Former champions Naomi Osaka, Bianca Andreescu and Stan Wawrinka have obtained singles predominant draw wild playing cards into the US Open, the US Tennis Affiliation stated Wednesday.
Japan’s Osaka, who counts the 2018 and 2020 US Opens amongst her 4 Grand Slam titles, returned to competitors in January after the delivery of her daughter and has superior to the third spherical or higher at 4 WTA 1000 occasions this season.
Canada’s Andreescu, the 2019 US Open champion, returned to motion this 12 months after lacking 9 months resulting from a again harm and reached the French Open third spherical in her first occasion again.
For Swiss Wawrinka, who received the newest of his three Grand Slam titles on the 2016 US Open, the wild card permits him to make his 72nd predominant draw look in one of many sport’s 4 blue-riband occasions, which places him fifth on the all-time listing.
Austrian Dominic Thiem, the 2020 US Open champion who introduced this 12 months that he’ll retire following the 2024 season resulting from a wrist harm, was additionally given a wild card.
The US Open is Aug. 26-Sept. 8 in New York.
