Women's tennis returned to The Queen's Club in 2025 for the first time in more than 50 years, restoring a fixture that has been played there, on and off, since 1890.
Each June the women’s HSBC Championships is played on the lawns of The Queen’s Club in West Kensington, and the 2027 dates are still TBC. The WTA tour restored the grass-court tournament in 2025.
Women played at the Queen’s Club from the moment the tournament moved there in 1890, in a singles event alongside the men’s. Mixed doubles followed in 1905, and women’s doubles in 1915.
The women’s draw later disappeared from the schedule. Its return in 2025 makes the 2027 edition one of the first of the restored era.
Before the restoration, the women’s grass season had almost nowhere in Britain to prepare for Wimbledon. A tournament here gives a player matches on grass before she arrives at Wimbledon.
The tournament is played the week before the men’s, on the same courts. The grounds are among the smallest on the tour at this level, and a spectator stands nearer the players than at any major.
The courts are the club’s own championship grass, cut for the fortnight and then returned to the members. The event sits in the WTA 500 series of the tour.