{"id":14417,"date":"2025-05-13T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/stan-wawrinka-former-champion-given-wildcard-for-french-open-aged-40\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:48:30","slug":"stan-wawrinka-former-champion-given-wildcard-for-french-open-aged-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/stan-wawrinka-former-champion-given-wildcard-for-french-open-aged-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Wawrinka: Former champion given wildcard for French Open aged 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former champion Stan Wawrinka has been awarded a wildcard entry into the men&#8217;s singles draw at the 2025 French Open.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wawrinka defeated Novak Djokovic in four sets to lift the trophy in 2015, the second of his three Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now aged 40, the Swiss player has dropped to 132nd in the ATP rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He reached round two at Roland Garros in 2024, losing to Russia&#8217;s Pavel Kotov, and hasn&#8217;t reached the second week of a Grand Slam event since the 2020 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frenchman Richard Gasquet, 38, who will retire after the tournament, has also received a wildcard for the main draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2025 French Open will run from 25 May to 8 June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cy90qq5v09xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former champion Stan Wawrinka has been awarded a wildcard entry into the men&#8217;s singles draw at the 2025 French Open. Wawrinka defeated Novak Djokovic in four sets to lift the trophy in 2015, the second of his three Grand Slam titles. Now aged 40, the Swiss player has dropped to 132nd in the ATP rankings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14419,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions\/14419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}