Wild Cards

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Wild Cards

emma · Strong Club Player

thank you CD.

indiana · Tennis legend

Thanks, CD.

Not quite sure what to make of it given many folk think that for many players, certainly after a certain stage, NOT focussing on the junior circuit might be to their developmental benefit.

Good chance it will at least draw more players to end of year tournaments, particularly the Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

French wildcard policy:

Wildcards pour les grands tableaux
Simple messieurs

- Quentin HALYS (FRA) WR 304
- Maxime HAMOU (FRA) WR 228
- Thanasi KOKKINAKIS (AUS)
- Nicolas MAHUT (FRA) WR 114
- Paul-Henri MATHIEU (FRA) WR 125
- Lucas POUILLE (FRA) WR 93
- Edouard ROGER-VASSELIN (FRA) WR 124
- Frances TIAFOE (USA)

Simple dames

- Louisa CHIRICO (USA)
- Océane DODIN (FRA) WR 137
- Fiona FERRO (FRA) WR 328
- Amandine HESSE (FRA) WR 278
- Mathilde JOHANSSON (FRA) WR 225
- Alizé LIM (FRA) WR 286
- Virginie RAZZANO (FRA) WR 238

(5 out of 6 are outside the LTA's top 200 guideline, 3 out of 6 outside the top 250)

Wildcards pour les qualifications
Simple messieurs

- Grégoire BARRERE (FRA) WR 305
- Hyeon CHUNG (KOR)
- Enzo COUACAUD (FRA) WR 220
- Mitchell KRUEGER (USA)
- Jules MARIE (FRA) WR 242
- Corentin MOUTET (FRA) WR 814
- Andrey RUBLEV (RUS)
- Guillaume RUFIN (FRA) WR 325
- Johan-Sébastien TATLOT (FRA) WR 412

** Calvin HEMERY replaced Enzo COUCAUD who made the draw direct

Constant LESTIENNE was a late addition when Rublev decided to play Geneva instead

Simple dames

- Tessah ANDRIANJAFITRIMO (FRA) WR 967
- Manon ARCANGIOLI (FRA) WR 277
- Lou BROULEAU (FRA) WR 397
- Julie COIN (FRA) WR 204
- Clothilde de BERNARDI (FRA) WR 319
- Harmony TAN (FRA) WR 409
- Chloé PAQUET (FRA) WR 389
- Katerina STEWART (USA)

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 22nd of May 2015 07:41:10 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Poor Jonny Eysseric - has just beaten Stakhovsky (top seed and WR 52), on clay, and currently taking Gombos apart, and doesn't even get a wildcard into the qualies . ..

Mind you, there's been so much moaning about the choices (as there is every year) that the conclusion on the forums has been: why don't we double the draw and just invite everyone

?

indiana · Tennis legend

GET RID OF SLAM MD WCS !

Save arguments and moaning, well once folk got used to not having them

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 15th of May 2015 02:31:16 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
GET RID OF SLAM MD WCS !

Save arguments and moaning, well once folk got used to not having them

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 15th of May 2015 02:31:16 PM

yeah, but then they'd just complain EVEN more !!! smile

And RG wildcard-less Jonny did indeed win again, beating Gombos in two sets. All grist to the French complaints mill . . .

A131 · Intermediate Club Player

indiana wrote:
GET RID OF SLAM MD WCS !

Save arguments and moaning, well once folk got used to not having them

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 15th of May 2015 02:31:16 PM

Of course I'm with you on that one Indy but I must try and steer clear of any argument/discussion on those - got my blood pressure to think of!

indiana · Tennis legend

Indeed. I took a step back for a little while from essentially repeating much of what I'd been saying for two or three years and not being changed by repeated similar counterpoints.

Just felt a bit more gungho again in recent months

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

James Ward and Kyle Edmund have wild cards for Queens. I'll get my popcorn and wait for posts about that.

indiana · Tennis legend

Queen's isn't a Slam so personally not really fussed

All the best to the guys.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Worth noting that as well as Boulter, Mandy has also withdrawn from Eastbourne $50k and her other events for the second week of the French Open.

If she's struggling with a niggle too, then we are really low on numbers for both main draw and qualy wild cards!

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

When Bellis beat Cibulkova at the US Open, and made R3 at Indian Wells, she was a MDWC. I wonder how much the powers-that-be are considering Swan for something similar.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Though, at time of typing, Amanda is still down as 29thAlt, and 3rd choice, for a 50k in Italy; whereas Cavaday, Dart and Dunne today withdrew from their 2nd choices in Uzbekhistan. So maybe the latter 3 are expecting wildcards to the Eastbourne 50k.

WRT wildcards in general, I like them. I particularly like the US system of determining their RG wildcard by the results from a series of 50k tournaments; and it's worth noting that the two British women who won a QR1 match at Wimbledon '14, EWS and Gabi Taylor, had won their wildcards at the Aoranga Park QWCs Play-offs. I think that it would be better in future if more of the Wimbledon qualifying or even main draw wildcards were determined by play-offs between the potential candidates. All the UK women who were awarded, rather than winning, their QWCs, lost in R1.

I also feel that the whole ITF/ATP/WTA system would benefit from a rule change that gives a tournament winner at any level one wildcard to a higher level tournament. So if you win a 10k tournament, you get a wildcard to one 25k; if you win a 25k, you get a wildcard to a 50+k, win a 50+k and get a wildcard to a WTA 125k/250k.

indiana · Tennis legend

Unfortunate, of course, if Katie B and Mandy are struggling, but if they weren't ready for Wimbledon qualifying, it might actually simplify the WC choice.

Taking out Laura for now, who may or may not compete ( and would also have a PR which she might not use though ), we would be left with 7 of our very clear top 10 requiring WCs and there is also Katie Swan.

So 8 ( MD + Q ) WCs to Jo, Naomi B, Katie D, Emily, Cav, Harriet, Tara and Katie S.