I bet that he's still hysteric with laughter at the thought of being given a wild card in Wimbledon. He should be made to donate his 10K pounds to charity.

There is time even now, I think, as long as enough people withdraw to accomodate Kunitsyn before the qualies starts.

The fact that the last two qualifying WCs weren't given out (no 'free money' unless they actually win a match I believe) is even more scandalous, if that were possible.

Is the LTA going to change it's name to the KOOPITTA? (the Kick Our Own Players In The Teeth Association)

That well known saying about 'A party in a brewery' springs to mind

Just thinking a bit more abut this (I know, I really shouldn't, it addles the brain!), by what stretch of logic can they give Dan Evans a Queen's main draw WC then say they can't find enough players to give Wimby qualifying WCs to when he hasn't got one and isn't, as far as I know, playing anywhere else? It seems completely perverse.

Not that he'd necessarily be one of my top two picks for the remaining Q WCs, but if they can't find anyone else and thought he was good enough to get a main draw WC for Queen's, surely ...

That's quite apart from the logic that says that Wardy and Slabba have enough of an outside chance of upsetting a top 100 player that they should be given main draw WCs at Nottingham, but should be denied any chance of playing at Wimby even when the LTA/AELTC can't find enough players to use up their main draw WC quota either.
 
Again, they wouldn't necessarily have been my first choices for main draw WCs, but if the LTA/AELTC can't find anyone else to give them to ...

(apologies in advance, but ...)

YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS

-- Edited by steven at 23:11, 2008-06-15

Does this mean we have officially given up on Dan Evans and thrown him on the scrapheap because he got hammered by Malisse and lost a close one to GGL.

By "we", I mean the LTA of course.

They seemed to rate him highly enough 2 weeks ago and now all of a sudden he can't get a WC into Wimbledon qualifying. So strange.

At the moment, Kunitsyn and Karanusic are the 2 players who have entered the list because of the AELTC not awarding the last 2 wild cards and so them going to the next ranked players on the list.

But as Kunitsyn was awarded a WC, he no longer needs that WC as he has made the draw by his ranking and so in theory, the WC becomes free again and is able to be re-awarded to anyone that the AELTC like.

If though they decide that he's getting in via WC, then the next man on the list is Frank Dancevic, also a WC, so Peter Luczak would be the next man to make the main draw.

So... if the AELTC hand over the 6th WC to the ITF, then Peter Luczak would be getting it...

If not, as they are able to do so, then it can go to anyone they like.... which means it could still go to a British player.

However, I fully expect to find out tomorrow morning that it has been handed over to the ITF and Luczak makes the main draw (and so the 3 "Wild Cards" would be Peter Luczak, Martin Vassallo Argunello and Roko Karanusic)

And for not awarding the last 2 qualifying WC's? To me, that's more pathetic than handing over main draw WC's.

By all means don't award wild cards if we haven't got players who deserve them to the main draw and tell them they should go through qualifying if they want to play Wimbledon... BUT THEN TO NOT AWARD 2 WC TO THAT IS A JOKE AND IS HYPOCRITICAL.

But then this comes from an organisation that cut's funding for our players, cuts British tournaments and then tells them to play abroad, right after they've taken away the money they would use for these foreign trips, so it's expected.

I don't like to make outlandish criticism's.... but I've had it with the LTA and their attempt to run the game in this country.