The men's HSBC Championships has been played at The Queen's Club since 1890, longer than almost any fixture in the British grass season, and a regular predictor of the Wimbledon champion.
The men’s HSBC Championships returns to The Queen’s Club in West Kensington in June 2027, on dates still TBC. English tennis has staged this grass-court tournament longer than almost any other.
It began in 1881 as an open meeting at Stamford Bridge and took the title Championship of London in 1885. It moved to the Queen’s Club in 1890 and has been played there ever since. Men’s doubles were added in 1903 and mixed doubles two years after that.
The grass season is barely three weeks long. At Queen’s a player finds out whether a game built on clay will survive a surface that rewards a low bounce and a first serve.
Winning here has predicted the Wimbledon champion often enough to carry a superstition of its own.
The grounds are among the smallest on the tour. A spectator stands nearer a top-ten player than at any major, and club members watch from a stand a few feet behind the baseline.
The courts are the club’s own championship grass, cut and rolled for the fortnight and then given back to the members. The women’s tournament is played on the same lawns.