2025 US Open Wild Card Challenge

Americans Caty McNally and Emilio Nava will each compete at their home major after winning the USTA's 2025 US Open Wild Card Challenge and earning their places in the New York singles main draw. View the final standings below, along with past updates from each week of the Challenge.

The Challenge utilizes hard-court pro tournaments to award an American man and woman a singles main-draw wild card into the US Open. The men's race kicked off the week of June 30, while the women's race begins July 21, with both windows lasting through the week of Aug. 4.

Americans who otherwise earn direct entry into the US Open are not eligible, including those who can enter with a protected ranking. Should the player with the highest number of Challenge points earn direct entry into the US Open, the wild card will go to the next eligible American in the Challenge points standings. In the event of a tie, the player with the best ATP or best WTA singles ranking on Monday, Aug. 11, will earn the wild card.

The 2025 US Open will be held from Aug. 18 - Sept. 7 in New York.

Final Standings (Aug. 13)

McNally and Nava finished atop the final standings, released on Wednesday, Aug. 13.

McNally, who is set for her fourth US Open main-draw appearance, won the women's wild card on the strength of her title at the USTA Pro Circuit W100 event in Evansville, Ind., last month and her run to the third round of the Montreal WTA 1000 event two weeks ago. Ranked as high as world No. 54 in 2023, McNally's best US Open singles result is a third-round showing in 2020. The 23-year-old also reached the US Open doubles final in 2021 (with Coco Gauff) and 2022 (with Taylor Townsend).

Nava won the men's Challenge thanks in large part to his quarterfinal showing at the ATP 250 in Los Cabos last month and his run to the third round of the Toronto ATP Masters 1000 event earlier this month. The 23-year-old has competed at the US Open three times before, reaching the second round in 2022. Nava also advanced to the second round at the French Open this year after winning the USTA's Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge.

Standings Update (Aug. 4)

While Caty McNally is running away with the women's US Open Wild Card Challenge, a host of American men are still chasing leader Emilio Nava toward next week's finish line. 

Zachary Svajda, the 22-year-old Californian who was the USTA Boys' 18s national champion in 2019 and 2021, won his second ATP Challenger Tour singles title of the summer, and his first on a hard court, last week at the USTA Pro Circuit 75 event in Lexington, Ky., to pull within four points of Nava. Meanwhile McNally, who took the women's lead last week after her singles title at the USTA Pro Circuit W100 in Evansville, Ind., added points from two match wins at the National Bank Open WTA 1000 in Montreal.

Standings Update (July 28)

Caty McNally's singles title at the USTA Pro Circuit W100 event in Evansville, Ind., was enough to put her atop the first women's standings in the US Open Wild Card Challenge. McNally has a 40-point lead over second-place Venus Williams, who notched her first singles victory in two years at the Mubadala Citi DC Open last week.

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Former Georgia Tech All-American Andres Martin now leads the men's standings after reaching the final at the USTA Pro Circuit ATP Challenger 100 in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Standings Update (July 21)

Emilio Nava is now in the lead to potentially win his second consecutive Wild Card Challenge, as the 23-year-old's quarterfinal run at the ATP 250 in Los Cabos last week put him atop the men's standings of the US Open Wild Card Challenge at the midway point. Nava—who won the Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge this spring and beat former Top 25 player Botic Van de Zandschulp in the first round of the French Open—now leads the men's standings after Week 3 of 6.

Standings Update (July 7)

Patrick Kypson got a head start on returning to the US Open men's singles main draw by reaching the semifinals of the USTA Pro Circuit ATP Challenger 75 last week in Cary, N.C. Kypson has the early lead in the men's US Open Wild Card Challenge after a Week 1 that saw a number of current and former college and junior stars bank points.