Clijsters, Osaka, Venus among wildcards in US Open tuneup

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Four-time Grand Slam champion Kim Clijsters was among four major title winners given wildcards Thursday into the WTA field for a US Open tuneup event next month in New York. The 37-year-old Belgian was joined in the wildcard field for the Western and Southern Open by Japan's Naomi Osaka and Americans Venus Williams, Sloane Stephens and Caty McNally. The event, typically staged in Cincinnati two weeks before the US Open, was moved to Flushing Meadows and will be played August 20-28 inside the National Tennis Center bubble without spectators as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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