French veterans Alizé Cornet and Richard Gasquet receive Roland Garros wild cards

PARIS (AP) — French veterans Alizé Cornet and Richard Gasquet received wild-card invitations on Tuesday to play at Roland Garros.

They were among the eight men's and eight women's wild cards given by the French Tennis Federation for the clay-court Grand Slam tournament starting May 26.

The 34-year-old Cornet recently said she would be retiring after playing one last time at Roland Garros. This will be Cornet's 20th consecutive appearance at Roland Garros, where she made her Grand Slam debut in 2005. She twice has reached the fourth round there.

The only time she fared better at any major tournament was a quarterfinal run at the Australian Open in 2022.

Cornet's career-best ranking was No. 11. She is currently No. 99.

Gasquet is 37 and currently ranked No. 113; his best was No. 7 in 2007.

His deepest run at Roland Garros was reaching the quarterfinals in 2016, but he has not passed the third round in Paris since. At other majors, he made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon twice and the US Open once.

American Sachia Vickery and Australian Ajla Tomljanović were among the the women's entries and Australian Adam Walton was among the men. Their wild cards were given as part of an agreement with the United States Tennis Association and Tennis Australia.

The USTA, Tennis Australia and the FFT offer reciprocal wild-card invitations for each other's Grand Slam events.

Check out the full list of main draw wild cards below:

Women's singles (main draw)

• Alizé CORNET (FRA)
• Fiona FERRO (FRA)
• Elsa JACQUEMOT (FRA)
• Kristina MLADENOVIC (FRA)
• Chloé PAQUET (FRA)
• Jessika PONCHET (FRA)
• Ajla TOMLJANOVIC (AUS - Reciprocal WC)
• Sachia VICKERY (USA - Reciprocal WC)

Men's singles (main draw)

• Terence ATMANE (FRA)
• Richard GASQUET (FRA)
• Pierre-Hugues HERBERT (FRA)
• Harold MAYOT (FRA)
• Nicolas MORENO DE ALBORAN (USA - Reciprocal WC)
• Giovanni MPETSHI PERRICARD (FRA)
• Alexandre MULLER (FRA)
• Adam WALTON (AUS - Reciprocal WC)