{"id":719615,"date":"2026-06-22T18:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719615\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:13:13","slug":"wimbledon-qualifying-2026-dan-evans-not-motivated-more-by-wildcard-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719615\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon qualifying 2026: Dan Evans not motivated more by wildcard omission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Evans says missing out on a Wimbledon main-draw wildcard has not motivated him more in qualifying as he overcame Juan Carlos Prado Angelo in the first round.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old, who will end his career after the championships, has been given a wildcard into the men’s doubles with Henry Searle, who he has been working with since January.<\/p>\n

However, Evans missed out on one of the eight singles wildcards<\/a>, meaning he needs to win three matches in Roehampton this week to play one last singles at SW19.<\/p>\n

The former British number one expressed frustration earlier in June at not being given a wildcard for Queen’s , saying it would have been a “classy gesture”<\/a> to get one.<\/p>\n

After beating Bolivia’s Prado Angelo 7-6 (7-2) 6-3, Evans said he was “no more motivated to win matches here because I didn’t get the wildcard”.<\/p>\n

“I play tennis for myself, not to prove other people wrong and I’ve done that throughout my career,” he added.<\/p>\n

“It’s nothing to do with the All England Club giving or not giving me a wildcard. They gave me one in doubles and I am appreciative of that. <\/p>\n

“It’s neither here nor there if they gave me a wildcard. I love the tournament, but I am no more motivated to win matches here because I didn’t get the wildcard. <\/p>\n

“A lot of people have run with that story – it’s untrue.<\/p>\n

“I’m really happy that I ended up playing qualifying, to get a chance to come and play in this atmosphere.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Evans says missing out on a Wimbledon main-draw wildcard has not motivated him more in qualifying as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-719615","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\/719615","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=719615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}