{"id":1313518,"date":"2019-08-13T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/take-2-15-year-old-coco-gauff-gets-us-open-wild-card-entry\/"},"modified":"2019-08-13T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:44:00","slug":"take-2-15-year-old-coco-gauff-gets-us-open-wild-card-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/take-2-15-year-old-coco-gauff-gets-us-open-wild-card-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 2: 15-year-old Coco Gauff gets US Open wild-card entry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE – In this July 3, 2019, file photo, Coco Gauff celebrates after beating Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybaikova in a women’s singles match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London. Gauff will get a chance to try for an encore: The 15-year-old from Florida received a wild-card entry Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, for the U.S. Open’s main draw. It will be Gauff’s second Grand Slam tournament. She made a magical run to the fourth round at Wimbledon last month after getting a wild card into the qualifying rounds there.(AP Photo\/Alastair Grant, File)<\/strong>
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Coco Gauff will get a chance to try for an encore: The 15-year-old from Florida received a wild-card entry Tuesday for the U.S. Open\u2019s main draw.<\/p>\n

It will be Gauff\u2019s second Grand Slam tournament. She made a magical run to the fourth round at Wimbledon last month after getting a wild card into the qualifying rounds there.<\/p>\n

Ranked just 313th at the time, Gauff became the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon, upset five-time champion Venus Williams in the first round and wound up losing at the All England Club to eventual title winner Simona Halep.<\/p>\n

Gauff is currently No. 140 in the WTA rankings. She initially made a mark at age 13 by becoming the youngest U.S. Open junior finalist in history; she won the French Open junior title at 14.<\/p>\n

Age restrictions set up by the women\u2019s professional tour limit the number of tournaments someone who is 15 can enter and the number of wild-card invitations she can be offered \u2014 and Gauff already has accepted three wild cards elsewhere. But according to the WTA, the U.S. Tennis Association \u2014 which runs a Grand Slam tournament, and so is not overseen by the WTA or ATP tours \u2014 essentially can choose to ignore the eligibility rule and offer Gauff a wild card.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank the USTA for the opportunity to participate in my home slam,\u201d Gauff said in a statement emailed by her agent. \u201cI look forward to playing my first main draw at the U.S. Open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the other players receiving wild cards from the USTA on Tuesday for the women\u2019s field at Flushing Meadows in New York City were 2011 U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur \u2014 an Australian who was granted that country\u2019s reciprocal berth \u2014 and 17-year-old Caty McNally, an American who won the doubles title with Gauff and reached the singles semifinals at the Citi Open in Washington this month.<\/p>\n

Gauff and McNally have said they plan to play doubles together at Flushing Meadows; that event\u2019s wild-card entries will be announced later. The pair won the U.S. Open junior doubles trophy together a year ago.<\/p>\n

The draw for the U.S. Open is Aug. 22, and play in the year\u2019s last major tennis tournament begins Aug. 26.<\/p>\n

Other women\u2019s wild cards went to Francesca Di Lorenzo, Whitney Osuigwe, Kristie Ahn and Katie Volynets of the U.S., along with 16-year-old Diane Parry of France, who got her country\u2019s reciprocal invitation.<\/p>\n

Di Lorenzo, a 22-year-old from Ohio, is a past NCAA doubles champion now ranked 128th. Osuigwe, a 17-year-old from Florida, won a French Open junior title and is ranked 105th. Ahn, a 27-year-old from New Jersey, finished first in the USTA\u2019s wild-card challenge, while Volynets, a 17-year-old from California, won the 18s national championship.<\/p>\n

Nine wild cards for women\u2019s qualifying were also awarded, including to five-time Grand Slam doubles champion Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 14-year-old Reese Brantmeier of Wisconsin, Vicky Duval, Shelby Rogers and Pan Am Games medalist Caroline Dolehide.<\/p>\n

Denis Kudla, a 26-year-old from Virginia who was the highest-ranked man to miss out on making the U.S. Open field via direct acceptance, was among the men\u2019s wild-card entries.<\/p>\n

Others getting into the main draw include Americans Jack Sock, Bjorn Fratangelo, Marcos Giron, USTA wild-card challenge winner Ernesto Escobedo and 18s national champion Zachary Svajda, along with Antoine Hoang, who got France\u2019s reciprocal entry. The Australian federation has not announced who will get its men\u2019s wild-card invitation.<\/p>\n

Men awarded wild cards for qualifying include Sebastian Korda, son of 1998 Australian Open champion Petr Korda, and last year\u2019s 18s national champion, Jenson Brooksby.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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