Watch the Cincinnati Masters Online Anywhere in the World

Every August, the world’s best tennis players gather in Ohio for the Cincinnati Masters - officially the Cincinnati Open, and one of the most prestigious events outside the Grand Slams. First played in 1899, it is the oldest tennis tournament in the United States still held in its original city, and its slot in the calendar makes it essential viewing: it is the final major tune-up before the U.S. Open, where contenders sharpen their hard-court games and dark horses announce themselves.

Because both the ATP and WTA tours play Cincinnati, a single week delivers the entire top of the men’s and women’s games on fast summer hard courts. Upsets are a tradition here - world number ones fall to inspired outsiders often enough that skipping the “warm-up week” is a mistake serious tennis fans don’t make twice.

The problem: if you are outside the right country, the streams won’t play. Here is how to watch the Cincinnati Masters online anywhere in the world.

Why you can't stream the tournament abroad

Broadcast rights for the Cincinnati Masters are sold country by country - one carrier in the US, others across Europe, the UK, Asia and beyond. Each service checks the IP address of every viewer and refuses connections from outside its licensed territory.

So picture the classic scenario: you’re in a hotel in Hong Kong, you open the streaming service you use at home to catch up on the matches you’ve missed, and instead of tennis you get a message saying the content isn’t available in your region. It doesn’t matter that you subscribe - your IP address is in the wrong country, and that is all the platform checks. The same wall exists around catch-up and highlights services from the UK, France, the USA and virtually everywhere else.

How Le VPN unblocks the tennis

Le VPN lets you change your virtual location on demand. Your connection travels through an encrypted tunnel to a server in a country you choose, and streaming websites see that server’s IP address instead of your real one. Connect to a server back home, and your usual sports services work exactly as if you never left.

1. Subscribe to Le VPN on the plans page - first purchases carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.
2. Install the app on your laptop, smartphone or tablet. Windows, macOS, iOS and Android are supported, with up to 10 simultaneous connections on one account. For smart TVs, Le VPN's SmartDNS option can unblock supported channels without an app.
3. Connect to the right country - a US server for American coverage, or your home country for your own subscription. Le VPN has servers in 100+ locations across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Africa; see the full list.
4. Verify your location on the IP address test page, then open the stream - live play, catch-up and highlights all work.

Timing your viewing from abroad

Cincinnati runs on US Eastern Time, with day sessions from around 11am and night sessions into the late evening. For European fans that means matches from late afternoon until the small hours; for Asia and Australia, it’s morning tennis. If the schedule doesn’t suit, the same VPN connection unlocks your broadcaster’s replays - so you can watch the previous night’s quarter-finals over breakfast, spoiler-free.

For live sport, choose the WireGuard protocol in the Le VPN app - generally the fastest and most stable of the protocols on offer (OpenVPN, WireGuard, Stealth WireGuard, L2TP, IPSec/IKEv2). If you’re connecting from a country that restricts VPN traffic itself, Stealth WireGuard’s obfuscation will get you through.

Security comes with the deal

Le VPN doesn’t only change your geolocation - it encrypts your entire connection. That matters most in exactly the places you’ll be streaming from abroad: hotel Wi-Fi, airport lounges and cafés, where unencrypted traffic can be snooped on by anyone sharing the network. With the VPN on, your logins, payments and browsing stay private, and no one - not even the network operator - can monitor what you do online.

From the first round to the final, the Cincinnati Masters is a week of top-tier tennis that sets the stage for the U.S. Open. Don’t watch it through a scores app. Sign up to Le VPN and watch the Cincinnati Masters online anywhere in the world.