a “classy gesture”<\/a> to get one.<\/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,” he said.<\/p>\n
World number 244 Evans, who was given a wildcard last year, is a former British number one and has reached the Wimbledon third round on three occasions.<\/p>\n
He was part of the team that secured Britain’s first Davis Cup title in 79 years in 2015 and partnered Sir Andy Murray at the Paris Olympics in 2024.<\/p>\n
Evans has been granted a wildcard to play in the men’s doubles alongside Henry Searle to ensure at least one more match at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
But he will need to win three matches at Wimbledon’s qualifying tournament, which begins on Monday at Roehampton, to secure one of the 16 places available in the singles draw.<\/p>\n
Wendelken, 24, beat two top-100 ranked players to qualify for the main draw at Queen’s this week and pushed Botic van de Zandschulp close during a first-round defeat on Monday.<\/p>\n
Gill, also 24, is ranked 222 in the world while Wendelken is two places lower at 224.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Matteo Berrettini, the 2021 runner-up, and 2022 finalist Nick Kyrgios of Australia also missed out on wildcards.<\/p>\n
One remaining wildcard for the women’s singles is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n
Men’s singles wildcards: Grigor Dimitrov, Jacob Fearnley, Arthur Fery, Jack Pinnington Jones, Toby Samuel, Stan Wawrinka, Harry Wendelken, Felix Gill<\/p>\n
Women’s singles wildcards: Maja Chwalinska, Harriet Dart, Alicia Dudeney, Hannah Klugman, Mika Stojsavljevic, Katie Swan, Mimi Xu, player TBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British tennis stalwart Dan Evans has missed out on a Wimbledon singles wildcard and will have to go…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-710435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}