Wimbledon 2011 Men’s Singles Draw: Qualifying

Wimbledon 2011 Men’s Singles Draw: Qualifying

The 2011 Wimbledon Gentlemen’s qualifying singles event begins 0n Monday 13 June at 11am local time in London. The qualifying event is scheduled to be completed on Thursday 16 June. The qualifying draw will be revealed tomorrow and the full draw will be listed below as it occurs.

The qualifying matches are best-of-3 sets and NOT best-of-5 sets like the main draw singles matches. The first two sets are tie break sets and the final set is an advantage set. In an advantage set, if the set score is tied at 6 games all the players continue to play until one player gains a 2 game advantage.

The exception to the above is the third and final round of qualifying because at Wimbledon, unlike any of the other 3 Grand Slam singles tournaments, the final round of qualifying is best-of-5 sets. All of the other Slams play best-of-3 sets in all 3 rounds of qualifying. At Wimbledon 2010 John Isner and Nicolas Mahut set a record score in the final advantage set, when Isner won by 70 games to 68!

At Wimbledon there are 16 spots in the main draw of the Gentlemen’s singles event allocated for qualifiers. The qualifiers have the opportunity to really improve their ranking because the Grand Slam tournaments offer the most ranking points. A qualifier earns 25 points more than a direct acceptance into the main singles draw does if they both lose in the 1st round.

Players who lose in the 3rd round of qualifying receive more ranking points than a direct acceptance who loses his 1st round match. The direct acceptance is awarded 10 ATP ranking points for losing in the 1st round of the main draw versus 14 points for the 3rd round loser in qualifying.

There are 128 spots in the qualifying draw of which 8 were wild cards (WC) and 120 direct acceptances. There are 32 seeds in the qualifying which means that the highest 32 ranked players at the cut-off date are seeded to meet each other in the “Qualifying Round”.

The Qualifying Round is the round that decides which players qualify for the main draw, because the winner of that round qualifies. A seeded player occupies one of every four spots in the draw. The seeds do not receive a BYE in the 1st round of the qualifying event.

All players must win 3 matches in a row in order to qualify. The qualifying draws are different to main draws because these events do not play off until there is one undefeated player. Therefore, the No.1 seed and the No.2 seed are not separated at the opposite ends of the draw. All 32 seeds are just listed down the draw and the 32 seeds will be bolded in the draw below.

The players win through to the 2nd round of qualifying but are then defeated, earn 3,000 pounds (£) and 16 ATP ranking points. Players who win through to the 3rd round of qualifying but are then defeated, earn £7,000 and 24 ATP ranking points. Both 2nd round and 3rd round losers in the qualifying receive more ranking points than a player who is directly accepted into the main draw and then loses his 1st round match.

Players who qualify for the main draw will earn a minimum of £11,250 and 35 ATP ranking points if they are defeated in the 1st round of the main draw. That means they received 3.5 times the amount that a direct acceptance receives when he loses his 1st round match. Do you think that is a fair way to allocate points?

The seeds do not receive a BYE in the 1st round of the qualifying event. All players must win 3 matches in a row in order to qualify. The qualifying draws are different to main draws because these events do not play off until there is one undefeated player. Therefore, the No.1 seed and the No.2 seed are not separated at the opposite ends of the draw.

The Top 16 seeds in the main draw of qualifying have ALL been separated from each other as they are seeded to be the players who do qualify. The whole 32 seeds are just listed down the draw. The 32 seeds are bolded in the draw below.

Pictured above is Andy Murray as he prepares to play this forehand drive during the 2011 Queens Club tournament. The 24-year-old Murray achieved his best results at Wimbledon by making the semi finals for the past two years running. He had progressed one round further each year that he played Wimbledon except in 2010, so perhaps he will takes two steps further in 2011 and win THE CHAMPIONSHIPS!

The 1.9m Murray made the quarter finals in 2008. In 2007 he made the Round of 16 after reaching the 3rd round at his first Wimbledon in 2006. You would expect pretty much EVERY tennis fan in the United Kingdom would be hoping that he can improve again this year on his Grand Slam record at Wimbledon and overall. Murray has been a runner-up in three Grand Slam singles final to date.

The draw for the 2010 Wimbledon Gentlemen’s qualifying singles event is:

1. Lukas ROSOL (1) versus David GOFFIN
2. Facundo BAGNIS v Uladzimir IGNATIK
3. Fernando ROMBOLI v Ivan NAVARRO
4. Igor SIJSLING v (26) MartinKLIZAN
5. LukaszKUBOT (2) v Nikola CIRIC
6. Juan Sebastian CABAL v Kristijan MESAROS
7. Rajeev RAM v Augustin GENSSE
8. Charles-Antoine BREZAC v (24) Bobby REYNOLDS
9. Rui MACHADO (3) v Robert FARAH
10. Bernard TOMIC v Sebastian RIESCHICK
11. Jene-Rene LISNARD v Victor ESTRELLA
12. Franco SKUGOR v (21) Rogerio DUTRA DA SILVA
13. Thomas SCHOOREL (4) v Peter POLANSKY
14. Marek SEMJAN v Chris GUCCIONE
15. Ivo KLEC v Guillaume RUFIN
16. Alexander FLOCK v (30) Marinko MATOSEVIC
17. Tatsuma ITO (5) v Ricardo HOCEVAR
18. Jurgen ZOPP v Giovanni LAPENTTI
19. Geroge MORGAN (WC) v (WC) Jamie BAKER
20. Sergei BUBKA v (25) Andreas BECK
21. Steve DARCIS (6) v Ilija BOZOLJAC
22. Andrej MARTIN v Marco CHIUDINELLI
23. Peter LUCZAK v Frederik NIELSEN
24. Daniel SMETHURST (WC) v (17) Karol BECK
25. Dustin BROWN (7) v Grega ZEMLJA
26. Victor CRIVOI v Julio SILVA
27. Adrian UNGUR v Amer DELIC
28. Federico DEL BONIS v (32) Rik DE VOEST
29. Marsel ILHAN (8) v Jerzy JANOWICZ
30. Oliver GOLDING (WC) v (WC) Joshua MILTON
31. Gianluca NASO v Alex KUZNETSOV
32. Pavol CERVENAK v (27) Martin FISCHER

The bottom half of the draw is:

1. Flavio CIPOLLA (9) v James LEMKE
2. Benedikt DORSCH, Benedikt v Daniel MUNOZ-DE LA NAVA
3. Roberto BAUTISTA-AGUT v Dusan LOJDA
4. Liam BROADY (WC) v (31) Alessio DI MAURO
5. Stephane ROBERT (10) v Frank DANCEVIC
6. Carsten BALL v Danai UDOMCHOKE
7. Andres MOLTENI v Gregoire BURQUIER
8. Marco CRUGNOLA v (18) Izak VAN DER MERWE
9. Paolo LORENZI (11) v Greg JONES
10. Josselin OUANNA v Conor NILAND
11. Nikola MEKTIC v Dominik MEFFERT
12. Andrey KUZNETSOV v (22) Stephane BOHLI
13. Marc GICQUEL (12) v Zack FLEISHMAN
14. Bastian KNITTEL v (WC) Alex BOGDANOVIC
15. Vasek POSPISIL v Jorge AGUILAR
16. Antonio VEIC v (29) Edouard ROGER-VASSELIN
17. Simone BOLELLI (13) v Amir WEINTRAUB
18. Vincent MILLOT v Simon STADLER
19. Kenny DE SCHEPPER v Adam KELLNER
20. Matthew EBDEN v (23) Simon GREUL
21. Ryan HARRISON (14) v (WC) Alexander WARD
22. Joao SOUSA v Laurent ROCHETTE
23. Cedrik-Marcel STEBE v Matteo VIOLA
24. Bjorn PHAU v (28) Alexander KUDRYAVTSEV
25. Ivo MINAR (15) v Leonardo MAYER
26. Guillermo OLASO v Olivier PATIENCE
27. Jesse WITTEN v Ruben BEMELMANS
28. Yuichi SUGITA v (19) Daniel BRANDS
29. Go SOEDA (16) v Lester COOK
30. Marton FUCSOVICS (WC) v Jonathan EYSSERIC
31. John MILLMAN v Fritz WOLMARANS
32. Guillermo ALCAIDE v (20) Lukas LACKO