There are a number of explanation why feminine gamers will return to Queen’s for the primary time in 52 years, together with an ongoing dedication to the expansion of girls’s tennis, and the success of an occasion at Eastbourne.The Garden Tennis Affiliation – the game’s governing physique in Britain – hopes the event will elevate the profile of the ladies’s sport and improve the visibility of the game at first of the grass-court season.”This 12 months followers will have the ability to get pleasure from each males’s and girls’s tennis on the most important levels that we will provide,” mentioned LTA chief government Scott Lloyd.”We wish to develop the tournaments in order that the ladies’s occasions ship a path to profitability and better visibility for the game.”Queen’s will host the Ladies’s Tennis Affiliation (WTA) 500 occasion that was beforehand at Eastbourne, which is able to now stage a 250 occasion within the build-up to Wimbledon, with Emma Raducanu on the entry record.”Primarily, in 1974 the LTA determined to maneuver the ladies’s occasion at Queen’s to Eastbourne,” Queen’s event director Laura Robson informed BBC Sport. “It did extraordinarily nicely and finally grew to become a mixed occasion in a single week. At Queens, logistically it wasn’t potential. Nonetheless, we will now create a two-week competition of tennis, which we all know the followers need. This mannequin is well-liked at different tour occasions when you’ll be able to’t mix concurrently.”Montreal/Toronto might be the very best instance of getting a mixed occasion that is throughout completely different cities.”The WTA Tour contains 250, 500 and 1000-level occasions – the classes denoting the variety of rating factors awarded to the champion. Grand Slams award 2,000 factors to the winner.
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Queen’s Tennis: Why is the ladies’s event returning?
