{"id":20606,"date":"2026-06-17T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/20606\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:28:18","slug":"tennis-billy-harris-confirmed-for-wimbledon-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/20606\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Billy Harris confirmed for Wimbledon qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/309904-1.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo Credit: Billy Harris instagram (@billyrh_)<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Former Island star to begin campaign next week\n        <\/p>\n<p>Former Isle of Man tennis star, Billy Harris will be taking part in the qualifiers for Wimbledon 2026 next week.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s one of 124 players confirmed as part of the Gentlemen&#8217;s Singles qualifying phase which will take place from next Monday (22 June) to next Thursday (25 June) at the Community Sports Centre in Roehampton.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is one of four British competitors in the initial qualifying roster along with Dan Evans, Liam Broady and Harry Wendelken.<\/p>\n<p>Four further Great Britain participants &#8211; Johannus Monday, Oliver Tarvet, Henry Searle and Mark Ceban &#8211; have earned qualifying wild cards for this year.<\/p>\n<p>Having featured for both Albany and Castletown on the Isle of Man in previous years, Harris has been involved in the main men&#8217;s singles draw at Wimbledon in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, he was knocked out in the first round by Spain&#8217;s Jaume Munar whilst 12 months later he reached round two before a defeat at the hands of Nuno Borges.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Harris has also featured in the Gentlemen&#8217;s Doubles main draw with Liam Broady in 2024 and Marcus Willis last year, both of which ended in first round losses.<\/p>\n<p>                    More from Isle of Man Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Billy Harris instagram (@billyrh_) Former Island star to begin campaign next week Former Isle of Man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,3003,6708,6709,6710,3093,54,6711,285],"class_list":["post-20606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wimbledon","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}