Naomi Osaka, Bianca Andreescu Highlight U.S. Open Women’s Wild Cards

The USTA today announced that four-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka, 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu and Americans McCartney Kessler, Amanda Anisimova, Alexa Noel and Iva Jovic will receive singles main draw wild cards into the 2024 US Open, as well as France’s Chloe Paquet and Australian Taylah Preston, as part of reciprocal agreements.

The 2024 US Open will be played August 26-September 8 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.

Osaka, 26, is a four-time Grand Slam champion, including the 2018 and 2020 US Opens. The former world No. 1 returned to the court in January following the birth of her daughter. She has advanced to the third round or better at four WTA 1000 events so far this season and recently broke into the WTA Top 100 for the first time since her return.

Andreescu, 24, is the 2019 US Open champion and is currently ranked No. 166. She returned to the court earlier this year after missing nine months due to a back injury. She reached the third round at Roland Garros in her first event back and reached her first WTA final in nearly two years in June.

Kessler, 25, is currently ranked a career-best No. 100. The former All-American at the University of Florida made her Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2024 Australian Open after winning the USTA’s Wild Card Challenge, where she reached the second round. She also qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon and won the singles title at the USTA Pro Circuit W75 event in Rome, Ga., less than an hour from her hometown of Calhoun, Ga.

Anisimova, 22, earned her wild card by winning the US Open Wild Card Challenge, buoyed by a run to the final at the WTA 1000 in Toronto. The former world No. 21 returned to the court in January after taking an eight-month break from the tour in 2023 for mental health reasons. She reached the fourth round of the Australian Open in only her second tournament back and after her performance in Toronto, finds herself back inside the WTA Top 50.

Noel, 21, earned the wild card customarily awarded to an American NCAA singles champion by winning the title as a redshirt junior at the University of Miami in May. She’ll be making her return to the US Open for the first time since 2019 when she competed in the doubles main draw as the USTA Girls’ 18s national doubles champion.

Jovic, 16, won the singles title at the USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships. She is currently ranked No. 5 in the ITF world junior rankings and has won the girls’ doubles titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year. She has helped lead the U.S. to back-to-back Junior Billie Jean King Cup titles.

Paquet, 30, is currently ranked No. 97, one spot off her career-best ranking of No. 96. She earned her wild card based on a reciprocal agreement between the USTA and FFT where wild cards between the US Open and Roland Garros are exchanged.

Preston, 18, is currently ranked No. 146 and made her Grand Slam debut at the 2024 Australian Open. She earned her wild card based on a reciprocal agreement between the USTA and Tennis Australia where wild cards between the US Open and Australian Open are exchanged.

The USTA also announced the American women receiving wild cards into the US Open Qualifying tournament, held August 19-22 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center:

Clervie Ngounoue, 18, the former world No. 1 junior who won her first two professional singles titles this year; Liv Hovde, 18, the 2022 Wimbledon girls’ singles champion; Tyra Grant, 16, who has won three Grand Slam girls’ doubles titles; Akasha Urhobo, 17, who has reached three ITF singles finals this year, winning one title; Sophie Chang, 27, who won her fourth professional singles title at the W75 event in Evansville in July; Mary Stoiana, 22, the 2024 ITA National Player of the Year at Texas A&M; Kristina Penickova, 14, who reached the girls’ singles semifinals at the French Open; Julieta Pareja, 15, who won her first professional singles title at the W15 in Rancho Santa Fe in July; and Valerie Glozman, 17, the USTA Girls’ 18s national singles runner-up.