Queens club tennis

Queens club tennis

For the six-day period of 6-12 of June 2011, the 2011 AEGON Championships was held at the Queens Club in west London. Zachary's Sports News' very own Zachary Macpherson went down there on the second day (7^th June) to catch the atmosphere and see some good tennis. First up was a thrilling match between Feliciano Lopez of Spain, (4lst in the world) and Andy Roddick from the USA who stands 10^th in world ranking and is a former WORLD NO. 1. It was a closely fought match, in which the American just won by 2 sets to 1, and it put him in the next round. Next up was Fernando Verdasco, also a Spaniard, (23^rd in the world), against Nicolas Mahut of France. Verdasco won hands down, in a match that Mahut barely played in. But the REAL thrashing was yet to be seen. This game was between Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, another Frenchman, and Michael Berrer, who are 19^th and 79^th in the world. Tsonga thrashed Berrer 6-0, 6-1 in a game that the German rarely threatened. After that game it was a doubles game between Tomaz Belluci and Andre Sa, both from Brazil, and Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal, the singles world no. 1. Lopez and Nadal are from Spain. In a closely fought set, Nadal and Lopez just edged out the Brazilians  7-6 in the tie-breaker. In the second set the Spaniards won 6-2, and that was the final game on centre court.

The rest of the tournament

There was a British surprise in store as James Ward, the British no. 2 got to the semi-finals, but got beaten by Jo-Wilfred Tsonga. Andy Roddick lost to Andy Murray in the other semi, in a match which Murray was at his best. In the final Murray went a set down but fought back to win his second AGEON championships. Andy Murray!