(Reuters) – Former champions Naomi Osaka, Bianca Andreescu and Stan Wawrinka have acquired singles primary draw wildcards into the U.S. Open, the USA Tennis Affiliation stated on Wednesday.
Japan’s Osaka, who counts the 2018 and 2020 U.S. Opens amongst her 4 Grand Slam titles, returned to competitors in January after the start of her daughter and has superior to the third spherical or higher at 4 WTA 1000 occasions this season.
Canada’s Andreescu, the 2019 U.S. Open champion, returned to motion this yr after lacking 9 months attributable to a again harm and reached the French Open third spherical in her first occasion again.
For Swiss Wawrinka, who gained the latest of his three Grand Slam titles on the 2016 U.S. Open, the wildcard permits him to make his 72nd primary draw look in one of many recreation’s 4 blue-riband occasions, which places him fifth on the all-time listing.
Austrian Dominic Thiem, the 2020 U.S. Open champion who introduced this yr that he’ll retire following the 2024 season attributable to a wrist harm, was additionally given a wildcard.
The U.S. Open will held from Aug. 26-Sept. 8 in New York.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto, modifying by Ed Osmond)
