British qualifier Tarvet preparing hefty expense claim after dream Wimbledon debut

LONDON :British qualifier Oliver Tarvet said he will have to get creative with his expenses after delighting a raucous Wimbledon crowd with a debut win in his first Grand Slam match on Monday.

The 21-year-old University of San Diego student produced a stunning display to outclass fellow qualifier Leandro Riedi of Switzerland 6-4 6-4 6-4 and book a potential dream clash with defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.

Ranked the 33rd best British player and at 733 in the ATP rankings, Tarvet won three rounds of qualifying and looked totally at home in front of a packed Court Four crowd.

Second-round losers receive 99,000 pounds ($135,699) at Wimbledon this year but because of Tarvet's amateur status he is only allowed to pocket a maximum of $10,000 under National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules.

He is allowed to claim necessary expenses, however, and while he admitted his comment after qualifying about flying his coach home to California on a private jet was a joke, Tarvet said he would be looking at other ways to benefit from some of the prize money, without jeopardising his college career.

"If we can't figure things out financially I hope to get the prize money and use that money as expenses," he said. "I will try and do everything I can to make that work out and to find X amount of expenses so I'm under $10,000 of profit. It's something I've got to figure out.

"Maybe I hire someone to help me out with the expenses, make sure the NCAA are happy. As I said, it's very important for me. I have a lot of goals at (University of San Diego) still."

Explaining his predicament in more detail, he said: "By December, I need to show that, profit or prize money minus expenses equals less than $10,000.

"I don't know how much I made. I