Wimbledon wildcards

emmsie69 · Top national player

RE: Wimbledon wildcards

seagull · Hall of fame

Bonding no longer showing as having a wild card and another one has been handed back to next alt.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

seagull wrote:
Bonding no longer showing as having a wild card and another one has been handed back to next alt.

Listed as a foot injury.

https://www.wimbledon.com/pdf/update/referees/2024/QS_Entries.pdf

seagull · Hall of fame

Wow thats unlucky

twentytoone · Intermediate Club Player

also says broom has been given maindraw wildcard ?

9vicman · Pro player

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

Most British men (12) since 1978 (14).

9vicman · Pro player

emmsie69 wrote:
indiana wrote:
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?
yep

No reason not to give extra qualifying wild cards to GB men. It's the only Slam not to do it.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

An additional Doubles WC has gone to Kyle Edmund & Oliver Crawford. Bit of a strange one if you ask me.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Madadman wrote:
An additional Doubles WC has gone to Kyle Edmund & Oliver Crawford. Bit of a strange one if you ask me.

That's hilarious - but great !

9vicman · Pro player

Coup Droit wrote:
Madadman wrote:
An additional Doubles WC has gone to Kyle Edmund & Oliver Crawford. Bit of a strange one if you ask me.
That's hilarious - but great !

#random

Blue_Belle · Club Coach

That's a bizarre decision and I would love to know why they are giving it to random ALT's

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Madadman wrote:
An additional Doubles WC has gone to Kyle Edmund & Oliver Crawford. Bit of a strange one if you ask me.

Would far rather it had gone to doubles specialists but hey ho.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Blue_Belle wrote:
That's a bizarre decision and I would love to know why they are giving it to random ALT's

I would imagine it's because (a) Kyle is one of the in-crowd, the AELTC know him, he's got friends at the LTA, and (b) they feel a bit guilty about Crawford because, given his ranking, it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to expect a main draw wildcard in singles

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 21st of June 2024 08:10:55 PM

9vicman · Pro player

It's a real shame that Ben Jones and Josh Paris, both ranked in the Top 200, haven't got a wild card.

Neither have the Murray brothers...

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

9vicman wrote:
It's a real shame that Ben Jones and Josh Paris, both ranked in the Top 200, haven't got a wild card.

Neither have the Murray brothers...

There is still one Doubles WC left to go. So that could easily go to the Murrays although might be Jamie and someone else if Andy is not fit. Would be interesting to see if they let Jamie pick a non Brit.

Also Henry Searle might be looking for another partner Id Dan is not fit. So Ben or Josh would surely be in the frame if that was the case.