{"id":216718,"date":"2025-06-26T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216718\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:59:09","slug":"wimbledon-2025-qualifying-british-world-number-719-oliver-tarvet-reaches-main-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216718\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2025 qualifying: British world number 719 Oliver Tarvet reaches main draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Englishman, who is from St Albans, competes on the US collegiate circuit and has one year left of his studies at the University of San Diego.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most college sports in America are strictly amateur, so Tarvet will be unable to claim the vast majority of his \u00a366,000 prize money for reaching the Wimbledon first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of emotions, but the main one is just happiness,&#8221; Tarvet said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ever since I was a little kid, it&#8217;s been my dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tarvet defeated top-250 players Terence Atmane of France and Canadian Alexis Galarneau in the first two rounds of qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier on Thursday, British world number 550 Hamish Stewart fell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c70rkz295pyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6-3 4-6 6-3 6-4<\/a> to Swiss Leandro Riedi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emily Appleton also missed out on a main-draw spot, losing 6-2 2-6 6-0 to Veronika Erjavec of Slovenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Englishman, who is from St Albans, competes on the US collegiate circuit and has one year left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-216718","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\/114751443170704544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216718","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=216718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}