By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, August 13, 2025
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Talented young American men highlight the 2025 US Open wild card recipients.
The USTA today announced six American men—Brandon Holt, Nishesh Basavareddy, Tristan Boyer, Emilio Nava, Stefan Dostanic and Darwin Blanch—have been awarded main-draw wild cards into the 2025 US Open.
Australian Tristan Schoolkate and Frenchman Valentin Royer were each awarded wild cards as part of the USTA’s reciprocal agreements with Tennis Australia and the French Tennis Federation.
The 2025 US Open main draw will be contested Sunday, August 24th-Sunday, September 7th at the USTA-Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.
Here are player bios from the USTA’s wild card press release issued today:
Holt, 27, broke into the ATP Top 100 and reached a career-best ranking of world No. 99 earlier this summer after reaching the second round of the ATP 250 event in Mallorca as a qualifier. Currently ranked No. 106, he has won two ATP Challenger Tour titles this year.
Basavareddy, 20, is currently ranked No. 109. He, too, reached a career-best ranking of world No. 99 earlier this summer. A former all-American at Stanford, Basavareddy notably reached the semifinals of the ATP 250 event in Auckland in January. He’ll be making his US Open main draw debut.
Boyer, 24, is currently ranked No. 116. He reached the second round of the Australian Open this year as a qualifier, earning his first tour-level win. He also owns wins at two ATP Masters 1000 events this year – Indian Wells and Toronto – and will be making his US Open main draw debut.
Nava, 23, is currently ranked a career-best world No. 105 and earned his wild card by winning the US Open Wild Card Challenge. Click here to view the final US Open Wild Card Challenge Standings. Nava’s summer was highlighted by a run to the third round of the ATP Masters 1000 event in Toronto as a qualifier. Nava also won three consecutive ATP Challenger Tour titles this spring, which earned him a spot in the French Open via the Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge, where he reached the second round.
Dostanic, 23, earned his wild card by winning the men’s singles title at the inaugural American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs in June. Dostanic, who helped lead Wake Forest to the NCAA men’s tennis national championship this spring, bested a field of the top American collegiate players at the new event designed to increase the number of US Open wild cards allotted to the top college tennis players.
Blanch, 18, will make his Grand Slam debut after winning the singles title at the USTA Boys’ 18s National Championships. A former top-ranked junior, Blanch has predominantly been playing on the ITF World Tennis Tour recently, winning his first professional singles title at a M15 event in Spain in February.
Royer, 24, is currently ranked a career-best No. 104. He reached the second round at Wimbledon as a qualifier and has won two ATP Challenger Tour titles this season. He earned his wild card based on a reciprocal agreement between the USTA and FFT where wild cards between the US Open and Roland Garros are exchanged.
Schoolkate, 24, is currently ranked a career-best No. 97 and has won two ATP Challenger Tour titles this year. He earned his wild card based on a reciprocal agreement between the USTA and Tennis Australia where wild cards between the US Open and Australian Open are exchanged.
The USTA also announced the American men receiving wild cards into the US Open Qualifying tournament, held August 18-21 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center:
Andres Martin, 24, who is currently ranked a career-best No. 275 after reaching the final at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., last month; Tyler Zink, 24, the former US Open boys’ doubles champion who has won one professional singles title this year; Patrick Maloney, 25, who has won two professional singles titles this year; Garrett Johns, 24, who has won three professional singles titles this year; Martin Damm, 21, who reached the men’s doubles second round at the 2019 US Open at the age of 15; Jack Kennedy, 17, the Long Island native who has been ranked as high as No. 5 in the ITF junior rankings this year; Benjamin Willwerth, 18, who reached the boys’ singles final at the Australian Open this year; Michael Zheng, 21, the reigning NCAA men’s singles champion and the runner-up at the American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs; and Jack Satterfield, 18, the USTA Boys’ 18s national singles runner-up.
