{"id":637905,"date":"2026-06-14T07:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637905\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:46:21","slug":"lexus-nottingham-open-2026-emma-raducanu-francesca-jones-harriet-dart-set-for-wild-card-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637905\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexus Nottingham Open 2026: Emma Raducanu, Francesca Jones & Harriet Dart set for wild card spots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wild cards have been confirmed for both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s singles events at the Lexus Nottingham Open on 15-21 June.<\/p>\n

In the WTA 250 event, British No.1 Emma Raducanu<\/a>, Francesca Jones<\/a> and Harriet Dart<\/a> will join two-time former champion Katie Boulter as main draw wild cards.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Felix Gill<\/a>, Oliver Tarvet and Billy Harris<\/a> have been awarded main draw wild cards for the ATP Challenger singles.<\/p>\n

Further British wild cards have been announced for qualifying as well from 13-14 June. Mimi Xu<\/a>, Mika Stojsavljevic<\/a>, Katie Swan<\/a> and Alicia Dudeney will play in the women\u2019s singles qualifying, with Mark Ceban, William Jansen and Henry Jefferson in men\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Tickets are still available for the Lexus Nottingham Open this year. Get yours now to watch some of the best British and international tennis stars.<\/p>\n

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The women\u2019s draw will feature four of the top five-ranked British women\u2019s players next week, including former US Open champion Raducanu.<\/p>\n

Raducanu is coming off the back of reaching the semi-finals at the\u00a0HSBC Championships<\/a> this week and is a former semi-finalist at the Lexus Nottingham Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n

Boulter is also riding high after securing the biggest win of her career over world No.2 Elena Rybakina on her way to reaching the semi-finals at The Queen\u2019s Club. Boulter will be looking forward to a return to the tournament where she’s had the most success in her career.<\/p>\n

Jones has recently won her first Grand Slam match at Roland Garros and beat Venus Williams at the Miami Open earlier this season. The 25-year-old Brit reached a career-high of world No.68 back in February.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dart got her debut win at Queen\u2019s last week and has had some of the best results of her career on grass, previously reaching quarter-finals in Nottingham, Birmingham, and Eastbourne.<\/p>\n

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On the men\u2019s side, Gill picked up his first career ATP Challenger win on grass at the Lexus Birmingham Open<\/a> a few weeks ago, and is enjoying a stellar season in which he\u2019s reached a first Challenger-level final.<\/p>\n

Tarvet was one of the stories of the summer last year, winning on his Wimbledon debut to set up a matchup with two-time champion Carlos Alcaraz. After a year competing in the NCAA, he\u2019s making an impression once again on the grass.<\/p>\n

Finally, grass court veteran Harris will certainly be one to watch. A former ATP 250 semi-finalist in Eastbourne and coming off the back of a good win in Ilkley, he\u2019ll be looking to go far in Nottingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild cards have been confirmed for both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s singles events at the Lexus Nottingham Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}