Mathewson, Ratzlaff & Wagner to Play 2020 US Open Wheelchair Event

American interests in the 2020 US Open wheelchair tournament will be represented by a pair of wild cards and an all-time great.

The trio of Dana Mathewson, Casey Ratzlaff and David Wagner are expected to compete in the event, which will see its 13th edition held this year from Sept. 10-13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.

Mathewson, the top-ranked U.S. woman at world No. 11, and Ratzlaff earned wild cards to their respective singles fields. Mathewson, 29, will be competing in the US Open for the fourth straight year, while the 21-year-old Ratzlaff, ranked No. 20 in singles, will be making his Grand Slam debut.

Wagner is a three-time quad singles and a six-time quad doubles champion in New York among his 25 Grand Slam titles, while Mathewson reached the final of the 2017 US Open women's wheelchair doubles tournament. Last year, she also reached the semifinals in singles, winning her first-ever match in that discipline at the tournament in the process. 

All three Americans reached at least one final on the ITF UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour prior to the sport's nearly five-month hiatus as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wagner captured two ITF 3 Series quad singles titles in Indian Wells and Tuscon, Ariz., and also was the quad doubles runner-up at the Australian Open with Great Britain's Andy Lapthorne. Ratzlaff reached five combined finals in the first two months of 2020, winning in doubles in Indian Wells alongside Argentina's Agustin Ledesma, while Mathewson recorded a runner-up showing with German Katharina Kruger at an ITF 2 Series event in Bolton, Great Britain.

The USTA was officially designated by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) as the national governing body for the Paralympic sport of wheelchair tennis in June of 2002, with the first wheelchair US Open event taking place in 2005. 

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