As ever, there is a strong British contingent in the singles draws – helped by a sizeable number of wildcards handed out by the All England Club.<\/p>\n
Overall it feels like a tough draw for the home players, with Draper in particular left to curse his luck.<\/p>\n
In what will only be his second tournament back from injury, the 24-year-old left-hander would have been hoping for a gentler start than Fritz, who reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon last year.<\/p>\n
Draper has dropped outside of the top 100 but takes his place in the draw because he was still ranked inside it when the entry list closed six weeks before the Championships.<\/p>\n
Cameron Norrie, seeded 26th in the men’s singles, is the highest-ranked Briton and leads the six players who have earned direct entry through their ranking.<\/p>\n
Norrie, who reached the semi-finals in 2022, starts against American qualifier Michael Zheng and could face Canadian third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the third round.<\/p>\n
Raducanu is the only other home seed after climbing into the top 32 with her run to the Queen’s final earlier this month, but could face former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko – who plays Harriet Dart first – in the second round, with the spectre of Sabalenka looming large after that.<\/p>\n
Katie Boulter, Francesca Jones and Jan Choinski also secured their spots through ranking.<\/p>\n
Twelve Britons have been given wildcards – six men and six women – but one was not made available for Davis Cup stalwart Dan Evans, who is set to retire after the tournament.<\/p>\n
Instead, he was forced to go through qualifying but lost in the second round.<\/p>\n
Three players – Ollie Tarvet, Billy Harris and Max Basing – did qualify after winning three matches this week. It is the most home players to come through qualifying since 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As ever, there is a strong British contingent in the singles draws – helped by a sizeable number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-762306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}