By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Match organizers for the newly mixed ATP/WTA 500 Mubadala Citi DC Open launched an up to date participant discipline that includes a number of fundamental draw wildcards for big-name gamers, together with two former Grand Slam champions.
Within the girls’s draw, 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin and 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu got wildcards into subsequent week’s occasion. Additionally included as wildcard recipients are former World No. 3 Elina Svitolina, 2022 Australian Open finalist Danielle Collins, and 17-year-old and up to date Wimbledon woman’s singles title winner Clervie Ngounoue.
🚨 Ladies’s Wild Card Announcement 🚨
FOUR former Prime 10 gamers will all be competing in DC!
🇨🇦 Bianca Andreescu
🇺🇸 Sofia Kenin
🇺🇦 Elina Svitolina
🇺🇸 Danielle Collins#MubadalaCitiDCOpen pic.twitter.com/H1XHSKLX6Y— Mubadala Citi DC Open (@mubadalacitidc) July 26, 2023
For the lads’s draw, wildcard recipients embrace two-time main finalist Kevin Anderson, 2017 US Open finalist and D.C winner Kei Nishikori, 2016 D.C. champion Gael Monfils, and rising school participant Andrew Fenty.
🚨 Males’s Wild Card Announcement 🚨
Three former Prime 🔟 gamers add to a stacked males’s singles lineup!
🇿🇦 Kevin Anderson
🇯🇵 Kei Nishikori
🇫🇷 Gael Monfils#MubadalaCitiDCOpen pic.twitter.com/QLmmalfXfA— Mubadala Citi DC Open (@mubadalacitidc) July 26, 2023
The qualifying draw will even function 2021 US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez of Canada.
“We’ve an unimaginable participant discipline dedicated to compete on this yr’s Mubadala Citi DC Open, the primary and solely mixed ATP and WTA 500 degree match on the planet,” mentioned Mark Ein, Mubadala Citi DC Open Chairman. “Awarding two Grand Slam champions and three Grand Slam finalists wild playing cards into our occasion solely strengthens an already extremely deep participant discipline.
“With over 92 % of our tickets bought and this unbelievable participant discipline and world-class meals and beverage experiences all through the positioning, we anticipate the match will promote out for a 3rd yr in a row.”
Final yr’s males’s champion Nick Kyrgios and up to date Wimbledon semifinalist Daniil Medvedev each withdrew from the match as a result of damage. Taylor Fritz is the highest males’s seed this yr whereas Jessica Pegula is the highest girls’s seed.
Primary draw play begins on Monday, July 31.
Photograph Credit score: Wealthy Kessler/Citi Open
