{"id":251547,"date":"2026-06-01T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251547\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:33:09","slug":"queens-tournament-ignores-defending-champion-tatjana-maria-denying-her-an-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251547\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s Tournament Ignores Defending Champion Tatjana Maria, Denying Her an Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"quota-display text-align-center\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puntodebreak.com\/MDBA-B3-PDB-QUOTA-25\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" title=\"Apuesta en bet365\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bet365\" class=\"bet-logo lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b365.jpg\"\/>Streaming WTA Birmingham live tennis<\/p>\n<p> \ud83c\udfbe Tatjana Maria vs Linda Fruhvirtova<\/p>\n<p>           Sign up with Bet365 here<br \/>\n                              Make your first deposit of at least\u00a0\u20ac5<br \/>\n                              Go to the \u201cLive\u201d section and watch every match<\/p>\n<p>\n                              Watch the match on Bet365\n                            <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:9px;line-height:10px;padding:5px 0px 0px 0px;\">Register at bet365, deposit \u20ac5 or more into your account and you will receive 100% of your eligible deposit in Bet Credits (up to \u20ac100). New customers only. Terms apply. Winnings do not include the value of Bet Credits. Maximum prizes, game restrictions, time limits and terms apply. Registration required.<\/p>\n<p>        <\/a>\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Controversial situation that has arisen regarding the wild cards for the main draw provided by the organization of the WTA 500 Queen\u00b4s 2026. Everyone assumed that the current champion, Tatjana Maria, would receive a wild card, but the London tournament has denied it to her. The director herself, Laura Robson, admitted they preferred to invite local players and more renowned tennis players. The German will have to go through the qualifying stage if she wants to defend her title.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Scandal in British tennis! Defending champion denied wild card.<\/p>\n<p>German tennis player Tatjana Maria won the prestigious grass-court tournament at Queen&#8217;s Club Championships last year, but this year the organizers refused to give her a wild card into the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H2WIbdBTjX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/H2WIbdBTjX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 First Serve (@1st_serve_news) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/1st_serve_news\/status\/2061557141358711023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;font-style:italic;\">This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puntodebreak.com\/2026\/06\/02\/torneo-queens-ignora-tatjana-maria-vigente-campeona-negandole-invitacion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El torneo de Queen\u00b4s ignora a Tatjana Maria, vigente campeona, neg\u00e1ndole una invitaci\u00f3n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Streaming WTA Birmingham live tennis \ud83c\udfbe Tatjana Maria vs Linda Fruhvirtova Sign up with Bet365 here Make your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-251547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}