LI’s Rubin Awarded Wild Card Entry Into U.S. Open Qualifiers

August 18, 2015 | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
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The USTA has announced the eight men who have been awarded wild card entries into the U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament, which will be held Aug. 25-28 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. One additional U.S. Open qualifying wild card will be awarded to the winner of the 2015 U.S. Open National Playoffs–Men’s Championship, taking place Aug. 21-24 in New Haven, Conn.

Players receiving U.S. Open qualifying wild cards are:

►2015 NCAA singles finalist and 2014 USTA Boys 18s National Champion Noah Rubin (19, Rockville Centre, N.Y.)

►Current world number one junior and 2015 French Open Boys Finalist Taylor Fritz (17, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.);

►2015 USTA Boys 18s runner-up and 2014 Wimbledon and Australian Open finalist Stefan Kozlov (17, Pembroke Pines, Fla.);

►Former top-five world-ranked junior Mitchell Krueger (21, Fort Worth, Texas), who reached the quarterfinals or better at three straight USTA Pro Circuit Challengers this summer;

►2014 NCAA singles champion Marcos Giron (22, Thousand Oaks, Calif.), who earned his qualifying wild card by winning the American Collegiate Invitational at last year’s U.S. Open;

►Current world number three junior Michael Mmoh (17, Bradenton, Fla.);

►2015 Wimbledon Boys Champion Reilly Opelka (17, Palm Coast, Fla.);

►2015 French Open Boys Champion Tommy Paul (18, Greenville, N.C.);


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