Former British primary Laura Robson has been appointed event director of the brand new girls’s occasion at The Queen’s Membership in London.
The WTA 500 occasion, which begins on 9 June 2025, would be the first tour degree girls’s occasion in London for over 50 years.
Robson has been event director on the Nottingham Open for the previous two years, having formally retired from enjoying in 2022.
The 30-year-old, who received Olympic silver within the blended doubles at London 2012, stated she was “delighted to be taking on this position”.
She added: “I am assured that the ladies’s occasion can be simply as thrilling and I can not wait to get began.”
Multi-Grand Slam-winning doubles participant Jamie Murray will as soon as once more oversee the lads’s event, which begins per week later.
Following Robson’s appointment, Amy Hitchinson has been chosen as her successor at Nottingham, which implies that over 70% of LTA grass court docket main occasions may have feminine event administrators.
