Queens

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

RE: Queens

Drew · May 31, 2006

Its official...Phillpo, Fish and Lopez have got WC's

http://www.stellaartoistennis.com/news/2006/wild_cards.asp

No mention in this article re the other 2.....

Count Zero · Tennis legend

imoen wrote:

Drew wrote: If it is true that 3 WCs are going to non-brits then i am confused !!!! Everyone else looks after their own.........typical ! Quite, there was all that stuff about the US Open not giving Andy a wildcard because Wimbledon wouldn't negociate a swap and give an American one this year. What is Queens doing?? Do they have wildcards into the qualifying that they could give to the lower Brits?

i think pretty much all of the qualies wc's will go to brits, but to be honest its a tough draw to qualfiy from, personally i only think boggo and big arvs would have the current ability to be able to do so. not sure how many wc's there are 4 or so i would guess.

Drew · May 31, 2006

There are 5 WC for Queens.

Sheddie · administrator

Are there 5 qualies wildcards ?

If so I'd give them to Lee, Bloomers, Mackin, Auckland and Fleming.

I think Parmar will get into qualies automatically.

I think that only he and Lee will have a real chance of qualifying. Bloomers and Mackin have outside shots but it will really depend on the draw for them. Last year, Mackin got Brits for the first two rounds and then pulled something special out of the bag against Morrison in rd3.

I don't think that the others have been decided on yet, last year they didn't announce the final couple until the Friday of Surbiton.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

did morriosn have a LL spot in the bag tho? i cant remember, i watched mackins match tho and he was playing well.

Sheddie · administrator

Morrison got a lucky loser spot last year [lost to Blake in 3] but I'm not sure if he knew that before the match.

He definately tried really hard to beat Mackin, it was a 3 setter. I think that Alan served really well that day. His serve has a lot more venom on the grass, it's placement has improved a lot in the last couple of years which makes it a real weapon on fast courts.

I wish that Queens qualies were shown on TV, the standard is really good quality. Maybe, with GS qualies starting to be shown, in a few years some ATP qualies will be shown aswell.

Drew · May 31, 2006

Drew wrote:

There are 5 WC for Queens.

There are 5 Wc in the MAIN DRAW.

RJA · Hall of fame

This is absolutely disgusting. 3 out of 5 wildcards to non-Brit's is simply a disgrace. 1 is okay and maybe 2 especially of there was someone especially deserving but 3 is just a joke. There are too many people in British tennis who love to moan about how little we achieve but aren't willing to do anything to give a hand to any of our lesser known players. I guess the Pimms drinking brigade would rather watch Phillipousis instead of a young british player

lucyflory · Social player

UltimateSlabbaFan wrote:

lucyflory wrote: Court One is stil good on Thursday...you still get top players on there. Especially with the line up Queens have... Are you going all week to Queens, Lucy ? Are you going to see the qualifying ? Is Kate coming too or will she still be at the World Cup ? Support Jamie Baker for me if you can !

Kate isn't going, no....I won't be going to qualifying on the Saturday as England are playing, but I'll be there on the Sunday. My tickets are tied to Andy Roddick, so if he makes it to the final, yes I'll be there all week

Sheddie · administrator

lucyflory wrote:

UltimateSlabbaFan wrote:
lucyflory wrote: Court One is stil good on Thursday...you still get top players on there. Especially with the line up Queens have... Are you going all week to Queens, Lucy ? Are you going to see the qualifying ? Is Kate coming too or will she still be at the World Cup ? Support Jamie Baker for me if you can !
Kate isn't going, no....I won't be going to qualifying on the Saturday as England are playing, but I'll be there on the Sunday. My tickets are tied to Andy Roddick, so if he makes it to the final, yes I'll be there all week

Hopefully Colin Fleming makes it through to rd3 qualies so you can support him on the Sunday !

I hope that Andy R doesn't play a Brit otherwise your loyalties may be quite severely tested !

Have a great time there

Sheddie · administrator

I think there are 4 wildcards for qualies at Queens [can someone check this please ]

Assuming that Boggo and Baker get the two remaining main draw wcs, who would you choose for the qualies wcs ?

Drew · Jun 2, 2006

4 WC for Qualies...

Last year it was Auckland, Flanagan, Childs, Banks...all bar Flanagan won in the 1st round but none went further.

Sheddie · administrator

Andy Murray is at Surbiton, supporting Jamie and practising on the grass. There's a rumour that he might play the exhibition match again this year.

Last year he played Ancic in the exhibition match [best of 1 set] and he lost a close match 8-6 [in games] I think.

Drew · Jun 5, 2006

UltimateSlabbaFan wrote:

Andy Murray is at Surbiton, supporting Jamie and practising on the grass. There's a rumour that he might play the exhibition match again this year. Last year he played Ancic in the exhibition match [best of 1 set] and he lost a close match 8-6 [in games] I think.

Any news on those remaining WC's ???