And you think the Wimby Committee will grant the wish of Judy who openly lusts after Feli over the fact that Lopez chose to play doubs w/ Andy and has honored his commitment to their native son by not pulling out when he clearly could have to save himself for singles in Queens.
They gave wild card to Baghdatis who is currently ranked 137. Deliciano is currently ranked 76 or so and will improve further if he wins tomorrow. It makes perfect sense to give wild card to Deliciano without considerations of his dealing with Murray family.
Normally top 104 players get direct entry. But, entry is based on the ranking list of six weeks before the start of Wimbledon. So, it is based on May 20 rankings. At that time he was ranked 108 and so missed the cut. But, it is customary to favorably treat players who missed the cut, but who makes it into top 100 before the tourney.
Deliciano has five grass court titles (which includes Queens twice) and possibly might get the sixth one tomorrow. That is the third highest among active players. Only Federer and Andy have more grass titles. Further, he has reached the QF of Wimby three times.
While they probably would have given him wild card anyway, perhaps they held it to put pressure on him not to withdraw from the doubles.
Whether or not they gave it to him for other reasons, he certainly deserves it by merit alone.
p.s. I think Judy is not just a regular Mom. She has some official position in LTA or some such thing I think and so may have some clout. I did not fact check this and so I may be wrong.
