The thing about Wild Cards on the tour are they they are commercially driven. Less so at the Grand Slams. If you are losing your mind that @andy_murray has one it’s because your favourite is not selling a ticket
Andy Murray Dubai wildcard defended by Petchey: "Your favourite is not selling a ticket"
ATPThursday, 09 February 2023 at 12:00
Former player Mark Petchey has defended the Dubai tennis event giving Andy Murray a wild card by claiming that he sells more tickets than other players.
Petchey is not wrong in the sense that some players are simply bigger crowd magnets than others. Nick Kyrgios has been a notable crowd magnet for years despite not being ranked inside the top 10. Petchey turned to Twitter to point out that most of the time, wild cards are commercially driven:
"The thing about Wild Cards on the tour are they they are commercially
driven. Less so at the Grand Slams. If you are losing your mind that Andy Murray has one it’s because your favourite is not selling a ticket."
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The criticism arose after Murray was revealed as the player with the most wild cards received since 1990 tying Tommy Haas at 53. He's likely to eclipse that this year as some of the wild cards he received were not because of his ranking but rather him not entering the event on time. That was the case for Dubai as he initially planned to skip it but made a u-turn.
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