Venus Williams will play her 24TH US Open at age 43 as she gets a wild card entry into the tournament in New York along with two-time runner-up Caroline Wozniacki
Venus Williams will play her 24th US Open at age 43 as she and two-time runner-up Caroline Wozniacki receive a wild card into the tournament in New York
- Williams was crowned champion in 2001 and 2001 at Flushing Meadows
- Wozniacki – a two-time finalist – returns three years after his retirement
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Venus Williams returns to the US Open for the 24th time at the age of 43 and Caroline Wozniacki will join her on the field for her return to Grand Slam tennis.
Both players received wildcards into the US Tennis Association tournament on Wednesday.
Williams was the US Open champion in 2000 and 2001, two of her seven major singles titles. A year after younger sister Serena retired after the tournament, Venus Williams returns to Flushing Meadows, where she reached the final on her debut in 1997.
She recently returned to competition after missing almost six months due to injury and this week scored her first win over a top-20 player in four years, beating Veronika Kudermetova in 16th place 6-4, 7-5 to beat in the first round of the Western. & South Open on Mondays.
Wozniacki announced in June that she was returning to competition three years after retiring to start a family, and the USTA then said she would receive a wild card into the tournament where she placed second twice.
Venus Williams, 43, plays as a wild card at the US Open, which she won twice, for the 24th time
Caroline Wozniacki, 33 – two-time US Open finalist – also making her comeback in Queens
The former No. 1 player from Denmark, who has two children with husband and former NBA player David Lee, scored the first victory in her comeback in Montreal last week.
However, she suffered second-round defeat at the hands of Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic.
Wozniacki is a two-time finalist at the US Open, finishing runner-up in 2009 and 2014.
She lost to Belgium’s Kim Clijsters in 2009 and to Serena Williams in the later match.
John Isner, who was once the highest ranked American, also gets a wild card into the major
American women Ashlyn Krueger, Robin Montgomery, Kayla Day and Clervie Ngounoue will also receive wildcards into the main draw, as will France’s Fiona Ferro and Australia’s Storm Hunter, as part of reciprocal agreements with their tennis federations.
Ferro accused her former coach, Pierre Bouteyre, of sexual assault last year, shortly after losing in qualifying at the US Open.
John Isner, a two-time US Open quarterfinalist who was the top-ranked American for a long time, received a wild card for his 17th main-draw appearance.
Compatriots Alex Michelsen, Michael Mmoh, Steve Johnson, Ethan Quinn and Learner Tien also received wildcards, as did France’s Benjamin Bonzi and Australian Rinky Hijikata.
Play in the main draw begins on August 28.