Elizabeth Mandlik, J.J. Wolf clinch US Open Wild Card Challenge

Wolf will be appearing in the US Open main draw for a second time, while Mandlik will be making her main-draw debut. In 2020, Wolf also received a wild card and reached the third round. Last year, she received a qualifying wild card and was beaten there in Round 1. 

The 23-year-old Wolf is currently ranked No. 83, and finished atop the men's standings with 106 points thanks in large part to reaching the quarterfinals at the Citi Open, an ATP 500 event. 

Ranked No. 104 as of the entry cut-off for the US Open, Wolf is also currently five spots out from direct acceptance into the US Open main draw, per the latest entry list. Should he gain direct entry, the Challenge wild card would go to the second-place finisher Aleks Kovacevic. Kovacevic, a former college tennis player at the University of Illinois, counted a runner-up at the USTA Pro Circuit event in Indianapolis and a semifinal in Lexington, Ky. among his standout Challenge results. He scored 96 points while Evan Zhu (40 points) finished in third place.