Queen's Club Championships
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The Queen's Club Championships is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London. The event is an International Series tournament on Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. Its sponsored name is currently the Artois Championships.
The Queen's Club Championships are held every year in June in the week after the French Open. Grass courts are the least common playing surface for top-level events on the ATP Tour (excluding Challenger Series events). The 2006 schedule has involved only four grass court tournaments in the run-up to Wimbledon. Alongside Queen's, there are Halle Open, and events in Nottingham and 's-Hertogenbosch. A further tournament is played on grass in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, in the week immediately after Wimbledon. Many tennis fans consider the Queen's Club Championships to be the second-most prestigious grass court tournament in the world after Wimbledon[who?] – history playing an important part in this reputation, as well as the fact that the tournament enjoys full coverage on BBC TV in the UK. Thus, the tournament is able to capture the public imagination in the UK more than the less-publicised Nottingham, and the event has a great reputation for helping to produce Wimbledon champions (see the "Players and Winners" section under "Statistics" further down the page). However despite the repuatation of Queen's, Roger Federer, the dominant grass court player of recent years, has generally preferred to play in Halle as his warm-up to Wimbledon.
Past results
Singles finals
Since 1970:
Doubles champions
Since 1977:
Junior Championship Finals
The Junior Championship
- 2003 - Florin Mergea beat Chris Guccione
- 2002 - Alex Bogdanovic beat Dudi Sela
The HSBC Junior Invitation Cup
- 2001 - Santiago Gonzalez beat Andrew Banks
The David Lloyd Leisure Cup
- 2000 - Lee Childs beat Arnaud Segoda
- 1999 - Jarkko Nieminen beat Lee Childs
- 1998 - Edgardo Massa beat Wei-Jen Chang
The Sam Whitbread Cup
- 1997 - Nicolás Massú beat Xavier Malisse
- 1996 - Jaymon Crabb beat Arvind Parmer
- 1995 - Alejandro Hernandez beat Jamie Delgado
- 1994 - Jamie Delgado beat Nicolás Lapentti
- 1993 - Neville Goodwin beat David Skoch
- 1992 - Grant Doyle beat Lucas Arnold
- 1991 - Leander Paes beat Nicolas Kischewitz
- 1990 - Andrew Foster beat Dirk Dier
Statistics
Players and Winners
- Most Titles - John McEnroe (4 singles and 1 doubles).
- Most Singles Titles 4 - John McEnroe, Boris Becker and Lleyton Hewitt
- Youngest Winner - Boris Becker, 17 years 207 days in 1985.
- Oldest Winner - Jimmy Connors, 30 years 284 days in 1983.
- Lowest Ranked Champion - Scott Draper, ranked 108 in the world in 1998.
- Lowest Ranked Finalist - Laurence Tieleman, ranked 253 in the world in 1998.
- Winners of both Tournaments - Pete Sampras in 1995 (doubles with Todd Martin), and Mark Philippoussis in 1997 (doubles with Patrick Rafter).
- Most Prize Money Received - Pete Sampras won GBP241,804 from playing at Queen's Club. Lleyton Hewitt, who is still active on the tour, follows him closely with GBP204,084.
- 22 of the last 25 Wimbledon champions have played at the Queen's Club Championships.
Matches
- Longest Final - Sampras beat Henman in 151 minutes in 1999.
- Shortest Final - Stich beat Ferreira in 57 minutes in 1993.
- Longest Match (time) - Ashe beat Mitten in 6 hours and 16 minutes in 1979.
- Longest Match (games) - Odizor beat Forget in a match containing 65 games in 1987.
Attendance
- Centre Court holds 6,478 spectators.
- The highest total attendance for the week was in 2003, when 52,553 people attended the event.
- The highest attendance for one day was 8,362 on June 11th, 2003.
Other facts
- During the 2004 singles tournament, Andy Roddick set the world record for the fastest serve recorded at 153 mph (246.2 km/h) during a straight-set victory over Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan in the quarter-finals.
- The Ballgirls for the Artois Championships are provided by Nonsuch High School for girls and St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls, two schools in the London Borough of Sutton.
See also
External links
- Official tournament website
- The Queen's Club website
- ATP tournament profile
- tenniscorner.net tournament page
- List of past champions at sportsrecords.co.uk