"Very unfair"- Tomljanovic speaks out against Wimbledon points stripping

| by Drew Tate

Hours after the ATP announced it was stripping Wimbledon of its points this year the WTA did the same and Ajla Tomljanovic is not happy about it.

The Australian player had a superb event last year reaching the quarterfinal and earning some big points from the event. Now she will lose all of them without a way of earning some points back as this year's edition is not awarding any due to the WTA decision.

Speaking on it, she said:

"I don't think they'll carry over the points earned from 2021, they'll get wiped and then you don't have a chance to defend your points. That's very unfair, in my opinion. It's going to be very strange to go to Wimbledon where no points will be on offer."

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She further said:

"There's no reason why I couldn't have actually successfully defended them. I would have loved to have had that opportunity because there's pressure there that you want to embrace when you've done really well the year before. You get that extra pump of adrenaline when you come back to the courts where you remember how well you've done. It's always special to do that, and I was actually looking forward to that in a weird way."

Asked if she would skip it, she quickly responded:

"Of course, I wouldn't miss it for the world. Wimbledon is Wimbledon - and if you win it and get no points, of course you'd still take it. But I'm definitely going into that small bracket of players who are going to be really affected - but it's out of my control, so I've just got to try to do well regardless of that."

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