Wimbledon - Wimbledon dream over for Cavaday

Eurosport - Thu, 18 Jun 19:17:00 2009

Naomi Cavaday's dream of playing in a fourth successive Wimbledon is over after she was beaten 7-5 6-2 by Vesna Manasieva in the final round of qualifying at Roehampton.

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

Cavaday, who famously had match points against Martina Hingis in 2007, had been given wild cards the previous three years.

A total of 16 men and 12 women booked their spots at SW19 with the most high profile name to qualify being 2002 semi-finalist Xavier Malisse.

The Belgian defeated Spain's Daniel Munoz-De La Nava 6-3 7-6(2) 6-0 to move into the main draw.

Another man to qualify is former top 30 Taylor Dent who enjoyed a 6-3 7-5 6-7(7) 6-3 victory over Pablo Cuevas.

Dent has been dogged with injuries over the last few seasons and needed a wild card just to take his place in the qualifying draw.

There was no such joy for Australian hot prospect Bernard Tomic though with the 16-year-old being beaten in straight sets by Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

Qualifiers

Gentlemen

Roko Karanusic

Edouard Roger-Vasselin

Luka Gregorc

Jesse Levine

Alexander Peya

Alejandro Falla

Lukas Lacko

Riccardo Ghedin

Xavier Malisse

Rajeev Ram

Michael Yani

Taylor Dent

Grega Zemlja

Adrian Mannarino

Simon Greul

Santiago Gonzalez

Ladies

Regina Kulikova

Alberta Brianti

Anastasija Sevastova

Sesil Karatantcheva

Melanie Oudin

Aiko Nakamura

Klara Zakopalova

Tatjana Malek

Viktoriya Kutuzova

Vesna Manasieva

Neuza Silva

Arantxa Parra Santonja

Gentlemen's doubles

Chris Eaton / Alexander Slabinsky

Santiago Gonzalez / Travis Rettenmaier

Kevin Anderson / Somdev Devvarman

Ladies' doubles

Edina Gallovits / Katalin Marosi

Rika Fujiwara / Aiko Nakamura

Yuliana Fedak / Mervana Jugic-Salkic

Tatjana Malek / Andrea Petkovic

Reuters

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  1. NO NO lucky loser spot for this pathetic performer­ please

    From pitcrew66, on Fri 19 Jun 7:17AM

  2. she lost to young Russian beginner who has almost NEVER­ played on grass before ,,,!

    QUITE PATHETIC too sad

    From ace.firstserve, on Thu 18 Jun 9:23PM

  3. FIRST SHE SHOULD NEVER HAVE NEEDED TO QUALIFY

    AFTER­ ALL THAT COACHING SHE SHOULD HAVE REACHED A HIGH ENOUGH­ RANKING
    TO GIVE HER AUTOMATIC ENTRY TO THE MAIN­ DRAW

    LOOK AT ALL THOSE TEENAGE RUSSIA POLISH CZECK­ KIDS WHO QUALIFIED DIRECT .. ! !
    they received direct­ entry without £$£millions spent on them //??.. .. !

    From ace.firstserve, on Thu 18 Jun 9:21PM

  4. ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC ~~ AFTER $£$ MILLIONS COACHING ++­ TRAINING FACILITIES

    she has NEVER won a match at­ Wimbledon ~~ send her to join the ball girls losing­ like this ..!

    From ace.firstserve, on Thu 18 Jun 9:07PM

  5. Stop her lottery funding pronto; it's obviously a­ waste of good money - or at least give it to somebody­ with a bit of potential.

    From cameron w, on Thu 18 Jun 7:25PM
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