A trio of former world quantity ones in Angelique Kerber, Naomi Osaka and Caroline Wozniacki have been handed wild playing cards into the primary draw of subsequent month’s Wimbledon championship, the event organisers stated on Wednesday.
Kerber, down at 224th on the planet rankings after 18 months on maternity depart, gained the event in 2018 and completed runner-up in 2016.
Osaka and Wozniacki, who each additionally took prolonged breaks from the tour throughout their pregnancies, have 5 Grand Slam titles between them.
Japan’s Osaka, who reached the quarterfinals of the Rosmalen Grass Court docket Championships final week, has progressed to the third spherical at Wimbledon on two events, whereas Wozniacki has made it to the final 16 six occasions.
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Native hope and former U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu, who was sidelined for eight months final 12 months after present process surgical procedure on each wrists and an ankle, was additionally awarded a wildcard for the grasscourt Grand Slam.
Raducanu is ranked one hundred and sixty fifth on the planet.
Britain’s Fran Jones, Lily Miyazaki, and Heather Watson are the opposite gamers to be awarded entry into the ladies’s singles.
On the lads’s facet, all of the gamers to obtain wild playing cards had been from Britain, with Liam Broady the standout title.
One wild card is but to be awarded in each the lads’s and girls’s attracts.
Ladies’s singles major draw wild playing cards:
1 Francesca Jones (Gbr)
2 Angelique Kerber (Ger)
3 Yuriko Lily Miyazaki (Gbr)
4 Naomi Osaka (Jpn)
5 Emma Raducanu (Gbr)
6 Heather Watson (Gbr)
7 Caroline Wozniacki (Den)
Males’s singles major draw wild playing cards:
1 Liam Broady (Gbr)
2 Jan Choinski (Gbr)
3 Jacob Fearnley (Gbr)
4 Arthur Fery (Gbr)
5 Billy Harris (Gbr)
6 Paul Jubb (Gbr)
7 Henry Searle (Gbr)