Thursday's Order of Play sees the third round action get underway at the Cincinnati Masters with Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams and Roger Federer all in action
Tenth seeded Mardy Fish takes on Radek Stepanek in the first match of the day in the round of 16 before second seeded Serena Williams will be in action. She takes on qualifier Urszula Radwanska, who beat Yaroslava Shvedova in her second round match. Williams had another easy opener against Eleni Daniilidou.
The evening session at the centre court begins with second seeded Djokovic playing Nikolay Davydenko in his third round match. Djokovic needed a first set tie-breaker to overcome Andreas Seppi in his first match of the tournament.
Top seeded Radwanska will take on America’s wild-card entrant Sloane Stephens at the Grandstand court, before third seeded Andy Murray plays Jeremy Chardy. Later in the evening, the sixth seeded Caroline Wozniacki will be up against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia.
Here is the schedule and order of play for Thursday at the Western & Southern Open 2012:
CENTER COURT Start 11:00 am
[10] Mardy Fish (USA) v Radek Stepanek (CZE)
Not Before 1:00 PM
[Q] Urszula Radwanska (POL) v [2] Serena Williams (USA)
Not Before 7:00 PM
Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) v [2] Novak Djokovic (SRB)
Not Before 8:30 PM
[9] Na Li (CHN) v [Q] Johanna Larsson (SWE)
GRANDSTAND Start 11:00 am
[1] Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) v [WC] Sloane Stephens (USA)
[LL] Jeremy Chardy (FRA) v [3] Andy Murray (GBR)
[WC] Venus Williams (USA) v [7] Sara Errani (ITA)
Not Before 7:00 PM
[6] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) v [17] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)
COURT 3 Start 11:00 am
[6] Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) v Viktor Troicki (SRB)
Pablo Andujar (ESP) v [12] Marin Cilic (CRO)
Not Before 2:30 PM
Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) v [14] Kei Nishikori (JPN)
Milos Raonic (CAN) v [5] Tomas Berdych (CZE)
Jarkko Nieminen (FIN)/Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) v [2] Bob Bryan (USA)/Mike Bryan (USA)
COURT 9 Start 11:00 am
[5] Angelique Kerber (GER) v [Q] Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)
Shuai Peng (CHN) v [4] Petra Kvitova (CZE)
[3] Samantha Stosur (AUS) v Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)
[WC] Varvara Lepchenko (USA)/Sloane Stephens (USA) v [Alt] Darija Jurak (CRO)/Katalin Marosi (HUN)
[1] Liezel Huber (USA)/Lisa Raymond (USA) v [WC] Eleni Daniilidou (GRE)/Shuai Peng (CHN)
COURT 6 Start 12:00 noon
[7] Marcel Granollers (ESP)/Marc Lopez (ESP) v Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/Bruno Soares (BRA)
Not Before 2:00 PM
Ivan Dodig (CRO)/Marcelo Melo (BRA) v [5] Leander Paes (IND)/Radek Stepanek (CZE)
[1] Max Mirnyi (BLR)/Daniel Nestor (CAN) v Andreas Seppi (ITA)/Viktor Troicki (SRB)
[5] Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/Lucie Hradecka (CZE) v [2] Sara Errani (ITA)/Roberta Vinci (ITA)
COURT 7 Start 12:00 noon
[8] Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) v [WC] James Blake (USA)/Sam Querrey (USA)
[WC] Brian Baker (USA)/Rajeev Ram (USA) v [4] Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/Horia Tecau (ROU)
Not Before 4:00 PM
Natalie Grandin (RSA)/Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) v [6] Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP)/Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP)
