{"id":53019,"date":"2026-08-18T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/53019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:00:08","slug":"stan-wawrinka-not-included-in-initial-u-s-open-wild-card-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/53019\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Wawrinka Not Included In Initial U.S. Open Wild Card List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The USTA today announced the men\u2019s Singles Main Draw and Qualifying wild card recipients for the 2026 US Open. The Singles Main Draw will be played August 30-September 13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably absent from the list is the retiring former U.S. Open champion Stan Wawrinka, who would be playing in his final Grand Slam tournament. However, there is still one more wild card yet to the named and that could go to Wawrinka. American Martin Damm is listed as one of the wild cards but he is the first player out of the main draw, based on calculations as official withdrawals have not been publicly or officially announced. Therefore, if Damm gets in, he, of course, would not need a wild card, which would open up a second wild card. It is speculated that if this happens, the wild cards would go to Wawrinka and also former U.S. Open semifinalist Grigor Dimitrov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official USTA press release is below..<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US Open Men\u2019s Singles Wild Cards:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MAIN DRAW<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Martin Damm, 22, current world No. 94<\/li>\n<li>Michael Zheng, 22, two-time reigning NCAA men\u2019s singles champion<\/li>\n<li>J.J. Wolf, 27, US Open Wild Card Challenge Winner<\/li>\n<li>Sebastian Gorzny, 22, American Collegiate Player Wild Card Playoff Winner<\/li>\n<li>Jack Kennedy, 18, USTA Boys\u2019 18s National Champion<\/li>\n<li>Gael Monfils, 39, awarded via reciprocal agreement with FFT<\/li>\n<li>Alexei Popyrin, 27, awarded via reciprocal agreement with Tennis Australia<\/li>\n<li>To Be Announced<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">QUALIFYING<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jordan Lee, 16, USTA Boys\u2019 18s singles finalist, Wimbledon boys\u2019 champion<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Svajda, 20, American Collegiate Player Wild Card Playoff finalist<\/li>\n<li>Kei Nishikori, 36, 2014 US Open men\u2019s singles finalist<\/li>\n<li>Andre Ilagan, 25, current world No. 210, US Open Wild Card Challenge runner-up<\/li>\n<li>Spencer Johnson, 23, current world No. 445<\/li>\n<li>Michael Antonius, 16, Roland Garros boys\u2019 singles finalist, current junior world No. 3<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Johnson, 16, USTA Boys\u2019 18s singles semifinalist, current junior No. 12<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Milavsky, 24, current world No. 310<\/li>\n<li>US Open Qualifying Wild Card Challenge Winner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Open Qualifying Wild Card Challenge is a new competition featuring rising American men and women competing for a wild card in the US Open Qualifying Tournament. 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US Open Qualifying Wild Card Challenge Men\u2019s Field:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keaton Hance, 18, Top-5 junior, 2026 Australian Open boys\u2019 singles finalist<\/li>\n<li>Jack Secord, 17, USTA Boys\u2019 18s singles semifinalist<\/li>\n<li>Ozan Baris, 22, former top-ranked collegiate singles player<\/li>\n<li>Dali Blanch, 23, former world junior No. 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/StanWiki.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29084 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787086808_686_StanWiki.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29084\"\/>Discover more from World Tennis Magazine<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USTA today announced the men\u2019s Singles Main Draw and Qualifying wild card recipients for the 2026 US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1326,463,8061],"class_list":["post-53019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-open","tag-stan-wawrinka","tag-us-open","tag-wild-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}