Britain’s No. 1 and No.2-ranked gamers will headline the historic return of girls’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 have been held with the ATP over guaranteeing the courts aren’t 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 start the grass courtroom season is an honour,” Boulter instructed the LTA.
“We have now among the finest ladies’s gamers on the planet competing at Queen’s, and it takes the British grass courtroom swing to a complete new degree.
“To win that title as a British participant could be an absolute dream and I’ll do all the things I can to get myself in that place. Let’s make extra historical past this summer season.”
Boulter and Raducanu can be joined on the occasion by reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys, four-time grand slam winner Naomi Osaka and Daria Kasatkina, who received one other of the standard grass-court tune-up tournaments at Eastbourne in 2024.
“Attending to compete there for the primary time and expertise enjoying at The Queen’s Membership goes to be such a special day,” world No. 6 Keys stated.
“I like the grass courtroom season, a few of my favorite recollections of my profession have come once I received titles in Birmingham and Eastbourne.”
Match director Laura Robson expressed her pleasure on the degree 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 girl to so since Olga Morozova 52 years prior.
Boulter has struggled with harm thus far in 2025, not enjoying since her second-round defeat to Veronika Kudermetova on the Australian Open.
Raducanu, the 2021 US Open winner, snapped a four-match shedding streak on Monday with a convincing victory over world No. 29 Maria Sakkari within the first spherical of the Dubai Tennis Championships.