Americans Katie Volynets and Zachary Svajda both made their US Open debuts in 2019 as wild cards after winning respective titles at the USTA Girls' and Boys' 18s National Championship. Six years later, both players earned their way into the 2025 main draw with three wins in the US Open Qualifying Tournament.
Volynets booked her fifth main-draw appearance on Friday with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 victory against Jana Fett on Court 9. The World No. 108 will be competing in the New York women's singles event for the third-straight year as she seeks her first main-draw win at her home major.
The 23-year-old has previously played in 13 Grand Slam tournament main draws, with a 2023 Australian Open third-round run her best showing. She has at least one win at every major outside of the US Open and reached a career-high WTA ranking of world No. 56 last July.
Volynets will be joined in the main draw by American Claire Liu, who did not drop a set in her qualifying campaign. Liu, who reached the New York second round in 2018, upset two seeded players in qualifying: She beat 16th seed Katarzyna Kawa, 6-1, 6-3, in the opening round and edged 32nd seed Veronika Erjavec, 7-5, 6-4, on Friday. Liu will compete in the US Open main draw for the fifth straight year and seventh time overall.
American Hina Inoue became the third American women's singles qualifier with a 7-6(4), 6-1 win against Lucrezia Stefanini. The 22-year-old can now look forward to her Grand Slam debut.
Also advancing on the women's side is top seed Francesca Jones, second seed Tereza Valentova and fourth seed Dalma Galfi. Third seed Aoi Ito of Japan was knocked out in the final qualifying round by Indonesia's Janice Tjen, a former NCAA star at Pepperdine. Tjen, 23, will make her US Open main-draw debut thanks to a dominant 6-1, 6-2 upset.
Svajda stormed his way into the main draw with three straight-sets wins this week, his qualifying run capped by a 6-3, 6-2 win over Marc-Andrea Huesler on Friday. The 22-year-old fought off eight of nine break points against his Swiss opponent while converting on four of his five break chances.
After finishing second to Emilio Nava in the USTA's US Open Wild Card Challenge, Svajda left nothing to chance in an impressive qualifying run.
Svajda was the USTA Boys' 18s champion in both 2019 and 2021, with a win against current world No. 6 Ben Shelton in the 2021 final. He reached the second round that year in New York and bowed out after four tight sets against Jannik Sinner. After falling in the second round of qualifying at each of the previous three majors this year, Svajda is into the US Open main draw for the third consecutive year and fifth time overall.
American Martin Damm will make his Grand Slam main-draw debut after a 7-6(10), 6-4 win against Yuta Shimizu on Friday. The 6-foot-8 Damm hit 10 aces in the win and lost his serve just once in each of his three qualifying matches.
The namesake son of 2006 US Open men's doubles champion Martin Damm Sr., the 21-year-old competed in the 2019 US Open men's doubles tournament alongside Toby Kodat after the pair won the USTA Boys' 18s title. Damm's best professional singles tournament came last year at the Miami ATP Masters 1000, where he reached the third round.
Thirty-five-year-old German Jan-Lennard Struff upset top-seeded Frenchman Arthur Cazaux, 7-6(4), 6-3, to seal his 10th US Open main-draw appearance, while second seed Jesper de Jong advanced with a 6-4, 6-1 result over American Mitchell Krueger. De Jong, 25, is set for his US Open main draw debut, having reached the second round in all four of his previous Grand Slam main-draw showings, including this year at Roland Garros and Wimbledon.
View the results from Friday's completed matches and look back at the men's qualifying draw and women's qualifying draw for all of this week's scores.
