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Former champ Lleyton Hewitt, Robby Ginepri, Ryan Harrison and Donald Young are among the seven players awarded wild cards into the men's draw at the U.S. Open.
The U.S. Tennis Association said Wednesday that the eighth berth would be given to the winner of an eight-player tournament this week in College Park, Md. Steve Johnson, Jack Sock and Julien Benneteau also received wild cards for the Grand Slam tournament that begins Aug. 29.
The 30-year-old Hewitt won the 2001 U.S. Open and 2002 Wimbledon titles, but is ranked 165th after a series of injuries. He received his entry as part of a reciprocal agreement that allows the USTA to select a player for a wild card into the Australian Open.
The 22-year-old Young, ranked 89th, had to apologize to the USTA in April after he posted an obscenity-laced message on Twitter criticizing the organization for not automatically giving him its wild card into the French Open. Benneteau is France's nominee for the U.S. Open through that reciprocal arrangement.
Read more: http://espn.go.com/tennis/usopen11/story/_/id/6870910/2011-us-open-lleyton-hewitt-wild-card-entries
