Queen's Club Championships
London tennis tournament
The Queen's Club Championships is an annual professional tennis tournament, held on grass courts at the Queen's Club in West Kensington, London, and known as the "HSBC Championships" (after its title sponsor) since 2025. The event is part of the ATP Tour 500 series on the ATP Tour as well as the WTA 500 series on the WTA Tour (starting in 2025). Queen's is one of the oldest tennis tournaments in the world, and serves as a grass court warm-up for Wimbledon.
Andy Murray won a record five singles titles between 2009 and 2016, and a record six championships in total (including one doubles title in 2019).
01History
Originally known as the London Athletic Club Tournament or officially London Athletic Club Open Tournament established in 1881 at Stamford Bridge, Fulham. In 1885, the tournament was given the title of the Championship of London then later London Championships, and it was held on outdoor grass courts. In 1890, the tournament moved to its current location, the Queen's Club and consisted of a men's and women's singles event. In 1903, a men's doubles event was added followed in 1905 by the mixed doubles competition. In 1915, the addition of a women's doubles event completed the programme. The two World Wars interrupted the tournament from 1915 to 1918 and 1940 to 1945. Between 1970 and 1989, the Championships were part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. The women's tournament was discontinued after the 1973 edition and from 1974 until 1976 no men's tournament was held. By this point the tournament was known as the London Grass Court Championships. Since 1977, it has been called The Queen's Club Championships. The event is currently an ATP Tour 500 series tournament on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour and was upgraded from an ATP World Tour 250 series in 2015. The tournament was voted ATP Tournament of the Year for four years consecutively between 2013 and 2014 when it was an ATP 250 tournament, and between 2015 and 2016 when it was an ATP 500 tournament. It then won it again in 2018 and 2019.
During the 2004 singles tournament, Andy Roddick set the then 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.
In 2016, Andy Murray won the singles title for a record fifth time. Seven men have won four singles titles; Major Ritchie, Anthony Wilding, Roy Emerson, John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick.
After a 50 year absence, women's professional tennis returned to the Queen's Club in 2025, with the club hosting a WTA 500 tournament in the first week of the grass court season, one week in advance of the men's championship.
02Schedule
The Queen's Club Championships are held every year in June. They start one week after the clay-court French Open and conclude one week before the start of the grass court Wimbledon Championships, which are held just 4 miles (6 km) away. The equivalent warm-up event for women was the Eastbourne International (until 2025 when it was downgraded to a WTA 250), held one week later.
Up to 2014, the break between the French Open and Wimbledon was just two weeks, and the Queen's Club Championships started the day after the French Open's men's final. This changed when Wimbledon moved back a week to expand the length of the grass court season.
Grass courts are the least common playing surface for top-level events on the ATP World Tour. The 2009 schedule included only four grass court tournaments in the run-up to Wimbledon. They were the Queen's Club Championships, Gerry Weber Open, Eastbourne International, and the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships. An additional tournament is played on grass in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, in the week immediately after Wimbledon.
03Coverage
The BBC has covered the tournament since 1979 and in recent years it has shown the tournament in full after originally only broadcasting the final four days of the event. The BBC has a contract in place until 2027. It broadcasts the event mainly on BBC Two as well as on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sport online. It was shown in high-definition for the first time in 2009.
Since 2018, Amazon Prime has also broadcast from The Queen's Club in the UK.
The ball girls for the Championships are provided by Nonsuch High School and St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls, two schools in the London Borough of Sutton.
04Sponsorship
From 1979 until 2008, the tournament was sponsored by Stella Artois, and thus called the Stella Artois Championships. In 2009, the tournament was renamed the Aegon Championships following a comprehensive sponsorship deal between the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and Aegon, which also led to renaming of Birmingham and Eastbourne grass court events. In 2018, Fever-Tree began sponsoring the tournament. The online car selling website cinch became the title sponsor of the championships in 2021 and remained so until 2024. On 23 January 2025, the LTA announced HSBC as the new title sponsor of the championships.
05Past finals
Men's singles
Women's singles
Fulham
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1881 | M. Raikes | Miss Burleigh | 5-0, 5-2 |
| 1882, 1883 |
No women's event staged | ||
| 1884 | Maud Watson | Edith Coleridge Cole | 6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 |
| 1885 | Maud Watson | Lilian Watson | 6-2, 6-3 |
| 1886 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | Edith Davies | 6-1, 6-1 |
| 1887 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | B. James | 6-4, 6-3 |
| 1888 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | May Jacks | 6-4, 6-3 |
| 1889 | May Jacks | Maud Shackle | 6-2, 6-1 |
London
Men's doubles
Since 1969:
(Note: Tournament dates back to 1890)
Women's doubles
| Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Rosie Casals Billie Jean King | Mary-Ann Curtis Valerie Ziegenfuss | 6-2, 8-6 |
| 1972 | Rosie Casals Billie Jean King | Brenda Kirk Pat Walkden | 5-7, 6-0, 6-2 |
| 1973 | Rosie Casals Billie Jean King | Françoise Dürr Betty Stöve | 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 |
| 1974-2024 | No women's event staged | ||
| 2025 | Asia Muhammad Demi Schuurs | Anna Danilina Diana Shnaider | 7-5, 6-7(3-7), [10-4] |
| 2026 | Tereza Mihalíková Olivia Nicholls | Leylah Fernandez Laura Siegemund | 6-4, 6-7(4-7), [10-5] |
Junior championship finals
| Year | Champion | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| The Junior Championship | ||
| 2007 | Uladzimir Ignatik | Gastão Elias |
| 2006 | Iain Atkinson | Nicolas Santos |
| 2003 | Florin Mergea | Chris Guccione |
| 2002 | Alex Bogdanović | Dudi Sela |
| The HSBC Junior Invitation Cup | ||
| 2001 | Santiago González | Andrew Banks |
| The David Lloyd Leisure Cup | ||
| 2000 | Lee Childs | Arnaud Segodo |
| 1999 | Jarkko Nieminen | Lee Childs |
| 1998 | Edgardo Massa | Cheng Wei-jen |
| The Sam Whitbread Cup | ||
| 1997 | Nicolás Massú | Xavier Malisse |
| 1996 | Jaymon Crabb | Arvind Parmar |
| 1995 | Alejandro Hernández | Jamie Delgado |
| 1994 | Jamie Delgado | Nicolás Lapentti |
| 1993 | Neville Godwin | David Škoch |
| 1992 | Grant Doyle | Lucas Arnold |
| 1991 | Leander Paes | Nicolas Kischkewitz |
| 1990 | Andrew Foster | Dirk Dier |
06Statistics
Champions by country
Champions only counted for tournaments held from 1890 once the event had moved to the Queen's Club.
| ¤ Former country |
Men's singles
| Country | Winner | First title | Last title |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States (USA) | 34 | 1905 | 2024 |
| Great Britain (GBR) | 31 | 1890 | 2016 |
| Australia (AUS) | 26 | 1919 | 2006 |
| Germany (GER) | 6 | 1939 | 1996 |
| Spain (SPA) | 6 | 1960 | 2025 |
| New Zealand (NZL) | 4 | 1907 | 1912 |
| South Africa (RSA) | 2 | 1951 | 1992 |
| Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2 | 1989 | 1990 |
| Croatia (CRO) | 2 | 2012 | 2018 |
| Italy (ITA) | 2 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Japan (JPN) | 1 | 1921 | 1921 |
| Canada (CAN) | 1 | 1927 | 1927 |
| India (IND) | 1 | 1959 | 1959 |
| Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1973 | 1973 |
| Mexico (MEX) | 1 | 1977 | 1977 |
| Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1991 | 1991 |
| Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 2014 | 2014 |
| Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
Women's singles
| Country | Winner | First title | Last title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Britain (GBR) | 40 | 1890 | 1969 |
| United States (USA) | 19 | 1923 | 1972 |
| Poland (POL) | 4 | 1936 | 1939 |
| France (FRA) | 3 | 1934 | 1966 |
| South Africa (RSA) | 3 | 1952 | 1965 |
| Chile (CHL) | 1 | 1935 | 1935 |
| Mexico (MEX) | 1 | 1959 | 1959 |
| Soviet Union (SUN) | 1 | 1973 | 1973 |
| Germany (GER) | 1 | 2025 | 2025 |
| Croatia (CRO) | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
Men's doubles
| Country | Winner | First title | Last title |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States (USA) | 33 | 1969 | 2023 |
| Australia (AUS) | 23 | 1969 | 2006 |
| France (FRA) | 9 | 1986 | 2021 |
| Great Britain (GBR) | 6 | 1990 | 2025 |
| Canada (CAN) | 5 | 1999 | 2012 |
| Sweden (SWE) | 4 | 1992 | 1998 |
| Croatia (CRO) | 4 | 2022 | 2026 |
| Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 1970 | 1973 |
| South Africa (RSA) | 3 | 1978 | 2009 |
| Zimbabwe (ZIM) | 3 | 2002 | 2006 |
| India (IND) | 2 | 1977 | 1977 |
| Bahamas (BAH) | 2 | 2003 | 2007 |
| Serbia (SER) | 2 | 2008 | 2010 |
| Brazil (BRA) | 2 | 2014 | 2017 |
| Russia (RUS) | 1 | 2009 | 2009 |
| Israel (ISR) | 1 | 2010 | 2010 |
| Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 2012 | 2012 |
| Austria (AUT) | 1 | 2014 | 2014 |
| Spain (SPA) | 1 | 2019 | 2019 |
| New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 2024 | 2024 |
| El Salvador (SLV) | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
Women's doubles
| Country | Winner | First title | Last title |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States (USA) | 7 | 1971 | 2025 |
| Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 2025 | 2025 |
| Slovakia (SVK) | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
| Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
Players and winners
- Most titles, Andy Murray (5 singles, 1 doubles) & Ethel Thomson Larcombe (6 singles) (6).
- Most singles titles, Ethel Thomson Larcombe (6).
- Most singles finals, Edith Austin (10).
- Youngest winner, Boris Becker, 17 years 207 days in 1985.
- Oldest winner, Major Ritchie, 38 years old in 1909 (Open Era oldest winner was Feliciano López at 37 years old in 2019).
- Highest-ranked champion, Ivan Lendl in 1989 and 1990, Stefan Edberg in 1991 and Lleyton Hewitt in 2002 ranked 1 in the world.
- Lowest-ranked champion, Feliciano López, ranked 113 in the world in 2019.
- Lowest-ranked finalist, Laurence Tieleman, ranked 253 in the world in 1998.
- Winners of both events, Pete Sampras in 1995 (doubles with Todd Martin), Mark Philippoussis in 1997 (doubles with Patrick Rafter), and Feliciano López in 2019 (doubles with Andy Murray).
- 10 players have completed the Queen's/Wimbledon double, winning both events back to back, including Don Budge, Roy Emerson, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Lleyton Hewitt, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Carlos Alcaraz; only McEnroe, Sampras and Murray have completed this twice.
Attendance
Pre-2017, the Centre Court held 6,479 spectators. From 2017 onwards, capacity increased by over 2,000 to almost 9,000 seats. While the 2025 ATP tournament had a weekly attendance of 71,000, the 2026 WTA tournament also sold over 70,000 tickets, reaching capacity for 5 of the 7 days and reaching 98% of total capacity throughout the week.
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- HSBC Championships logo 2.jpg by Daniel Cooper, Public domain
- Andy Murray (14399419246).jpg by Carine06 from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Queens Club, Centre Court (1).png by Benjamin Liebald, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flickr - Carine06 - Marin Cilic interviewed.jpg by Carine06 from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Lleyton Hewitt and Mark Philippoussis.jpg by The original uploader was Shermozle at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0
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