Fifteen-year-old Cori ‘Coco’ Gauff ready to wow fans again at the US Open

After shocking the world at Wimbledon, 15-year-old prodigy Coco Gauff has been given another chance to take tennis by storm.

Gauff will have a lot more celebrating to do in her career.

Teenage tennis star Cori “Coco” Gauff will get a chance to try for an encore.

The 15-year-old from Florida received a wildcard entry for the US Open’s main draw on Wednesday morning (AEST). It will be Gauff’s second grand slam tournament, following on from her magical run to the fourth round at Wimbledon last month after getting a wildcard into the qualifying rounds there.

Ranked just 313th at the time, Gauff became the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon, upset five-time champion Venus Williams in the first round and wound up losing at the All England Club to eventual title winner Simona Halep.

Gauff is currently No. 140 in the WTA rankings.

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She initially made a mark at age 13 by becoming the youngest US Open junior finalist in history and she won the French Open junior title at 14.

Age restrictions set up by the women’s professional tour limit the number of tournaments someone who is 15 can enter and the number of wildcard invitations she can be offered — and Gauff already has accepted three wildcards elsewhere. But according to the WTA, the US Tennis Association — which runs the grand slam tournament, and so is not overseen by the WTA or ATP tours — essentially can choose to ignore the eligibility rule and offer Gauff a wildcard.

“I want to thank the USTA for the opportunity to participate in my home slam,” Gauff said in a statement emailed by her agent. “I look forward to playing my first main draw at the US Open.”

Among the other players receiving wildcards from the USTA on for the women’s field at Flushing Meadows in New York City were Australia’s 2011 US Open champion Sam Stosur and 17-year-old Caty McNally, an American who won the doubles title with Gauff and reached the singles semi-finals at the Citi Open in Washington this month.

Gauff and McNally have said they plan to play doubles together at Flushing Meadows — the pair won the US Open junior doubles trophy together a year ago.

Gauff surprised everyone, including herself, with her amazing Wimbledon run.

A stunning winner over Serena Williams in the 2011 final, Stosur will join world No. 2 Ashleigh Barty and fellow Australians Ajla Tomljanovic, Daria Gavrilova and Astra Sharma in the women’s singles in New York.

At 35, Stosur, who has slipped to No. 131 in the world rankings but remains a 2019 Fed Cup final option for Australia, will be the third oldest player in the draw behind 37-year-old Serena and the American’s sister Venus, who turns 40 next year.

Also a quarter-finalist at Flushing Meadows in 2010 and 2012, as well as a doubles champion in 2005 with Lisa Raymond, Stosur is among eight women to receive wildcards into the singles this year.

The other seven are all American up and comers, including Gauff.

Stosur’s wildcard gives Australia 10 players in the women’s and men’s singles main draw in New York.

Nick Kyrgios, Alex de Minaur, Jordan Thompson, 2018 quarter-finalist John Millman and teenage gun Alexei Popyrin will contest the men’s event from August 26.

Another 16 Australians have entered US Open qualifying — eight men and eight women.

With AAP