold
6-4, 6-3
1940
Alice Marble
Gracyn Wheeler Kelleher
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
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1935
tournament not played due to the Great Depression
1934
Gracyn Wheeler Kelleher
Esther Bartosh
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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
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1929
Clara Louise Zinke
Ruth Riese
6-2, 6-3
1928
Marjorie 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 Weil
Clara Louise Zinke
6-4, 6-2
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1923
Ruth Sanders Cordes
Clara Louise Zinke
6-0, 7-5
1922
Ruth Sanders Cordes
Olga Strashun Weil
6-3, 6-4
1921
not played
1920
Ruth Sanders Cordes
Ruth King
6-1, 6-0
1919
not played
1918
Not played due to the World War I
Year
Champion
Runner-up
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 Mallory
Ruth Sanders Cordes
6-0, 6-4
1914
Ruth Sanders Cordes
Katharine Brown
7-5, 5-7, 6-2
1913
Ruth Sanders Cordes
Marjorie Dodd
6-2, 6-3
1912
Marjorie Dodd
May Sutton
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Year
Champion
Runner-up
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
Year
Champion
Runner-up
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
Year
Champion
Runner-up
1899
Myrtle McAteer
Juliette Atkinson
7-5, 6-1, 4-6, 8-6