Wild Card (tennis)
See also: Wild Card
On the circuit of the Tennis Professionnel, with the sequence of the competitions, the distances and the jet lags, a player reaching the last turns of a tournament (finale, semi-final) can materially not be able to take part in the phases of qualification of the following test if it does not have the necessary classification to enter directly the final table (or large table).
Players can receive a wild card or invitation: it are directly allowed in the final table, when “empty boxes” are especially arranged there.
These better second thus derogate from the order imposed by the classification ATP (men) or WTA (women).
Returned players of a long wound (and gone down again brutally in the world hierarchy) and/or likely to drain many people can also see themselves offering a wild card .
The principle of the wild cards (distributed at the discretion of the organizers), is not without causing polemics sometimes.
In the case of the tournaments of the Large Slam, these invitations are the subject of exchanges between national federations. The French federation of tennis can for example grant a wild card an Australian player for Roland Garros; the Australian federation makes then in the same way in favor of a French player to the Open of Australia.
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