The play-off draw is up at lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx

Josh, Luke, Richard and Dan S are seeded, with Jonny in Luke's section and Dan S with 3 WCs in his quarter

Coup Droit wrote:

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There's a lot of space and flexibility left for Q wildcards - unusually so, from recollection of previous years.

I do so hope they use them and don't just give them to next in the queue players.

Personally, I would give one to Jay Clarke - on the basis that there should be a rule that the top youngster gets a Q wildcard every year (I'd like to for Ryan too, but top youngster would have to be top youngster: anything else seems to be pushing it). For the girls, obviously, this is fine as Katie has hers anyway.

Definitely Dan Smethurst. On the post-injury and playing well theory. Dan Cox almost makes the same argument.

Four from the play-offs.

And anyone else who makes a good argument - let them all stand before the committee and put their case - most passionate and best jokes wins

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They can add more discretionary wild cards later and they usually fill empty QWC places from penultimate round losers in the playoffs, using some discretion if there are fewer WCs left than there were players in that penultimate round. However, I doubt they'd give a QWC to a player who'd lost early in the playoffs if someone who'd got further than them in the playoffs wasn't going to get one.

DavidC wrote:

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The play-off draw is up at lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx

Josh, Luke, Richard and Dan S are seeded, with Jonny in Luke's section and Dan S with 3 WCs in his quarter

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 This link isn't working for me.  It just says - Invalid Tournament ID

I think the page has gone down, I get the same if I try and re-log into it. But because I had still had it open in an old tab, here it is:

1 Joshua Milton [1/440]
All England Lawn Tennis Club Ltd
2 James Marsalek Thu 16/06/2016 11:00

3 Neil Pauffley
All England Lawn Tennis Club Ltd
4 Joe Salisbury Thu 16/06/2016 11:00

5 Alastair Gray [WC]
All England Lawn Tennis Club Ltd
6 Jonny O'Mara Thu 16/06/2016 11:00

7 Marcus Willis
All England Lawn Tennis Club Ltd
8 Luke Bambridge [3/517] Thu 16/06/2016 11:00

9 Richard Gabb [2/459]
All England Lawn Tennis Club Ltd
10 Daniel Cox Thu 16/06/2016 13:30

11 Alexis Canter [WC]
All England Lawn Tennis Club Ltd
12 Jay Clarke [WC] Thu 16/06/2016 13:30

13 Ryan Storrie [WC]
All England Lawn Tennis Club Ltd
14 Joshua Sapwell [WC] Thu 16/06/2016 13:30

15 Finn Bass [WC]
All England Lawn Tennis Club Ltd
16 Daniel Smethurst [4/533] Thu 16/06/2016 13:30

I think Dan S will be rather happy that scope seems to have been left to give Q WCs to all of the last 4 !

And I agree with what Steven said that not having been prepared to pick any further initial WCs, no matter how everyone now actually performs ( and even if Dan S does push through a perceived 'easy' draw ), it must be doubtful whether a play-off R1 or R2 loser would be given a WC before one of the last 4.

Dan S anyway is a guy who in many ways deserves a bit of luck.

The loaded quarters are the first two with in the third one Gabb vs Cox maybe playing for a place though would be good to see Jay say cause some ructions.

Just another thought, if we are heading for the last 4 getting WCs there was maybe more of a case for 8 seeds so that at least two from the ranking list were in each quarter.

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 15th of June 2016 09:27:51 PM

Alex has earnt the his with some decent recent challenger performances and my feeling is that Wimbledon Qualifying is a top quality challenger with comparatively big fiscal rewards for progress. Very well done to him.

As for the junior boys it would be great to see them both go deep in the Roehampton grade 1 and then Wimbledon juniors, if they had done that anytime over the last year at any junior GS, I agree perhaps a qualys wild card as well, but without that sort of track record I think it is a big step up.

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Wednesday 15th of June 2016 09:50:16 PM

Now that's a cracking tournament, it would be nice to see Milts win through, grass suits him and he performed well at last years qualys.