Britain’s No. 1 and No.2-ranked gamers will headline the historic return of ladies’s tennis to the Queen’s Membership in London, with Katie Boulter and Emma Raducanu confirming their participation within the occasion in June.
Queen’s is about to host a WTA match for the primary time since 1973 from June 7-15 this yr after discussions had been held with the ATP over making certain the courts usually are not overly affected for the boys’s competitors the next week.
“I used to look at the [men’s] match yearly rising up so to have the ability to compete at such a beautiful, historic, and iconic occasion to begin the grass court docket season is an honour,” Boulter advised the LTA.
“We’ve got among the finest ladies’s gamers on this planet competing at Queen’s, and it takes the British grass court docket swing to an entire new stage.
“To win that title as a British participant could be an absolute dream and I’ll do the whole lot I can to get myself in that place. Let’s make extra historical past this summer time.”
Boulter and Raducanu will probably be joined on the occasion by reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys, four-time grand slam winner Naomi Osaka and Daria Kasatkina, who gained one other of the standard grass-court tune-up tournaments at Eastbourne in 2024.
“Attending to compete there for the primary time and expertise taking part in at The Queen’s Membership goes to be such an important day,” world No. 6 Keys stated.
“I really like the grass court docket season, a few of my favorite reminiscences of my profession have come once I gained titles in Birmingham and Eastbourne.”
Event director Laura Robson expressed her pleasure on the stage of expertise dedicated to the WTA 500 occasion.
“Followers will see among the finest feminine gamers on the planet, and with three grand slam champions and the British primary within the combine, it guarantees to be a spectacular return to The Queen’s Membership for girls’s tennis,” she stated.
Whoever wins the title at Queen’s would be the first lady to so since Olga Morozova 52 years prior.
Boulter has struggled with damage up to now in 2025, not taking part in since her second-round defeat to Veronika Kudermetova on the Australian Open.
Raducanu, the 2021 US Open winner, snapped a four-match dropping streak on Monday with a convincing victory over world No. 29 Maria Sakkari within the first spherical of the Dubai Tennis Championships.
