Tamara Prenn

It feels unprecedented to me, and I'm sure it will have felt unprecedented to so many tennis fans watching it, to say it's a standard far away from what you would expect at any level on any of the tennis tours internationally is an understatement, I think, for all of those people who say, oh, I could beat top ten players. You maybe don't have a chance of doing that, but you could have a chance of getting at least a set against Avdol Kadar. How could something like this happen?

Wildcards are given at the discretion of the tournament organizers. So in this case that was Tennis Kenya rather than the ITF. And they can be given for all sorts of reasons. Perhaps you want to give an opportunity to a promising junior who doesn't otherwise have the ranking points to make it into the main draw. Or someone who is going to really pack in the crowds and comes with their own historic achievements to their name.

This is somewhat unusual and I think it remains a mystery. I believe it's due to a late dropout and then Abdelkader offered as an alternate. But the question is, why was her name in the mix changed?

This is not just first performance nerves, this is something more, something bizarre really, isn't it?

Totally. That is why people have questions, because it seems she doesn't fit any of the requirements that people might understand from a discretionary wildcard. There are very few details about her on her ITF player profile. This appears to be her first professional match, so you can't say, oh, perhaps this is just a terrible case of tournament nerves. It's really hard to understand where they got the information to make the decision.