draw from the 96 player qualifying draw.  As always, the qualies included some seasoned veterans, players on the comeback from injuries.  Talented Czech twins, Kristyna and Karolina Pliskova both qualified.  Kristyna won the Juniors two years ago and qualified last year, but it’s the first Wimbledon main draw for Karolina.  The Pliskovas join Serena and Venus Williams and Agnieszka and Urszula Radwanska as sister pairs in the main draw.  1999 semifinalist, now thirty-year old and 129th ranked, Mirjana Lucic, also reached the main draw along with 2012 French Open Junior Girls champion, Annika Beck.  Brian Baker also continued his remarkable comeback by qualifying.

The list of qualifiers includes players from seventeen countries:

Men:
•    Jurgen Zopp – Estonia
•    Adrian Menendez-Maceiras – Spain
•    Guillaume Rufin – France
•    Michael Russell –United States
•    Jesse Levine – United States
•    Florent Sera – France
•    Ryan Sweeting –United States
•    Dustin Brown – Germany
•    Simone Bolelli – Italy
•    Jimmy Wang – Taipei
•    Brian Baker – United States
•    Kenny De Schepper - France
•    Ruben Bemelmans – Belgium
•    Inigo Cervantes – Spain
•    Jerzy Janowicz – Poland
•    Andrey Kuznetsov – Russia
•    Wayne Odesnik – United States (Lucky Loser)

Women:
•    Melinda Czink – Hungary
•    Annika Beck – Germany
•    Maria Elena Camerin – Italy
•    Kristina Mladenovic – France
•    Sandra Zaniewska – Poland
•    Vesna Dolonc – Serbia
•    Jana Cepelova – Slovakia
•    Kristyna Pliskova – Czech Republic
•    Karolina Pliskova – Czech Republic
•    Camila Giorgi – Italy
•    Coco Vandeweghe – United States
•    Mirjana Lucic – Croatia
•    Misaki Doi – Japan (Lucky Loser)

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