Wimbledon 2017

[Rajiv]

True bizarre scheduling has always been the bane of Yuki's career ,
Here finance was also not an issue that he had to crisscross continents ,as travel within Europe is so cheap and and just turning up for Antalya would have assured him $1000 .more than enough to take care the travel cost , with a weak field on display in the qualies he would surely made the MD and atleast garnered $5k and 12 points in process.

[sameerph]

As I posted in his thread, Jeevan gets in the main draw with Hyeon Chung. With that there will be 4 pairs with Indian interest.

This is the entry list -

1 Kontinen /Peers
2 Herbert/Mahut
3 Kubot/Melo
4 Murray/Soares
5 Bryan/Bryan
6 Dodig/Granollers
7 Klaasen/Ram
8 Bopanna/Roger-Vasselin
9 Rojer/Tecau
10 Harrison/Venus
11 Lopez/Lopez
12 Cabal/Farah
13 G. Muller /Querrey
14 F. Martin/Nestor
15 Mergea/Qureshi
16 Peralta/Zeballos
17 Marach/Pavic
18 Troicki/Zimonjic
19 S. Gonzalez/Young
20 Baker/Mektic
21 Matkowski/Mirnyi
22 Haase/Inglot
23 Groth/Lindstedt
24 Lorenzi/Mannarino
25 Berlocq/Ramos-Vinolas
26 Benneteau/V. Pospisil
27 Darcis/Paire
28 Edmund/J. Sousa
29 Paes/Shamasdin
30 Jebavy/Vesely
31 Fognini/Seppi
32 Begemann/Struff
33 Basiliashvili/Haider-Maurer
34 Monroe/Sitak
35 Raja/Sharan
36 Daniell/Demoliner
37 Copil/Verdasco
38 Erlich/Huey
39 Koolhof/Middelkoop
40 Bellucci/Dutra Silva
41 D. Brown/M. Zverev
42 Kicker/Schwartzman
43 Marrero/Sa
44 Petzschner/Peya
45 Duran/Molteni
46 Lipsky/Tiafoe
47 Klizan/Tursunov
48 Kuznetsov/Tipsarevic
49 Cerretani/Elgin
50 Baghdatis/Jaziri
51 H. Chung/Nedunchezhiyan
52 Reid/JP. Smith
53 Knowle/Oswald
WC Skupski/Skupski
WC Klein/Salisbury
WC Clarke/Willis
WC Clayton/O'Mara
WC Kokkinakis/Thompson

A bit surprising that Rohan is playing with Roger-Vasselin whom he lost to in Queens SF. He had reached SF with him in 2013 Wimbledon. Leander and Shamsdin would also be a good pairing.

[Sin Hombre]

Qualifying draw is tomorrow so chances are very low at this point.

[S_K_S]

What a coup by Jeevan. Well done to pull it off

[PKBasu]

Strange that the last 3 main draw wildcards have yet to be announced. They will surely be announced before the qualifying draw is made.

Jeevan keeps pulling off great little coups like this, probably helped by the fact that Harsh Mankad's Tennicity manages him. If only Harsh himself had this type of help when he was playing!

[PKBasu]

Alex Bolt, who isn't ranked high enough to be on the waiting list at Roehampton, has made the final at Ilkley. If he gets the main draw wildcard at Wimbledon by winning the Ilkley title, Yuki will definitely not make it in.
If Fucsovics beats Bolt to win the title at Ilkley, and is handed a main draw wildcard at W, that opens up one slot. Yuki will still need 3 more slots to open up -- two hopefully given to people on the qualifying list ahead of him currently, and one dropping out through injury. Still improbable.

[sameerph]

Alex Bolt, who isn't ranked high enough to be on the waiting list at Roehampton, has made the final at Ilkley. If he gets the main draw wildcard at Wimbledon by winning the Ilkley title, Yuki will definitely not make it in.
If Fucsovics beats Bolt to win the title at Ilkley, and is handed a main draw wildcard at W, that opens up one slot.

Ok, that makes it even tougher for Yuki. I think they might just give out main draw wild cards to both Fucsovics and Bolt as 3 wild cards are still to be given out. Or they might still give qualies wild card to Bolt.

So, Yuki will mostly need 2 withdrawals to make it in.

One chance for Yuki is for those playing in Eastbourne/Atalya qualifying draws to make it in to main draw. None from Antalya qualifying is in the qualies list at Wimbledon. Looking at Eastbourne qualifying draw, I see Thomas Fabbiano and Ti Chen meeting each other in the final qualifying round today. Both of them are in Wimby qualies. So, I presume one who wins at Eastbourne will be taken out from Wimby qualies.

Only other guy from Wimby qualies list who seems to be there is Canadian Steven Diez. He will have to win 2 rounds of qualies ( including upsetting top seed Posipisil ) to make it in. That looks doubtful.

We have to just hope that Bolt does not get a main draw or qualies wild card and winner of Fabbiano/Chen taken out from qualies list for Yuki to make it in.

[PKBasu]

Of course, I'm still hoping that Fabbiano will get one of the main draw wildcards by virtue of making the final at Nottingham (where Sela won the title, but no longer needs a wildcard since he is in on his own ranking). Then, we have to hope that Ti Chen qualifies into Eastbourne and cannot play at Roehampton. That opens two slots. Yuki will still need two more, and hopefully Fucsovics gets one by taking the Ilkley title.

[sameerph]

Yes, also realised Fabbianno is also just 2 out from main draw. So, if they just scrap couple of main draw wild cards, he will still get in. So, Fabbiano getting into Eastbourne main draw may not give an extra slot. Ti Chen winning will surely do that.

[sameerph]

Fucovics wins Ilkley challenger title. So, I think he will take up one of the main draw wild cards now which frees up 1 spot. Bolt is a special exempt in next week's Milan challenger. So, he cannot play Wimbledon qualies. So, it is upto who gets the other 2 wild cards.

Fabbiano- Ti Chen match on currently in Eeastbourne qualies. It will be great if Ti Chen can win this which will free up one more spot. If Fabbianno wins, we have to wait and see if he receives one of the 2 remaining wild cards or gets in by way of clearance of those 2 wild cards. In that case, Yuki needs one more withdrawal somewhere. If Wilmbledon gives the wild cards to some other players in qualies other than Fabbianno, Yuki gets in.

[prasen9]

Is it possible that Yuki could not play next week in Turkey due to logistic reasons? Maybe he has to wait until Sunday end to figure out whether he is in the qualies. Then, he may not have the time to report on time? Or can you request late starts and that is granted easily?

[PKBasu]

Yes, he has to wait until Sunday night to know if he is getting into the Wimbledon qualifiers. But he could easily have gone to Antalya and tried to qualify there: had he done so, he would have got good points and money, and then tried his hand at winning a few rounds in the main draw. Had he lost in the Antalya Q (but also made the Wimbledon qualifiers), he could easily have flown back on a low-cost airline (gaining time while flying west). Logistics do not explain his failure to play in Antalya: just miscalculating probabilities.

[PKBasu]

It is just bizarre that Wimbledon has still not announced the last 3 main draw wildcards on Sunday afternoon. So we wait on tenterhooks for awhile longer.
Yuki is now just 2 slots out of making the qualifying list though. Fabbiano is in, as is Taro Daniel. With 3 main draw wildcards still to be awarded, I think Yuki Bhambri will be playing at Roehampton tomorrow (unless he is desperately unlucky and the 3 wildcards are awarded to players outside the qualifiers list to random outside Brits).

[Prakharulz]

Evans still to be removed. Apparently, Chung has withdrawn from Wimby, which may be good news for Yuki, but not so for Jeevan

[PKBasu]

If Evans is still to be removed, but has failed a drug test, presumably he eventually will be. Once that happens, Yuki will be one slot away from making the qualifying list -- with 3 main draw wildcards yet to be announced.
(Of course, there might be an appeals process that Dan Evans is using that we might not know about).

Fucsovics is shown (in the MensTennisForum's Wimbledon qualifying page) as being out of the qualifying. Presumably that is because he has won Ilkley (as he has, beating Bolt easily), but the official Wimbledon page doesn't show him as having received the wild card yet. So, if one wildcard has gone to Fucsovics and Bhambri is still 2 out, I wonder if the other two wildcards had also been announced before this latest list (showing Yuki 2 out) was made.