AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS – WORLD NO. 3 WAWRINKA JOINS LINE-UP WITH WILD CARD IN LONDON @QUEENS

Written by: Staff on 29th May 2014

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AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS - WORLD NO. 3 WAWRINKA JOINS LINE-UP WITH WILD CARD IN LONDON @QUEENS

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AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Queen’s Club

9th-15th June, 2014

World No.3 Wawrinka Receives Wild Card To Join Aegon Championships Line-up

The Australian Open champion and World No.3 Stanislas Wawrinka has added further strength and star-quality to the Aegon Championships player field after receiving a wild card into the tournament at The Queen’s Club, 9-15 June.

Wawrinka, who blasted his way through the opposition in Melbourne to win his first Grand Slam title, joins the current Wimbledon champion Andy Murray, World No.6 Tomas Berdych and 2011 runner-up Jo Wilfried Tsonga in the field. The youngest man inside the Top 20, Grigor Dimitrov, and four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt will also compete for the prestigious Aegon Championships trophy.

Tournament Director Ross Hutchins, said: “This is fantastic news. Stan has been a revelation this year, breaking through at the very highest level, and playing some spectacular tennis. He adds further strength and competition to the Aegon Championships line-up, and we are delighted that he has chosen to come to The Queen’s Club.”

Wawrinka said: “I am really looking forward to playing in the Aegon Championships and very grateful that the tournament saved a wild card for me. I love London, I love the atmosphere, it is an important tournament with a lot of history, and playing at The Queen’s Club gives me the best possible chance to become comfortable on grass.”

David Macmillan, Chief Marketing Officer, Aegon UK, said: ”This is fabulous news. Stan shook the tennis world with his victory in Australia, and with Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych and Jo Wilfried Tsonga just some of the players alongside him, the Aegon Championships promises to be a spectacular event.”

The Aegon Championships has one wild card still to award. The others have gone to Dan Evans, James Ward and Marcos Baghdatis.

Player list – http://www.lta.org.uk/fans-major-events/LTA-summer-grass-court-events/Aegon-Championships/Player-List/

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 in memory of Elena Baltacha, who recently died of liver cancer. Mixed doubles matches will also take place on 15th June at the Aegon Classic in Birmingham and the Aegon International in Eastbourne. 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 Aegon Championships, please go to: http://www.aegonchampionships.com

FYI.

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.

The Aegon Championships was voted the ATP-250 Tournament of the year in 2013 by the players of the ATP World Tour.

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

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Topics: AEGON Championships, Andy Murray, GRIGOR DIMITROV, Jo Wilfried Tsonga, Lleyton Hewitt, Rally For Bally, Stanislas Wawrinka, Tennis, The Queens Club, Tomas Berdych, Wild Card

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