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wales1994


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Liam has made the 3rd round the past two years at Wimbledon, he also broke the top 100 and might've stayed in there had it not been for many injuries. He seems to have worked very hard to achieve what he has and seems like an all-round nice guy, so I don't agree with the comments against his WC.

Paul Jubb surprised me, I like him and his story. But I do feel this WC might've better been served as a QWC, and I would've bumped Charlie Broom up to the MD. He beat 2 top 100 players last week, Evans and Harris - plus beat another MDWC in Billy Harris.

Not sure I'd have given Henry one either, don't think he's at this level yet. But then again, I remember Robson got one for winning the juniors, and promising juniors like Edmund and Noami Cavaday getting MDWCs mostly based on their junior performances. But this seems to be a lot more rare nowadays from the AELTC.

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Also, I don't think the AELTC would award a wildcard for optics of race.

But I do agree that tennis in the UK is very elitist and 'white', I was trying to think of non-white players who've received WCs of the past few years and could only name Peniston, Clarke, Watson, Miyzaki, Raducanu, Jubb, Loffhagen (side note, is he injured? He looked so promising last yeat). That's a lot less diversity at the top of British tennis than I had realised.

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The UK Corporate Governance Codes imposes a duty on companies, basically, to use diversity as one of their criteria in composing their Boards

(this obviously includes, but is not limited to, racial diversity)

Although positive discrimination itself is not legal in UK, having quotas or using matrices as part of the recruitment process, for instance, is legal

So there's no reason that the AELTC shouldn't also have this in mind



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wales1994 wrote:

Also, I don't think the AELTC would award a wildcard for optics of race.

But I do agree that tennis in the UK is very elitist and 'white', I was trying to think of non-white players who've received WCs of the past few years and could only name Peniston, Clarke, Watson, Miyzaki, Raducanu, Jubb, Loffhagen (side note, is he injured? He looked so promising last yeat). That's a lot less diversity at the top of British tennis than I had realised.

 That's actually way higher than the actual % of  the general popuation that are ethnic minorities in the UK. 

 



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emmsie69 wrote:
wales1994 wrote:

Also, I don't think the AELTC would award a wildcard for optics of race.

But I do agree that tennis in the UK is very elitist and 'white', I was trying to think of non-white players who've received WCs of the past few years and could only name Peniston, Clarke, Watson, Miyzaki, Raducanu, Jubb, Loffhagen (side note, is he injured? He looked so promising last yeat). That's a lot less diversity at the top of British tennis than I had realised.

 That's actually way higher than the actual % of  the general popuation that are ethnic minorities in the UK. 

 

 It's about 10-11%, yes?

So you'd expect one out of eight of the wildcards, in each category, yes?  

Although there's a question about definition - do all the players with one parent who is ethnic minority and one parent who is white count as ethnic minorities? Does it matter how they classify themselves? Does it matter what they look like? THese are all relevant questions for the LTA when they do their stats 



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emmsie69 wrote:
wales1994 wrote:

Also, I don't think the AELTC would award a wildcard for optics of race.

But I do agree that tennis in the UK is very elitist and 'white', I was trying to think of non-white players who've received WCs of the past few years and could only name Peniston, Clarke, Watson, Miyzaki, Raducanu, Jubb, Loffhagen (side note, is he injured? He looked so promising last yeat). That's a lot less diversity at the top of British tennis than I had realised.

 That's actually way higher than the actual % of  the general popuation that are ethnic minorities in the UK. 

 

 Moore as well.



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Wild card play off draw
https://competitions.lta.org.uk/sport/tournament/draw?id=224739ED-902A-4B4B-92CA-9B0C44E95719&draw=1

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Lambda wrote:

Wild card play off draw
https://competitions.lta.org.uk/sport/tournament/draw?id=224739ED-902A-4B4B-92CA-9B0C44E95719&draw=1

No Kyle.  Unless the unlikely happens and he is in place for the one unnamed WC, I fear he is injured again.  The signs of him ever getting back to where he was seem more remote than ever sadly.



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simon381 wrote:

To my mind not knowing all injuries etc., the QWC play-offs for the men will be:

Aidan McHugh

Giles Hussey

Anton Matusevich

Toby Samuel

Kyle Edmund

Hamish Stewart

Stuart Parker

Dan Cox - is he still playing?

Alastair Gray

Oliver Tarvet

Harry Wendelken (West Worthing winner)

Johanus Munday (NCAA) - did I see he is playing abroad?

Viktor Frydych (Junior)

Charlie Robertson (Junior)

2 x WCs ?? Maybe Patrick Brady and Mark Ceban

 11 out of 16, maybe a straight B for this one, not too bad an effort!



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High quality draw. Ill take a stab at Hamish from the top half, as I think he will be tough to beat on the grass with his serve. And the bottom half, Ill go with Anton, again due to his serve. Will be interesting to see what kind of shape Ali G is in as hell be tough if anywhere near fully fit.

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Charles Broom showing on the entry list on the dartsranking website as now having a MD WC.

 

https://www.dartsrankings.com/tennis/wimbledon



-- Edited by Madadman on Friday 21st of June 2024 09:46:02 AM

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Crispy


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Glad hes been included, this must be the strongest showing on the mens side in years

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Yes its confirmed. But 2 qualifying wildcards have not been used and next 2 alts are in.

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So glad Charles has gotten one.

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seagull wrote:

Yes its confirmed. But 2 qualifying wildcards have not been used and next 2 alts are in.

 Alts confirmed even before the Q WC.play-offs have been concluded? So.definitely just the top 2 from there get in?



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