OP QUEENS The 2008 Artois Championships

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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.

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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. 
[i][b]Roddick has called the courts at the Queen's Club "arguably the best in the world".[/b][/i]

[quote]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.[/quote]




[b]Plaats: [/b] London, England
[b]Datum:[/b] 8-14 june 2009
[b]Ondergrond: [/b] Grass
[b]Prijsgeld:[/b]   �750,000
[b]Tijd[/b]: 1 uur vroeger dan in Nederland

[b]Officiele Site ATP Tour[/b] [url=http://www.atptennis.com/]Klik[/url]
[b]Website:[/b] [url=http://www.aegonchampionships.com/1/home/default.asp]aegonchampionships[/url]
[b]Draws:[/b] [url=http://www.aegonchampionships.com/1/draws/singlesqual_first.asp]Klik[/url]
[b]Live te volgen via streams en o.a. de BBC en Eurosport[/b] !!!


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[b]Winnaar 2008[/b]  _O_ 

[b]Men's singles finals[/b]
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 



[b]2009 AEGON Championships Players List [/b]
ATP Rankings as of April 27, 2009 

[s] Nadal, Rafael ESP 1 [/s]
Murray, Andy GBR 4 
Roddick, Andy USA 6 
Simon, Gilles FRA 7 
Monfils, Gael FRA 9 
[s]Davydenko, Nikolay RUS 11 [/s]
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 
[s]Ancic, Mario CRO 36 [/s]
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 
      
      
[b]Wild Cards  [/b]   
Dimitrov, Grigor BUL 
Grosjean, Sebastien FRA 
Marcos Baghdatis 
Goodall, Josh GBR 
Ward, James GBR 


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