Rolland Garros announces wildcards for 2015 tourney

The French Tennis Federation named eight wildcards apiece for the 2015 French Open men's and women's singles main draw on Thursday.

Two from the United States and a duo of Australians have earned their lucky call alongside with a dozen of French players.

"Thanks to an agreement with the Australian and American Tennis Federations, a wild-card is allocated in the men's and women's draws to a player from each of these countries," read a press release of Roland Garros.

The men's and women's singles draw will each feature 128 players, as 104 male and 108 female players, including world No. 21 Peng Shuai and other three Chinese net-women, have been given direct acceptance into the main draw last month.

In additional, the FFT also announced nine wildcards for the men's singles qualifying and eight for the women's.

The 2015 French Open, the second Grand Slam of the year, starts here with qualifications on May 19. The total prize money will be 28,028,600 euros, three million more than that of last year.

Following are the wildcards named for the main draw (France unless stated):

Men's singles

Quentin HALYS

Maxime HAMOU

Thanasi KOKKINAKIS (Australia)

Nicolas MAHUT

Paul-Henri MATHIEU

Lucas POUILLE

Edouard ROGER-VASSELIN

Frances TIAFOE (United States)

Women's singles

Louisa CHIRICO (United States)

Oceane DODIN

Fiona FERRO

Amandine HESSE

Mathilde JOHANSSON

Alize LIM

Virginie RAZZANO

The eighth wild-card will be allocated later to an Australian player Endite