Former Top 10 player and 2006 semi-finalist Marcos Baghdatis leads the way, along with a trio of Brits in James Ward, Jay Clarke and this year’s NCAA champion Paul Jubb.

The 34-year-old Baghdatis also reached the quarter-finals in 2007. #NextGenATP Brit Clarke won his first two ATP Challenger Tour titles in the past 12 months and climbed over 50 spots in the ATP Rankings. Ward came through qualifying this week at the Fever-Tree Championships and pushed Gilles Simon to a final-set tie-break. Jubb won the NCAA singles title this May for the University of South Carolina.

Need proof that Wimbledon wild cards can make an impact at SW19? Just look at 2001 champion Goran Ivanisevic.

The initial wild card recipients for this year’s edition of The Championships will hope to follow in the Croatian’s footsteps of Goran Ivanisevic is the only person to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Before the 2001 tournament, he was ranked 125th and after his victory he was 16th. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 2 (behind Pete Sampras) in 1994. He coached Marin Čilić from September 2013 to July 2016, leading Čilić to his biggest achievement to date, the 2014 US Open title

Five doubles teams also made the early wild card list. Former World No. 1 and 2002 singles champion Lleyton Hewitt headlines the pack with fellow Aussie Jordan Thompson.

Qualifying action starts next week and six of the eight wild cards for qualifying have been filled. Grass-court specialist and 2016 Wimbledon doubles champion Nicolas Mahut leads the way, along with last year’s boys’ singles champion, Chun-hsin Tseng, who represents Chinese Taipei.