By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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Queen’s Membership celebrates the return of girls’s tennis to its historic grounds.
Australian Open champion Madison Keys—and Britain’s greatest—will pump up the social gathering.
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British No. 1 Katie Boulter and 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu are on the entry listing for the HSBC Championships set for June 9-Fifteenth on the legendary lawns of Queen’s Membership.
Tickets for the HSBC Championships are on sale right here.
It marks the primary time in additional than 50 years ladies’s skilled tennis returns to the long-lasting London membership. Olga Morozova defeated Evonne Goolagong 6-2, 6-3 within the 1973 Queen’s Membership closing, which was the final ladies’s Tour-level closing held on the membership.
Two-time Eastbourne champion Keys additionally seize the 2016 Birmingham title on British garden and is pumped for the prospect of enjoying in London previous to Wimbledon.
“I can’t look forward to the HSBC Championships,” stated Keys. “Attending to compete there for the primary time and expertise enjoying at The Queen’s Membership goes to be such a special day. I like the grass courtroom season, a few of my favourite recollections of my profession have come after I gained titles in Birmingham and Eastbourne.”
The 2024 Nottingham champion Boulter has performed a few of her most assertive tennis on dwelling soil. The five hundred-level HSBC Championships is the second highest-level match in Nice Britain outdoors of Wimbledon, staged only a few miles away at SW19.
“I used to look at the match yearly rising up so to have the ability to compete at such an exquisite, historic, and iconic occasion to start the grass courtroom season is an honour,” Boulter stated. “We’ve a few of the greatest ladies’s gamers on this planet competing at Queens, and it takes the British grass courtroom swing to a complete new degree. To win that title as a British participant would an absolute dream and I’ll do all the things I can to get myself in that place. Let’s make extra historical past this summer season.”
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— Laura Robson (@laurarobson5) February 18, 2025
Raducanu is sponsored by match title sponsor HSBC.
WTA HSBC Championships Match Director Laura Robson additionally confirmed former No. 1 Naomi Osaka and Daria Kasatkina to the 2025 discipline.
“I’m thrilled to substantiate Katie, Emma, Madison and Naomi shall be headlining the HSBC Championships in June,” Match Director Robson stated. “Followers will see a few of the greatest feminine gamers on the planet, and with three grand slam champions and the British primary within the combine, it guarantees to be a spectacular return to The Queen’s Membership for ladies’s tennis.”