Wildcard locations are additional spots given to gamers who didn’t qualify mechanically for a tennis match.
They’ve been awarded at Wimbledon since 1977 and are on the discretion of the committee of the All England Garden Tennis Membership.
Locations are sometimes awarded to gamers primarily based on their earlier performances at Wimbledon, or to extend British participation within the competitors.
Since 2003, some wildcard spots for singles occasions have been determined by ‘play-off’ tournaments.
Two years previous to that, Goran Ivanisevic famously gained the lads’s singles title as a wildcard entry whereas Serena and Venus Williams twice gained the ladies’s doubles from the identical place to begin.
The newest wildcard winners at Wimbledon had been Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen within the males’s doubles in 2012.
Final yr, Andy and Jamie Murray had been handed wildcard entries into the lads’s doubles, however had been knocked out within the first spherical.
This text is the most recent from BBC Sport’s Ask Me Something crew.
