By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Match organizers for the newly mixed ATP/WTA 500 Mubadala Citi DC Open launched an up to date participant subject that includes a number of fundamental draw wildcards for big-name gamers, together with two former Grand Slam champions.
Within the girls’s draw, 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin and 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu got wildcards into subsequent week’s occasion. Additionally included as wildcard recipients are former World No. 3 Elina Svitolina, 2022 Australian Open finalist Danielle Collins, and 17-year-old and up to date Wimbledon woman’s singles title winner Clervie Ngounoue.
🚨 Ladies’s Wild Card Announcement 🚨
FOUR former High 10 gamers will all be competing in DC!
🇨🇦 Bianca Andreescu🇺🇸 Sofia Kenin🇺🇦 Elina Svitolina🇺🇸 Danielle Collins#MubadalaCitiDCOpen pic.twitter.com/H1XHSKLX6Y
— Mubadala Citi DC Open (@mubadalacitidc) July 26, 2023
For the boys’s draw, wildcard recipients embody two-time main finalist Kevin Anderson, 2017 US Open finalist and D.C winner Kei Nishikori, 2016 D.C. champion Gael Monfils, and rising faculty participant Andrew Fenty.
🚨 Males’s Wild Card Announcement 🚨
Three former High 🔟 gamers add to a stacked males’s singles lineup!
🇿🇦 Kevin Anderson🇯🇵 Kei Nishikori🇫🇷 Gael Monfils#MubadalaCitiDCOpen pic.twitter.com/QLmmalfXfA
— Mubadala Citi DC Open (@mubadalacitidc) July 26, 2023
The qualifying draw can even characteristic 2021 US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez of Canada.
“We’ve an unimaginable participant subject dedicated to compete on this 12 months’s Mubadala Citi DC Open, the primary and solely mixed ATP and WTA 500 degree event on the earth,” mentioned Mark Ein, Mubadala Citi DC Open Chairman. “Awarding two Grand Slam champions and three Grand Slam finalists wild playing cards into our occasion solely strengthens an already extremely deep participant subject.
“With over 92 % of our tickets bought and this unbelievable participant subject and world-class meals and beverage experiences all through the positioning, we anticipate the event will promote out for a 3rd 12 months in a row.”
Final 12 months’s males’s champion Nick Kyrgios and up to date Wimbledon semifinalist Daniil Medvedev each withdrew from the event as a result of damage. Taylor Fritz is the highest males’s seed this 12 months whereas Jessica Pegula is the highest girls’s seed.
Primary draw play begins on Monday, July 31.
Photograph Credit score: Wealthy Kessler/Citi Open
