Tennis: The Artois Championships Betting news

TENNIS – THE ARTOIS CHAMPIONSHIPS – June 9th

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 International Series tournament on Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. Its sponsored name is currently the Artois Championships. The Queen’s Club Championships are held every year in June in the week after the French Open. The Artois Championships celebrates its 30th birthday in 2008 with a typically strong field of players.

The inaugural tournament took place in 1979, in which John McEnroe won the first of his four singles titles. The roll of honour features many of the sport’s most famous names. McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras and Lleyton Hewitt have all held the Artois and Wimbledon winners’ trophies aloft in the same year. McEnroe reached the Queen’s Club final in each of the tournament’s first six years, and on five of those occasions he went on to reach the Wimbledon final.

British teenager Dan Evans has been given a great chance to test himself against the world’s best players having being awarded the final wild card into The Artois Championships. Evans, who broke into the World’s Top Ten in the junior rankings in January of this year, will be making his full ATP debut when he plays his first round match. As a junior, Evans has reached the quarter-finals of the US and Australian Opens, and in recent weeks he has made the last eight at two “futures” tournaments. The 18-year-old from Birmingham will join a star-studded field which includes the World No.2 Rafael Nadal, the Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, along with four-time Artois champions Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick. The other four wild cards have been awarded to former Wimbledon semi-finalists Jonas Bjorkman, Xavier Malisse and British pair Alex Bogdanovic and Josh Goodall. British No.1, Andy Murray has withdrawn to rest a wrist injury and attempt to be fit for Wimbledon.

Tennis Artois Championship Betting

Novak Djokovic – 5/2 (Bet 365)
Rafael Nadal – 9/2 (Ladbrokes)
Andy Roddick – 6/1 (VC Bet)
Andy Murray – 8/1 (888sport)
Mario Ancic – 14/1 (Bet 365)

All odds correct at time of writing. Please click here for the latest odds



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    • Written by Sarah Connolly · Filed Under Tennis 

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