Lambda wrote:

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Surely JoMo is in the mix if he has recovered from his bone stress injury and isn't skipping the grass?

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 It's been said somewhere, maybe earlier on in this thread or in another that JoMo is staying in the US to train. I'm sure that was him I was reading about 

Probably would be on the cards for a qualifying wild card

JonH comes home wrote:

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Interesting to see where the mens wild cards will now go: We have 7 players not directly entered in the top 250 now.

Liam
Billy
Jan
Oli C
Charlie
Ryan
Arthur

Just outside now, we have Jake and behind him, Paul Jubb.

We also have various posts around here suggesting Thiem has got a wild card

Taking that on face value, my feeling is that the direct acceptances will therefore most likely go to:

Thiem (assuming it is correct and he has one)
Liam (assuming fit)
Billy (without any doubts)
Jan (I am not 100% confident on this but...)
Charlie (now he is top 250 and after his excellent form in the grass events)
Jake (for winning the Nottingham CHallenger, it feels like a Challenger win, on grass, by a Brit - that will get the nod!)
Henry (for being Junior champion at Wimbledon and for also having some great results on grass)

Which leaves one - Ryan and Paul I feel now could well miss out and have to settle for qualies places (Paul with a wild card); Oli Crawford won't get a MDWC, maybe a QWC?

So, I think the final spot will go to any not yet qualified player at Ilkley, or maybe another old star in need of a wild card, or if it goes to a Brit, then Arthur Fery might get it.

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Monday 17th of June 2024 07:37:18 AM

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 As a Ryan fan I feel he has been a little hard done by this season....though I also do understand.  He has had excellent results the last two years on Grass but received next to nothing this year.  He is coming back from a long spell out of course, and his results have not been enough to justify anything different.  If he can manage something at Ilkley this week though, on the basis of giving them to pick who may actually pick up a win, I think Ryan should get a MD one.  He has to perform at Ilkley though.

Coup Droit wrote:

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I don't think Charlie is getting a MD WC

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 Before last week I would have agreed. But last week asks the question. Probably might need to back it up this week with at least a quarter final. I guess he made my list night on recency bias.

Re Charlie - there used to be a thing about players needing to be top 250 to be considered (forget Jake for a second) and Charlie now fits that, plus he has moved ahead of Arthur in the rankings.

I guess we will see later this week.

I dont know if that top 250 is a thing or used to be a thing, but I know the press used to go with it and Morgado mentioned in a tweet the other day.

re Jake - winning that challenger title plays to that debate we had about challenger winners getting wild cards earlier in this thread - it feels to me that a Brit getting a challenger title surely ticks a lot of boxes? Plus his ranking is lower than it would be normally due to his US college commitments, so presumably that would be a consideration?

Same goes for Crawford

www.lta.org.uk/49a242/siteassets/pro-players/wimbledon-wc-recommendations-policy-2024.pdf
LTA guidance on Wimbledon WCs. Says no ranking threshold and that the LTA will give AELTC up to 8 recommendations across both main and qualifying draws.