Queen's Club Championships

Originally known as the London Athletic Club Tournament or officially London Athletic Club Open Tournament established in 1881 at Stamford Bridge, Fulham. In 1885, the tournament was given the title of the Championship of London then later London Championships, and it was held on outdoor grass courts. In 1890, the tournament moved to its current location, the Queen's Club and consisted of a men's and women's singles event. In 1903, a men's doubles event was added followed in 1905 by the mixed doubles competition. In 1915, the addition of a women's doubles event completed the programme. The two World Wars interrupted the tournament from 1915 to 1918 and 1940 to 1945. Between 1970 and 1989, the Championships were part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. The women's tournament was discontinued after the 1973 edition and from 1974 until 1976 no men's tournament was held. By this point the tournament was known as the London Grass Court Championships. Since 1977, it has been called The Queen's Club Championships. The event is currently an ATP Tour 500 series tournament on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour and was upgraded from an ATP World Tour 250 series in 2015. The tournament was voted ATP Tournament of the Year for four years consecutively between 2013 and 2014 when it was an ATP 250 tournament, and between 2015 and 2016 when it was an ATP 500 tournament. It then won it again in 2018 and 2019. During the 2004 singles tournament, Andy Roddick set the then world record for the fastest serve, recorded at 153 mph (246.2 km/h) during a straight-set victory over Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan in the quarter-finals. In 2016, Andy Murray won the singles title for a record fifth time. Seven men have won four singles titles; Major Ritchie, Anthony Wilding, Roy Emerson, John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick. After a 50 year absence, women's professional tennis returned to the Queen's Club in 2025, with the club hosting a WTA 500 tournament in the first week of the grass court season, one week in advance of the men's championship. == Schedule ==

The Queen's Club Championships are held every year in June. They start one week after the clay-court French Open and conclude one week before the start of the grass court Wimbledon Championships, which are held just away. The equivalent warm-up event for women was the Eastbourne International (until 2025 when it was downgraded to a WTA 250), held one week later. Up to 2014, the break between the French Open and Wimbledon was just two weeks, and the Queen's Club Championships started the day after the French Open's men's final. This changed when Wimbledon moved back a week to expand the length of the grass court season. Grass courts are the least common playing surface for top-level events on the ATP World Tour. The 2009 schedule included only four grass court tournaments in the run-up to Wimbledon. They were the Queen's Club Championships, Gerry Weber Open, Eastbourne International, and the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships. An additional tournament is played on grass in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, in the week immediately after Wimbledon. == Coverage ==

being interviewed after winning the 2012 Queen's Club Championships The BBC has covered the tournament since 1979 and in recent years it has shown the tournament in full after originally only broadcasting the final four days of the event. The BBC has a contract in place until 2024. It broadcasts the event mainly on BBC Two as well as on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sport online. It was shown in high-definition for the first time in 2009. Since 2018, Amazon Prime has also broadcast from The Queen's Club in the UK. The ball girls for the Championships are provided by Nonsuch High School and St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls, two schools in the London Borough of Sutton. == Sponsorship ==

From 1979 until 2008, the tournament was sponsored by Stella Artois, and thus called the Stella Artois Championships. In 2009, the tournament was renamed the Aegon Championships following a comprehensive sponsorship deal between the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and Aegon, which also led to renaming of Birmingham and Eastbourne grass court events. In 2018, Fever-Tree began sponsoring the tournament. The online car selling website cinch became the title sponsor of the championships in 2021 and remained so until 2024. On 23 January 2025, the LTA announced HSBC as the new title sponsor of the championships. == Past finals ==

Men's singles Women's singles Fulham London Men's doubles Since 1969: (Note: Tournament dates back to 1890) } Karen Khachanov || 4–6, 7–6(7–5), [10–8] Women's doubles } Diana Shnaider || 7–5, 6–7(3–7), [10–4] Junior championship finals == Statistics ==

and Mark Philippoussis at the 2005 Queen's Club Championships Champions by country Men's singles Men's doubles Players and winners • Most titles – Andy Murray (5 singles, 1 doubles) & Ethel Thomson Larcombe (6 singles) (6). • Most singles titles – Ethel Thomson Larcombe (6). • Most singles finals – Edith Austin (10). • Youngest winner – Boris Becker, 17 years 207 days in 1985. • Oldest winner – Major Ritchie, 38 years old in 1909 (Open era oldest winner was Feliciano López at 37 years old in 2019). • Highest-ranked champion – Ivan Lendl in 1989 and 1990, Stefan Edberg in 1991 and Lleyton Hewitt in 2002 ranked 1 in the world. • Lowest-ranked champion – Feliciano López, ranked 113 in the world in 2019. • Lowest-ranked finalist – Laurence Tieleman, ranked 253 in the world in 1998. • Winners of both events – Pete Sampras in 1995 (doubles with Todd Martin), Mark Philippoussis in 1997 (doubles with Patrick Rafter), and Feliciano López in 2019 (doubles with Andy Murray). • Most prize money received – Andy Murray €1,064,565 + $15,275 (£850,007 at 19/06/16 exchange rates). • 22 of the last 25 Wimbledon champions have played at the Queen's Club Championships. • 10 players have completed the Queen's/Wimbledon double, winning both events back to back, including Don Budge, Roy Emerson, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Lleyton Hewitt, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Carlos Alcaraz; only McEnroe, Sampras and Murray have completed this twice. Attendance Pre-2017, the Centre Court held 6,479 spectators. From 2017 onwards, capacity increased by over 2,000 to almost 9,000 seats. The highest total attendance for the week was in 2003, when 52,553 people attended the event; The highest attendance for one day was 8,362 on 11 June 2003. == See also ==