{"id":726474,"date":"2026-06-26T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/726474\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:54:11","slug":"wimbledon-2026-ollie-tarvet-billy-harris-and-max-basing-qualify-for-main-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/726474\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026: Ollie Tarvet, Billy Harris and Max Basing qualify for main draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ollie Tarvet, Billy Harris and Max Basing have reached the Wimbledon main draw, marking the first time since 1999 that three British players have progressed from qualifying.<\/p>\n

Tarvet, 22, defeated Greece’s Stefanos Sakellaridis 6-4 6-2 7-5 for his required third victory of the week in Roehampton and becomes only the third British player to qualify in back-to-back years.<\/p>\n

Last year, he came through qualifying to reach the second round at the All England Club, where he was beaten by defending champion Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, he was studying in the United States and American college rules<\/a> meant he could not claim his full prize money of \u00a399,000.<\/p>\n

But after graduating from the University of San Diego this year, he has turned professional and will take home a minimum of the \u00a380,000 first-round prize money.<\/p>\n

“I’m definitely very overwhelmed right now, but the main emotion for me is happiness,” he told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“I think I have come a long way from where I qualified last year. I think I had some challenges as well, which makes these victories sweeter.<\/p>\n

“I think it was the added pressure that I put on myself. Feeling like I had to replicate the levels and results that I had at Wimbledon. I feel like those expectations didn’t help me.”<\/p>\n

Harris, 31, overcame a poor start to beat China’s Yi Zhou 1-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-2 6-3, while wildcard Basing joined his compatriots in the main draw for the first time with a thrilling five-set victory over Switzerland’s Remy Bertola.<\/p>\n

But former British number one Heather Watson could not progress in the women’s draw, falling to a 3-6 6-2 6-1 defeat by top seed Maria Timofeeva of Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n

In total, there will be 21 British players in the singles draws at Wimbledon, which starts on Monday. <\/p>\n

Two of them – Cameron Norrie (26th) and Emma Raducanu (30th) – are seeded, and all players will learn of their first-round opponents when the draw is made on Friday.<\/p>\n

Canada’s Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 US Open champion, also qualified for the main draw with a 6-3 7-6 (7-4) win over Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus.<\/p>\n

It is the first time Andreescu, 26, will play in a Grand Slam main draw since the 2024 US Open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ollie Tarvet, Billy Harris and Max Basing have reached the Wimbledon main draw, marking the first time since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-726474","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\/726474","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=726474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}