2025 Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge

The road to Paris began in late March for Americans competing in the USTA's 2025 Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge. Follow along at the bottom of this page for weekly standings updates in the race to the French red clay.

Based on results from clay-court tournaments across five weeks from March 31 to May 4, the Challenge awards an American man and woman a main-draw singles wild card to the year's third Grand Slam.

Final Standings Update (May 5)

American rising stars Iva Jovic and Emilio Nava have earned singles main draw wild cards into the upcoming French Open by winning the USTA's Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge. The USTA and FFT have a reciprocal agreement in which main draw wild cards for the 2025 French Open and US Open are exchanged.

The 17-year-old Jovic finished the five-week Challenge with 142 points, earned by winning the USTA Pro Circuit W100 in Charlottesville, Va., (100 pts.) and reaching the second round at both the WTA 250 in Bogota (30 pts.) and the USTA Pro Circuit W100 in Bonita Springs, Fla. (12 pts.). Jovic's point total was enough to outlast a final-week push by former Roland Garros girls' singles champion Whitney Osuigwe, who could have won the Challenge on its final day by winning the Bonita Springs title. 

The Torrance, Calif., native Jovic has now earned wild cards into the last three Grand Slam singles main draws, after winning the USTA Girls' 18s national championship to enter the 2024 US Open and the USTA's Australian Open Wild Card Playoff to get into the 2025 Australian Open. She reached the second round in both of those events.

Nava won the men's Challenge with 119 points, thanks to his performance at consecutive USTA Pro Circuit ATP Challenger events, winning the title in Sarasota, Fla., (75 pts.) and reaching the final in Tallahassee, Fla., (44 pts.) amid a 19-match win streak. 

Nava previously qualified for the French Open in 2023 and competed in the US Open main draw in 2022-23, pushing Casper Ruud to four sets in the first round after qualifying the latter year.

Standings Update (April 29)

Heading into its final week, the Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge has a new women's leader and a tight race between the men's top two. 

Seventeen-year-old rising star Iva Jovic now leads the women's Challenge as the race heads into its final week. The 17-year-old reigning USTA Girls' 18s national champion is now competing, among several other late contenders, at the USTA Pro Circuit W100 in Bonita Springs, Fla., while Varvara Lepchenko remains in contention at the WTA 125 in Saint Malo, France. Jovic shot to the top of the standings by winning the USTA Pro Circuit W100 last week in Charlottesville, Va., her first pro title at the W100 level. She's aiming to compete in her third straight Grand Slam event via wild card, after playing in the 2024 US Open as the Girls' 18s winner and this year's Australian Open after winning the Australian Open Wild Card Challenge.

"I'm definitely more aware of the playoff, especially since I got [the wild card] for Australia," Jovic said in a Monday interview on Tennis Channel 2. "So I know how it works, but I just want to win more titles and then if the wild card comes, then it's great."

Discussing her clay-court form, she added: "I think I'm just doing a good job moving on the clay. I'm trying to work on my sliding a lot and just getting more comfortable there. So I think I'm doing that a lot better than I was a couple of years ago, just being open to learning about the surface and getting better on it. So I definitely like to play a lot more now [on clay]."

Former NCAA singles champion Ethan Quinn, meanwhile, closed the gap on leader Emilio Nava by qualifying and reaching the second round at the ATP Masters 1000 in Madrid, and could overtake Nava with a deep run at the ATP Challenger 175 in Estoril, Portugal. Since the Challenge only counts a player's best three events during the Challenge's five-week window, Quinn would need to make the semifinals in Estoril to leapfrog into first place.

Standings Update (April 14)

Emilio Nava's recent scorching run at clay Challengers has now put him in pole position for entry into the French Open main draw. 

The 23-year-old Southern Californian won his third straight Challenger 75 title last week at the USTA Pro Circuit event in Sarasota, Fla., his first event played during the Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge window. Nava has won 15 straight clay-court Challenger matches and has risen from world No. 238 to No. 140 in the last six weeks. He previously qualified for the Roland Garros main draw in 2023.

Star junior Julieta Pareja continues to lead the women's side of the Challenge, while former Roland Garros junior singles champion Whitney Osuigwe, 22, entered the Top 5 with a title at the USTA Pro Circuit W35 in Boca Raton, Fla. In 2017, Osuigwe became the first American to win the French Open girls' title since Jennifer Capriati in 1989 and finished the year as the No. 1 junior in the world. She rose to No. 105 in the WTA rankings in 2019. She's now won two singles titles in her last three events, after winning the W50 in Santo Domingo—the first time Osuigwe has won multiple pro singles titles in a season.

Standings Update (April 8)

The first standings update of the 2025 Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge features both a junior and a college star in the lead: Julieta Pareja and Colton Smith.

The 16-year-old Pareja, a Californian who last year came within one win of becoming the youngest US Open women's qualifier in 20 years, leads the women's side of the Challenge, having reached the semifinals of the WTA 250 in Bogota last week. It was her first career appearance in a main draw of a WTA event, and she became the youngest player since Coco Gauff in 2019 to reach a WTA-level semifinal.

Smith, a 22-year-old Washingtonian who is currently a senior at the University of Arizona, tops the men's standings after qualifying and reaching the Houston quarterfinals. The reigning All-American then returned to Arizona to play in the Senior Day match for the Wildcats over the weekend.

(Note: Jenson Brooksby, now ranked No. 172 after winning the singles title in Houston last week, entered the main draw of the French Open using a protected ranking and thus is not eligible for the Challenge, as stated in the parameters above.)