{"id":640470,"date":"2026-06-15T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640470\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:50:08","slug":"queens-dan-evans-criticises-lack-of-wildcard-but-still-hopes-for-wimbledon-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640470\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen’s: Dan Evans criticises lack of wildcard but still hopes for Wimbledon place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evans was part of the team that secured Britain’s first Davis Cup title in 79 years in 2015 and also won two ATP Tour-level titles.<\/p>\n

“I think what some people have forgotten is I’m a professional tennis player and I wouldn’t be playing if I wasn’t prepared or ready to play or fit to play,” Evans said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t feel like I’ve been taken seriously.”<\/p>\n

Tatjana Maria, who won the women’s Queen’s title in 2025, also did not get a wildcard<\/a> for the main draw and had to come through qualifying.<\/p>\n

The wildcards for this year’s Wimbledon will be announced on Tuesday, with Evans waiting to see if he will receive one.<\/p>\n

The All England Club can offer up to eight wildcards for the men’s singles main draw.<\/p>\n

Evans, who has reached the Wimbledon third round on three occasions, is already assured of a place in qualifying based on his ranking.<\/p>\n

But the Wimbledon committee – which offers wildcards based on past performances or to increase British interest – could elevate him into the main draw.<\/p>\n

“If they give me one or not, it’s not up to me,” Evans added.<\/p>\n

“I feel I’ve done plenty of time of helping British tennis, off the court, and on the court, so I hope to get one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evans was part of the team that secured Britain’s first Davis Cup title in 79 years in 2015…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640470","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\/640470","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=640470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}