Think it's just Halep with a WC so far, so hopefully this means Harriet, Katie S and Heather have MDWCs. Those 3 Brits got MDWCs along with (I assume a Top 20 one for) Stosur last year.

It's an err interesting way that we find GB players for Eastbourne Premier qualifying such is the self imposed timetable of events. From players knocked out in R1 of the play-offs.

Haven't seen any info on the mens entries or WC on the official site.

I see Daria Gavrilova got the third QWC
Last direct entry into qualifying was Urszula Radwanska WR273

JonH wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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It's an err interesting way that we find GB players for Eastbourne Premier qualifying such is the self imposed timetable of events. From players knocked out in R1 of the play-offs.

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 Presumably they had to decide last night and the players directly into Wimbledon main draw will also be getting the main draw wild cards here, with those in Wimbledon qualies being committed to that. The timetable does lead to some strange decisions though and I hope it doesnt mean these 2 players are "humiliated" in their matches, but fear they will be... 

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Yes Indy is referring to the fact that to get into qualifying for a WTA event, you have to be knocked out in the first round of the play offs... so you're rewarding failure not success with 1pt and $1400, which is certainly an odd way of doing things. And yes, don't expect either match to require too much exertion from their opponents, though hope Lissey can at least give an account of herself.  

Coup Droit wrote:

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Yes, the two won win today will have nothing to complaint about.

But the two losing players will feel hard done by - they're 'better' than Lissey and Freya (as per yesterday) but get nothing.

The problem is the wildcard play-offs.

It would be far better to do the way that other Grand Slams have moved to and have an ongoing qualifying race.

Far more open, exciting, fair (takes out the arbitrary nature of one draw, one day, etc) and something the crowds/press could get into.

But - oops - that would require having some local tournaments of the right level........

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Yes Jon has been advocating we do this for some time to follow the other slams and I fully agree. But indeed it would require the LTA to condescend to put on some lowly W60/25 tournaments during the grass season (and prior since it's so short), and acknowledge that the game is about more than just elitism.

Michael D wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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Yes, the two won win today will have nothing to complaint about.

But the two losing players will feel hard done by - they're 'better' than Lissey and Freya (as per yesterday) but get nothing.

The problem is the wildcard play-offs.

It would be far better to do the way that other Grand Slams have moved to and have an ongoing qualifying race.

Far more open, exciting, fair (takes out the arbitrary nature of one draw, one day, etc) and something the crowds/press could get into.

But - oops - that would require having some local tournaments of the right level........

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Yes Jon has been advocating we do this for some time to follow the other slams and I fully agree. But indeed it would require the LTA to condescend to put on some lowly W60/25 tournaments during the grass season (and prior since it's so short), and acknowledge that the game is about more than just elitism.

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 Indeed, I think also it is worth thinking about to what extent any "race" needs to be on grass itself, could they maybe have a couple on hardcourt or even clay, if the main aim is to reward performance in the race, and particularly given that there is often not that much specialism in grass itself these days, players playing a more uniform game. 

 

Anyway, it has my vote as pointed out!

seagull wrote:

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I'm going to this tomorrow - have they announced mens wildcards yet?.

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 No but I think Jay has one and Kyle too (based Instagram/Twitter posts respectively)