Former Kings Of Queen's Honoured
Former Kings Of Queen's Honoured
Former Queen’s Club grass-court greats are honoured in a ceremony
The Aegon Championships, the ATP World Tour 500 Tournament of the Year, has celebrated its four-time champions around the grounds of The Queen’s Club and its Victorian pavilion this week.
Four-time former titlists Roy Emerson, John McEnroe, Boris Becker and Lleyton Hewitt were special guests on Friday at The Queen’s Club, which has hosted a pre-Wimbledon grass-court tournament since 1890.
Stephen Farrow, tournament director of the Aegon Championships; Jim Moore, the tournament referee for the past 39 years, and Graham Kimpton, head groundsman at The Queen’s Club, presented Emerson, McEnroe and Becker quarter-size replica trophies. Hewitt had received his miniature trophy earlier in the year.
World No. 2 Andy Murray is going for a record fifth title at the tournament this week.
FOUR-TIME KINGS OF QUEEN’S
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Player
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Queen’s Club Titles (Finalist)
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Major Josiah Ritchie (GBR)
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4 – 1902, 1904, 1906, 1909 (1907-08, 1910)
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Tony Wilding (NZL)
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4 – 1907, 1910-12
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Roy Emerson (AUS)
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4 – 1963-66 (1960, 1962)
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John McEnroe (USA)
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4 – 1979-81, 1984 (1978, 1982-83)
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Boris Becker (GER)
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4 – 1985, 1987-88, 1996 (1990)
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Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)
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4 – 2000-2002, 2006
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Andy Roddick (USA)
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4 – 2003-05, 2007
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Andy Murray (GBR)
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4 – 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015
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Becker now coaches World No. 1 Novak Djokovic and John McEnroe has recently teamed up with Milos Raonic for the grass-court swing. Hewitt retired from professional tennis in January this year.
