QUEEN'S CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

'The Queen's Club Championships' is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London. The event is an International Series tournament on Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. Its sponsored name is currently the 'Artois Championships'.
The Queen's Club Championships are 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 2007 schedule has involved only four grass court tournaments in the run-up to Wimbledon. Alongside Queen's, there are the Halle Open, and events in Nottingham and 's-Hertogenbosch. A further 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 highest prize money and largest draw sizes and it has a reputation for helping to produce Wimbledon champions (see the ''"Players and Winners"'' section under ''"Statistics"'' further down the page). In addition to this it enjoys full coverage on BBC TV in the UK, and as such is more popular amongst British fans than the LTA run event in Nottingham. 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. Multiple champion Andy Roddick has called the courts at the Queen's Club 'arguably the best in the world'.^[1]

Contents

Past results

Singles finals

Doubles champions

Junior Championship Finals

Statistics

Players and Winners

Matches

Attendance

Other facts

See also

External links

Past results

Singles finals

'Since 1970:'

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score in final
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	Sebastien Grosjean	7-6, 6-4
2003	' Andy Roddick	Sebastien Grosjean	6-3, 6-3
2002	' Lleyton Hewitt	Tim Henman	4-6, 6-1, 6-4
2001	' Lleyton Hewitt	Tim Henman	7-6, 7-6
2000	' Lleyton Hewitt	Pete Sampras	6-4, 6-4
1999	' Pete Sampras	Tim Henman	6-7, 6-4, 7-6
1998	' Scott Draper	Laurence Tieleman	7-6, 6-4
1997	' Mark Philippoussis	Goran Ivanišević	7-5, 6-3
1996	' Boris Becker	Stefan Edberg	6-4, 7-6
1995	' Pete Sampras	Guy Forget	7-6, 7-6
1994	' Todd Martin	Pete Sampras	7-6, 7-6
1993	' Michael Stich	Wayne Ferreira	6-3, 6-4
1992	' Wayne Ferreira	Shuzo Matsuoka	6-3, 6-4
1991	' Stefan Edberg	David Wheaton	6-2, 6-3
1990	' Ivan Lendl	Boris Becker	6-3, 6-2
1989	' Ivan Lendl	Christo Van Rensburg	4-6, 6-3, 6-4
1988	' Boris Becker	Stefan Edberg	6-1, 3-6, 6-3
1987	' Boris Becker	Jimmy Connors	6-7, 6-3, 6-4
1986	' Tim Mayotte	Jimmy Connors	6-4, 2-1 (retired)
1985	' Boris Becker	Johan Kriek	6-2, 6-3
1984	' John McEnroe	Leif Shiras	6-1, 3-6, 6-2
1983	' Jimmy Connors	John McEnroe	6-3, 6-3
1982	' Jimmy Connors	John McEnroe	7-5, 6-3
1981	' John McEnroe	Brian Gottfried	7-6, 7-5
1980	' John McEnroe	Kim Warwick	6-3, 6-1
1979	' John McEnroe	Victor Pecci	6-7, 6-1, 6-1
1978	' Tony Roche	John McEnroe	8-6, 9-7
1977	' Raul Ramirez	Mark Cox	9-7, 7-5
1974-76	''not held''
1973	' Ilie Năstase	Roger Taylor	9-8, 6-3
1972	' Jimmy Connors	John Paish	6-2, 6-3
1971	' Stan Smith	John Newcombe	8-6, 6-3
1970	' Rod Laver	John Newcombe	6-4, 6-3

Doubles champions

'Since 1977:'

'Year'	'Champions'
2007	Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor
2006	Paul Hanley / Kevin Ullyett
2005	Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
2004	Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
2003	Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor
2002	Wayne Black / Kevin Ullyett
2001	Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
2000	Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
1999	Sebastien Lareau / Alex O'Brien
1998	Jonas Bjorkman / Patrick Rafter
1997	Mark Philippoussis / Patrick Rafter
1996	Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
1995	Todd Martin / Pete Sampras
1994	Jan Apell / Jonas Bjorkman
1993	Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
1992	John Fitzgerald / Anders Jarryd
1991	Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde
1990	Jeremy Bates / Kevin Curren
1989	Darren Cahill / Mark Kratzmann
1988	Ken Flach / Robert Seguso
1987	Guy Forget / Yannick Noah
1986	Kevin Curren / Guy Forget
1985	Ken Flach / Robert Seguso
1984	Pat Cash / Paul McNamee
1983	Brian Gottfried / Paul McNamee
1982	John McEnroe / Peter Rennert
1981	Pat Dupre / Brian Teacher
1980	John Frawley / Geoff Masters
1979	Tim Gullikson / Tom Gullikson
1978	Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan
1977	Anand Amritraj / Vijay Amritraj

Junior Championship Finals

'The Junior Championship'

★ '2007' - Uladzimir Ignatik beat Gastão Elias

★ '2006' - Iain Atkinson beat Nicolas Santos

★ '2003' - Florin Mergea beat Chris Guccione

★ '2002' - Alex Bogdanovic beat Dudi Sela
'The HSBC Junior Invitation Cup'

★ '2001' - Santiago Gonzalez beat Andrew Banks
'The David Lloyd Leisure Cup'

★ '2000' - Lee Childs beat Arnaud Segoda

★ '1999' - Jarkko Nieminen beat Lee Childs

★ '1998' - Edgardo Massa beat Wei-Jen Chang
'The Sam Whitbread Cup'

★ '1997' - Nicolás Massú beat Xavier Malisse

★ '1996' - Jaymon Crabb beat Arvind Parmer

★ '1995' - Alejandro Hernandez beat Jamie Delgado

★ '1994' - Jamie Delgado beat Nicolás Lapentti

★ '1993' - Neville Goodwin beat David Skoch

★ '1992' - Grant Doyle beat Lucas Arnold

★ '1991' - Leander Paes beat Nicolas Kischewitz

★ '1990' - Andrew Foster beat Dirk Dier

Statistics

Players and Winners

★ 'Most Titles' - John McEnroe (4 singles and 1 doubles).

★ 'Most Singles Titles' 4 - John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick

★ 'Youngest Winner' - Boris Becker, 17 years 207 days in 1985.

★ 'Oldest Winner' - Jimmy Connors, 30 years 284 days in 1983.

★ 'Lowest Ranked Champion' - Scott Draper, ranked 108 in the world in 1998.

★ 'Lowest Ranked Finalist' - Laurence Tieleman, ranked 253 in the world in 1998.

★ 'Winners of both Tournaments' - Pete Sampras in 1995 (doubles with Todd Martin), and Mark Philippoussis in 1997 (doubles with Patrick Rafter).

★ 'Most Prize Money Received' - Pete Sampras won GBP241,804 from playing at Queen's Club. Lleyton Hewitt, who is still active on the tour, follows him closely with GBP204,084.

★ 22 of the last 25 Wimbledon champions have played at the Queen's Club Championships.

Matches

★ 'Longest Final' - Sampras beat Henman in 151 minutes in 1999.

★ 'Shortest Final' - Stich beat Ferreira in 57 minutes in 1993.

★ 'Longest Match (time)' - Ashe beat Mitten in 6 hours and 16 minutes in 1979.

★ 'Longest Match (games)' - Odizor beat Forget in a match containing 65 games in 1987.

Attendance

★ Centre Court holds 6,478 spectators.

★ The highest total attendance for the week was in 2003, when 52,553 people attended the event.

★ The highest attendance for one day was 8,362 on June 11th, 2003.

Other facts

★ During the 2004 singles tournament, Andy Roddick set the world record for the fastest serve recorded at 153 mph (246.2 km/h) during a straight-set victory over Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan in the quarter-finals.

★ The Ballgirls for the Artois Championships are provided by Nonsuch High School for girls and St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls, two schools in the London Borough of Sutton.

See also

★ Tennis

★ 2007 Queen's Club Championships

★ Wimbledon Championships

External links

★ Official tournament website

★ The Queen's Club website

★ ATP tournament profile

★ tenniscorner.net tournament page

★ List of past champions at sportsrecords.co.uk