Venus Williams will probably be again within the U.S. Open at age 43, and Caroline Wozniacki will be a part of her within the subject for her return to Grand Slam tennis.
Both gamers got wild playing cards into the event on Wednesday by the U.S. Tennis Association.
Williams was the U.S. Open champion in 2000 and 2001, two of her seven main singles titles. A yr after youthful sister Serena retired following the event, Venus Williams will probably be again in Flushing Meadows, the place she reached the ultimate in her debut in 1997.
She lately returned to competitors after lacking practically six months due to harm and this week scored her first victory over a top-20 participant in 4 years, beating Sixteenth-ranked Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 7-5 within the first spherical of the Western & Southern Open on Monday.
Wozniacki introduced in June that she was returning to competitors three years after retiring to start out a household, and the USTA stated then that she could be given a wild card into the event the place she was twice the runner-up. The former No. 1-ranked participant from Denmark, who has two youngsters with husband and former NBA participant David Lee, earned the primary victory in her comeback final week in Montreal.
American girls Ashlyn Krueger, Robin Montgomery, Kayla Day and Clervie Ngounoue additionally will obtain wild playing cards into the primary draw, as will Fiona Ferro of France and Storm Hunter of Australia, as a part of reciprocal agreements with their tennis federations.
Ferro accused her former coach, Pierre Bouteyre, of sexual assault final yr, shortly after shedding in qualifying on the U.S. Open.
John Isner, a two-time U.S. Open quarterfinalist who was lengthy the highest-ranked American man, was given a wild card for his seventeenth look in the primary draw. Fellow Americans Alex Michelsen, Michael Mmoh, Steve Johnson, Ethan Quinn and Learner Tien additionally obtained wild playing cards, as did Benjamin Bonzi of France and Australian Rinky Hijikata.
Play in the primary draw begins August 28.