US Open Wildcards

[andrepetz]

http://www.tennis.com.au/pages/News.aspx?id=4&pageId=11478&HandlerId=2&archive=false&newsid=6089

Gone to Guccione and Rogowska.
I guess they didn't want to spoon feed Tomic a WC, it will be interesting to see if the US give him a QWC.

Luczak may be feeling pretty pissed off at the moment. 3 Challenger wins in the 2nd half of the year not enough?

 

[Chris_2593]

I hate how they always give it to Guccione when he is just going to lose first round. Peter Luzack has had much better results. How does that work?

 

[JuddyBuddy]

Go the Gooch!!!!1

So sick of this joker. Give 1 to Tomic, at least he has some potential.

 

[Chris_2593]

Will Luzack get entry in since his ranking is at 79?

 

[andrepetz]

Will Luzack get entry in since his ranking is at 79?

Nope, the cuttoff was a month ago. However Guccione is 5 withdrawls away from direct entry, which means his Wild Card may become available again.

 

[matt_897]

Go the Gooch!!!!1

So sick of this joker. Give 1 to Tomic, at least he has some potential.

The guy has already been given WC at AO, RG and then Wimby qualies, and honestly he hasn't done much on the ciruit this year. Tomic didn't deserve one.

The only one really deserving was Peter Luczak since his form the last few months has been outstanding, hope he can really shut TA up and stay in the top 100 by the end of the year, when your having results like he is (and no on else is having anything close to it), age shouldn't matter.

The only benefit for the Gooch to get the WC is so he can defend his 2nd round points. Ball got one last year and didn't use very well, plus, he's been inconsistant, atp final one week, first round of challengers the next 3 weeks.

Good Luck to Olivia

 

[JuddyBuddy]

The guy has already been given WC at AO, RG and then Wimby qualies, and honestly he hasn't done much on the ciruit this year. Tomic didn't deserve one.

Maybe not, but he's the best player we have for the future so why not get some more GS experience in to him?

 

[matt_897]

Maybe not, but he's the best player we have for the future so why not get some more GS experience in to him?

Don't think we can think that way anymore, just look at what happened to guys like Todd Reid. You need to earn your stripes as well, instead of just giving handouts every time just because he is our best 'junior'. Just look at his atp challenegr result after wimby, he's played two events of challenger qualies and lost to a guy ranked outside the top 300 and another guy outside the top 600 (up and coming US junior though). I think when you have a guy like Luczak slugging it out on the challenger circuit, wiining a few tournaments and doing very well in others, and then Tomic is given a WC, he would have very right to be pissed off (Luczak smashed him every time they played too i think).

Mind you, Guccione got the WC so it's kind of confusing what TA are thinking, the only thing i can of is that he is defending 2nd round points from last year. Those are points he needs at the moment. And probably hoping that Luczak can get a nice draw so he can qualify for the main draw.

 

[JuddyBuddy]

Some good points there Matt. Hadn't really thought of it that way.