The HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club in London, England will make its inaugural appearance on the Hologic WTA Tour this year, kicking off the grass-court swing as 2025’s first WTA 500 event on the surface.<\/p>\n
A long-time mainstay of the men’s calendar on the ATP Tour, the women will join the party at Queen’s for the first time. The main-draw entries and initial wild cards, which came out this week, are befitting of the auspicious occasion.<\/p>\n
A total of six Grand Slam champions are already scheduled to hit the grass at Queen’s. Two of them received wild cards into the main draw: four-time major champion Naomi Osaka and Emma Raducanu. Raducanu became the most recent Briton to win a Grand Slam title when she claimed the 2021 US Open title as a qualifier.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Four more Grand Slam champions are in via direct entry: Reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys, reigning Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova, and former Wimbledon champions Elena Rybakina and Petra Kvitova<\/a>. Kvitova is entered via special ranking as she continues her return from maternity leave.<\/p>\n Four of the world’s Top 10 players will be in the main draw, with World No. 4 Jessica Pegula leading the direct-entry list. The other Top 10 players entered are No. 6 Keys, No. 8 Zheng Qinwen<\/a> and No. 9 Emma Navarro.<\/p>\n Among the other notable names on the main-draw entry list are Grand Slam finalists Karolina Muchova and Leylah Fernandez. Also entered is Beatriz Haddad Maia, whose first two WTA titles came back-to-back on grass in the U.K. in 2022.<\/p>\n British No. 1 Katie Boulter joins Osaka and Raducanu as a wild-card recipient. Like Haddad Maia, two of Boulter’s WTA titles have come on grass in Britain.<\/p>\n The last main-draw direct entry is No. 29 Yulia Putintseva. Former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin (No. 31) is the first main-draw alternate, meaning the field could potentially contain at least seven Grand Slam champions when play gets underway.<\/p>\n With tournament director Laura Robson overseeing the event launch, main-draw play at Queen’s Club will kick off on Monday, June 9.<\/p>\n