TENNIS AT QUEENS CLUB 2017 – 5 OF WORLD’S TOP 7 PLAYERS ENTER AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS IN STRONGEST-EVER FIELD AT A GREAT SETTING, TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

Written by: Staff on 13th May 2017

TENNIS AT QUEENS CLUB 2017 - 5 OF WORLD'S TOP 7 PLAYERS ENTER AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS IN STRONGEST-EVER FIELD AT A GREAT SETTING, TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE |

5 of World’s Top 7 Players Enter Aegon Championships In Strongest-Ever Field At Queen’s

The Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club is expecting its strongest-ever line-up after the official entry list for the 2017 event, which takes place 19th-25th June, was revealed.

Six of the world’s Top 10 on the Emirates ATP Rankings have entered, with 5 of the Top 7 (1. Andy Murray, 3. Stan Wawrinka, 5. Rafael Nadal, 6. Milos Raonic, 7. Marin Cilic, 10. David Goffin).

Jo Wilfried Tsonga, who reached the final in 2011, and the 2010 Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych, are also late entrants to the field, which includes Nick Kyrgios and Juan Martin del Potro.

Tournament Director Stephen Farrow, said: “The player entry list for the Aegon Championships is strong every year and we already knew we were in for a great line-up, but with Marin Cilic and David Goffin adding their names to make it six of the world’s Top 10, Jo Wilfried Tsonga, Tomas Berdych and many more entering late on, and a 30% increase in our Centre Court capacity in 2017, this is set to be our best year yet.”

Tara McGregor-Woodhams, Head of Brand and Sponsorship Aegon UK at Aegon, added: “This is a wonderful list of many of the best tennis players in the world, led by Andy Murray, featuring the great Rafael Nadal, and exciting young players like Nick Kyrgios. We can’t wait for the Aegon Championships to begin.”

Andy Murray will launch his title defence on Tuesday 20th June.

Earlier this year, Murray made a career-commitment to play in the Aegon Championships, and the BBC announced that they will cover the tournament until at least 2024.

Last year, the Aegon Championships was voted ATP-500 Tournament of the Year by the players – the fourth successive year that the event has received a tournament of the year award.

2017

Ranking

1. Murray 1

2. Wawrinka 3

3. Nadal 5

4. Raonic 6

5. Cilic 7

6. Goffin 10

7. Tsonga 11

8. Dimitrov 12

9. Berdych 14

10. Sock 15

11. Kyrgios 20

12. Isner 23

13. Johnson 25

14. Muller 26

15. Querrey 28

16. Troicki 33

17. Del Potro 34

18. F. Lopez 38

19. Schwartzmann 40

20. Darcis 43

21. Young 46

22. Harrison 47

23. Mahut 48

AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS

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The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the National Governing Body for tennis in Great Britain, responsible for developing and promoting the sport, with a mission to get more people playing tennis more often. It does this under the consumer brand of British Tennis, by working with a broad range of partners and over 25,000 volunteers, to grow the game in communities, clubs and schools. The LTA represents the interests of over 570,000 British Tennis Members, men and women, girls and boys across the country, playing on more than 23,000 courts. The LTA runs and supports a network of 11,500 approved tournaments for players of all ages, the corner-stones of which are the premier grass court events leading up to Wimbledon, held in Nottingham, Birmingham, Queen’s Club-London and Eastbourne, all title sponsored by Aegon. The LTA works with many delivery partners to grow the sport across the country. One of these is its charitable entity, the Tennis Foundation, to provide a tennis provision for more than 20,000 schools, disadvantaged youth as well as promoting tennis as an inclusive sport for anyone with a disability. For further information about the LTA and British Tennis, and to review the British Tennis strategy for 2015 – 2018 visit www.lta.org.uk

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