Grass-court wildcards

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RE: Grass-court wildcards

Sheddie · administrator

RobC wrote:

USF, here's a challenge for you: Get a photo of Adam for the "Who's Who in British Men's tennis" thread. I for one want to see what he looks like. -- Edited by RobC at 15:33, 2006-06-09

I'll try my best !! However, I'm unlikely to get one unless I/or anyone else, snaps him this summer in one of the GB futures qualies events.

There's one other possibility, if Bladetiger gives me detailed info on his appearance I might be able to create a virtual mugshot of him !! [that's also assuming that MI5 lend me a copy of their software for doing that]

RobC · All-time great

UltimateSlabbaFan wrote:

I'll try my best !! However, I'm unlikely to get one unless I/or anyone else, snaps him this summer in one of the GB futures qualies events. There's one other possibility, if Bladetiger gives me detailed info on his appearance I might be able to create a virtual mugshot of him !! [that's also assuming that MI5 lend me a copy of their software for doing that]

Or you could write to his Dad!

DavidC · Tennis legend

According to the BBC website Wimbledon wildcards have been allocated so far to Alex Bogdanovic, Jamie Baker and Richard Bloomfield - all in accordance with David Felgate's criteria.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Great news. Boggo deserves it, and the other two deserve a chance.

Hopefully they'll give Martin Lee another because of his injuries and good recent form as well.

Vonce · Club Coach

Certainly is good news to hear.. All 3 are well deserved.. Let's hope they give a few more Brits wiild cards for Wimbledon..

Drew · Jun 13, 2006

DavidC wrote:

According to the BBC website Wimbledon wildcards have been allocated so far to Alex Bogdanovic, Jamie Baker and Richard Bloomfield - all in accordance with David Felgate's criteria.

Very good news...........!

Count Zero · Tennis legend

according to draper there will be no more wc's for the brita save for the play off one. the play off draw is out and can been seen at the lta site.

from the article:

Roger Draper, LTA Chief Executive said; “This is the smallest number of British Wimbledon wildcards in many years and indicates the LTA’s determination not to reward mediocrity.

"We could have chosen to give more wildcards to British players but felt that this would be the wrong thing to do. I see little to be gained from British players losing in the first round."

Moving forward, the LTA will not reward or financially support those who are not winning or on a path to winning in the future. We intend to develop a harder culture in British tennis, a culture based around winning.”

steven · Tennis legend

Here's the draw for the WC playoffs at last:

R1: Alex Miotto WR 1164 v (WC) Ed Corrie (winner to play (1) Arvind Parmar WR 201)
R1: Lee Childs WR 478 v Andrew Kennaugh WR 771 (winner to play (5) Colin Fleming WR 390)
R1: (WC) Sean Thornley WR 1517 v (WC) David Rice UNR (winner to play (3) Alan Mackin WR 352)
R1: Ross Hutchins WR 640 v Tom Burn WR 800 (winner to play (6) Josh Goodall WR 391)
R1: David Corrie WR 913 v (WC) Iain Atkinson WR 1517 (winner to play (7) Jamie Delgado WR 440)
R1: Richard Irwin WR 743 v Naim Lalji WR 918 (winner to play (4) James Auckland WR 368)
R1: James May WR 722 v Chris Eaton WR 892 (winner to play (8) Jonny Marray WR 446)
R1: Neil Bamford WR 570 v Edward Seator WR 1415 (winner to play (2) Martin Lee WR 256)

If Martin were to reach the Final here, he could end up playing 8 matches in 7 days!

DavidC · Tennis legend

Doubles wildcards have been allocated so far (according to www.wimbledon.org) to:

1) Martin Lee / Jonny Marray
2) Colin Fleming / Jamie Murray
3) James Auckland / Jamie Delgado
4) Josh Goodall / Ross Hutchins