By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, August 22, 2026
Picture credit score: Lexie Wanninger/San Diego Open
An American Grand Slam champion acquired the ultimate US Open girls’s wild card.
It’s not Serena Williams.
Sofia Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, has acquired the final lady’s wild card for the 2026 US Open, the USTA introduced at present. The One hundred and fifteenth-ranked Kenin is joined by ATP world No. 115 Patrick Kypson, who was awarded the ultimate US Open males’s singles wild card at present.
The event had been holding onto the cardboard within the hopes former world No. 1 Serena Williams, who misplaced to Maya Joint within the Wimbledon first spherical, would make a singles comeback.
The 44-year-old Serena received’t play singles in Flushing Meadows, however she’s going to play within the US Open Blended Doubles draw partnering reigning US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz in an excellent workforce subsequent week.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena will play the US Open for the primary time since she misplaced to Ajla Tomljanovic within the 2022 Flushing Meadows main.
The US Open predominant draw begins on Sunday, August thirtieth.
The 46-year-old Venus Williams has acquired a wild card into the US Open singles predominant draw.
US Open Girls’s Singles Wild Playing cards:
MAIN DRAW
- Venus Williams, 46, seven-time Grand Slam and two-time US Open girls’s singles champion
- Sloane Stephens, 33, 2017 US Open girls’s singles champion
- Carol Younger Suh Lee, 24, US Open Wild Card Problem Winner
- Reese Brantmeier, 21, American Collegiate Participant Wild Card Playoff Winner
- Thea Frodin, 17, USTA Ladies’ 18s Nationwide Champion
- Leolia Jeanjean, 31, awarded through reciprocal settlement with FFT
- Taylah Preston, 20, awarded through reciprocal settlement with Tennis Australia
- Sofia Kenin, 27, 2020 Australian Open champion
QUALIFYING
- Janae Preston, 16, USTA Ladies’ 18s singles finalist
- Katrina Scott, 22, American Collegiate Participant Wild Card Problem Finalist
- Caroline Dolehide, 27, former world No. 41 and present No. 246
- Ayana Akli, 25, present world No. 266
- Annika Penickova, 16, former Prime-20 world-ranked junior
- Julieta Pareja, 17, USTA Ladies’ 18s singles semifinalist, present world No. 290
- Kristina Penickova, 16, former world junior No. 1
- Savannah Broadus, 23, present world No. 307
- 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 whole matches – males’s and ladies’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 shall be performed on Courts 4-7 on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle.
