There are a number of the reason why feminine gamers will return to Queen’s for the primary time in 52 years, together with an ongoing dedication to the expansion of girls’s tennis, and the success of an occasion at Eastbourne.
The Garden Tennis Affiliation – the game’s governing physique in Britain – hopes the match will elevate the profile of the ladies’s recreation and improve the visibility of the game firstly of the grass-court season.
“This 12 months followers will be capable to take pleasure in each males’s and ladies’s tennis on the largest levels that we are able to provide,” stated LTA chief govt Scott Lloyd.
“We wish to develop the tournaments in order that the ladies’s occasions ship a path to profitability and larger visibility for the game.”
Queen’s will host the Girls’s Tennis Affiliation (WTA) 500 occasion that was beforehand at Eastbourne, which can now stage a 250 occasion within the build-up to Wimbledon, with Emma Raducanu on the entry record.
“Basically, in 1974 the LTA determined to maneuver the ladies’s occasion at Queen’s to Eastbourne,” Queen’s match director Laura Robson advised BBC Sport.
“It did extraordinarily nicely and finally turned a mixed occasion in a single week. At Queens, logistically it wasn’t potential. Nonetheless, we are able to now create a two-week pageant of tennis, which we all know the followers need. This mannequin is standard at different tour occasions when you may’t mix concurrently.
“Montreal/Toronto might be one of the best instance of getting a mixed occasion that is throughout totally different cities.”
The WTA Tour contains 250, 500 and 1000-level occasions – the classes denoting the variety of rating factors awarded to the champion. Grand Slams award 2,000 factors to the winner.
