The 2026 US Open males’s wild card listing is right here.
Richard PagliaroAugust 18, 20263 minute learn
By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, August 18, 2026
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Michael Zheng’s spirited Grand Slam qualifying tour has come to constructive finish.
Ivy League standout Michael Zheng grew up enjoying on New York Metropolis’s arduous courts and has grown right into a gritty professional qualifying for 3 consecutive Grand Slam principal attracts.
In the present day, New Jersey native Zheng acquired a wild card into the US Open principal draw.
The US Open principal draw begins on Sunday, August thirtieth.
The 2022 Wimbledon boys’ finalist and two-time NCAA champion at Columbia, Zheng certified for his third straight Grand Slam at Roehampton in June then knocked off Cameron Norrie en path to the Wimbledon third spherical, shedding to fourth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime on Centre Courtroom. Zheng, who grew up in Montvillle, N.J., spent his youthful years coaching in Queens. Final yr, Zheng misplaced within the second spherical of US Open qualifying.
Zheng and acrobatic Frenchman Gael Monfils, who introduced this 18th US Open begin is his closing Flushing Meadows look, lead the listing of US Open males’s wild playing cards.
The 39-year-old Monfils, a wildly standard participant in New York Metropolis, will make this his final US Open dance. Monfils, who introduced he’ll retire on the conclusion of the 2026 season, has loved success on the Flushing Meadows main.
In 2016, Monfils scored straight-sets wins over Nicolas Almagro, Marcos Baghdatis and Lucas Pouille to succeed in the US Open semifinals the place he misplaced to Novak Djokovic. It was one in every of two Grand Slam semifinals Monfils has made in his profession. Three years later, Monfils superior to the US Open quarterfinal struggling a gut-wrenching 7-6(5) within the fifth-set loss to Matteo Berrettini.
Devoted Flushing Meadows followers will recall Monfils constructing a two-set lead over Roger Federer in an electrifying 2014 US Open quarterfinal earlier than the Swiss Maestro rallied for a pulsating five-set victory. In that conflict, Monfils, chugging Coca-Cola on changeovers, hit some spectacular flying forehands and dueled 20-time Grand Slam champion Federer in a shot-making competition. A reminder of that magical night time right here:
The 2016 US Open champion Stan Wawrinka just isn’t among the many wild card recipients although the match has yet another males’s wild card to allocate. The 41-year-old Swiss performed Estoril on crimson clay final month.
The Qualifying match can be performed August 24-27 on the Nationwide Tennis Middle’s discipline courts, with all matches free to attend throughout Fan Week.
US Open Males’s Singles Wild Playing cards:
MAIN DRAW
- Martin Damm, 22, present world No. 94
- Michael Zheng, 22, two-time reigning NCAA males’s singles champion
- J.J. Wolf, 27, US Open Wild Card Problem Winner
- Sebastian Gorzny, 22, American Collegiate Participant Wild Card Playoff Winner
- Jack Kennedy, 18, USTA Boys’ 18s Nationwide Champion
- Gael Monfils, 39, awarded through reciprocal settlement with FFT
- Alexei Popyrin, 27, awarded through reciprocal settlement with Tennis Australia
- To Be Introduced
QUALIFYING
- Jordan Lee, 16, USTA Boys’ 18s singles finalist, Wimbledon boys’ champion
- Trevor Svajda, 20, American Collegiate Participant Wild Card Playoff finalist
- Kei Nishikori, 36, 2014 US Open males’s singles finalist
- Andre Ilagan, 25, present world No. 210, US Open Wild Card Problem runner-up
- Spencer Johnson, 23, present world No. 445
- Michael Antonius, 16, Roland Garros boys’ singles finalist, present junior world No. 3
- Andrew Johnson, 16, USTA Boys’ 18s singles semifinalist, present junior No. 12
- Daniel Milavsky, 24, present world No. 310
- US Open Qualifying Wild Card Problem Winner
The US Open Qualifying Wild Card Problem is a brand new competitors that includes rising American women and men competing for a wild card within the US Open Qualifying Event.
The Problem will characteristic 4 males and 4 girls competing in six complete matches – males’s and girls’s semifinals and finals – with the winners receiving a wild card into Qualifying August 24-27. Matches will start at 10 a.m. on August 23 and can be performed on Courts 4-7 on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle.
US Open Qualifying Wild Card Problem Males’s Subject:
- Keaton Hance, 18, High-5 junior, 2026 Australian Open boys’ singles finalist
- Jack Secord, 17, USTA Boys’ 18s singles semifinalist
- Ozan Baris, 22, former top-ranked collegiate singles participant
- Dali Blanch, 23, former world junior No. 4
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