Stevie Johnson has secured his spot in Flushing Meadows.
Former world No. 21 Johnson clinched the highest spot within the males’s US Open Wild Card Challenge standings, incomes a wild card into the primary draw of this month’s US Open.
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On the ladies’s facet, Kayla Day owns a substantial lead heading into the ultimate week.
The penultimate standings are beneath (participant’s present rating in parenthesis):
WOMEN
1. Kayla Day (100) — 141
2. Hailey Baptiste (174) — 81
T3. Ashlyn Krueger (123) — 68
T3. Jennifer Brady (584) — 68
5. McCartney Kessler (378) — 62
MEN
1. Steve Johnson (176) — 150
2. Alex Michelsen (137) — 75
3. Tennys Sandgren (201) — 60
4. Aleks Kovacevic (129) — 52
5. Michael Mmoh (104) — 51
Both wild playing cards will go to the American with the very best cumulative whole of ATP or WTA singles rating factors earned from their greatest three outcomes throughout their respective home windows.
Both the boys’s and ladies’s Challenges will embrace outcomes from any skilled hard-court occasion on the 25 stage and above around the globe. Both principal draw and qualifying factors earned depend towards every participant’s Challenge whole.
Americans who in any other case earn direct entry into the US Open aren’t eligible.
Should the participant with the very best variety of Challenge factors earn direct entry into the US Open, the wild card will go to the subsequent eligible American within the Challenge factors standings.
In the occasion of a tie, the participant with the perfect ATP or greatest WTA singles rating on August 14 will earn the wild card.
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Source: www.tennisnow.com