Wimbledon Wildcards Announced

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Wimbledon Wildcards Announced

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

OK, Bob: Luke or Alex from the top half and Rice or Evo from the bottom. Which is pathetic sitting-on-fence on my part but the best I can do....

Real shame that Joe and Dave get each other in round one.

What odds for Bloomers to spring a surprise ?

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

1234567 wrote:
How is entry to the wildcard draw determined? For example how come Bloomfield is there?

Linked to British Tours?

-- Edited by 1234567 on Thursday 18th of June 2015 08:01:14 AM

In previous years automatic entry was based on pro ranking. If that didn't fill all the positions then uk rating, those of the same rating split by uk ranking. Assume still the same criteria.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

The LTA says there are 10 slots based on ranking and 6 wildcards.

It also says that wild cards are automatically given as follows:

"1. Felixstowe 24-29 May - the winner of the mens & womens events will receive a wild card into the LTA Wimbledon wold (sic) card play offs. If the winner does not require a wild card, this will be offered to the runner-up. If the runner-up does not require a wild card then the wild card will be released.

2. A wild card slot will also be allocated to the player at the top of the Aegon British Tour leader board after Felixstowe (24-29 May). If not required by the player at the top this will be offered to the second placed player, and so on down to the 5th placed player only. If the wild card is not taken up then it will be released."

The other wildcards, I believe, are discretionary.

RJA · Hall of fame

1234567 wrote:
How is entry to the wildcard draw determined? For example how come Bloomfield is there?

Linked to British Tours?

From memory (so I might be slightly out) there are 10 "direct acceptances" which are the 10 highest ranked Brits (or lower if any of those 10 don't enter) who don't already have a Wimbledon wild card. Then there are 6 wild cards; 2 of which are based on British Tour results and 4 of which are at the discretion of the LTA.

LJR · Junior player

I did expect Klein to get a wildcard, but other than that the singles wildcards make sense.
As for the doubles, I laughed at Ward getting one, and thought it a bit odd that Kyle got one too, but with him I think they like giving wildcards to younger players, especially ones who have won a grand slam junior doubles title.
Good to see Marray/Nielsen getting a wildcard. During Surbiton when Nielsen was playing Klein I was only thinking again that Nielsen's reason for ending their partnership to focus on singles always seemed fishy to me when he'd played grand slam doubles with others since.

scottie1 · Futures level

Bob in Spain wrote:
paulisi wrote:
Bright Spark wrote:
The Wildcard draw has been released lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx
that's a tough line up

Thu 18/06/2015 11:00
Toby Martin
-
Scott Clayton
AELTC
Thu 18/06/2015 11:00
Richard Gabb
-
Daniel Smethurst [4/532]
AELTC
Thu 18/06/2015 11:00
Luke Bambridge
-
Jay Clarke
AELTC
Thu 18/06/2015 11:00
Cameron Norrie
-
Alexander Ward [2/417]
AELTC
Thu 18/06/2015 14:00
Marcus Willis [1/384]
-
Richard Bloomfield
AELTC
Thu 18/06/2015 14:00
Joshua Ward-Hibbert
-
Neil Pauffley
AELTC
Thu 18/06/2015 14:00
David Rice [3/421]
-
Joe Salisbury
AELTC
Thu 18/06/2015 14:00
James Marsalek
-
Daniel Evans
AELTC
OK. At risk of making myself look like an idiot (as usual), I am going to stick my neck out and go for Luke from the top half and Marcus from the bottom half.

Well I am a Dan Evans fan so EVO for me but the bottom half is tough are there lives scores anywhere to be followed on the matches

PaulM · Tennis legend

Nope, no scores. If we're lucky we might get the odd update, but based on past experience it will be about 8pm before the draw sheets are updated.

scottie1 · Futures level

PaulM wrote:
Nope, no scores. If we're lucky we might get the odd update, but based on past experience it will be about 8pm before the draw sheets are updated.

that's pathetic

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Player Seed
Qualification Marcus Willis 1/384
Qualification Alexander Ward 2/417
Qualification David Rice 3/421
Qualification Daniel Smethurst 4/532
Qualification Luke Bambridge
Qualification Richard Bloomfield
Qualification Jay Clarke
Qualification Scott Clayton
Qualification Daniel Evans
Qualification Richard Gabb
Qualification James Marsalek
Qualification Toby Martin
Qualification Cameron Norrie
Qualification Neil Pauffley
Qualification Joe Salisbury
Qualification Joshua Ward-Hibbert
Exclude List Marshall Tutu
Exclude List Joel Cannell
Exclude List Alexis Canter
Exclude List Curtis Clarke
Exclude List Samuel Ferguson
Exclude List David Fox
Exclude List Billy Harris
Exclude List Evan Hoyt
Exclude List Jamie Malik
Exclude List Jathan Malik
Exclude List Keelan Oakley
Exclude List Jonny O'Mara
Exclude List Robbie Ridout
Exclude List Ryan Storrie
Exclude List Bruce Strachan
Exclude List Marcus Walters
Exclude List Jamie Whiteford

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thu 18/06/2015 11:00

Scott Clayton
-
Toby Martin
6-1 2-6 6-1

Richard Gabb
-
Daniel Smethurst [4/532]
7-6(5) 6-2

Luke Bambridge
-
Jay Clarke
7-6(1) 6-1

Alexander Ward [2/417]
-
Cameron Norrie
6-3 7-5

This seems to show that Scott, Gabb, Luke and Alex have all won their first round....

add: it's really not been a brilliant 12 months for Dan S - going from a MD WC this time last year, to getting knocked out in the first round of the WC quali playoffs this year....

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 18th of June 2015 12:13:31 PM

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Paulisi going to do his nut if true, he's a monumental Martin fan.

RJA · Hall of fame

Those results have all been confirmed on the draw sheet.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Jeff Stelling wrote:
Paulisi going to do his nut if true, he's a monumental Martin fan.

I'm not sure where you get that idea from. I have watched him a couple of times, and believe he is under quite ranked, but I also believe that for quite a few GB players.

Scott is another that should be ranked higher than he is.

RJA · Hall of fame

Wins for Bloomfield, Pauffley and Evans.

Still waiting on Rice v Salisbury.