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The Venus Williams comeback tour continues.
The 45-year-old Venus has accepted a wild card into this month’s US Open.
The previous world No. 1, who launched her comeback in Washington, DC, will return to US Open singles motion 25 years after she defeated Lindsay Davenport to seize her maiden US Open championship.
Two-time US Open singles champion Venus Williams and fellow Individuals Clervie Ngounoue, Julieta Pareja, Caty McNally, Valerie Glozman and Alyssa Ahn will obtain singles primary draw wild playing cards into the 2025 US Open, in addition to France’s Caroline Garcia and Australian Talia Gibson, as a part of reciprocal agreements.
The 2025 US Open Singles Principal Attracts might be performed August 24-September 7 on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle in Flushing, N.Y.
Williams, 45, is a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, together with twice on the US Open (2000, 2001). Williams returned to motion final month on the Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington, D.C, enjoying her first match in 16 months and incomes her first singles victory in practically two years. With the victory, Williams turned the oldest participant to win a WTA Tour-level singles match in additional than 21 years.
Ngounoue, 19, reached a career-best rating of world No. 191 final month after successful her second singles title of the season at an ITF World Tennis Tour W50 occasion in Spain. The previous world No. 1 junior might be returning to the US Open for the primary time since 2023, when she obtained a wild card after successful the singles title on the USTA Billie Jean King Ladies’ 18s Nationwide Championship, her solely earlier Grand Slam primary draw look.
Pareja, 16, is at the moment ranked because the No. 1 junior on the planet. She reached the ladies’ singles and doubles last at Wimbledon earlier this summer time and achieved a career-best skilled rating of world No. 317 earlier this yr following a run to the semifinals of the WTA 250 occasion in Bogota, Colombia as a qualifier.
McNally, 23, earned her wild card by successful the US Open Wild Card Problem, buoyed by her singles title on the USTA Professional Circuit W100 occasion in Evansville, Ind., final month. Click on right here to view the ultimate US Open Wild Card Problem standings. The title was McNally’s second of the month of July, after taking house the crown on the WTA 125 occasion in Newport, R.I. She now finds herself on the cusp of breaking again into the WTA Prime 100, with a present rating of world No. 104.
Glozman, 18, earned her wild card by successful the ladies’s singles title on the inaugural American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs in June. The reigning ACC Freshman of the 12 months at Stanford, Glozman bested a area of the highest American collegiate gamers on the new occasion designed to extend the variety of US Open wild playing cards allotted to the highest school tennis gamers. Glozman is not any stranger to New York, having competed in US Open qualifying every of the previous three years.
Ahn, 18, received the singles title on the USTA Billie Jean King Ladies’ 18s Nationwide Championships. The San Diego native is dedicated to play school tennis at Stanford this yr, the place she might be a teammate of fellow wild card recipient Glozman.
Garcia, 31, will play in her last Grand Slam on the event at which she achieved her finest Grand Slam singles outcome – a semifinal look in 2022 – as she introduced she is going to retire from tennis on the finish of the 2025 season. The previous world No. 4 has received 11 WTA Tour titles together with the WTA Finals in 2022. She earned her wild card primarily based on a reciprocal settlement between the USTA and FFT the place wild playing cards between the US Open and Roland Garros are exchanged.
Gibson, 21, is at the moment ranked a career-best No. 107 and has received two skilled singles titles this yr. She earned her wild card primarily based 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 girls receiving wild playing cards into the US Open Qualifying event, held August 18-21 on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle:
Fiona Crawley, 23, the previous all-American at North Carolina who has received two skilled singles titles this yr; Hina Inoue, 22, who has received one skilled singles title this yr; Ayana Akli, 24, who received her first skilled singles title in Might and is at the moment ranked a career-best world No. 285; Monika Ekstrand, 18, who reached the ultimate of the W100 occasion in Cary, N.C., final month as a qualifier and has received two skilled singles titles this yr; Kristina Penickova, 15, the present No. 5 junior on the planet who has received two Grand Slam women’ doubles titles this yr; Akasha Urhobo, 18, who reached the singles last on the W35 occasion in Boca Raton, Fla., this spring; Alexis Nguyen, 17, a rising highschool senior who’s dedicated to play school tennis at North Carolina; Mary Stoiana, 22, an all-American at Texas A&M who was the runner-up on the American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs; and Maya Iyengar, 18, the USTA Ladies’ 18s nationwide singles runner-up.
