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Young Americans New generation highlights U.S. Open wild cards
NEW YORK (AP) -- Andy Roddick, the world's top-ranked junior, NCAA champion Alex Kim and USTA Girls' 18s winner Kristen Schlukebir head the 16 wild card entries for this year's U.S. Open tennis championships. The year's final Grand Slam tournament begins its two-week run Aug. 28 at the National Tennis Center. Besides Roddick, of Boca Raton, Fla., and Kim, of Potomac, Md., the U.S. Tennis Association on Thursday announced the six other wild cards for the men's singles -- Taylor Dent of Newport Beach, Calif.; Mardy Fish, Vero Beach, Fla.; Phillip King, Long Beach, Calif.; Cecil Mamiit, Los Angeles; Bob Bryan, Camarillo, Calif., and Kevin Kim, Fullerton, Calif. The eight men average just over 20 years old, making them the youngest group of men's wild cards since wild card records began being kept in 1986. Wild cards into the women's singles went to Schlukebir of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Brie Rippner, Chico, Calif.; Dawn Buth, Riverdale, N.Y.; Allison Bradshaw, San Diego; Mashona Washington, Houston; Sandra Cacic, Bradenton, Fla.; Ansley Cargill, Atlanta, and Tracy Almeda-Singian, Mission Hills, Calif. Laura Granville of Chicago, the NCAA women's champion from Stanford, earned a wild card, but was forced to withdraw due to injury. Roddick, 17, is the first American to hold the world's No. 1 junior ranking since 1992. In January, he became the first American since 1959 to win the Australian Open junior title.
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