The Queen's Club Championships is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queen's Club in West Kensington , London. The event is part of the ATP World Tour series on the Association of Tennis Professionals ATP Tour. It is currently promoted as the Aegon Championships for sponsorship reasons. For many years previously it was known as the Stella Artois Championships. Queen's is one of the most prestigious grass court tournaments, as well as one of the oldest Tennis tournaments in the world, and serves as a warm-up for Wimbledon.

Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt dominated the tournament in the early 21st century, each winning four titles. Andy Roddick has called the courts at the Queen's Club "arguably the best in the world".

Originally known as the London Grass Court Championships , the tournament traces back to when a tennis tournament was held at the London Athletic Club at Stamford Bridge, Fulham. In , the tournament moved to its current location, the Queen's Club and consisted of a men's and women's singles event. In a men's doubles event was added followed in by the mixed doubles competition.

In the addition of a women's doubles event completed the programme. The two World Wars interrupted the tournament from — and — Between and the Championships were part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. The women's tournament was discontinued after the edition and from until no men's tournament was held. 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.

The Queen's Club Championships are held every year in June. The equivalent warm-up event for women is the Eastbourne International , although this is held one week later.

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Up to , 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 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. Queen's enjoys full coverage on the BBC in the UK, via BBC television, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sport online. It was shown in High Definition for the first time in Eurosport also broadcasts throughout each tournament.

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The ball girls for the Aegon Championships are provided by Nonsuch High School and St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls , two schools in the London Borough of Sutton. From until , the tournament was sponsored by Stella Artois , and thus called the Stella Artois Championships.

Centre Court holds 6, spectators. The highest total attendance for the week was in , when 52, people attended the event; The highest attendance for one day was 8, on 11 June From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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