Under the reciprocity agreement between the French and American tennis federation, the FFT decided to award a Wild-Card to Caroline Garcia and Valentin Royer for the next US Open.
Last May, the Americans Iva Jovic and Emilio Nava had received invitations from their federation to enter the Roland-Garros table directly. Two months later, under the reciprocity agreement in force between the American and French tennis federations, it is the FFT’s turn to issue two Wild-Cards for the US Open. And the lucky ones are called Caroline Garcia and Valentin Royer! For the last Grand Chelem tournament in her career, the 31 -year -old Lyonnaise will therefore not need to go through the qualifications.
Falling up in the 197th in the world, the former winner of the Masters WTA had announced just before Roland-Garros that she would retire at the end of the season. Disrupted by back pain, Garcia had to give up the qualifications of Wimbledon and has not replayed since his elimination in the first round of Auteuil.
Married since last week, she has not been registered in any tournament before the US Open, which will therefore be her 53rd and last Grand Chelem tournament. A tournament where she had obtained her best result by reaching the semi-finals in 2022, the year of her victory at the Masters. Spending a tour this year would already be a great performance.
Royer rewarded for his beautiful season
Valentin Royer, on the other hand, is only at the start of his career and will take part in his very first US Open, he who had been eliminated in the last qualifying round last year. Classified in 113rd in the world this week (it was at best 108th two weeks ago), The 24 -year -old lives his best season (he was 197th in early January), with two victory and two Challenger finals in particular, and a second round in WimbledonAfter benefiting from the abandonment of Stefanos Tsitsipas in the first. Present this weekend at the qualifications in Toronto, he has a good chance of being the next new French to discover the Top 100.
