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2022 Queen's Club Championships
The 2022 Queen's Club Championships (also known as the cinch Championships for sponsorship reasons) was a men's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Queen's Club in London, United Kingdom from 13 to 19 June 2022. It was the 119th edition of the event and was classified as an ATP Tour 500 tournament on the 2022 ATP Tour. Champions Singles * Matteo Berrettini def. Filip Krajinović, 7–5, 6–4 Doubles * Nikola Mektić / Mate Pavić def. Lloyd Glasspool / Harri Heliövaara, 3–6, 7–6(7–3), 0–6 Points and prize money Points distribution Prize money *per team ATP singles main-draw entrants Seeds *1 Rankings are as of June 6, 2022. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the main draw: * Liam Broady * Jack Draper * Ryan Peniston The following player received entry as a special exempt: * Andy Murrayhttps://www.lta.org.uk/fan-zone/cinch-championships/news/andy-murray-the-queens-clubs-greatest-champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass Court
A grass court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Grass courts are made of grasses in different compositions depending on the tournament. While grass courts are more traditional than other types of tennis courts, they are far less commonly used today compared to hard courts and clay courts. There are several disadvantages with grass courts: in particular, they are much more expensive to maintain compared to other surfaces. Also, grass courts (in the absence of suitable covers) are usually unplayable for the day if rain appears, as grass becomes very slippery when wet and will not dry for many hours. In contrast, play on a hard court can resume in 30 to 120 minutes after the end of rain, and clay courts can even remain playable in light rain. Furthermore, since most of the foot traffic during a tennis match occurs repetitively over a small surface area of the court, even with the best maintenance a grass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper Ruud
Casper Ruud (; born 22 December 1998) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in September 2022, making him the highest-ranked Norwegian in history. Ruud has won 13 ATP Tour singles titles, including a Masters 1000 event at the 2025 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's singles, 2025 Madrid Open, and finished runner-up at three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors (at the 2022 French Open – Men's singles, 2022 French Open, 2022 US Open – Men's singles, 2022 US Open, and 2023 French Open – Men's singles, 2023 French Open) and at the 2022 ATP Finals – Singles, 2022 ATP Finals. From September 2021 to November 2023, Ruud spent 113 consecutive weeks inside the ATP rankings, ATP top 10. As a junior, he was ranked world No. 1. In doubles, he has a career-high ranking of world No. 133, achieved after reaching the quarterfinals of the 2021 Wimbledon Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quentin Halys
Quentin Halys (; born 26 October 1996) is a French professional tennis player. Halys has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 47 achieved on 9 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 129 achieved on 3 October 2022. He has won seven singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour and seven in doubles. Junior career Quentin Halys reached four Junior Grand Slam finals, three in doubles and one in singles. Of the four finals, Halys won the 2014 French Open partnering Benjamin Bonzi. He reached a career high combined (singles and doubles) of World No. 3 on March 31, 2014. He ended his junior career with a 98–44 record on singles and 83–35 on doubles. 2010 Quentin played in his first ITF Junior Circuit tournament in 2010 at the G4 Tournoi International de Clermont-Ferrand, as a wildcard. He lost in the first round. He reached his first final later that year, at the G5 International Junior Saint-Cyprien, in doubles. In an all-French final, Halys and Armel Rancezot lost in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Wawrinka
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka (; born 28 March 1985) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), first achieved on 27 January 2014. Wawrinka has won 16 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including three majors at the 2014 Australian Open, 2015 French Open and the 2016 US Open, where he defeated the world No. 1 player in the final on all three occasions. He has also won an Olympic gold medal in men's doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics partnering Roger Federer, and was pivotal in the Swiss team's victory at the 2014 Davis Cup. Wawrinka's other achievements include reaching the final of the 2017 French Open, winning a Masters 1000 title at the 2014 Monte-Carlo Masters, and reaching three other Masters finals (at 2008 Rome, 2013 Madrid and 2017 Indian Wells). He considers clay his best and favorite surface, and his serve and backhand his best shots. John McEnroe once said that Wawrinka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Murray
Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2016 ATP Tour, 2016. Murray won 46 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors at the 2012 US Open – Men's singles, 2012 US Open, 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2013 Wimbledon Championships, and 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2016 Wimbledon Championships. He also won two gold medals at the Tennis at the Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics, the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals – Singles, 2016 ATP World Tour Finals, 14 ATP Masters 1000 tournaments, Masters events, and contested a total of eleven major finals. Originally coached by his mother Judy Murray, Judy alongside his older brother Jamie Murray, Jamie, Murr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Peniston
Ryan Harold Peniston (born 10 November 1995) is a British tennis player from Essex. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 123, achieved in July 2022, and a doubles ranking of world No. 384 achieved in June 2022. Personal life Ryan Harold Peniston was born in November 1995 to English-Irish father Paul and Malaysian mother Penny (née Gok) and grew up in Great Wakering near Rochford. He has two older brothers, Sam and Harry. As a child, Peniston survived rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer, and had surgery to remove a tumour and chemotherapy. Cancer slowed his growth, and he was much smaller than his classmates until he was 16 years old. Peniston was a member of the local Great Wakering Colts. At 13, he moved to Nice, France to train at ISP Academy before going to college at 18. A graduate of the University of Memphis tennis program, he was part of the GB University Team that won the nation's first ever team gold medal at Master'U Championships. Professional career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Draper (tennis)
Jack Alexander Draper (born 22 December 2001) is a British professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 4, achieved on 9 June 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 203, attained on 21 April 2025. Draper has won three titles on the ATP Tour, including an ATP 1000 event at the 2025 Indian Wells Open, and reached a major semifinal at the 2024 US Open. Draper has also won five titles on the ATP Challenger Tour and seven on the ITF Tour. As a junior, Draper was the runner-up at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, ending the year at his peak junior ranking of world No. 7. He is coached by James Trotman. Early life Draper was born in Sutton, London and brought up in nearby Ashtead, Surrey. His father is Roger Draper, former chief executive of Sport England and the Lawn Tennis Association, and his mother is Nicky Draper, a former junior British tennis champion. Draper attended Parkside School in Stoke d’Abernon, Cobham, from age four to eleven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Broady
Liam Tarquin Broady ( ; born 4 January 1994) is a British professional tennis player who competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. He reached a career high ranking of world No. 93 on 25 September 2023. Early and personal life Broady, the younger brother of fellow tennis player Naomi Broady, has another sister, Emma and a brother, Calum. The family grew up in Heaton Chapel, Heaton Chapel, Stockport. Their parents, Shirley and Simon, took the young Liam and Naomi to tennis tournaments. Broady started playing table tennis at the age of four and went to Matchpoint in Bramhall for lessons. His first tournament was at the age of eight and he showed potential at ten. He attended List of schools in Stockport, Norris Bank primary and Priestnall School where he completed his GCSEs in 2010. In 2007, the Lawn Tennis Association suspended his seventeen-year-old sister Naomi's funding, for 'unprofessional' postings on a social networking site. Their father Simon was so angry with the decis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (sports)
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules. Some North American professional sports leagues compare the records of teams which did not qualify directly by winning a division or conference. International sports In international sports, the term is perhaps best known in reference to two sporting traditions: team wildcards distributed among countries at the Olympic Games and individual wildcards given to some tennis players at every professional tournament (both smaller events and the major ones such as Wimbledon). Tennis players may even ask for a wildcard and get one if they want to enter a tournament on short notice. For Summer Olympic Games, some National Olympic Committees, whose nations are underrepresented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reilly Opelka
Reilly Opelka (born 28 August 1997) is an American professional tennis player. At , he is tied (with Ivo Karlović) for the tallest-ever Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP-ranked player, and can produce serves that measure over . He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 17 in singles by the ATP, which he achieved on February 28, 2022, and in doubles as world No. 89 on August 2, 2021. He has won four ATP singles titles and one doubles title. He won the junior 2015 Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon championship in 2015. Personal life Opelka was born in St. Joseph, Michigan and moved to Palm Coast, Florida at age 4. He did not start playing tennis regularly until he began training through United States Tennis Association, USTA in Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton at 12 years old. He credits Tom Gullikson, whom his father knew from playing golf, for much of his early development as a tennis player. Opelka is close friends with Taylor Fritz and was the best man at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić (; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 28 January 2018. Čilić has won 21 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major at the 2014 US Open – Men's singles, 2014 US Open. Alongside Goran Ivanišević and Iva Majoli, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest Croatian tennis players in history. Čilić is one of only four ATP Tour records#Other active players, active players with 20 or more titles. He was also runner-up at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2017 Wimbledon Championships and the 2018 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2018 Australian Open, and won a silver Olympic medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the Tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles, men's doubles tournament partnering Ivan Dodig. Čilić has reached the semifinal stage or better ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Shapovalov
Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born ) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, which he first achieved on September 21, 2020. Shapovalov has won three ATP Tour singles titles and produced his best Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam performance at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, 2021 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the semifinals. Shapovalov also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 44, which he achieved on February 24, 2020. Shapovalov is the third highest-ranked Canadian singles male player in history behind Milos Raonic (world No. 3 in 2016) and Félix Auger-Aliassime (world No. 6 in 2022). As a junior, he has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. He won two junior Grand Slam titles, his first being the doubles title at the 2015 US Open – Boys' doubles, 2015 US Open with Auger-Aliassime and his second being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
