AEGON TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS – RAONIC AND KYRGIOS TO MAKE QUEEN’S CLUB DEBUTS

Written by: Staff on 15th April 2015

AEGON TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS - RAONIC AND KYRGIOS TO MAKE QUEEN'S CLUB DEBUTS |

AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS

THE QUEEN’S CLUB, LONDON

15th-21st JUNE, 2015

Today the Aegon Championships has released additional tickets. Which is awesome since this event is truly one of the “GEMS” on the ATP world tour.the club is one of the supreme spots on earth and the grass is beautiful. The staff is the finest anywhere.

Also announced today is more great news :

Wimbledon semifinalist Milos Raonic and 19-year-old Australian star Nick Kyrgios have signed up to make their debuts at The Queen’s Club, 15th-21st June.

Raonic, the current World No. 6, is excited to sample the grass at The Queen’s Club for the first time, and convinced it is a surface on which he can continue to thrive.

“It’s a great opportunity to experience an event I have watched so many times, an event which is played on beautiful courts at an iconic club, and it feels like the best way to adjust to the surface heading into Wimbledon. Grass is a surface on which I think I can have some of my best results. I already played well at Wimbledon last year, and I think coming in playing at the Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club could make a big difference for me.”

Kyrgios, who burst on the scene by defeating Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon last year, is equally excited at the prospect of sampling The Queen’s Club grass for the first time.

“I’m looking forward to it a lot,” said Kyrgios. “I love playing on grass, it suits my game a lot and I’m excited. Wimbledon last year was my best experience so far, and every time I go to Britain I feel comfortable. I love it when the crowd gets up there, and if I can get involved with the crowd that’s when I play my best tennis. Hopefully they will see a guy who wants to entertain and go for shots no-one else goes for. I’m hoping for some big things on grass in the future. When I play on grass I seem to serve really well, I feel really comfortable and I’m expecting big things on it.”

Kyrgios, currently the World No. 34, has reached two Grand Slam quarterfinals. At Wimbledon last year he eventually fell to Raonic in the last eight, and at the Australian Open this year he ran into eventual runner-up Andy Murray.

The addition of 24-year-old Canadian Raonic to the field means that five of the world’s top ten players have now committed to play the Aegon Championships – No.3 Murray, No.5 Nadal, No.6 Raonic, No. 9 Stan Wawrinka and No.10 Marin Cilic. They are joined by Kyrgios, World No.11 and defending champion Grigor Dimitrov, and four-time winner Lleyton Hewitt.

“We are thrilled to welcome Milos and Nick to the Aegon Championships for the first time,” said Tournament Director Stephen Farrow. “Both have made significant waves over the last 12 months and they further strengthen an already exciting player line-up. We now have six of the world’s top 11 players confirmed, as well as an exciting young player in Kyrgios, and one of our greatest champions in Lleyton Hewitt. We look forward to seeing them all in June.”

David Macmillan, Chief Marketing Officer at Aegon, said: “We are delighted that Milos Raonic and Nick Kyrgios have joined the player field for the Aegon Championships. With so many of the best players in the world already confirmed to compete for the title, we know that it is going to be a spectacular event.”

The Aegon Championships has been upgraded to ATP-500 in 2015, with $1 million of additional prize money and an extra week between the French Open and the start of the tournament. The event singles draw has been reduced from 56 to 32 to ensure that the top seeds will all play singles on either Monday or Tuesday.

For more information, please go to www.aegonchampionships.com

Tennis Tidbits of Info :

• The Aegon Championships takes place at The Queen’s Club in London, 15th-21st June. It has been won four times by John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick. McEnroe (1981, ‘84), Jimmy Connors (1982), Becker (1985), Pete Sampras (1995, 1999), Hewitt (2002), Rafael Nadal (2008) and Andy Murray (2013) have all won the Queen’s-Wimbledon double in the same year.

• 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.

• 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. Aegon sponsor three world-class grass court tournaments; the Aegon Classic, Aegon International and Aegon Championships and will also sponsor the new WTA and ATP events in Nottingham from 2015. For further information visit www.aegontennis.co.uk

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

Topics: AEGON Championships, Atp World Tour, milos raonic, Nick Kyrgios, Queen's Club, Tennis

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