Venus Williams, Garcia, Blanch and Holt Receive 2025 US Open Wildcards
FLUSHING, N.Y., August 13, 2025 – The USTA today announced that Americans Brandon Holt, Nishesh Basavareddy, Tristan Boyer, Emilio Nava, Stefan Dostanic and Darwin Blanch will receive singles main draw wild cards into the 2025 US Open, as well as France’s Valentin Royer and Australian Tristan Schoolkate, as part of reciprocal agreements.
The 2025 US Open Singles Main Draws will be played August 24-September 7 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.
Holt, 27, broke into the ATP Top 100 and reached a career-best ranking of world No. 99 earlier this summer after reaching the second round of the ATP 250 event in Mallorca as a qualifier. Currently ranked No. 106, he has won two ATP Challenger Tour titles this year.
Basavareddy, 20, is currently ranked No. 109. He, too, reached a career-best ranking of world No. 99 earlier this summer. A former all-American at Stanford, Basavareddy notably reached the semifinals of the ATP 250 event in Auckland in January. He’ll be making his US Open main draw debut.
Boyer, 24, is currently ranked No. 116. He reached the second round of the Australian Open this year as a qualifier, earning his first tour-level win. He also owns wins at two ATP Masters 1000 events this year – Indian Wells and Toronto – and will be making his US Open main draw debut.
Nava, 23, is currently ranked a career-best world No. 105 and earned his wild card by winning the US Open Wild Card Challenge. Click here to view the final US Open Wild Card Challenge Standings. Nava’s summer was highlighted by a run to the third round of the ATP Masters 1000 event in Toronto as a qualifier. Nava also won three consecutive ATP Challenger Tour titles this spring, which earned him a spot in the French Open via the Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge, where he reached the second round.
Dostanic, 23, earned his wild card by winning the men’s singles title at the inaugural American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs in June. Dostanic, who helped lead Wake Forest to the NCAA men’s tennis national championship this spring, bested a field of the top American collegiate players at the new event designed to increase the number of US Open wild cards allotted to the top college tennis players.
Blanch, 18, will make his Grand Slam debut after winning the singles title at the USTA Boys’ 18s National Championships. A former top-ranked junior, Blanch has predominantly been playing on the ITF World Tennis Tour recently, winning his first professional singles title at a M15 event in Spain in February.
Royer, 24, is currently ranked a career-best No. 104. He reached the second round at Wimbledon as a qualifier and has won two ATP Challenger Tour titles this season. He earned his wild card based on a reciprocal agreement between the USTA and FFT where wild cards between the US Open and Roland Garros are exchanged.
Schoolkate, 24, is currently ranked a career-best No. 97 and has won two ATP Challenger Tour titles this year. He earned his wild card based on a reciprocal agreement between the USTA and Tennis Australia where wild cards between the US Open and Australian Open are exchanged.
The USTA also announced the American men receiving wild cards into the US Open Qualifying tournament, held August 18-21 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center:
Andres Martin, 24, who is currently ranked a career-best No. 275 after reaching the final at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., last month; Tyler Zink, 24, the former US Open boys’ doubles champion who has won one professional singles title this year; Patrick Maloney, 25, who has won two professional singles titles this year; Garrett Johns, 24, who has won three professional singles titles this year; Martin Damm, 21, who reached the men’s doubles second round at the 2019 US Open at the age of 15; Jack Kennedy, 17, the Long Island native who has been ranked as high as No. 5 in the ITF junior rankings this year; Benjamin Willwerth, 18, who reached the boys’ singles final at the Australian Open this year; Michael Zheng, 21, the reigning NCAA men’s singles champion and the runner-up at the American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs; and Jack Satterfield, 18, the USTA Boys’ 18s national singles runner-up.
Women’s US Open WildCards
FLUSHING, N.Y., August 13, 2025 – The USTA today announced that two-time US Open singles champion Venus Williams and fellow Americans Clervie Ngounoue, Julieta Pareja, Caty McNally, Valerie Glozman and Alyssa Ahn will receive singles main draw wild cards into the 2025 US Open, as well as France’s Caroline Garcia and Australian Talia Gibson, as part of reciprocal agreements.
The 2025 US Open Singles Main Draws will be played August 24-September 7 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.
Williams, 45, is a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, including twice at the US Open (2000, 2001). Williams returned to action last month at the Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington, D.C, playing her first match in 16 months and earning her first singles victory in nearly two years. With the victory, Williams became the oldest player to win a WTA Tour-level singles match in more than 21 years.
Ngounoue, 19, reached a career-best ranking of world No. 191 last month after winning her second singles title of the season at an ITF World Tennis Tour W50 event in Spain. The former world No. 1 junior will be returning to the US Open for the first time since 2023, when she received a wild card after winning the singles title at the USTA Billie Jean King Girls’ 18s National Championship, her only previous Grand Slam main draw appearance.
Pareja, 16, is currently ranked as the No. 1 junior in the world. She reached the girls’ singles and doubles final at Wimbledon earlier this summer and achieved a career-best professional ranking of world No. 317 earlier this year following a run to the semifinals of the WTA 250 event in Bogota, Colombia as a qualifier.
McNally, 23, earned her wild card by winning the US Open Wild Card Challenge, buoyed by her singles title at the USTA Pro Circuit W100 event in Evansville, Ind., last month. Click here to view the final US Open Wild Card Challenge standings. The title was McNally’s second of the month of July, after taking home the crown at the WTA 125 event in Newport, R.I. She now finds herself on the cusp of breaking back into the WTA Top 100, with a current ranking of world No. 104.
Glozman, 18, earned her wild card by winning the women’s singles title at the inaugural American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs in June. The reigning ACC Freshman of the Year at Stanford, Glozman bested a field of the top American collegiate players at the new event designed to increase the number of US Open wild cards allotted to the top college tennis players. Glozman is no stranger to New York, having competed in US Open qualifying each of the past three years.
Ahn, 18, won the singles title at the USTA Billie Jean King Girls’ 18s National Championships. The San Diego native is committed to play college tennis at Stanford this year, where she will be a teammate of fellow wild card recipient Glozman.
Garcia, 31, will play in her final Grand Slam at the tournament at which she achieved her best Grand Slam singles result – a semifinal appearance in 2022 – as she announced she will retire from tennis at the end of the 2025 season. The former world No. 4 has won 11 WTA Tour titles including the WTA Finals in 2022. She earned her wild card based on a reciprocal agreement between the USTA and FFT where wild cards between the US Open and Roland Garros are exchanged.
Gibson, 21, is currently ranked a career-best No. 107 and has won two professional singles titles this year. She earned her wild card based on a reciprocal agreement between the USTA and Tennis Australia where wild cards between the US Open and Australian Open are exchanged.
The USTA also announced the American women receiving wild cards into the US Open Qualifying tournament, held August 18-21 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center:
Fiona Crawley, 23, the former all-American at North Carolina who has won two professional singles titles this year; Hina Inoue, 22, who has won one professional singles title this year; Ayana Akli, 24, who won her first professional singles title in May and is currently ranked a career-best world No. 285; Monika Ekstrand, 18, who reached the final of the W100 event in Cary, N.C., last month as a qualifier and has won two professional singles titles this year; Kristina Penickova, 15, the current No. 5 junior in the world who has won two Grand Slam girls’ doubles titles this year; Akasha Urhobo, 18, who reached the singles final at the W35 event in Boca Raton, Fla., this spring; Alexis Nguyen, 17, a rising high school senior who is committed to play college tennis at North Carolina; Mary Stoiana, 22, an all-American at Texas A&M who was the runner-up at the American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs; and Maya Iyengar, 18, the USTA Girls’ 18s national singles runner-up.
