[Queen's Aegon Championships # 1] Sin the new king

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 an ATP World Tour 250 series tournament on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. Its sponsored name is currently the AEGON Championships. The tournament was known as the Stella Artois Championships from 1979 until 2008.



The Queen's Club Championships is 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 2009 schedule includes only four grass court tournaments in the run-up to Wimbledon. Alongside Queen's, there are the Gerry Weber Open, the AEGON International, and the Ordina Open. An additional tournament is played on grass in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, in the week immediately after Wimbledon.

Outside Wimbledon, this is the grass-court tournament with the largest draw size and it has a reputation for helping to produce Wimbledon champions. In addition, it enjoys full coverage on BBC TV in the UK. However despite the reputation of Queen's, Roger Federer, the dominant grass court player of recent years, has generally preferred to play at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle as his warm-up to Wimbledon. Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt have dominated the tournament in this decade, each winning four titles.
Roddick has called the courts at the Queen's Club "arguably the best in the world".

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Defending champion Rafael Nadal has been forced to withdraw from the AEGON Championships, which begins on Monday.
Nadal, the current World No.1 and reigning Wimbledon champion is suffering from ongoing knee problems and has been advised to rest by doctors.
The AEGON Champions will feature the World No.3 Andy Murray and three former World No.1 players in Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt and Marat Safin. James Blake, Marin Cilic and Gilles Simon have also signed up to appear.

Plaats: London, England
Datum: 8-14 june 2009
Ondergrond: Grass
Prijsgeld: ¤750,000
Tijd: 1 uur vroeger dan in Nederland

Officiele Site ATP Tour Klik
Website: aegonchampionships
Draws: Klik
Live te volgen via streams+ via de BBC en Eurosport !!!



Winnaar 2008

Men's singles finals
2008 Rafael Nadal - Novak Djokovic 7-6(6), 7-5
2007 Andy Roddick - Nicolas Mahut 4-6, 7-6, 7-6
2006 Lleyton Hewitt - James Blake 6-4, 6-4
2005 Andy Roddick - Ivo Karlović 7-6, 7-6
2004 Andy Roddick - Sébastien Grosjean 7-6, 6-4
2003 Andy Roddick - Sébastien Grosjean 6-3, 6-3


2009 AEGON Championships Players List
ATP Rankings as of April 27, 2009

Nadal, Rafael ESP 1
Murray, Andy GBR 4
Roddick, Andy USA 6
Simon, Gilles FRA 7
Monfils, Gael FRA 9
Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 11
Cilic, Marin CRO 15
Blake, James USA 16
Safin, Marat RUS 20
Karlovic, Ivo CRO 24
Fish, Mardy USA 28
Lopez, Feliciano ESP 32
Mathieu, Paul-Henri FRA 35
Ancic, Mario CRO 36
Seppi, Andreas ITA 37
Chardy, Jeremy FRA 42
Gulbis, Ernests LAT 43
Benneteau, Julien FRA 45
Ljubicic, Ivan CRO 52
Hewitt, Lleyton AUS 53
Querrey, Sam USA 60
Schwank, Eduardo ARG 61
Lu, Yen-Hsun TPE 62
Ginepri, Robby USA 64
Tipsarevic, Janko SRB 65
Gabashvili, Teimuraz RUS 66
Youzhny, Mikhail RUS 67
Hernandez, Oscar ESP 68
Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo ESP 70
Gil, Frederico POR 71
Llodra, Michael FRA 78
Gimeno-Traver, Daniel ESP 79
Muller, Gilles LUX 80
Fognini, Fabio ITA 81
Minar, Ivo CZE 82
Kendrick, Robert USA 84
Koellerer, Daniel AUT 85
Capdeville, Paul CHI 87
Navarro, Ivan ESP 89
Andujar, Pablo ESP 90
Korolev, Evgeny RUS 91
Reynolds, Bobby USA 93
Darcis, Steve BEL 94


Wild Cards
Dimitrov, Grigor BUL
Grosjean, Sebastien FRA
Marcos Baghdatis
Goodall, Josh GBR
Ward, James GBR







_{De OP is hier te vinden !}

[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door Ambrosius op 09-06-2009 17:45:41 ]

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Op zaterdag 6 juni 2009 13:17 schreef wimderon het volgende:
Queens

Davydenko
Ancic

OP aangepast

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Op zondag 7 juni 2009 09:34 schreef TheGeneral het volgende:
Roddick en Murray tegen elkaar:

Roddick:
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(Ik zie dat het plaatje het niet meer doet, maar Murray was aan het trainen met roze pet met glitters)


Murray:
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En vandaag weer een reactie van Roddick:
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Bron ?