Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Post Info TOPIC: Wimbledon Wildcards - Women


Tennis legend

Status: Online
Posts: 52118
Date:
RE: Wimbledon Wildcards - Women


PaulM wrote:

Wash your mouth out for that first sentence CD. How dare you!


 What can I say - I once smiled at her at Surbiton as I walked past, and she looked right through me ! 

biggrin



__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 10001
Date:

Daria Saville has been given the final wildcard. She would have been top seed in qualifying (but is not next out the main draw, her ranking has improved since entry deadline).

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 10001
Date:

Sam and Vivien do indeed make it by ranking. Other British pairs are just outside the cut off so will need their wildcards.

__________________


ATP level

Status: Offline
Posts: 3186
Date:

PaulM wrote:

Daria Saville has been given the final wildcard. She would have been top seed in qualifying (but is not next out the main draw, her ranking has improved since entry deadline).


 Looks like there is one left



__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 10074
Date:

Yeah, think that will be reserved for Volynets should she win Ilkley (only one of the 4 remaining in contention), but if not, it'll probably just go next in

I guess Errani is still in that Italian W125k event, so if Katie V didn't win, and she won that, she may be an option, but I'm not sure how much weight a non televised overseas fringe WTA event will have.

 



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Friday 17th of June 2022 07:12:44 PM

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 10001
Date:

Final 2 qualifying wildcards have *not* been allocated.

Ffs.

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 39319
Date:

Do any other Slams consistently ( or at all ) not allocate all WCs?

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 10001
Date:

No. Never.

__________________


All-time great

Status: Online
Posts: 6291
Date:

confusefuriousdisbelief



__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 10074
Date:

It's no real surprise and it was just 3 years ago when they literally ended up only handing 3 MDWCs out and the other 5 going next in. HUGE contrast to the US Open - obviously a stark different in talent pool, but in 2020 they had a massive list of US players, and each time a home player ended up in the main draw, their MDWC would duly be awarded the American in line.

Covid did obviously play a big part in that, and there might not have been qualifying that year, but still, they're obviously very keen to give as many opportunities as possible to home players.



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Saturday 18th of June 2022 02:04:04 PM

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Online
Posts: 52118
Date:

Utterly unfathomable. Anddisgraceful.

When we discussed this before, there was the argument not to give too many main draw ones coz the press lambast those who lose get thrashed. Didn't buy off on it but could see the point

I've also heard the argument that they don't want to undermine the value of the junior championships and playoffs - ie if they give them systematically to the u18 finalist or semifinalists in the playoffs, then it belittles those earn it properly

Don't buy off on this either


To me it's just plain spiteful

The lta could give lissey barnett a card - give her 9k or whatever, good grass practice for the doubles - what on earth is the problem? And give one to Emily App too, if you want to keep it easy. A tad lucky but that's life...

__________________


Grand Slam Champion

Status: Offline
Posts: 4585
Date:

I kind of see both sides to this argument here. Yes it would be good to give the leg up to 2 players financially and give them a platform but on the other hand particularly on the womens side there are not that many obvious deserving cases. Alicia (or Lissey to those that know her, which seems to be everyone here), and Emily Appleton dont really meet that criteria. The latter already has the leg up with the easier route WC for doubles and Emily is nowhere near top 500 level at singles never mind being able to match top 300 players. Harsh but true sadly.

__________________


Futures qualifying

Status: Online
Posts: 1646
Date:

I'm afraid I agree with Jaggy here. Surely to warrant a WC you have to have shown evidence that you at least stand a chance of winning a match, but if you look at the level of players these two have lost to, I can't see either of them even getting close.

__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Online
Posts: 52118
Date:

SuperT wrote:

I'm afraid I agree with Jaggy here. Surely to warrant a WC you have to have shown evidence that you at least stand a chance of winning a match, but if you look at the level of players these two have lost to, I can't see either of them even getting close.


 Not really. Ella hasn't shown evidence that she at least stands a chance of winning a match. Quite the opposite. But she's got her place fair and square.

If you look at the profile and rankings of the Roland Garros wildcards, there's a huge range - some older players, some unheard of youngster...... the idea of Wimbledon wildcards is to promote GB tennis (and other good tennis stories). 

In the same way that Ruby Cooling's call-up to the playoffs got Lincolnshire tennis federation all excited.....

Giving a wildcard spreads the word, to different parts of the country, creates extra interest, different sponsor interest maybe, it's the ripple effect you're looking for, not just whether they win or not  



__________________


Tennis legend

Status: Offline
Posts: 19925
Date:

I think they should have given them out, regardless of whether the recipients are likely to win a match or two. After all, they are giving out the prize money to someone anyway, so why not boost the Brits ? The other slams do it for their players (especially the French as CD says above).

__________________
« First  <  Page 60  >   Last »  sorted by
 
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.

Tweet this page Post to Digg Post to Del.icio.us


Create your own FREE Forum
Report Abuse
Powered by ActiveBoard