Britons Emily Appleton, Oliver Tarvet and Hamish Stewart are each within one victory of securing a first appearance in the Wimbledon main draw.<\/b><\/p>\n
World number 403 Appleton, 25, came through a 10-point match tie-break against Czech player Barbora Palicova to win 6-2 6-7 (6-8) 7-6 (10-7) and set up a meeting with Slovenia’s Veronika Erjavec in Thursday’s third and final qualifying round.<\/p>\n
The 719th-ranked Tarvet, 21, defeated Canada’s Alexis Galarneau 6-3 6-2 to set up a meeting with Belgium’s Alexander Blockx.<\/p>\n
Stewart, 25, will face Swiss player Leandro Riedi after the Scottish world number 550 overcame France’s Luca van Assche 7-6 (7-3) 4-6 7-6 (11-9).<\/p>\n
But Ryan Peniston, Paul Jubb, Oliver Bonding and Amarni Banks all had their Wimbledon hopes ended in Roehampton on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Peniston lost 3-6 6-4 6-4 to Spain’s Martin Landaluce, while Jubb was defeated by Giulio Zeppieri 6-3 6-2, and Bonding beaten 7-5 6-4 by Argentine Juan Pablo Ficovich.<\/p>\n
In the women’s draw, Banks lost out 6-2 6-4 to Poland’s Katarzyna Kawa.<\/p>\n
Players must come through three qualifying rounds to reach Wimbledon, the draw for which takes place on Friday at 10:00 BST – before the action begins on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britons Emily Appleton, Oliver Tarvet and Hamish Stewart are each within one victory of securing a first appearance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214322","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\/114746464908553518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214322","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=214322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}