The Australian Open is just around corner with wildcards already being handed out for the first grand slam of 2026.<\/p>\n
Eight wildcards will be handed out for each of the men’s and women’s singles draws – with players going straight into the main draw.<\/p>\n
Nick Kyrgios is expected to receive a wildcard if he is fit to play at Melbourne Park with his ranking not able to get him into qualifying or the main draw.<\/p>\n
The Sporting News lists all the players to get wildcards so far for Australian Open 2026<\/p>\n
List of Australian Open 2026 wildcardsAustralian Pro Tour Wildcard Points Race<\/p>\n
Men: James Duckworth (Australia)<\/p>\n
Women:\u00a0Emerson Jones (Australias)<\/p>\n
Asia Pacific<\/p>\n
Men:\u00a0Yunchaokete Bu (China)<\/p>\n
Women:\u00a0Zarina Diyas (Kazakhstan)<\/p>\n
US Open<\/p>\n
Men:\u00a0Patrick Kypson (USA)<\/p>\n
Women:\u00a0Elizabeth Mandlik (USA)<\/p>\n
List of Australian Open 2025 wildcardsMen’s main drawNishesh BasavareddyOmar JasikaJames McCabeLucas PouilleKasidit SamrejTristan SchoolkateLi TuStan WawrinkaWomen’s main drawTalia GibsonMaya JointEmerson JonesIva JovicChlo\u00e9 PaquetDaria SavilleAjla Tomljanovi\u0107Zhang Shuai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Open is just around corner with wildcards already being handed out for the first grand slam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-319921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}