Mark Philippoussis, the 2003 Wimbledon runner-up, became one of the eight men honored wild cards into the grasscourt Grand Slam tournament on Friday.

The Australian has been plagued by injuries and dropped to 176th in the ATP rankings.

Other wild card winners were Romania's Andrei Pavel and half a dozen British men: Jamie Baker, Richard Bloomfield, Alex Bogdanovic, Jamie Delgado, Martin Lee, and Alan Mackin.

Women's wild cards went to Australia's Alicia Molik, Belarus' Victoria Azarenka, Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska and five British players: Sarah Borwell, Naomi Cavaday, Anne Keothavong, Katie O'Brien and Melanie South.

Jelena Dokic, a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 2000, was given a wild-card entry into the women's qualifying event.

Source: Xinhua