By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Photograph credit score: Rob Newell/CameraSport
Petra Kvitova will return to Wimbledon this month.
Two-time Wimbledon winner Kvitova leads the record of Wimbledon wild playing cards introduced at this time by Match Referee Denise Parnell.
The left-handed Kvitova swept Maria Sharapova to win the 2011 Wimbledon title. Three years later, Kvitova crushed Eugenie Bouchard to seize her second Wimbledon championship.
Eight completely different girls have gained the final eight Wimbledon championships, together with successive winners from Czechia. Barbora Krejickova is reigning Wimbledon champion. Left-hander Marketa Vondrousova raised the Rosewater Dish in 2023.
The 35-year-old Kvitova is the one non-British participant receiving a main-draw singles wild card at this time.
On the boys’s aspect, Briton’s Dan Evans is one in all seven British males to obtain a main-draw wild card.
“I am the primary to harp on in regards to the wild playing cards. It is not nearly one week or one match. It is about what you do 52 weeks of the yr,” Evans advised the media on Monday in feedback revealed by BBC. “Tennis is not only in regards to the grass courtroom season in Britain. It is nice that we have an incredible set of occasions, however there’s different tournaments.
“I have not been ok at these different tournaments, however I’ve nonetheless been skilled, nonetheless prepare day in, day trip.”
Here is the record of Wimbledon wild playing cards introduced at this time.
Wimbledon Males’s Predominant Draw Wild Playing cards
Jay Clarke (GBR)
Oliver Crawford (GBR)
Dan Evans (GBR)
George Loffhagen (GBR)
Johannus Monday (GBR)
Jack Pinnington Jones (GBR)
Henry Searle (GBR)
Yet another to be introduced
Wimbledon Girls’ Predominant Draw Wild Playing cards
Jodie Burrage (GBR)
Harriet Dart (GBR)
Francesca Jones (GBR)
Hannah Klugman (GBR>
Petra Kvitova (CZE)
Mike Stojsavljevic (GBR)
Heather Watson (GBR)
Mingge Xu (GBR)
Wimbledon is ready for June 30-July thirteenth.
