Steve Johnson Earns US Open Wild Card

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 Problem standings, incomes a wild card into the principle draw of this month’s US Open.

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On the ladies’s aspect, Kayla Day owns a substantial lead heading into the ultimate week.

The penultimate standings are under (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

Each wild playing cards will go to the American with the best cumulative whole of ATP or WTA singles rating factors earned from their finest three outcomes throughout their respective home windows.

Each the boys’s and ladies’s Challenges will embrace outcomes from any skilled hard-court occasion on the 25 stage and above world wide. Each major draw and qualifying factors earned rely towards every participant’s Problem whole.

Individuals who in any other case earn direct entry into the US Open should not eligible.

Ought to the participant with the best variety of Problem factors earn direct entry into the US Open, the wild card will go to the subsequent eligible American within the Problem factors standings.

Within the occasion of a tie, the participant with one of the best ATP or finest WTA singles rating on August 14 will earn the wild card.

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