Jessica Pegula joins Madison Keys to lead Queen's Club Championships line-up this Summer

Jessica Pegula will head to the UK to start her grass court season with the American who usually plays in Europe signing up for the Queen's Club Championships which will take place between 9-15 June.

Taking the spot that Libema Open 's-Hertogenbosch which Pegula played last year, it is either a WTA 500 for players in the UK or a WTA 250 in the Netherlands so thus far, Pegula and a number of top names have signed up.

Others will perhaps base their season in Germany with the two 500 tournaments in Berlin and Bad Homburg in the weeks that follow prior to Wimbledon. But Pegula could yet play either if she decides not to stick around for Nottingham or Eastbourne.

Thus far she is joined by Madison Keys, the current Australian Open champion who of course has new status as a Grand Slam champion. She is also close friends with the new tournament director in Laura Robson.

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Naomi Osaka also starts her grass court season in London as do Katie Boulter, Emma Raducanu and Daria Kasatkina. The former two usually get the pick of any wildcards and are usually in Nottingham which has been shifted to accommodate this event. It is the first time in over 50 years that a WTA 500 tournament will take place at the club.

A staple of the men's calendar and one that has been won by Carlos Alcaraz famously en route to his maiden Wimbledon title two years ago, there will now be two tournaments in a move that sees a country which hosts the Grand Slam finally have a big opener for the WTA players.

Usually most don't play or will head to Germany to get some practice in but in a move that organisers will hope snares players away from Berlin and Bad Homburg in time, it sees a new era led also like alluded to by one of Britain's best known female tennis players of recent years.

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