Sports events must decide between purists and entertaining newbies Sport Business With Britain in the height of its summer sporting season, Ed Warner debates how organisers must balance pleasing purists with enticing new fans. “Does anyone talk about The Season anymore? The social whirl of the Lord’s Test, Queen’s, Royal Ascot and then finally Wimbledon? I may have missed others…” I replied to this Sport inc. [...]
WTA Ventures: Queen’s, CVC Capital Partners and an organisation pushing on Sport Business After a successful week of WTA tennis at Queen’s, WTA Ventures chief Marina Storti discusses the state of the sport, its private equity partner CVC Capital Partners and a potential merger with the ATP. When 37-year-old Tatjana Maria upset the odds to win the HSBC Championships in front of 9,000 fans on Sunday, she became [...]
How to earn £15,000 during Queen’s and Wimbledon Championships Sport Business Walk out of Barons Court tube station – via your preferred District or Piccadilly line train – turn right and within 100 yards you’ll see the HSBC red colour scheme branded across a sign that welcomes you to Queen’s Club. Because this and next week, in the leafy London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, the [...]
Alcaraz to play at Queen’s ahead of Wimbledon in 2025 November 25, 2024 Reigning Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz will return to Queen’s Club in 2025 as he looks to win the British grass season curtain raiser for the second time in three years. The Spaniard was victorious in West Kensington in 2023 but failed to secure victory earlier this year when he was beaten by Britain’s Jack Draper. [...]
Murray wins at Queen’s in 1,000th elite level match June 18, 2024 Andy Murray’s farewell to Queen’s started with his second win in seven years at the London ATP event. In what was the Brit’s 1,000th match in the elite men’s game – becoming the fifth active player to reach that benchmark after Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Fernando Verdasco and Richard Gasquet – he needed three sets [...]
Jack Draper wins first ATP Tour title in Stuttgart, becomes British No1 June 16, 2024 Jack Draper won his first ATP Tour title on Sunday, beating Matteo Berrettini in three sets to take the Stuttgart Open. In the opening tournament of the grass court season ahead of Wimbledon next month, Draper recovered from a set down to beat Italian Berrettini 3-6 7-6 6-4 in Germany. It is the Briton’s first [...]