Cincinnati Open, Qualification: Dusan Lajovic vs Benjamin Bonzi

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Market context

Polymarket has this **USDC**-settled tennis contract at **100% YES** for Benjamin Bonzi, with the market currently implying the Paris-based qualifier is already through rather than trading the underlying match as a live toss-up. On-chain, the position sits on **Polygon** and resolves through conditional tokens, so the payout depends on the event rule-set rather than any discretionary judgement: Bonzi wins if he advances, while a cancellation, tie, or delay beyond seven days from the scheduled date without a winner pushes it to **50-50**.[12]

The main framing point is that this was a qualifying-round match on outdoor hard courts at Cincinnati, where Bonzi entered as the higher-ranked player and the market had already been reflecting that edge before settlement drifted to the current certainty. Public scoreboards and match trackers show the fixture as interrupted/postponed after a split first two sets, which is exactly the sort of in-play state that can keep a contract pinned to one side until the settlement condition is formally satisfied.[2][8][13]

For traders, the practical catalysts are straightforward: watch for any official ATP or tournament update on whether play resumes, whether the result is recorded, and whether the match is ultimately completed inside the seven-day window that governs this contract’s fallback rule.[12][14] Because the market description ties resolution to a completed advancement decision, the decisive dependency is not form or ranking but the administrative status of the match itself; if the event is reactivated and Bonzi is confirmed as advancing, the 100% reading should be justified, but if the schedule slips past the deadline without a winner, the contract reverts to split treatment.[12]

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Methodology

We track Cincinnati Open, Qualification: Dusan Lajovic vs Benjamin Bonzi across the five venues with material prediction-market liquidity. The probability shown is the live Polymarket mid; the comparison rows summarise how each venue treats the underlying contract — fees, KYC thresholds, settlement currency, deposit options. The highlighted row marks the cheapest route into Polymarket's order book.

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