As i expected Johnny Omara& Scott Clayton hammered arguably our 2nd best A1 Pharmaceuticals doubles pairing neil pauffley & Toby Martin  6-2 6-1 in the last national club match of season 18/6 v Raynes park although we won match overall 4-2 

what baffles me is not fact that Marcus got a deserved doubles WC but why he did not get the chance when the doubles partnership won around 10 ITF titles with Lewis burton they reached c200 ATP doubles ranking but now decide to give a WC to a scratch pair hopefully they will get the chance to develop some joint tactical awareness surely in marcus case made sense to pair him with Pauffers . 

as I said jonny and Scott are a very decent doubles pair and think they deserved a chance would have been such a morale booster and opportunity to make a difference to 2 players that have denomstrated their doubles prowess

there ideally needs to be a clear criteria and how you qualify as a doubles pair for a maindraw WC 

-- Edited by A1 Pharmaceuticals LTC on Wednesday 21st of June 2017 11:01:54 AM

-- Edited by A1 Pharmaceuticals LTC on Wednesday 21st of June 2017 11:05:33 AM

Agreed Indiana, it's not a popularity contest and furthermore all other slams support their juniors/ young pros.
Australian Open- De Minaur won his first match ( Jay dispatched of him yesterday)
Roland Garros - Alex Muller (who conincidentally Jay has beaten on clay!) Minaur also played here
US Open - Moh, Kozlov, Tiafoe

Marcus deserved the singles WC based on what he brought to the tournament last year 

personally I think a short list of  british WC prospects doubles and singles should get an opportunity to argue their case at a presentation 

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James being "known and well liked" doesn't cut it for me, sorry. Indeed nor does being an "entertainer" in Marcus's case. He qualified last year and won one MD round and has lived pretty well off it. For singles a Q WC will do.

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 Known and well liked wouldn't cut it for me either were it not for two factors: one being what he has contributed to the GB endeavour over years and two that he is just coming back. Not only does the latter have an impact in the sense that he hasn't had the opportunity to gain the requisite ranking points this year; it also means that we're not clear whether this will (if the return doesn't work out) or won't be his last Wimbledon. And on those grounds, for the same reasons I would have supported a WC for PHM at Roland-Garros, I'm happy with one for Mr Ward here.

-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 21st of June 2017 11:17:36 AM

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I will be truly gutted for Jonny & Scott if they don't get something. Whilst I am delighted by the Marcus/Jay partnership, to the best of my knowledge they have only played one competitive match together. Jonny & Scott have won multiple titles as a partnership over the last 12 months and fully deserve an opportunity.

In terms of rankings, Marcus and Jay have a CR 1889 whilst Jonny and Scott have a CR 567.

And I agree that Luke deserves something as well, being ranked 169 for doubles.

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Doubles qWCs? 

Maybe for Scott Clayton and Jonny O'Mara, on the grounds that the bulk of their play has been at Futures level - though they've got some very good results and personally I'd give them the MD WC and see what happened. Other countries seem better able to tolerate an experiment where there's potential. But for Luke Bambridge, whose current rankings breakdown includes three Challenger finals and two Challenger SFs? That's the kind of record that's normally been good enough for a MD WC. I suspect they were trying his partnership with Cameron Norrie out with the two grass WCs in Challengers - and that didn't work too well. Fair enough - and maybe there's an injury or something we don't know about: I was really surprised by the bad loss to Groth and partner. But if there isn't, looking back, his partnership with Joe Salisbury was very successful, but that's not an option. They're presumably not giving out MD WCs to mixed pairings (we would, of course, not have had a Wimbledon titlist in 2012 had that been the policy), so that rules out Mitchell Krueger. Dan Evans? Liam Broady?

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indiana wrote:

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James being "known and well liked" doesn't cut it for me, sorry. Indeed nor does being an "entertainer" in Marcus's case. He qualified last year and won one MD round and has lived pretty well off it. For singles a Q WC will do.

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 Known and well liked wouldn't cut it for me either were it not for two factors: one being what he has contributed to the GB endeavour over years and two that he is just coming back. Not only does the latter have an impact in the sense that he hasn't had the opportunity to gain the requisite ranking points this year; it also means that we're not clear whether this will (if the return doesn't work out) or won't be his last Wimbledon. And on those grounds, for the same reasons I would have supported a WC for PHM at Roland-Garros, I'm happy with one for Mr Ward here.

-- Edited by Spectator on Wednesday 21st of June 2017 11:17:36 AM

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Sorry spec - the guy has not won a match on the main tour or won a Davis Cup match for 2 years plus. He has already had 8WC to Wimbledon alone - the first being back in 2009 having turned pro in 2006. So he has had plenty of opportunity imho so the fact that he has only just coming back (plus his ranking was slipping anyway before he took time out last September) cuts no ice with me either. I've never made any secret of the fact that he is not one of my favourites shall we say and I realise it maybe his livelihood. But it doesn't surprise me that he would come crawling out of the woodwork at this time of the year. Surely he should have been made to qualify - no wonder I keep thinking GSMDWC's should be scrapped. At least Willis earned the right to be there 12 months ago.