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<\/a><\/p>\nThe US Open main draw starts on Sunday, August 30th.<\/p>\n
This may well be a farewell to Flushing Meadows for former No. 1 Venus, who captured back-to-back US Open singles championships in 2000 and 2001. <\/p>\n
Serena Williams is not on the 2026 US Open wild card list though there is one final wild card available and it is believed the USTA is waiting to hear from former world No. 1 Serena on whether she plans to play.<\/p>\n
Four-time Olympic gold-medal champion Venus Williams has suffered four consecutive US Open first-round losses, including a 3-6, 6-2, 1-6 loss to world No. 11 Karolina Muchova in a night match on Arthur Ashe Stadium last August. Venus Williams, whose last Flushing Meadows singles win was a 6-1, 6-0 win over Zheng Saisai in the 2019 opening-round, partnered Leylah Fernandez to the US Open doubles quarterfinals last summer.<\/p>\n
While there has been wide speculation the Williams sisters, who lost to Marta Kostyuk and Peyton Stearns in Cincinnati doubles last night, will play the US Open doubles tournament together, neither sister has confirmed that.<\/p>\n
The Qualifying tournament will be played August 24-27 on the National Tennis Center\u2019s field courts, with all matches free to attend during Fan Week.<\/p>\n
US Open Women\u2019s Singles Wild Cards:<\/p>\n
MAIN DRAW<\/p>\n
Venus Williams,\u00a046, seven-time Grand Slam and two-time US Open women\u2019s singles champion<\/p>\n
Sloane Stephens, 33, 2017 US Open women\u2019s singles champion<\/p>\n
Carol Young Suh Lee, 24, US Open Wild Card Challenge Winner<\/p>\n
Reese Brantmeier, 21, American Collegiate Player Wild Card Playoff Winner<\/p>\n
Thea Frodin, 17, USTA Girls\u2019 18s National Champion<\/p>\n
Leolia Jeanjean, 31, awarded via reciprocal agreement with FFT<\/p>\n
Taylah Preston, 20, awarded via reciprocal agreement with Tennis Australia<\/p>\n
To Be Announced<\/p>\n
QUALIFYING<\/p>\n
Janae Preston, 16, USTA Girls\u2019 18s singles finalist<\/p>\n
Katrina Scott, 22, American Collegiate Player Wild Card Challenge Finalist<\/p>\n
Caroline Dolehide, 27, former world No. 41 and current No. 246<\/p>\n
Ayana Akli, 25, current world No. 266<\/p>\n
Annika Penickova, 16, former Top-20 world-ranked junior<\/p>\n
Julieta Pareja, 17, USTA Girls\u2019 18s singles semifinalist, current world No. 290<\/p>\n
Kristina Penickova, 16, former world junior No. 1<\/p>\n
Savannah Broadus, 23, current world No. 307<\/p>\n
US Open Qualifying Wild Card Challenge Winner<\/p>\n
The\u00a0US Open Qualifying Wild Card Challenge\u00a0is a new competition featuring rising American men and women competing for a wild card in the US Open Qualifying Tournament. <\/p>\n
The Challenge will feature four men and four women competing in six total matches \u2013 men\u2019s and women\u2019s semifinals and finals \u2013 with the winners receiving a wild card into Qualifying August 24-27. Matches will begin at 10 a.m. on August 23 and will be played on Courts 4-7 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.<\/p>\n
US Open Qualifying Wild Card Challenge Women\u2019s Field<\/p>\n
Chukwumelije Clarke, 17, USTA Girls\u2019 18s singles semifinalist<\/p>\n
Welles Newman, 16, Top-30 world-ranked junior<\/p>\n
Jordyn Hazelitt,16, Top-30 world-ranked junior<\/p>\n
Kennedy Drenser-Hagmann, 17, recent World Tennis J200 champion (Bogota)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August Former US Open champions Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens lead the wild card list. Richard PagliaroAugust 18,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-859829","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\/859829","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=859829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}