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J.J. Wolf and Carol Younger Suh Lee have clinched principal draw singles wild playing cards into the 2026 US Open after profitable the boys’s and ladies’s US Open Wild Card Challenges.
Lee, 24, clinched the highest spot within the Problem final week by qualifying and profitable the WTA 125 in Warsaw, Poland. Her sturdy end within the closing two weeks of the four-week Problem – which included qualifying and reaching the second spherical of the WTA 250 in Prague – put her on the high of the race, whereas Caroline Dolehide completed second, with 122 factors, and Elvina Kalieva completed third, with 120 factors.
Wolf, 27, clinched the boys’s wild card this week, when second-place Andres Martin was eradicated from the USTA Professional Circuit ATP Challenger 75 in Brownsburg, Ind. Wolf, who has twice reached the third spherical of the US Open and was ranked contained in the High 40 as lately as 2023, banked 125 factors from profitable the ATP Challenger 125 in Vancouver, for his first Challenger-level title since 2021.
The highest of the standings after Week 4 are beneath. The ultimate males’s standings will publish subsequent week.
Ladies’s Standings
(Participant’s present rating in parentheses)
1. Carol Younger Suh Lee (165) — 174
2. Caroline Dolehide (256) — 1223. Elvina Kalieva (121) — 120
Males’s Standings
(Participant’s present rating in parentheses)
1. J.J. Wolf (282) — 1472. Andres Martin (340) — 733. Michael Zheng (113) — 60
The ladies’s wild card will go to the American with the best cumulative whole of WTA singles rating factors earned from their greatest three outcomes over 4 weeks. The Ladies’s Problem counts out of doors and indoor hard-court occasions on the W35-level and above world wide.
The lads’s wild card will go to the American with the best cumulative whole of ATP singles rating factors earned from their greatest 4 outcomes over 5 weeks. The Males’s Problem counts out of doors and indoor hard-court occasions on the M25-level and above world wide.
Each principal draw and qualifying factors earned from eligible tournaments rely towards every participant’s Problem whole. Outcomes from the Cincinnati Open won’t rely for both the boys or the ladies.
Individuals who in any other case earn direct entry into the US Open should not eligible, together with those that can enter with a protected rating. 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 following eligible American within the Problem factors standings. Within the occasion of a tie, the participant with one of the best ATP or greatest WTA singles rating on the Monday following the tip of the Problem will earn the wild card. Problem ends August 9 for the Ladies and August 16 for the Males.
Earlier US Open Wild Card Problem winners (and the way they did at that 12 months’s US Open) are beneath:
2025: Emilio Nava (1R); Caty McNally (2R)2024: Learner Tien (1R); Amanda Anisimova (1R)2023: Steve Johnson (1R); Kayla Day (1R)2022: JJ Wolf (3R), Elizabeth Mandlik (2R)2019: Ernesto Escobedo (1R), Kristie Ahn (4R)2018: Bradley Klahn (1R), Asia Muhammad (1R)2017: Tommy Paul (1R), Sofia Kenin (3R)2016: Ernesto Escobedo (2R), Sofia Kenin (1R)2015: Bjorn Fratangelo (1R), Samantha Crawford (1R)2014: Wayne Odesnik (1R), Nicole Gibbs (3R)2013: Bradley Klahn (2R), Shelby Rogers (1R)2012: Steve Johnson (3R), Mallory Burdette (3R)
