Day, Eubanks Among Those Receiving US Open Main Draw Wild Cards: ITA National Summer Champions Crowned

Wild Cards for the US Open were announced today, revealing the three main draw wild cards unaccounted for previously.

WOMEN:
Taylor Townsend, 21
Kayla Day, 17
Sonya Kenin, 18 (US Open Wild Card Challenge winner)
Ashley Kratzer, 18 (USTA National 18s champion)
Brienne Minor, 19 (NCAA champion)
Maria Sharapova, 30
Amandine Hesse, 24 (French reciprocal wild card)
TBD (Australian reciprocal wild card)

An article with more details on each women's wild card recipient is available at usopen.org.

MEN:
Taylor Fritz, 19
Bjorn Fratangelo, 24
Christopher Eubanks, 21
Thai Kwiatkowski, 22 (NCAA champion)
Tommy Paul, 20 (US Open Wild Card Challenge winner)
Patrick Kypson, 17 (USTA National 18s champion)
Geoffrey Blancaneaux, 19 (French reciprocal wild card)
Alex De Minaur, 18 (Australian reciprocal wild card)

An article with more details on each men's wild card recipient is available at usopen.org.

Qualifying wild cards were also announced today.

WOMEN:
Usue Arconada, 18
Kelly Chen, 18 (USTA National 18s finalist)
Francesca Di Lorenzo, 20
Vicky Duval, 21
Ashley Lahey, 17
Ann Li, 17
Claire Liu, 17
Whitney Osuigwe, 15
Katerina Stewart, 20

Arconada is very close to getting into qualifying on her own ranking, so that wild card may be available to someone else in the days ahead.

MEN:
William Blumberg, 19
Marcos Giron, 24
Christian Harrison, 23
Evan King, 25
Bradley Klahn, 26
Austin Krajicek, 27
Daniel Nguyen, 26
Raymond Sarmiento, 25
JJ Wolf, 18 (USTA National 18s finalist)

Eight of the nine men Americans receiving qualifying wild cards are current or former college players.

The ITA National Summer Championships concluded today at TCU, with Notre Dame's Alex Lebedev and Winthrop's Lauren Proctor taking the singles titles.  No. 10 seed Lebedev defeated No. 44 Alexandru Grigorescu of Nebraska-Omaha 6-3, 6-2 and No. 4 seed Proctor defeated No. 15 seed Donika Bashota of TCU 6-2, 6-3 in the finals.

Lebedev and Proctor will receive main draw wild cards into the ITA All-American Championships this fall.

The men's doubles title went to Texas's Rodrigo Banzer and Leonardo Telles, with the No. 2 seeds beating Michigan's Myles Schalet and Gabe Tishman, the No. 5 seeds, 8-3 in the final.

No. 5 seeds Kaitlyn McCarthy and Ellyse Hamlin of Duke won the women's doubles title, defeating Iowa's Zoe Douglas and Elise Van Heuvelen 8-2.

The doubles champions also receive a wild card into the main draw of the ITA All-American championships.