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AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS: DAY 2 MEDIA NOTES Tuesday, June 16, 2015 AEGON CHAMPIONSHIPS: DAY 2 MEDIA NOTES Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Queen’s Club, London, Great Britain | Jun 15 – 21, 2015 Draw: S-32, D-16 | Prize Money: €1,574,640 | Surface: Grass ATP Info: Tournament Info: ATP PR & Marketing: www.ATPWorldTour.com www.lta.org.uk Richard Evans: [email protected] @ATPWorldTour @BritishTennis #AegonChampionships Thomas Troxler: [email protected] facebook.com/ATPWorldTour facebook.com/britishtennislta TUESDAY’S TALKING POINTS • DAY 2 PREVIEW: Four of the world’s Top 10 players are in action on a star-studded second day of play at the Aegon Championships. Headlining proceedings is top seed Andy Murray, who opens his bid for a fourth Queen’s crown against qualifier Yen-Hsun Lu. Roland Garros champion Stan Wawrinka also takes his tournament bow; he faces off against the talented 20-year-old Nick Kyrgios in the 1R. Rafael Nadal and Marin Cilic also feature. The Spaniard, a winner in Stuttgart last week, will look to continue his winning start to the grass-court season when he takes on Alexandr Dolgopolov, while 2012 Queen’s champion Marin Cilic clashes with Adrian Mannarino. • MURRAY EYES FOURTH TITLE: This will be Murray’s 10th appearance at the Aegon Championships in 11 years (except 2007). He has a 20-5 career record here, winning three titles in odd years: 2009 (d. Blake), 2011 (d. Tsonga) and 2013 (d. Cilic). With his win in 2013, he became the first Brit since Francis Gordon Lowe (1913-14, '25) to win a hat-trick of crowns here. The 28- year-old is coming off the best clay court season of his career, winning his first titles on the surface in Munich (d. Kohlschreiber) and Madrid (d. Nadal) before reaching the SF at Roland Garros (l. to Djokovic). Murray is one of seven men to complete the Queen's-Wimbledon title double in the same year: John McEnroe (‘81, ‘84), Jimmy Connors (‘82), Boris Becker (‘85), Pete Sampras (‘95, ‘99), Lleyton Hewitt (‘02), Nadal (‘08) and Murray (‘13). • FROM CLAY TO GRASS: Wawrinka will be looking to reproduce his clay-court form on the grass of London over the next few weeks. The Swiss captured his first Roland Garros title and second Grand Slam overall in Paris nine days ago, making him the 30th male player to capture multiple major titles. The 30-year-old’s defeat of Novak Djokovic in the final was just his second victory over a World No. 1 (2-17), with the first coming against Nadal in the Australian Open final in 2014. Wawrinka advanced to the SF at Queen’s last year (l. to Dimitrov) before going on to make his first Wimbledon QF (l. to Federer). The World No. 4 has never won a title on grass, coming closest with a runner-up finish in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in 2013 (l. to Mahut). • RAFA RETURNS: After a three-year absence, Nadal returns to the Queen’s Club to make his sixth tournament appearance (13-4). His best showing here came in 2008 when he won the title, defeating Djokovic in the final. In his other four visits he lost in the QFs (2006-07, ‘10-11). The Spaniard contested his seventh career grass court final in Stuttgart on Sunday, defeating Viktor Troicki to claim his fourth title on the surface and a first since winning Wimbledon in 2010. His career trophy haul now stands at 66. Aegon Championships Day 2 – Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Page 2 of 8 www.ATPWorldTour.com DAY 2 FEDEX ATP HEAD2HEADS CENTRE COURT Nick Kyrgios (AUS) vs [2] Stan Wawrinka (SUI) FedEx ATP Head2Head: First ATP World Tour meeting 2015 Highlights 2015 Highlights F: Estoril (l. to Gasquet); W (3): Chennai (d. Bedene), QF: Aus Open (l. to Murray) Rotterdam (d. Berdych), Roland Garros (d. Djokovic); SF (2): Aus Open (l. to Djokovic), Rome (l. to Federer); QF (2): Marseille (l. to Stakhovsky), Geneva (l. to Delbonis) Kyrgios vs Wawrinka 20 (Apr 27, 1995) Age (DOB) 30 (Mar 28, 1985) 28 (25 – Jun 8, 2015) Emirates ATP Rankings (high) 4 (3 – Jan 27, 2014) DEBUT Queen’s W-L 3-2 13-9 (0-0) 2015 W-L (on grass) 29-8 (0-0) 25-20 (6-1) Career W-L (on grass) 366-223 (21-20) 0 (0) Career titles (2015) 10 (3) Todd Larkham Coach Magnus Norman • Kyrgios is set to make his first grass-court appearance of the season after withdrawing from ‘s- Hertogenbosch last week with an elbow injury. • Kyrgios’ last competitive outing came at Roland Garros where he reached the 3R with a win over Denis Istomin and a walkover vs. Kyle Edmund (l. to Murray). • In Madrid last month, Kyrgios saved two MPs in a 2R victory over Roger Federer before falling to John Isner in the next round. It marked the first time Federer had lost to a player aged 20-under since he fell to Juan Martin del Potro in the 2009 US Open final. • Kyrgios’ win over Federer was the second Top 5 win of his career, having also seen off Nadal at Wimbledon last year. Kyrgios became the fifth player aged 20-under to beat both Nadal and Federer, joining Mario Ancic, Tomas Berdych, Novak Djokovic and Del Potro. In addition, the Aussie was the sixth player to beat both Nadal and Federer in their first meetings after Alex Corretja, Lleyton Hewitt, Dominik Hrbaty, David Nalbandian and Vincent Spadea – Kyrgios is the first, however, to do it while Nadal and Federer are both ranked inside the Top 10. • Kyrgios reached a maiden ATP World Tour final in Estoril at the beginning of May (d. Ramos- Viñolas, Krajinovic, Haase, Carreno Busta; l. to Gasquet). He had been looking to become the first Australian to win on European clay since Richard Fromberg in Bucharest in 1997. • At the Australian Open in January, Kyrgios became the first teenager to reach the QF since Andrei Cherkasov in 1990 (d. Delbonis, Karlovic, Jaziri, Seppi; l. to Murray). The last Aussie teen to reach the final eight in Melbourne was Pat Cash in 1984. • Kyrgios was also the first teenager to reach multiple major QFs since Roger Federer in 2001. • After his run in Melbourne, Kyrgios missed the next six weeks of competitive action due to a persistent back injury. He returned at Indian Wells where he lost to Dimitrov in a 3rd set TB. • Kyrgios climbed to a career-high No. 25 in the Emirates ATP Rankings last week. • Kyrgios has a 2-7 career record vs. Top 10 opposition. • In 2014, Kyrgios ended his breakthrough season as one of two teenagers (also Borna Coric) in Aegon Championships Day 2 – Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Page 3 of 8 www.ATPWorldTour.com the Top 100, rising 134 places during the year. • Wawrinka returns to the Aegon Championships for the third time. He fell in his opening round to James Ward on his debut in 2011 before reaching the SF here last year (l. to eventual champion Dimitrov). • Wawrinka won his first Roland Garros title and second major overall in Paris nine days ago. The Swiss, who is one of 30 players to have won multiple majors, closed with wins over Roger Federer, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Novak Djokovic. He joined an elite group of players - Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Andres Gimeno, Mats Wilander and Ivan Lendl – to have won both the junior boys’ and senior French Open titles. • Wawrinka captured the eighth and ninth titles of his career in Chennai (d. Bedene) and Rotterdam (d. Berdych) either side of a SF appearance at the Australian Open (l. to Djokovic). • Wawrinka suffered early exits in both Indian Wells (l. to Haase in 2R) and Miami (l. to Mannarino in 3R) in March. He also fell to Dimitrov in both the 3R in Monte-Carlo and Madrid before reaching the SF in Rome (l. to Federer). • In 2014, Wawrinka finished in the Top 10 for the second year in a row at a year-end high No. 4. He captured his first Grand Slam crown at Australian Open (d. Nadal), first ATP Masters 1000 title in Monte-Carlo (d. Federer) and won the Davis Cup with Switzerland for the first time. Sam Querrey (USA) vs [6] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) TBF: 6-4, 3-6 FedEx ATP Head2Head: Dimitrov leads 1-0 2013 Washington (U.S.A.) Hard R16 Grigor Dimitrov 6-3 6-2 2015 Highlights 2015 Highlights F: Houston (l. to Sock); SF (2): Brisbane (l. to Federer), SF: Memphis (l. to Nishikori) Istanbul (l. to Cuevas); QF (2): Monte-Carlo (l. to Monfils), Madrid (l. to Nadal) Querrey vs Dimitrov 27 (Oct 7, 1987) Age (DOB) 24 (May 16, 1991) 38 (17 – Jan 31, 2011) Emirates ATP Rankings (high) 11 (8 – Aug 4, 2014) 16-6 Queen’s W-L 11-5 10-12 (0-0) 2014 W-L (on grass) 18-11 (0-0) 247-201 (35-23) Career W-L (on grass) 154-105 (23-14) 7 (0) Career titles (2015) 4 (0) Tom Gullikson Coach Roger Rasheed • Querrey is back in West London for the eighth time. He lifted the fifth of his seven career titles here in 2010, defeating Mardy Fish in the final. He also reached the SF here in 2012 (l to Cilic). • Querrey’s last competitive outing was a 1R loss to Borna Coric at Roland Garros. It was one of seven opening round losses for the American in 2015. • Querrey’s best result this season was a runner-up showing on clay in Houston (l. to Sock, falling to 7-7 in finals).
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