Dawei joined hands with Wozniacki to get a wild card, Grand Slam countries are reciprocal, and the United States is a local player!
As we all know, the 2023 US Open will start the main draw next week, and at present, people may be most concerned about whether Wang Yafan can break through from the qualifying round to the main event. So, there are 8 female players who don't need to participate in the qualifiers, they can be shortlisted directly through wild cards, do you know who these 8 are?
Wildcards at the US Open were: seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams, former world number one Caroline Wozniacki, America's Ashlyn Kruger, Robin Montgomery, Kayla Day and Clevy Ngunuere, Australia's Storm Hunter (actually the original Sanders) and France's Fiona Ferro. Australian players and French Open players were shortlisted because of reciprocal wildcard agreements signed by the US Open with the Australian Tennis Association and the French Tennis Federation.
As a result, Williams is playing in the US Open for the 24th time, winning consecutive titles in 2000 and 2001, and the 43-year-old missed nearly six months this year due to injury, and did not have a good comeback on grass but defeated Veronica Kudmetova in two sets at the WTA 1000 in Cincinnati to defeat her top-20 opponent for the first time since 2019.
The 33-year-old Wozniacki made his first appearance at a Grand Slam since retiring from the Australian Open in 2020 to start a family. She has now had 2 children, 2-year-old Olivia and 6-month-old James. Wozniacki reached the women's singles finals in 2009 and 2014, but lost both.
In addition, Grand Slam hosts are very attentive to local players, and nine American women have been wildcards for qualifying tournaments from August 22 to 25. For example, 17-year-old Liv Hovde, who is the 2021 Wimbledon junior women's singles champion, such as Caterina Scott, 19, reached the second round of the 2020 US Open at the age of 16, such as Mahana Jones, 25, a former North Carolina All-American player who won 9 ITF World Tennis Tour titles this year (2 singles; 7 doubles), such as Mary Stoiana, 20, a junior at Texas A&M University who was named the 2023 SEC Player of the Year, among others.
