The WTA 500 match in Queen’s has made its first transfer as former British tennis star Laura Robson has been named because the match director.
In Could, it was introduced that the enduring Queen’s Membership would host a ladies’s match from 2025. Beforehand, the membership hosted a ladies’s occasion till 1973.
Whereas Queen’s is now set to host each males’s and ladies’s tournaments, it will not happen in the identical week – the ladies’s occasion shall be held the week after the French Open whereas the boys’s match will comply with.
This 12 months, Robson was the boss on the WTA 250 match in Birmingham. Seemingly, the LTA officers had been fairly pleased with the job she did in Birmingham so she now will get a much bigger function – to run a match for which many have huge expectations.
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Robson’s assertion on her Queen’s function
“I’m delighted to be taking over this function subsequent summer season. It’s very thrilling that ladies’s tennis is returning to the Queen’s Membership for the primary time in over 50 years. It’s an iconic venue and has been voted Match of the 12 months by the boys many instances. I’m assured that the ladies’s occasion shall be simply as thrilling and I can’t wait to get began,” Robson said in a statement.
For many years, the Queen’s Club has been home of one of the best ATP 500 tournaments on the Tour. And now, the hope is that the bringing back the women’s edition can also be a major attraction.
“So excited to be a part of this! Bringing ladies’s tennis again to London with a brand new occasion,” the former world No. 27 added on X.
So excited to be part of this! Bringing women’s tennis back to London with a new event 🌱🎾 https://t.co/Vn5FC2vXGh
— Laura Robson (@laurarobson5) November 26, 2024
After struggling with injuries for years and undergoing multiple surgeries, Robson walked away from pro tennis in 2022 May at the age of 28.
