Taylor Dent, who is including a trip to New Haven for the Pilot Pen in his comeback tour, played his way through the qualifying draw to earn a spot into the Wimbledon main draw.

Dent, currently ranked No. 269, will play in the main draw at Wimbledon for the first time since reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon.

Speaking of Wimbledon, a wrist injury has knocked out talented French star Gael Monfils out of the event. Here is the report from the BBC

Gael Monfils has been forced to withdraw from Wimbledon with a wrist injury sustained at Queen's Club.

The Frenchman pulled out of the Aegon Championships after his second-round victory over Andrey Golubev.

Monfils, seeded number 14 for the All England Club, will be replaced in the men's singles draw by a lucky loser from qualifying.

Tommy Haas, who beat Novak Djokovic in the Halle grasscourt event on Sunday, is granted a seeding at number 24.

Reports are circulating that a knee injury will keep Marcos Baghdatis out of Wimbledon.

Switching to the women, the Stanford direct acceptance list is out and it is a pretty strong field. This will be of interest when the Los Angeles list comes out. With most of the big hitters expected to play in Canada and Cincinnati, it is unlikely that a player will enter Stanford, LA as well as New Haven since that would mean playing five straight weeks heading into the US Open.

Here's the Stanford list:
Name Country Rank
Serena Williams USA 2
Venus Williams USA 3
Elena Dementieva RUS 4
Jelena Jankovic SRB 6
Nadia Petrova RUS 10
Agnieszka Radwanska POL 11
Marion Bartoli FRA 12
Dominika Cibulkova SVK 14
Samantha Stosur AUS 18
Li Na CHN 19
Aleksandra Wozniak CAN 23
Alisa Kleybanova RUS 26
Sorana Cirstea ROU 27
Sybille Bammer AUT 28
Anna Chakvetadze RUS 31
Daniela Hantuchova SVK 33
Peng Shuai CHN 36
Ai Sugiyama JPN 40
Sabine Lisicki GER 43
Anne Keothavong GBR 49
Melinda Czink HUN 54
Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA 56
Maria Kirilenko RUS 58
Maria Sharapova RUS 59