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Most of the tournaments work the same way. Whether players are allowed into the tournament or not is decided by committee, based on current world rankings (although they may also choose to admit wild card players with lower rankings than the rest). In theory, Wimbledon is still a relatively open tournament, as players who arent selected this way can enter a qualifying tournament the week before Wimbledon. Unfortunately, no player who has got in by this route has ever actually won. If youre wondering when its on, the answer is that it varies, but itll always start sometime in late June. Wimbledon is over quite quickly, though, only lasting for two weeks. When it comes to the actual tournament, matches are played in three sets in every event except the mens, where there are five (this is a matter of some controversy). The tournaments are played as straight knockouts, meaning that you only have to lose one match to be eliminated the winner must, therefore, win every match they play in. For this reason, it is not uncommon to see players leave the tournament unexpectedly early if they have an unlucky draw and end up playing a particularly strong player early on. This structure also means that while 128 players start the tournament, 64 of them never make it past their first match. To the victor, however, go the spoils. As well as their trophies, the winners of the singles tournaments get over 600,000, while the winners of the doubles pocket more than 200,000, with the total prize money for all entrants exceeding ten million pounds. |
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