Entrance to Queen's Club during preparations for the 2005 Queen's Club Championships.

The Queen's Club is a private sporting club in West Kensington, London. Founded in 1886, the Queen's Club was the world's first multipurpose sports complex. The club hosts the prestigious annual Queen's Club Championships grass court men's lawn tennis tournament. With two courts it is also the national headquarters of real tennis, hosting the British Open every year. The Queen's Club also has racquets courts and squash courts. Download high resolution version (1338x1506, 294 KB)Queens Club during preparations for the 2005 tournament, taken Saturday 4th June 2005. ... Download high resolution version (1338x1506, 294 KB)Queens Club during preparations for the 2005 tournament, taken Saturday 4th June 2005. ... Goran Ivanisevic and Mario Ancic playing doubles during the 2004 Queens Club Championships The Queens Club Championships is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queens Club in London. ... West Kensington is an area within the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... Goran Ivanisevic and Mario Ancic playing doubles during the 2004 Queens Club Championships The Queens Club Championships is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queens Club in London. ... Grass courts are the fastest kind of tennis courts, next to cement courts or hard courts. ... A tennis net Tennis is a game played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ... Real tennis is the original racket sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, is descended. ... R. P. Keigwin (right) with AEJ Collins the Colleges racquets team at Clifton College circa 1902 Racquets (American English) or rackets (British English) is an indoor racquet sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. ... Squash racquet and ball Players in a glass-backed squash court International Squash Singles Court, as specified by the World Squash Federation Squash is an indoor racquet sport that was formerly called Squash racquets, a reference to the squashable soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball...

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Until 1922, the club was the main ground for the football games of Corinthian. One international was held, England drawing 1-1 with Wales on March 18, 1895. Corinthian Casuals have proposed moving back to Queens Club, now it will not be hosting a warm-up tennis competition for Wimbledon. Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Corinthian-Casuals F.C. are a football club based in Tolworth[[1]] in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, currently playing in the Isthmian League First Division South, formed in 1939 by a merger of two famous amateur clubs, Corinthians, who formed in 1882, and Casuals, who formed in... First international Scotland 0 - 0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) Biggest win Ireland 0 - 13 England (Belfast, Ireland; 18 February 1882) Biggest defeat Hungary 7 - 1 England (Budapest, Hungary; 23 May 1954) World Cup Appearances 12 (First in 1950) Best result Winners, 1966 European Championship Appearances 7 (First in... First international Scotland 4 - 0 Wales (Glasgow, Scotland; 26 March 1876) Largest win Wales 11 - 0 Ireland (Wrexham, Wales; 3 March 1888) Worst defeat Scotland 9 - 0 Wales (Glasgow, Scotland; 23 March 1878) World Cup Appearances 1 (First in 1958) Best result Quarter-finals, 1958 European Championship Appearances none (First... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Corinthian-Casuals F.C. are a football club based in Tolworth[[1]] in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, currently playing in the Isthmian League First Division South, formed in 1939 by a merger of two famous amateur clubs, Corinthians, who formed in 1882, and Casuals, who formed in... The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest event in the sport of tennis. ...

On September 13, 2005, the Lawn Tennis Association, the governing body of British lawn tennis, put the Queen's Club up for sale. The LTA owned Queen's since 1953. The terms required that the rackets club and the Stella Artois Championships remain unaffected. On March 8, 2006, the LTA announced that it would sell to club members for £45 million, ending seven-months of uncertainty about the club's future.^[1] However some members disputed the LTA's right to sell the club, which they contested it merely held in trust on their behalf, and began to raise funds to dispute the sale in court. In late 2006 the two sides reached an out of court settlement in which the sale price was reduced to £35 million. ^[2] September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the governing body of tennis in the United Kingdom. ... Goran Ivanisevic and Mario Ancic playing doubles during the 2004 Queens Club Championships The Queens Club Championships is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queens Club in London. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

The LTA is relocating its headquarters by early 2007 to the new National Tennis Centre, currently under construction in Roehampton. The United Kingdoms National Tennis Centre is currently under construction at Roehampton in south west London, and it is due to open in late 2006. ... Roehampton is a place in south London, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...

References

1. ^ Bloomberg. London's Queen's Club Sold to Members for 45 Million Pounds. Retrieved on April 25, 2006.
2. ^ LTA sells Queen's Club for £35m, bbc.co.uk, 14 December 2006.

April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...

See also

• Queen's Club Championships (tennis tournament)
• All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club - London's other famous tennis club

Goran Ivanisevic and Mario Ancic playing doubles during the 2004 Queens Club Championships The Queens Club Championships is an annual tournament for male tennis players, held on grass courts at the Queens Club in London. ... The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is based at Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton, at grid reference TQ242721. ...

External links

• The Queen's Club
• Street map

Coordinates: 51°29′15″N, 0°12′42″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...