Wimbledon wild cards

Count Zero · Tennis legend

Wimbledon wild cards

LadyTigress · County player

Count Zero wrote:

"so we cut his funding."

sorry may have added a wee bit at the end

Hilarious addition though. If only he had really said that.

DavidC · Tennis legend

The wildcards have nearly all been announced and the 3 extra singles MDWCs have gone to those deserving players 'next direct acceptance'

One extra doubles WC has been announced - going to Boggo and Slabba. One more to be announced

steven · Tennis legend

It's always such a cop-out giving the remaining WCS to the next 3 DAs. Interesting too, because I know for sure that Tomic had his eye on one (it's been all over the Aussie press) and I believe at least one of the other two non-GB Queen's WCs might have been holding out hope too.

Nice to see that the AELTC has at least been decent enough to give the Bogster a doubles WC. The Count and I did our best to remind them of that possibility on Twitter yesterday, so we'll delude ourselves that that's what tipped the balance. LOL

Btw the URL has changed from wildcards_2010 to 2010_wildcards, i.e.:

http://aeltc2010.wimbledon.org/en_GB/pdf/2010_wildcards.pdf

The Magician Santoro · Top national player

This means boggo will almost certianly be seeded for wimby qualies

LadyTigress · County player

Ah, so the WC's have come out at last, have they?

Has the qualifying draw been posted yet does anyone know?

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I don't think it is done until Sunday.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Ahh... so having seen the success of the WC to Canas in the past, they have now decided that the grass gods of Kunitsyn, Haase and Kavcic should get one (although Haase would actually be a sensible choice given he's a good player only ranked low because of injury), but I'm sure Kunitsyn benefited from this last year, and Kavcic has never played on a grass court before)

Surely coming up with some kind of trade with the Australians or the Americans for a wild card could have been achieved, or giving the likes of Tomic, Harrison, or dare I say it, Dimitrov a WC would be a better idea, as at least wouldn't be wasting them like they are at the moment.

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

why do the lta feel if the WC's dont win it is a waste, so what if we give them out and our players lose, they are our nation's to give, you see all other tennis weak nation's doing it

LadyTigress · County player

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Ahh... so having seen the success of the WC to Canas in the past, they have now decided that the grass gods of Kunitsyn, Haase and Kavcic should get one (although Haase would actually be a sensible choice given he's a good player only ranked low because of injury), but I'm sure Kunitsyn benefited from this last year, and Kavcic has never played on a grass court before)

Surely coming up with some kind of trade with the Australians or the Americans for a wild card could have been achieved, or giving the likes of Tomic, Harrison, or dare I say it, Dimitrov a WC would be a better idea, as at least wouldn't be wasting them like they are at the moment.

As I recall, Kunitsyn did not have a wildcard last year into the Wimbly main draw. He was either a qualifier or had direct entry.

I have to say, I find the decision they've gone with rather uninventive, and I'm not convinced that handing the three remaining WCs to simply the next three in line on the Alternates is going to add anything to the tournament or draw in the crowds.

The suggestion of a trade/deal would at least create some interest and the potential for reciprocation. There are also a few familiar campaigners in the list of those up for qualifying who may have been better choices, or at least would've generated more interest amongst the general public.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

who would they trade them for? guys who they wont even give home wc's too?

also i think fs mean junitsyn got in last yar with a DA after a freed up WC.

LadyTigress · County player

Count Zero wrote:

who would they trade them for? guys who they wont even give home wc's too?

also i think fs mean junitsyn got in last yar with a DA after a freed up WC.

Quote=ForeverDelayed: "Surely coming up with some kind of trade with the Australians or the Americans for a wild card could have been achieved, or giving the likes of Tomic, Harrison, or dare I say it, Dimitrov a WC would be a better idea, as at least wouldn't be wasting them like they are at the moment."

As for the "old campaigners" I mentioned, to provide an example, one can note Nicolas Lapentti in the qualifying draw. He may not get that far in the tournament if given a wildcard, but amongst the public he'd be a familiar name and face who might draw in more people to the tournament. Could work. At least could be a better alternative than just giving them to the next three guys on the list for the main draw because they can't make a decision on who to award the WC's to. Admittedly it would be nice if they offered them to Brit players, but I think it was already made clear some time ago that wasn't going to happen... so just trying to come up with some alternatives that they could've gone for that might have been more interesting than wasting the WCs.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

i was rather tired when i wrote my post, but was meant or say what is the point of organising deals with TA or USTA for a slam WC's trade offs. If they wont give any of our boys WC's into our home slam, save Baker, how would they ever be able to justify giving them one in a overseas slam.

steven · Tennis legend

Count Zero wrote:

i was rather tired when i wrote my post, but was meant or say what is the point of organising deals with TA or USTA for a slam WC's trade offs. If they wont give any of our boys WC's into our home slam, save Baker, how would they ever be able to justify giving them one in a overseas slam.

They'd only be swapping one WC with the other slams, so they'd only need one player to be worth giving one too. Fair or not, it would be better than just giving them away to players like Spadea, who I seem to remember got one of the freed up places last year!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

True, i guess there's always baker to hand them out to :)