Regardless of how much they think Alex Bogdanovic was, they should have given the British no. 2 a wildcard. But instead of doing so, they pissed him off and now they have only two male players in the main draw for the men.
Of course you already know one of them, Andy Murray. The other one is Jamie Baker, ranked 258 in the world.
Sadly, none of them are Englishmen. They are both Scots!
This will be the first time there is no Englishmen in the main draw of Wimbledon.
Baker got a wildcard while Bogdanovic, ranked 161, had to play in the qualify. I guess the Brits have problems with patience.
“There are fewer British men in the main draw because fewer wild cards have been handed out,” Leon Smith, head of men’s tennis at the LTA, said in a statement.
“We accept that this is where we are in the men’s game, but what I saw in qualifying this week was British players fighting for every point, battling for a place in the Championships.
“That’s what we need to concentrate on—creating an environment where more British players aren’t just in the first round because of a wild card, but on merit.”
Why tire out your boys instead of giving them a wildcard?