[Jem]

Originally Posted by vildis

well maybe dancevic

Yea, I might have been friendly and extended one to Dancevic, but then again, he is Canadian and it's the U.S. Open tournament. I don't think the Canadians offered a wildcard to a U.S. player at the CAnadian Open. On the whole, I think it's a pretty good crop of U.S. players to get these wildcards -- no real stretches of the imagination on any of them.

By the way, I'm surprised Dancevic wasn't in the main draw straight away. I thought his ranking was above 100 prior to Wimbledon. I really like him and hope he qualifies and does some damage in the draw. I'm going to be at the Open over the Labor Day weekend, and he's one I'd definitely go see play if he's still around.

[lovetheunderdog]

I don't know if anybody else knew this, but I found out today that Alun Jones is actually quite the actor as well, even if it was only one movie. He appeared in the tennis/love story (mostly love story) movie Wimbledon and played Tom Cavendish. Interesting little tidbit for everybody out there. Jones has been playing really well and could do some damage at the Open I think.

[CooCooCachoo]

Originally Posted by lovetheunderdog

I don't know if anybody else knew this, but I found out today that Alun Jones is actually quite the actor as well, even if it was only one movie. He appeared in the tennis/love story (mostly love story) movie Wimbledon and played Tom Cavendish. Interesting little tidbit for everybody out there. Jones has been playing really well and could do some damage at the Open I think.

Yes, Beti Sekulovski was also in it

[CooCooCachoo]

Originally Posted by Champion number 1

Crap system from the US... I like it at Wimbledon where they give 5 WCs to British players and then the other 3 go to others... so 1 goes to the boys junior champion of the previous year and the other 2 to recently good performing players who are not in the top 100.

The difference being that the US has way more worthy candidates than the UK.

[GustavoM_Fan]

Dev Varman deserved a qualifying WC

[ExcaliburII]

yes, Usta is Crap.

[Hrastar]

So no main draw WC for Sam Warburg?

[Fee]

Sam committed the sin of going to college and actually graduating. He will not get a wildcard (and it might do him some good to go through qualies anyway).

[Scotso]

It's pretty sad that they overlook great American players who are not babies anymore. It's amazing to me that these tournament organizers suffer from the same idiotic thought of a lot of the posters on this board... that if you're not successful by 20 you'll never be anything.

There are plenty of players that became very successful late in their careers. And some of the people they have WCs to I have never even heard of, and I think that there is probably some shady dealing that goes on behind the scenes.

I'm actually surprised that Smyczek didn't get a QD WC at least. I know he's not amazing right now, but he's very young and has potential, and he's a very likeable person. It's perplexing.

I think Clayton would have been another good choice over some of these people.

[Scotso]

And while it may have been nice for players like Dancevic to get a WC, there is no incentive for the USTA to do that. I love Frank, but I'm not upset he didn't get one. I still believe tournaments should favor players from their own country.

[adeel]

hey all

[Santorofan]

Anyone have any news about doubles wildcards being awarded? Rohan Bopanna said that he and Qureshi would hear by Saturday whether they were being offered one or not....

[Santorofan]

Rohan Bopanna stated that he and Qureshi would be contacted by Saturday regarding their doubles wildcard application. Does anyone have an update on this? Can't seem to find out any info on this anywhere. Thx in advance

[iftikhar]

well i was also searching that but sadly cannot find any info yet .. and the other worrying factor is how bad the injury of Aisam .. any news about that ?

[JeffCandoi]

one for Kuerten/Ginepri is confirmed