Alexa Noel, Robert Money and JJ Tracy Awarded US Open Wild Playing cards

By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, Could 30, 2024

NCAA champions have secured spots within the 2024 US Open.

NCAA Division I ladies’s singles champion Alexa Noel and males’s doubles champions Robert Money and JJ Tracy will obtain main-draw wild playing cards into these respective occasions on the 2024 US Open.

Moreover, Michael Zheng, who reached the lads’s singles remaining, will obtain a wild card into qualifying.

The 2024 US Open shall be held over three weeks from August 19 by September 8.

Noel (21; Summit, N.J.) defeated Georgia’s Anastasiia Lopata, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, within the ladies’s singles remaining to grow to be the third College of Miami participant to win the NCAA ladies’s singles title.

The redshirt junior was the match’s No. 8 seed and knocked off the No 1-ranked participant within the semifinals. She’ll be returning to the US Open for the primary time since 2019 when she acquired a wild card into the ladies’s doubles fundamental draw because the USTA Billie Jean King Women’ 18s doubles champion and competed within the US Open Junior Championships.

Money (23; New Albany, Ohio) and Tracy (21; Hilton Head, S.C.) defeated Florida State’s Antoine Cornut-Chauvinc and Joshua Dous-Karpenschif within the males’s doubles remaining, successful the decisive match tiebreak to offer Ohio State its second consecutive males’s doubles nationwide title.

Money and Tracy had been one of many top-ranked doubles groups within the nation all through the season, and helped lead the Buckeyes to a 34-2 report and an look within the semifinals of the NCAA crew championships.

Zheng (20; Montville, N.J.) fell within the males’s singles remaining in opposition to Alabama’s Filip Planinsek in three units. The Columbia sophomore final competed on the US Open in 2022 as a junior.

“The pathway from school to skilled tennis is as robust as ever, and these wild playing cards replicate the USTA’s continued dedication to supporting our top-performing American collegians on the NCAA Division I degree,” stated USTA Participant Improvement GM Martin Blackman.

At the moment there are six American former NCAA singles champions ranked within the ATP and WTA Prime 100: Danielle Collins (Virginia; 2014, 2016), Marcos Giron (UCLA; 2014), Mackenzie McDonald (UCLA; 2016), Emma Navarro (Virginia, 2021), Ben Shelton (Florida; 2022), and Peyton Stearns (Texas; 2022).

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