French veterans Alize Cornet and Richard Gasquet obtained wild card invites Tuesday to play within the French Open.
They had been among the many eight males’s and girls’s wild playing cards given by the French Tennis Federation for the clay-court Grand Slam event beginning Might 26.
The 34-year-old Cornet just lately stated she could be retiring after taking part in one final time at Roland Garros. This will likely be Cornet’s twentieth consecutive look on the French Open, the place she made her Grand Slam debut in 2005. She twice has reached the fourth spherical there.
The one time she fared higher at any main event was a quarterfinal run on the Australian Open in 2022.
Cornet’s career-best rating was No. 11. She is presently No. 99.
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Gasquet is 37 and presently ranked No. 113; his greatest was No. 7 in 2007.
His deepest run on the French Open was reaching the quarterfinals in 2016, however he has not handed the third spherical at Roland Garros since. At different majors, he made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon twice and the U.S. Open as soon as.
American Sachia Vickery and Australian Ajla Tomljanovic had been among the many the ladies’s entries and Australian Adam Walton was among the many males. Their wild playing cards got as a part of an settlement with the USA Tennis Affiliation (USTA) and Tennis Australia.
The USTA, Tennis Australia and the FFT supply reciprocal wild-card invites for one another’s Grand Slam occasions.Â