{"id":194327,"date":"2025-06-18T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194327\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:01:10","slug":"wimbledon-2025-how-are-wildcards-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194327\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2025: How are wildcards decided?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wildcard places are extra spots given to players who did not qualify automatically for a tennis tournament.<\/b><\/p>\n

They have been awarded at Wimbledon since 1977 and are at the discretion of the committee of the All England Lawn Tennis Club.<\/p>\n

Places are often awarded to players based on their previous performances at Wimbledon, or to increase British participation in the competition.<\/p>\n

Since 2003, some wildcard spots for singles events have been decided by ‘play-off’ tournaments.<\/p>\n

Two years prior to that, Goran Ivanisevic<\/a> famously won the men’s singles title as a wildcard entry while Serena and Venus Williams twice won the women’s doubles from the same starting point.<\/p>\n

The most recent wildcard winners at Wimbledon were Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen<\/a> in the men’s doubles in 2012.<\/p>\n

Last year, Andy and Jamie Murray were handed wildcard entries into the men’s doubles, but were knocked out in the first round.<\/p>\n

This article is the latest from BBC Sport’s Ask Me Anything<\/a> team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildcard places are extra spots given to players who did not qualify automatically for a tennis tournament. They…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-194327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114704265102689295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}