AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS – HEWITT, EVANS, WARD, ENJOY PERFECT OPENING DAY @ THE QUEEN’S CLUB IN LONDON

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AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS - HEWITT, EVANS, WARD, ENJOY PERFECT OPENING DAY @ THE QUEEN'S CLUB IN LONDON  |
Photo by Francisco Resendiz.

 

Aegon Championships – Hewitt, Evans, Ward Enjoy Perfect Opening Day With Few Drizzles

 

AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Queen’s Club

9th-15th June, 2014

 

 

With the sun beating down and the grass playing perfectly, four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt and Britain’s No.2 and No.3 players were all victorious on day one of the Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club.

 

After joining Tournament Director Ross Hutchins and the Centre Court crowd in a minute’s silence in memory of Elena Baltacha, James Ward overcame Blaz Rola of Slovenia 7-5, 6-4.

 

He was followed by Dan Evans, who battled tenaciously to see off the former World No.8 Jurgen Melzer, 6-3, 6-7(5) 7-6(2).

 

After that, it was Hewitt’s turn to remind everyone just why he won Wimbledon in 2002, dismantling Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-3, 6-3, before Feliciano Lopez and Dusan Lajovic were interrupted by rain with the score at 6-3.

 

Drizzles @ Queen’s today. Photo by Francisco Resendiz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Tuesday, Lopez and Lajovic will play to a finish at the earlier time of 12 Noon, and they will be followed by Evans in second round action against Kevin Anderson. After that, the 2012 champion Marin Cilic will take on Marinko Matosevic of Australia, before arguably the match of the day between James Ward and the youngest man inside the Top 20, Grigor Dimitrov. After that, the second seed Tomas Berdych meets James Duckworth.

Lucky & Mike Bryan watching Michael Russell. Photo by Francisco Resendiz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo of Michael Russell by Jan – Michael Gambill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For news, results, draws, the order of play, and video content, go to www.aegonchampionships.com

 

 

Some Bits Of Info.

 

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

Photo by Francisco Resendiz.

 

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