LONDON, June 16: France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was rewarded for his Queen’s Club win over former world number one Lleyton Hewitt by being handed a wildcard into Wimbledon on Friday.

The 22-year-old Tsonga, ranked 121 in the world, stunned Hewitt 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-2) before going down to Croatia's Marin Cilic at the Queen's Club grasscourt tournament earlier this week.

Tsonga joins British players Jamie Baker, Richard Bloomfield, Alex Bogdanovic, Joshua Goodall and Jonathan Marray as well as Cilic and Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker as wildcard entries.

In the women’s draw, Britain’s Elena Baltacha, Naomi Cavaday, Anne Keothavong, Katie O'Brien, Melanie South have also been handed a pass into the main draw as have Viktoriya Kutuzova of Ukraine, Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark. —AFP