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Last Updated: Friday, 11 June, 2004, 18:28 GMT 19:28 UK
Rusedski heads wildcards
Greg Rusedski
Greg Rusedski heads the four British men who have been given wildcards for Wimbledon later this month.

The British number two will be joined by Lee Childs, Jonathan Marray and Alex Bogdanovic in the main draw.

Arvind Parmar, Mark Hilton and Richard Bloomfield all earned places via the Lawn Tennis Association's wildcard play-off in London.

And Australia's Todd Reid, a former winner of junior Wimbledon, was handed the final wildcard.

It means that Britain's Ian Flanagan, who won two matches at the Stella Artois Tournament, will have to go through qualifying.

Rusedski was understandably downbeat after his surprise 6-3 3-6 6-4 loss to South Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee at Queen's on Monday.

He admitted that frustration had got the better of him towards the end of the match.

"If you come off court and you are blase about that kind of thing then it is time to quit," he said.

"I was fighting from the first ball to the last, but things weren't working the way I'd like them too."

I'm only 30, there's still something left in me
Greg Rusedski
Rusedski was cleared of a doping offence in March despite having tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone.

A tribunal ruled that the men's professional tennis tour, the ATP, were to blame for distributing contaminated supplements.

But Rusedski, the former US Open runner-up, has now lost his last five matches in top-level competition.

"It's very difficult to expect a lot considering what I have been through. I just have to find a way," he said.

"I'm only 30, there's still something left in me. I have thought about things to do in the future, I have a few ideas. But I still want to do this tennis a bit longer."

And Rusedski will be heading to Nottingham next week in the hope of getting some much-need match practice ahead of Wimbledon.

"I have to do everything better and the only way I am going to do that is to get the matches," he said.



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