Haas reflects back on the event’s successful return to its home city in Cincinnati, being the first combined event in North America held without attendance limitation during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Then we were able to welcome back our fans in August of ’21, basically restarting normalcy.” In those two years, we oversaw our tournaments move from Cincinnati to New York, and the staging of the 2020 event with no fans at the national tennis center. “We’re around two years from the day that lock downs. “You know I’ve only been with this tournament for three and a half years and it’s been crazy,” Haas shares. She now oversees all aspects of the Western & Southern Open, including all business and broadcast operations, player relations and the overall fan experience.
“Now it’s just the title matching the responsibility of the last two years.” “Basically I’ve kind of had the role without the title necessarily,” Haas laughs. Silva left in June of 2020 to take a job with the PGA TOUR down in Florida. Haas was brought onto Western & Southern Open’s staff first as COO in 2018 a role in which she worked closely with the tournament’s CEO at the time, Andre Silva. “It’s going to be good to get more in and around all sports in seats of leadership in the future.”
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“I feel very fortunate, lucky and honored to pave the way for other females knowing that I am the only female in my position at the Masters series level,” Haas says. Haas is the only female to hold the Chief Executive role at such an event. In February of 2022, Katie Haas was named CEO of the Western & Southern Open, one of just five events in the world to host an ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 tournament at the same venue in the same week.
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