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The economics of a wildcard

A main-draw place is worth a season to a player outside the top hundred. Who gets one, and why.

Daniel OseiChief football correspondent
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A main-draw place is worth a season to a player outside the top hundred. Who gets one, and why, is the tour’s least transparent decision.

What a wildcard is worth

// One main-draw place

£62k

First-round prize money

10

Ranking points

3

Qualifying rounds skipped

Who gets them

Home players, returning names and, increasingly, whoever the broadcaster asks for. Two of this year’s eight went to players ranked outside 300.

The entry list, posted the morning after the wildcards were announced.
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Daniel OseiChief football correspondent

Covers the business of European football — transfers, ownership and the money that moves between them. Twelve years on the beat, previously in Lisbon and Milan, and before that four seasons covering the lower divisions from the away end. His reporting on release-clause structuring and third-party ownership has been cited in two league compliance reviews. He writes the Friday transfer ledger and appears weekly on the Tactics Board podcast.

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