Yas would be a great choice!



I suppose one wild card will almost surely go to Urszula Radwanska given that she won the Junior tournament last year, besides being quite talented herself (although I'm beginning to feel that she's quite overhyped).

-- Edited by Greenleaf at 09:15, 2008-05-14

Urzsula has had loads of wildcards for tournaments already this year and never done owt with them. I'm slightly sceptical that she will be as big a threat as her older sister quite yet, but I could be wrong.

Be interesting to see how the next few weeks pan out for the girls as to who gets a look-in for a wildcard. I think Peter makes a good point about Yasmin. She's earned a shot in my eyes. Katharina Brown looks good too as an outside bet.

Yes, I'm sure that the older girls deserve it, too, but the thing is - who deserves it more?

I don't think think that any one of our players outside the top 150 and inside the top 700 have a decent chance of making the top 100 barring Cavaday. Sure... there are people like Elliott who are going up fast, but they are not very young (okay, they are young by social terms, but in women's tennis you have girls winning Slams at 18).

If you're not upto a certain level by the time you are 17 or 18, chances are that you won't get to the top 100, ever. I'm not trying to discourage anyone - by all means, there are exceptions and if you work hard enough maybe you'll get there someday. But the thing is, the governing body of a country can't go and favour people who could be exceptions; they should give the best opportunities to people who have a shot at making it to the top. And that means people like Moore, Robson, Rae, the Rens etc.




(With all due respect to Elliott whom I don't want to make a scapegoat and who definitely deserves a wild card into the main draw this year.)

Nope. The LTA's Tournament Search option gave me the tournament's particulars but no entry lists, I'm afraid.

+ Naomi Cavaday got a main draw WC.

well put david. i agree entirely. why would they not give anna msith one she won two consecutive doubles titles this year both 25k. hawkins has improved her ranking so much and keothavong baltacha never play doubles their doubles rankings are awful. its just away of funding them but i think its stupid.
personally i do not think fitzpatrick deserves a singles wildcard. yes she is a great player but she has not been this year. she has had some horrid results and i would be very surprised if she wins a round at wimbledon.