Mens Tennis Forums banner

US Open Wildcards thread

3K views 14 replies 3 participants last post by  SapELee 
#1 · (Edited)
Singles Main Draw Entry Deadline: Monday, July 16 at 5 p.m. EDT
Singles Qualifying Entry Deadline: Monday, July 30 at 5 p.m. EDT

Will or will likely make the cut: Isner, Fish, Roddick, Harrison, Young, Querrey, Baker, Levine, Russell.

Maindraw wildcards:
1) Australian reciprocal wildcard (Lleyton Hewitt)
2) French reciprocal wildcard (Guillaume Rufin)
3) Kalamazoo Champion (Dennis Novikov)
4) USO wildcard competition* (Steve Johnson - NCAA Chamion)
5) James Blake
6) Jack Sock
7) Denis Kudla
8) Rajeev Ram


Q wildcards:
1) Chase Buchanan
2) Alexios Halebian
3) Christian Harrison
4) Bradley Klahn
5) Daniel Kosakowski
6) Mitchell Krueger
7) Tennys Sandgren
8) Rhyne Williams
9) National Playoffs Winner
_____________________________________________________________________
Possible Candidates
James Blake - popular old-timer
Robby Ginepri - same as above
Ryan Sweeting - former top 100 player, currently ranked 116
Tim Smyczek - currently ranked 180
Denis Kudla - 2nd highest ranked American youngster after Harrison at 197
Alex Kuznetsov, current ranking of 211
Tennys Sandgren - college player that has good results since turning pro, currently at a career high of 266
Rhyne Williams - same as above
Daniel Kosakowski - similar situation as Tennys and Rhyne
Jack Sock - may give it to him to defend his 2nd round points

Kalamazoo
Mitchell Krueger is likely the favorite for the Kalamazoo USTA 18's National Championship. He is the top American Junior on the Junior Circuit (No.5), making back to back semi at Junior Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Don't know if Christian Harrison will take participate (highest ranked American Junior on the Pro Circuit).

Qualifying WC Candidates (8 spots)
US National Playoff Winner
Sandgren, Williams, and Kosakowski would likely get the wildcards if they don't get the md wc or make the qualifying cut.
Andrea Collarini, has good results the past few months but on clay (can't remember his last hardcourt tournament), is at a career high ranking of 321
Jack Sock, will probably get it if not offered md wc
Robert Kendrick, not sure
Eric Quigley (NCAA Runner-Up)
Mitchell Krueger if he doesn't win Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo Runner-Up (not sure)
Austin Krajicek
Chase Buchanan, recent grad who has great results so far this summer
Other young candidates: Devin Britton, Bjorn Fratangelo, Bradley Klahn, Christian Harrison, Mitchell Frank, Alexander Domijan (see below how they compared in ranking).


21 & Under - Top 15 (As of July 9, 2012)
Code:
[U]Pos.[/U]    [U]Name[/U]               [U]Ranking[/U]  [U]Points[/U]   [U]Age (Birthday)[/U]	  [U]Career High [/u]        [U]College*[/U]           [U](+/-) Pos./ATP Rank*[/U]
1.      Ryan Harrison      48       855      20 (05-07-1992)      48  (07-09-2012)    N/A                 0    (+4)
2.      Denis Kudla        197      248      19 (08-17-1992)      168 (04-23-2012)    N/A                 0    (-23)
3.      Tennys Sandgren    266      172      20 (07-22-1991)      266 (07-09-2012)    Tennessee          +2    (+21)
4.      Rhyne Williams     279      160      21 (03-22-1991)      268 (06-11-2012)    Tennessee          -1    (-11)
5.      Daniel Kosakowski  320      140      20 (02-21-1992)      286 (06-11-2012)    UCLA               -1    (-34)
6.      Andrea Collarini   321      140      20 (01-31-1992)      321 (07-09-2012)    N/A                +1    (+45)
7.      Jack Sock          345      124      19 (09-24-1992)      303 (01-30-2012)    N/A                -1    (-12)
8.      Devin Britton      468      72       21 (03-17-1991)      441 (06-25-2012)    Ole Miss           +1    (+88)
9.      Bjorn Fratangelo   604      39       18 (07-19-1993)      604 (07-09-2012)    N/A                +1    (+78)
10.     Chase Buchanan     627      36       21 (06-04-1991)      627 (07-09-2012)    Ohio State         NE    (+245)
11.     Bradley Klahn      661      31       21 (08-20-1990)      594 (09-20-2010)    Stanford            0    (+32)
12.     Christian Harrison 700      27       18 (05-29-1994)	  700 (07-09-2012)    N/A                +2    (+57)
13.     Mitchell Frank     706      26       19 (10-16-1992)      622 (02-13-2012)    Virginia           -1    (+27)
14.     Jordan Cox         729      24       20 (01-07-1992)      449 (03-21-2011)    N/A                -1    (+20) 
15.     Alexander Domijan  738      23       20 (09-03-1991)      541 (08-02-2010)    Virignia           NE    (+89)
USO wildcard competition*

The USTA will award one US Open men’s singles main-draw wild card to the American man who earns the most ATP Tour Ranking points at two of the following four USTA Pro Circuit events:

•$50,000 Binghamton, N.Y. (week of July 16)
•$50,000 Lexington, Ky. (week of July 23)
•$100,000 Vancouver, BC (week of July 30)
•$100,000 Aptos, Calif. (week of August 6)

So who do you think will get the wildcards? I ended up making the thread afterall :lol:.
 
See less See more
#2 ·
I think Lleyton Hewitt will probably get a wildcard and likely Blake as well. The other tbd wildcard might go to Ginepri or Sweeting which means the USO wildcard competition is the only option for the upcoming players. I hope Sandgren, Williams, or Kosakowski wins it.
 
#4 · (Edited)
50k Binghampton Challenger

Points from Binghampton Challenger, the first of the four challengers where points can be earned towards the USO wildcard.

Michael Yani: 80
Rhyne Williams: 15
Greg Ouellette: 15
Michael McClune: 15
Mitchell Frank: 10 (3 points from Q)
Andrew Carter: 10 (3 points from Q)
Bradley Klahn: 7
Christian Harrison: 7
Robby Ginepri: 7
 
#6 ·
Updated points for the wildcard competition

Points from the Lexington Challenger

Denis Kudla: 80
Christian Harrison: 29
Michael McClune: 15
Krajicek: 10 (3 points from Q)
Greg Oullette: 7
Sandgren: 7
Eric Quigley 7
Sekou Bangoura 3


Combined points from the best two results:


T1 Denis Kudla: 80
T1 Michael Yani: 80
3 Christian Harrison: 29 + 7 = 36
4 Michael McClune = 15 + 15 = 30
5 Greg Ouellette: 15 + 7 = 22
6 Rhyne Williams: 15
T7 Austin Krajicek: 10
T7 Mitchell Frank: 10
T7 Andrew Carter: 10
T10 Bradley Klahn: 7
T10 Robby Ginepri: 7
T10 Tennys Sandgren: 7
T10 Eric Quigley: 7
T10 Sekou Bangoura: 3
 
#8 ·
Points from the Vancouver Challenger:

Bradley Klahn: 8
Jack Sock: 8
Denis Kudla: 8
Chase Buchanan: 5

Combined points from the best two results:

1 Denis Kudla: 80 + 8 = 88
2 Michael Yani: 80
3 Christian Harrison: 29 + 7 = 36
4 Michael McClune = 15 + 15 = 30
5 Greg Ouellette: 15 + 7 = 22
T6 Rhyne Williams: 15
T6 Bradley Klahn: 7 + 8 = 15
T8 Austin Krajicek: 10
T8 Mitchell Frank: 10
T8 Andrew Carter: 10
11 Jack Sock: 8
T12 Robby Ginepri: 7
T12 Tennys Sandgren: 7
T12 Eric Quigley: 7
15 Chase Buchanan: 5
16 Sekou Bangoura: 3
 
#11 ·
Steve Johnson, who was given a main draw wild card to the US Open last year as NCAA champion, topped the men's version of the competition that Burdette won. There were four men's events, with the best two results counting, but Johnson only played last week in the $100,000 Aptos Challenger. He won the tournament, beating former USC teammate and good friend Rob Farah in the final 6-3, 6-3, and rather than give Johnson a discretionary wild card (there are five remaining, not including the French and Australian reciprocals and the US junior champion's wild cards, which are not subject to a committee decision), he will be selected instead from this result. For more on Johnson's wild card see tennispanorama.com.

http://tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/2012/08/duval-wins-girls-18s-plus-other.html
Well, I guess Kudla is not guaranteed the wildcard. This could get interesting.
 
#13 ·
When I first read that I thought Kudla was getting shafted, but, the winner of Aptos gets 100 pts, so Johnson is ahead of Kudla for this WC fair & square. I guess the NCAA WC is not guaranteed, its only given to Americans now, so maybe that was their justification for giving Johnson the playoffs WC instead of the NCAA WC. Now the committee can get together and decide who gets the other 4 WCs instead of 3.
 
#14 · (Edited)
NEW YORK (AP)—Lleyton Hewitt and James Blake will receive wild cards into the U.S. Open.

The U.S. Tennis Association announced its eight men's wild cards Tuesday. Hewitt is a two-time major champion, winning the 2001 U.S. Open, but at age 31 the Australian has fallen to 134th in the world. Blake has twice reached the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows, but the 32-year-old American's ranking was also too low to automatically qualify for the year's last Grand Slam, which starts Aug. 27.

Other Americans receiving wild cards were NCAA singles champion Steve Johnson; USTA boys' 18s singles champion Dennis Novikov; 2010 U.S. Open boys' singles finalists Jack Sock and Denis Kudla; and Rajeev Ram, currently ranked No. 100. France's Guillaume Rufin also got a wild card.

Hewitt and Rufin were invited through reciprocal arrangements with the Australian and French Opens.
Ram has a high chance of getting in with his own ranking.
 
This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.
Top