By Adrianna Outlaw | Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Dustin Brown owns two grass-court wins over two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal.
Photo credit: Stephen White/CameraSport
Dustin Brown will be back to try to produce more magic at Wimbledon this month.
The entertaining Brown, former quarterfinalist Radek Stepanek and a trio of British players—Liam Broady, Alex Ward and James Ward—have all been awarded Wimbledon wild cards into the men's main draw.
Watch: Brown's Beauty in Halle
Three more men's main-draw wild cards will be awarded.
A year ago, the then 102-ranked German qualifier shocked two-time former champion Rafael Nadal, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, in the Wimbledon second round. That upset came a year after Brown dismissed the King of Clay, 6-4, 6-1, on the grass of Halle.
Former Wimbledon junior girls' champion Laura Robson, 2002 quarterfinalist Daniela Hantuchova, Russian Marina Melnikova and British players Tara Moore and Katie Swan all received Wimbledon wild cards for the women's main draw.
Three more women's main-draw wild cards will be awarded.
Robson and Australia's Ashleigh Barty, who has returned to tennis, received a doubles wild card along with two British teams: Naomi Broady and Heather Watson and Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith.
Three years ago, Barty and compatriot Casey Dellacqua reached finals at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open.