Week 25 Mens Wimbledon Qualifying Wildcard playoffs.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RE: Week 25 Mens Wimbledon Qualifying Wildcard playoffs.

the addict · Tennis legend

I suppose it's also something to do with the fact that it is held on courts 18-20 at Wimbledon, and they don't want hoards of people around during preparations for the main event. Surely wouldn't have been that hard to organise - and the crowds wouldn't have been huge.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Same thinking

The numbers of people with passes (friends, family, coaches etc) will vastly exceed the number of possible members of the public.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 24th of June 2017 09:48:49 AM

A1 Pharmaceuticals LTC · Improver

Well dese just the boost jonny & scott need

witnessed them smash pauffs & toby martin 6-2 6-1 at our last Aegon match on 18/6 get along and see them at national club league team finals 8-10/9 west Hants , Bournemouth

EddietheEagle · County player

the addict wrote:
I suppose it's also something to do with the fact that it is held on courts 18-20 at Wimbledon, and they don't want hoards of people around during preparations for the main event.

Don't make excuses for the inexcusable. You need as many people as possible coming in to watch these matches, for the sake of tennis generally.

This is another example, if any were required, of the LTA/Wimbledon oligopoly's top-down approach to tennis that has stifled the game here.

the addict · Tennis legend

Haha, no excuses. I would have gone every day to watch if it had been possible.

EddietheEagle · County player

A1 Pharmaceuticals LTC wrote:
Well dese just the boost jonny & scott need
witnessed them smash pauffs & toby martin 6-2 6-1 at our last Aegon match on 18/6 get along and see them at national club league team finals 8-10/9 west Hants , Bournemouth

Should be played at Wimbledon - the heart of tennis - not some provincial backwater (very pleasant though Bournemouth is).

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Yes I agree, these playoffs although ideally held at Wimbledon could be held at a number of venues, playing in them could quite easily be shaped into a high point of a number of national events, junior and senior, it's pretty disappointing. Players need specific objectives and fans should be allowed to watch them and create an atmosphere consistent with reaching them.

The structure for awarding of qualifying wild cards needs to be clearer, not a haze of uncertainty but an opportunity won through competing on the British tour for the U18 national champion, best college player etc... As things stand it is lazy, no attempt at creative thinking to enhance development.

Compare it with semi pro football organised by a bunch of highly motivated volunteers, at best paid expenses. A pyramid system organised into steps, open to innovation to add value for both players and spectators, overlaid on the traditional excitement of the qualifying rounds of the FA Cup, each round now handsomely rewarded, non league specific national and regional competitions allowing opportunities to put out the first team or introduce youngsters respectively.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Like your suggestion Oakie of the playoffs being the best of various categories of tennis player - really would be a target. As regards it being behind closed doors, it's connected with security coming up to a major event. The main event security is not yet operational and it's hard for them to keep an eye on unaccredited spectators who could easily slip off into the larger site which is busy with preparations and leave a device or similar.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The Optimist wrote:
Like your suggestion Oakie of the playoffs being the best of various categories of tennis player - really would be a target. As regards it being behind closed doors, it's connected with security coming up to a major event. The main event security is not yet operational and it's hard for them to keep an eye on unaccredited spectators who could easily slip off into the larger site which is busy with preparations and leave a device or similar.

As Eddie would say that's no excuse whatsoever.

That's simply identifying a problem but coming up with the wrong solution.

Either stage the play-offs somewhere else. (There's no reason for them to be at Wimbledon, the qualis aren't)

Or employ security for two days.