As a reminder, the qualifying round is for players who played singles at Wimbledon but did not win a match in this period. I have included a number of wild cards to bring the totals up to 45 for men and women.
There are 5 groups of 9 players with a random draw.
Those with the highest number of votes (with a maximum of 16 players) across all the 5 groups will qualify for the 1st round proper.
Please feel free to provide reasons for your choices along with any memories that you may have of them.
! am planning to close the polls at around 10.00 on Saturday morning
Jade played at my local tournament, and I chatted to her mum quite alot while Jade was playing and a bit to Jade too. I kept in touch with her mum for a while afterwards and went to watch Jade at the Shrewsbury tournament, hanging out with them abit there too. I like her, she was hard working and not ****y like Evo was at the same (local) tournament.
I think it was the tournament where Greg was coaching Kyle (age 15?). I have lovely memories of Greg just sitting on the floor at the sides of the courts and being very unassuming.
I know so little about the women's game that I haven't heard of about 90% of the players, but purely by coincidence, Jade Windley "liked" one of my tweets yesterday, so that is enough to get her my vote in this group.
It was back in January 2014 in a $25k. tournament at Sunderland that Jade beat the top seed Johanna Konta 6-3 2-1 retired in the 1st round. I wonder where we saw their future careers going at that time?
Lizzie Jelfs won Wimbledon Girls doubles title. Denise Parnell is a Assistant Referee at Wimbledon. Jade Windley works for a charity bringing tennis to schools where there has been none.
It was back in January 2014 in a $25k. tournament at Sunderland that Jade beat the top seed Johanna Konta 6-3 2-1 retired in the 1st round. I wonder where we saw their future careers going at that time?
Following on my comment above Jade was the last British player to defeat Jo in a singles match. Not that Jo has played that many Gb players since then as only Heather,Naomi and Tara come to mind.
