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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS INFORMATION WAS CORRECT AS OF 2011. PLEASE VISIT WIMBLEDON.COM FOR UP TO DATE INFORMATION
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2011 will see the finest players from over 60 countries compete in the five main Championships events. The second week of the Tournament will see these players joined by Juniors, Veteran and Wheelchair competitors, playing in their own events on the Championships lawns.
If you are intending to visit The Championships, we would like you to have an enjoyable experience. The following information is aimed at assisting you with your plans for visiting The 125th Championships and it contains general information to allow you to plan an enjoyable day with us.
Play is scheduled to start on No. 1 Court at 1.00pm for all 13 days. On Centre Court, play will start at 1.00pm for the first 11 days, and 2.00pm for Finals' Weekend. On all other courts play is scheduled to start at midday for at least the first eight days and 11am for junior matches on the middle Saturday and during the second week. Non-Ticket Holders cannot be admitted after 8.00pm.
The following events will be contested at The Championships from 20 June - 3 July 2011
Players are entered automatically according to their world ranking.
Qualifiers are the winners of the qualifying competitions staged at the Bank of England Sports Ground at Roehampton the week before The Championships. Players entering the singles events must play three rounds on grass. Unlike The Championships, there is no single 'winner' of Qualifying, instead the players who win all three rounds - 16 in the Gentlemen's Singles and 12 in the Ladies' Singles - will progress, along with four pairs in each of the Ladies' and Men's Doubles events.
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Lucky losers are losers from the final round of qualifying competitions to fill any vacancy which occurs in the draw before the first round has been completed.
Wild cards are players whose world ranking is not high enough to qualify automatically for The Championships but who are accepted into the main Championships draw at the discretion of the Committee.
Wild cards are usually offered on the basis of past performance at Wimbledon or to increase British interest. Wild cards have been allocated since 1977 and from 2003 some singles Wild Cards have been determined by competition. The only wild card to win the Men's Singles title was Goran Ivanisevic in 2001. No Wild Card has won the Ladies' Singles title.
A simplified form of seeding was introduced in 1924 when up to four representatives of a nation were drawn in the four different quarters of the draw. In 1927 full seeding was carried out and competitors were selected according to ability, irrespective of nationality. Seeding has been based on computer rankings since 1975.
Since 1927 only two unseeded players have won the Gentlemen’s Singles - Boris Becker in 1985 and Goran Ivanisevic in 2001. No unseeded player has won the Ladies’ Singles. Eleven unseeded players have reached the final of the Gentlemen’s Singles and four unseeded players have reached the final of the Ladies’ Singles.
The All England Club will award a total of £ 14,600,000 in prize money to competitors at The 2011 Championships. The Men's and Ladies' Singles Champions will each receive £1,100,000. 2011 Championships Prize Money.