US Open champions will make wild card returns to New York this month.
The USTA at the moment introduced that three-time Grand Slam singles champion Stan Wawrinka, 2020 US Open champion Dominic Thiem and People Chris Eubanks, Zachary Svajda, Learner Tien and Matthew Forbes will obtain singles principal draw wild playing cards into the 2024 US Open, in addition to France’s Alexandre Muller and Australian Tristan Schoolkate, as a part of reciprocal agreements.
The 2024 US Open might be performed August 26-September 8 on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart in Flushing, N.Y.
Wawrinka, 39, is a three-time Grand Slam singles champion together with the 2016 US Open. He has been ranked as excessive as world No. 3 and is presently ranked No. 141. He’ll be making his 72nd Grand Slam principal draw look, which is fifth all-time.
Thiem, 30, received the 2020 US Open. Earlier this yr he introduced that he’ll retire following the 2024 season after scuffling with a persistent wrist harm for the higher a part of the final three years. He has been ranked as excessive as No. 3 and is presently ranked No. 211.
Eubanks, 28, is presently ranked No. 123. Final summer season he reached a career-high rating of world No. 29 after advancing to the Wimbledon quarterfinals and profitable his first ATP Tour title in Mallorca. He reached the semifinals on the ATP 250 occasion in Newport earlier this summer season and not too long ago represented the USA on the Paris Olympics.
Svajda, 21, is presently ranked No. 110, which is one spot off his career-best rating of No. 109 achieved in July. In 2023 he certified for the US Open principal draw after receiving wild playing cards in 2020 and 2021 because the USTA Boys’ 18s nationwide champion. He earned his finest US Open end in 2021, reaching the second spherical the place he misplaced to Jannik Sinner in 5 units.
Tien, 18, is presently ranked a career-best No. 232 and earned his wild card by profitable the US Open Wild Card Problem. This summer season Tien received 28 consecutive matches, profitable 5 consecutive tournaments together with his first ATP Challenger Tour title on the USTA Professional Circuit occasion in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. This might be Tien’s third consecutive US Open principal draw look after receiving a wild card every of the previous two years because the USTA Boys’ 18s nationwide champion.
Forbes, 18, will make his Grand Slam debut after profitable the singles title on the USTA Boys’ 18s Nationwide Championships. The Raleigh, N.C., native will play school tennis at Michigan State within the fall. He received the boys’ 18s doubles title on the 2023 Orange Bowl.
Muller, 27, is presently ranked No. 77 and reached a profession excessive rating of No. 71 in January. He earned his wild card based mostly on a reciprocal settlement between the USTA and FFT the place wild playing cards between the US Open and Roland Garros are exchanged.
Schoolkate, 23, is presently ranked No. 160 and received his first ATP Challenger Tour title earlier this yr. He earned his wild card based mostly on a reciprocal settlement between the USTA and Tennis Australia the place wild playing cards between the US Open and Australian Open are exchanged.
The USTA additionally introduced the American males receiving wild playing cards into the US Open Qualifying event, held August 19-22 on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart:
Brandon Holt, 26, who has reached three singles finals this yr, profitable one title; Ethan Quinn, 20, the 2023 NCAA singles champion who reached his first ATP Challenger Tour closing in Cleveland in January; Nishesh Basavareddy, 19, the Stanford All-American who reached the ultimate on the ATP Challenger in Bloomfield Hills in July; Kaylan Bigun, 18, the 2024 French Open boys’ singles champion who was ranked because the No. 1 junior on this planet as not too long ago as June; Eliot Spizzirri, 22, the two-time ITA Nationwide Participant of the Yr on the College of Texas; Aidan Mayo, 21, who reached the singles closing on the ATP Challenger in Charlottesville in October; Bruno Kuzuhara, 20, the previous world No. 1 junior; Michael Zheng, 20, the Columbia College junior who was the 2024 NCAA males’s singles runner-up; and Jack Kennedy, 16, the USTA Boys’ 18s nationwide singles runner-up.
