Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event. Several players withdrew from the main draw after qualifying had commenced, leading to the highest ranked players who lost in the final qualifying round to be entered into the main draw as lucky losers.
The 1973 Wimbledon Championships featured an abnormally large number of qualifiers and lucky losers because 81 of the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) players, including defending champion Stan Smith, boycotted the tournament in protest against the suspension of Nikola Pilić by the Yugoslav Tennis Association, supported by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF).
Qualifiers
Lucky losers
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
Third qualifier
Fourth qualifier
Fifth qualifier
Sixth qualifier
Seventh qualifier
Eighth qualifier
Ninth qualifier
Tenth qualifier
Eleventh qualifier
Twelfth qualifier
Thirteenth qualifier
Fourteenth qualifier
Fifteenth qualifier
Sixteenth qualifier
Seventeenth qualifier
Eighteenth qualifier
Nineteenth qualifier
Twentieth qualifier
Twenty-first qualifier
Twenty-second qualifier
Twenty-third qualifier
Twenty-fourth qualifier
Twenty-fifth qualifier
Twenty-sixth qualifier
Twenty-seventh qualifier
Twenty-eighth qualifier
Twenty-ninth qualifier
Thirtieth qualifier
Thirty-first qualifier
Thirty-second qualifier
References
External links
1973 Wimbledon Championships – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation