THE QUEENS CLUB / AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS – DAN COX RECEIVES FINAL WILD CARD / RALLY FOR BALLY

Written by: on 6th June 2014
Elena Baltacha
THE QUEENS CLUB / AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS - DAN COX RECEIVES FINAL WILD CARD / RALLY FOR BALLY

epa02752587 Elena Baltacha of Britain returns to Vania King of the US during their second round match for the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris, France, 26 May 2011. EPA/GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO  |

AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Queen’s Club

9th-15th June, 2014

 

Cox Receives Final Aegon Championships Wild Card

 

The British No.4 Dan Cox has been awarded the fifth and final wild card into the Aegon Championships, which starts at The Queen’s Club on Monday.

 

Cox, currently ranked No.225, joins fellow Britons Andy Murray, Dan Evans and James Ward in the draw. The other wild cards were given to the World No.3, Stanislas Wawrinka and the 2006 Wimbledon semifinalist, Marcos Baghdatis.

 

Leon Smith, the Great Britain Davis Cup captain, said: “Dan has improved significantly in the last year which has seen his ranking move to a career high. At 23 years old, his best years are still ahead of him and he now needs more experience and exposure at ATP Challenger and Tour level. Dan is very quick and powerful and is technically very solid so he has qualities that can be effective on grass courts.”

 

As well as current Grand Slam champions Murray and Wawrinka, the Aegon Championships line-up also includes the World No.6 Tomas Berdych, the 2011 runner-up Jo Wilfried Tsonga, the youngest player inside the world’s Top 20 Grigor Dimitrov, and four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt. French Open semifinalist Ernests Gulbis will also compete for one of the oldest, biggest and most prestigious trophies in tennis.

 

“We are absolutely thrilled with the field of players coming to the Aegon Championships,” said Tournament Director, Ross Hutchins. “With the current Wimbledon and Australian Open champions, the World No.6, former champions and young exciting players all playing, our spectators are in for a fantastic week of tennis at The Queen’s Club.”

 

David Macmillan, Chief Marketing Officer of Aegon UK, added: “The field of players that Ross Hutchins and the team have assembled for the Aegon Championships is fabulous, and everyone at Aegon is looking forward to a wonderful week of tennis.”

 

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

 

The singles draw is due to take place at 4pm UK time on Saturday, and will be posted/distributed shortly afterwards.

 

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.

Elena Baltacha of Britain returns to Shuai Peng of China during their second round match for the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 24 June 2011.

Elena Baltacha of Britain returns to Vania King of the US during their second round match for the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris, France, 26 May 2011.

 

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

 

 

Aegon Championships Introduces Public Wifi

 

Courtesy of Aegon, and for the first time at the Aegon Championships, spectators and media members will be able to access the internet on smart phones and tablets from their Centre Court and Court One seats via the tournament’s new public wifi network.

 

 

Aegon Championships Reflections

 

In a special video to celebrate the the long and rich history of the Aegon Championships, we look back with some of its greatest champions and characters – http://goo.gl/h08HhL

 

 

Great Tidbits :

 

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.

 

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

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