AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS – HEWITT, CILIC, GULBIS JOIN MURRAY, BERDYCH, TSONGA AS ENTRY LIST IS RELEASED

Written by: Staff on 12th May 2014

AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS - HEWITT, CILIC, GULBIS JOIN MURRAY, BERDYCH, TSONGA AS ENTRY LIST IS RELEASED |

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AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Queen’s Club

9th-15th June, 2014

30th April, 2014

Hewitt, Cilic, Gulbis join Murray, Berdych, Tsonga as Aegon Championships Entry List Is Released

A second Wimbledon champion, last year’s Aegon Championships runner-up and one of the form players of the year have joined Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych and Jo Wilfried Tsonga on the Aegon Championships entry list.

Lleyton Hewitt, who won Wimbledon in 2002, the 2012 Aegon Championships winner and 2013 runner-up Marin Cilic, and the explosive Latvian Ernests Gulbis have all joined the field, which also includes Grigor Dimitrov, Alex Dolgopolov and Austrian youngster Dominic Thiem.

Tournament Director Ross Hutchins, said: ‘The Aegon Championships player entry list includes current champions such as Andy Murray, established stars like Lleyton Hewitt and exciting young talent in Grigor Dimitrov, Ernests Gulbis and Dominic Thiem, among many others. They will compete for a trophy at The Queen’s Club that has been lifted in the open era by Rod Laver, John McEnroe, Boris Becker and Pete Sampras. We can’t wait for the tournament to get underway.’

The 2010 champion Sam Querrey, the 2007 runner-up Nicolas Mahut and American Jack Sock and Australian Bernard Tomic are also in the line-up.

To view the full entry list, click here: http://goo.gl/GfF7N3

David Macmillan, Chief Marketing Officer of Aegon UK, added: “With so many big names already confirmed, the Aegon Championships is going to be a fiercely contested tournament. In addition to established names like Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a number of exciting young players will be competing so it will be interesting to see how they get on.”

On finals day, the Aegon Championships will stage a mixed doubles match involving Murray and Hutchins as part of Rally For Bally, with British Tennis coming together to raise money to help Elena Baltacha, and to fight cancer. Mixed doubles matches will also take place on 15th June at the Aegon Classic in Birmingham and the Aegon International in Eastbourne. Baltacha was diagnosed with liver cancer earlier this year. The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity is the official charity of the Aegon Championships, and the proceeds will be split between the Elena Baltacha Academy of Tennis (Charity Registration No. 1148532) and the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity (Charity Registration No. 1095197). To donate, go to www.justgiving.com/RallyForBally.

For more information about the event, please go to the official Aegon Championships website: http://www.aegonchampionships.com

Tidbits About This Amazing Event: ( It’s one of those magical tennis havens )

The Aegon Championships has been staged at The Queen’s Club for more than a century.

Andy Murray, who completed the Aegon Championships-Wimbledon double in 2013, will try to join Roddick, Hewitt, John McEnroe and Boris Becker as the only four-time winners of one of the biggest, and most famous trophies in tennis.

In 2015, the Aegon Championships will attain ATP-500 status for the first as part of an expanded grass-court season. Wimbledon will move back a week and the Aegon Championships will be held 15th-21st June, 2015.

Aegon is Lead Partner of British Tennis and is helping to transform the sport in this country. They’re supporting young talent through the Aegon FutureStars programme, as well as sponsoring the junior and senior GB Davis and Fed Cup teams and amateur and professional events. In addition to the Aegon Championships, Aegon sponsor two other world-class grass court tournaments – the Aegon Classic and Aegon International – and will also sponsor the new WTA and ATP events in Nottingham from 2015. For further information visit www.aegontennis.co.uk

The Lawn Tennis Association’s (LTA) mission is to get more people playing tennis more often, and its role is to develop, promote and govern tennis in Britain.

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For more information on the LTA and British tennis, visit: www.lta.org.uk

Topics: AEGON Championships, Gulbis, Lleyton Hewitt, Marin Cilic, Murray, Queen's Club, Tennis News, Tomas Berdych, Tsonga

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April 30, 2014 at 9:05 am

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