Wimbledon - Brits crash out in Wimbledon qualifying

Eurosport - Wed, 17 Jun 17:15:00 2009

British players endured a disastrous day at Roehampton in the qualifying tournament for Wimbledon with all but one of the home players losing their matches.

TENNIS Britain's Naomi Cavaday in action in Edgbaston - 0

Only Naomi Cavaday, the British number six, managed to make it through to the second round of qualifying as she won a one-sided match against Japan's Rika Fujiwara 6-0 6-3.

The other six Brits in action were beaten with the worst defeat suffered by British number seven Emily Webley-Smith, who was crushed 6-0 6-1 by Hungarian veteran Greta Arn.

Naomi Broady put up more of a fight against Russia's Vitalia Diatchenko, taking the first set to a tie-break before losing the match 7-6(5) 6-4.

Elizabeth Thomas, ranked 557 in the world, pushed Varvara Lepchenko of the USA hard but still ended up losing 7-5 6-4.

Amanda Elliott lost 6-2 6-3 to Neuza Silva of Portugal and Jade Curtis was defeated 6-1 6-3 by Kazakhstan's Sesil Karatantcheva.

Dan Cox, the lone British man in action, endured a similar fate as he lost 6-3 6-3 to India's Prakash Amritraj.

Cavaday plus Marcus Willis, Alex Slabinsky and Josh Milton - who won on Monday - are looking to join Andrew Murray, Anne Keothavong and nine British wild cards in Friday's singles draw.

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  1. WHY bother with qualification when a wild card gift is­ available ...?

    From pitcrew66, on Wed 17 Jun 6:34AM

  2. Cavaday will crash out too today WED
    ONLY HAD SEVERAL­ $£$£ MILLIONS SPENT ON training/coaching like ALL­ brits

    From pitcrew66, on Wed 17 Jun 4:48AM

  3. Not surprised really

    From janice m, on Wed 17 Jun 12:50AM

  4. Well said stevens.mark81, but you missed out a certain­ Fred Perry, who I understand could play a bit. Anne­ Jones was another British Wimbledon winner, beating­ Margaret Court in the semis and Billie Jean King in the­ Final.

    From Bobito, on Tue 16 Jun 11:46PM
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    Naomi Cavaday is an English rose, her photo reminds me­ of the Iggy Pop ballad "Lady In Red", which­ I'm listening to now as I stroke myself.

    From Spock, on Tue 16 Jun 11:19PM

  6. Murray, at the age of 22, has already achieved more­ then Henman did in his whole career.

    From lucymiff, on Tue 16 Jun 9:23PM

  7. Alexi S you are talking @#$%. Britain has had some good­ players in the past; Wade, Barker, Durie, Lloyd­ (don't laugh-he reached the Australian Open final­ and US quarters) Yes Henman was good and respected,­ but Murray has already proved he is a level higher with­ reaching the US open final, and beating the worlds­ numbers 1 and 2 many times, and being ranked at 3rd­ already at the age of 22 which Henman never achieved.

    From Mark, on Tue 16 Jun 9:14PM

  8. The problem is they are all upper class toffs, with a­ privelidged background that enabled them to take up­ tennis and join a club to begin with. Come on.. with­ names like Webley-Smith... Elizabeth Thomas... Anne­ Keothavong is the exception with real athleticism and­ mental toughness - probably because of her Asian blood.

    From Mark, on Tue 16 Jun 9:10PM

  9. Why we are surprised this is normal England had never­ had a great player in Tennis
    probably the best and the­ most respected is Tim Henman other than that
    nothing­ the new little kid Murray will not go that far away in­ the tournament as expected neither Anna­ Kothhevong.
    Ping Pong is agood idea though but I do not­ think you would win that either.

    From Alexi S, on Tue 16 Jun 9:07PM

  10. Stop their lottery funding.

    From cameron w, on Tue 16 Jun 8:39PM

  11. maybe is time to play ping pong not tenis at home

    From iohann, on Tue 16 Jun 8:06PM

  12. Really poor...

    From chaka.malia23, on Tue 16 Jun 7:53PM
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