Former champion Stan Wawrinka has been awarded a main-draw wildcard for this month’s French Open, in what is set to be his final appearance at the tournament.
The Swiss player, who won Roland-Garros in 2015, announced that this season will be his last before retirement.
Plans are in place to honour the 41-year-old after his final match in Paris, as well as to celebrate the career of home favourite and fellow wildcard Gael Monfils, who will also retire at the end of the year.
Wawrinka is now ranked 125th in the world, while Monfils – a semi-finalist in 2008 – is ranked 222nd.
However there was no main-draw wildcard on offer for Belgian veteran David Goffin, who has also announced the 2026 season will be his last.
The 35-year-old, who is now ranked 249th, was instead awarded a wildcard into the qualifying tournament. He reached a career high of seventh in the world and won six ATP Tour titles, and made the last eight at the French Open, Wimbledon and Australian Open.
Wawrinka reached a career high of No 3 in the world and beat Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic when both were ranked world No 1 to win his three grand slam titles, defeating the Spaniard in the 2014 Australian Open final and the Serb in both the 2015 French Open and the 2016 US Open finals.
Gael Monfils has also been awarded a wildcard (Getty)
He also won men’s doubles gold alongside compatriot Roger Federer in the 2008 Olympics, and the 2014 Davis Cup title for Switzerland.
Monfils is a two-time major semi-finalist – his other appearance coming at the 2016 US Open – and the 39-year-old became the ATP Tour’s oldest winner of a title when he won his 13th in Auckland in 2025.
The remaining men’s wildcards into the Roland-Garros main draw were American Nishesh Basavareddy and Australian Adam Walton, as part of a reciprocal agreement with the US and Australian tennis federations, as well as French players Titouan Droguet, Hugo Gaston, Arthur Gea and Moise Kouame.
The women’s wildcards were allocated to to Australia’s Emerson Jones and American player Akasha Urhobo, and French players Clara Burel, Ksenia Efremova, Fiona Ferro, Leolia Jeanjean, Sarah Rakotomanga and Alice Tubello.
The French Open begins on 24 May.
