Wimbledon Wildcards Announced

PaulM · Tennis legend

RE: Wimbledon Wildcards Announced

wimdledont · Challenger level

I think it's purely down to cowardice on the part of the LTA regime. Playing and losing is fine. Not competing is inexcusable.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Without checking is there not qualifying for doubles as well. There was for the men's last year I'm sure

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Without checking is there not qualifying for doubles as well. There was for the men's last year I'm sure

There is for the men, draw already out.

And, yes, two Q spots in the Women's doubles Q draw, according to the Wimbledon page (but no names)

Peter too · Tennis legend

If Wimbledon persists with a "no wildcards for British players" policy it is going to tempt some of our players to change nationality.

new to it · Social player

Dont tempt them! Several probably could be Irish....Noticed in general section Katy looking for sponsorship

Peter too · Tennis legend

I was thinking more of Australia being happy to accept a few of our middle to good players and then to offer them wildcards into their GS.

new to it · Social player

To be sure, no grand slams in Ireland. Just noticed on Katys tweet that her brother cycles for Ireland

skibbarriz · Strong Club Player

haha, gratz Laura

-- Edited by skibbarriz on Sunday 21st of June 2015 06:06:25 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

A "no WCs for British players" policy ??!!

Good one ...

indiana · Tennis legend

That said, Nik in particular has yet again got a comparatively rough deal and I certainly do see the stinginess in some areas as against the other Slams.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

wimdledont wrote:
Her and Tara's spot is now taken by singles mediocrities [...]

Singles mediocrities confuse

	Kurumi Nara	Lauren Davis	Laura Robson	Heather Watson
Age	23	21	21	23
WR	58	63	9999	47
YTD WR	62	68	9999	46
CH	32	43	27	38
WTA Single Titles	1	0	0	2
ITF Singles Titles	5	7	1	5
ITF Titles by type	350 225	1100 150 225 310	1*10	1100H 1100 150 125 1*10
W-L	200-149	159-97	115-93	190-133
Win %	57.31%	62.10%	55.29%	58.82%
Career Earnings	$1.101M	$1.095M	$1.174M	$1.490M

wimdledont · Challenger level

Okay, that was harsh.

Neither of them will expect to get very far in the singles, though. So like many of the acceptances on the doubles list, they'll enter that as well, even though both of their doubles records are pretty dreadful.

EDIT: Nik Slater's career prize money since 2001, incidentally, is US$0.041M.

-- Edited by wimdledont on Sunday 21st of June 2015 08:14:15 PM

-- Edited by wimdledont on Sunday 21st of June 2015 08:14:44 PM

ricardo89 · Junior player

So they have updated the wildcards on the Wimbledon website and they have given one to Laura R but then the next 3 to next in question is what happens if Harriet Dart wins tomorrow, you never know with Cibulkova fresh from injury she would miss qualifying which starts Tuesday ??

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

In future if there are several Wildcards not being used, maybe it would be better to upgrade the wildcard playoffs to include a final where the winner gets a place in the main draw.

It would give players outside the top 250 a chance of making the main draw, and it couldn't be criticised for being undeserved if the player has had to win a competition to get the WC.