Cincinnati Open: Watch top-tier tennis without traveling abroad or breaking the bank

If you’re no more than an occasional tennis fan — the kind who tunes in for the finals at Wimbledon or the French Open — you’ve probably entertained idle dreams of jetting overseas to see Coco Gauff or Novak Djokovic play in person. Probably not in this lifetime, you realize.

But you can get the same cast of athletes on court just by driving a few hours from Chicago. One of the premier events of the professional tennis tour takes place each August just outside Cincinnati. Yes, Cincinnati.