THE QUEEN’S CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Queen’s Club Championships are two weeks of grass-court tennis at the Queen’s Club in West Kensington, in the fortnight before Wimbledon. Since 2025 they have been called the HSBC Championships, after the bank that took the title under a four-year agreement with the Lawn Tennis Association, which stages the event. The women play a WTA 500 tournament in the first week and the men an ATP 500 in the second. In 2027 the women’s main draw begins on 7 June, with the finals on Sunday 13 June; the men’s runs from 14 to 20 June.

The ground holds up to 17,000 people a day, across 28 grass courts.

The Club

The tournament began at Stamford Bridge, where it was played from 1884 to 1889, and moved to the Queen’s Club in 1890. The club itself was founded in 1886 and opened the following year, on eleven acres of former market gardens and a cricket pitch. It was named after Queen Victoria, its first patron.

It was built as the first great multi-sport ground in London. The Oxford and Cambridge matches in rugby, football and athletics were held there for more than thirty years; in 1895 some 20,000 people watched England play Wales at football; and in 1908 it was one of the venues of the London Olympic Games. When those fixtures moved to Twickenham, Wembley and White City, lawn tennis took the grounds.

The club is still a private members’ club. In May 2007 its members bought a 120-year lease from the Lawn Tennis Association, and they run it through an elected board. Besides lawn tennis it keeps courts for real tennis and rackets, and has held the world championships in both. The Members’ Clubhouse has a restaurant, a bar, a museum and the President’s Room.

The Tournament

The roll of champions includes Rod Laver, John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz. Since 1979 McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Becker, Pete Sampras, Lleyton Hewitt, Nadal, Andy Murray (twice) and Alcaraz have each won here and at Wimbledon in the same summer. Murray won the singles five times, in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2016, and the doubles in 2019 with Feliciano López. He is the only British man to win the singles in the Open Era. In August 2024 the centre court was renamed the Andy Murray Arena.

The title has carried a sponsor’s name since 1979: Stella Artois until 2008, then Aegon, Fever-Tree and cinch, and HSBC from 2025.

Women’s tennis was played at Queen’s until 1973 and then not for half a century. It returned in 2025 as a WTA 500 event. In 2026 Donna Vekić won the women’s singles, with Emma Raducanu the runner-up, and Francisco Cerúndolo won the men’s.

What to Know

The tournament runs from Saturday 5 June to Sunday 20 June 2027, with qualifying on the first weekend of each week. Tickets for 2027 go on sale later in the year; dates and prices have not been published. For 2026, members of the LTA’s Advantage scheme had a priority window from 4 to 9 November 2025 and the general sale opened on 11 November. The men’s week sold out.

Hospitality is sold through Keith Prowse, the official provider, in rooms around the Andy Murray Arena: the Roof Garden, the Club Lounge, the Real Tennis Dedans and Museum, and the President’s Room in the Members’ Clubhouse, with balcony seats. As listed in October 2026, a day in the men’s week ran from £565 to £1,245 a head, plus VAT; the women’s week from £295 to £625.

The tournament gives no dress guidance for general spectators. Hospitality agents ask for smart casual in most rooms, with no trainers or torn jeans, and in the President’s Room a suit, tie and blazer for men and a suit or day dress for women. The Court wears a lounge suit.

There are two entrances. Palliser Road, W14 9EQ, is nearest Barons Court on the Piccadilly and District lines; Perham Road, W14 9SP, is nearest West Kensington on the District line. Neither station has step-free access; Hammersmith, Kensington Olympia and West Brompton do. In 2026 the Piccadilly line closed on the final weekend, so it is worth checking the line before the finals.

Wimbledon begins the following week.

The mistake is to wait for the general sale. The men’s week sells out, and the better seats go first.

The Court

The Queen’s Club Championships are not the Court’s own. The Court arranges the visit on a member’s behalf: seats in the Andy Murray Arena or a table in one of the hospitality rooms, for the men’s week or the women’s, and dinner in London afterward.

How one becomes a member is set out under Admission.