Dostanic, Glozman earn US Open wild cards at American Collegiate Wild Card Playoffs
Wake Forest's Stefan Dostanic and Stanford's Valerie Glozman capped their standout NCAA tennis seasons by earning 2025 US Open wild cards Wednesday at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. By winning the American Collegiate Player Wild Card Playoffs without dropping a set in men's and women's singles, respectively, both champions booked their Grand Slam debuts in the New York main draw.
Graduate transfer Dostanic, the top seed in the men's singles playoff as the world No. 404, capped his college career by beating Michigan State's Ozan Baris and Columbia's Michael Zheng, the reigning NCAA singles champion, in the four-player shootout. World No. 944 Glozman, who just finished her freshman year, was seeded fourth and battled past UC Santa Barbara's Amelia Honer and Texas A&M's Mary Stoiana.
Zheng and Stoiana are also headed to New York, with the finalists receiving US Open qualifying wild cards for their efforts in Lake Nona.
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For Dostanic, who won the NCAA team title with Wake Forest last month, the US Open wild card brings a close to what he called a "roller coaster college career" that began in 2019 at USC.
"It feels surreal," the 23-year-old said, looking ahead to his US Open debut. "This is definitely a dream and goal of mine I've had for a long time. Everyone wants to play in the US Open as an American. To go through college and to get a wild card, I couldn't be more thrilled and thankful to the USTA."
After a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Baris in Monday's opening round, Dostanic punched his ticket to New York with a 6-1, 6-4 win against Zheng on Wednesday. Two weeks earlier, Dostanic beat Zheng, 7-6(3), 6-4, at an USTA Pro Circuit and ATP Challenger Tour event in Tyler, Texas.
After navigating the drama of the playoff format, the California native hopes the experience will help him on the major stage.
Stefan Dostanic celebrates winning his US Open wild card. Photo by USTA/Conor Kvatek.
"It was nerve-wracking for sure," he said. "It's high-pressure situations and I think it's great preparation for the US Open. A lot of people are going to be watching, so [I'm] getting used to it a little bit. I think I handled the pressure pretty well and had a great time at this event."
Glozman has already experienced the US Open Qualifying Tournament three times, reaching the second round each of the past three years dating back to when she was 15. Having turned 18 in November, the Stanford star can finally look forward to the main event.
"I'm super excited," she said. "I've always wanted to experience the main draw, so I've really pushed myself this week and the weeks leading up to this for training, as soon as I heard I was selected [for the playoffs]. I'm really grateful that the hard work paid off."
Runner-up Mary Stoiana and champion Valerie Glozman. Photo by USTA/Conor Kvatek.
Glozman followed a 6-1, 6-2 win over Honer with a 7-6(8), 6-3 result against Stoiana in Wednesday's final. In a nearly three-hour battle of attrition, the drama peaked in the opening-set tiebreak when Glozman saved a set point with a brilliant lob at 6-7. After breaking new Grand Slam ground with her victory, she credited her past US Open experiences with helping her build her game over the years.
"The level is super high at the US Open, so I have to put it all out there and it really pushes me to the next level," explained the 5-foot-4 product of Bellevue, Wash. "It exposes a lot of my weaknesses, so I'm able to work on them in practice, and now that I'm in college, work on them throughout the season."
Glozman was an NCAA singles quarterfinalist in the fall and received ITA All-American and ACC Freshman of the Year honors for her freshman season at Stanford. Dostanic, who did not play college tennis in the fall, was named Most Outstanding Player at the 2025 NCAA team tournament after going a perfect 5-0 at No. 1 singles to help Wake Forest claim its second Division I title.
The American Collegiate Player Wild Card Playoffs also awarded US Open main-draw doubles wild cards Thursday to the winners of the men's and women's doubles shootouts. Duke's Cooper Williams and Theo Winegar won the men's event, while North Carolina's Reese Brantmeier and Alanis Hamilton earned the women's wild card.
The six guaranteed wild cards awarded through the playoffs more than doubles the average awarded to American collegiate players over the past 10 years. For more information, including video streams from this week's matches, visit the American Collegiate Player Wild Card Playoffs homepage on the USTA National Campus website.
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