08/06/2014

Hewitt, Ward and Evans headline Aegon Championships day one

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Lleyton Hewitt will begin his hunt for a record fifth Aegon Championships title on Centre Court at The Queen’s Club on Monday.  

The 2002 Wimbledon Champion will face the un-seeded Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver in the third match scheduled for the opening day of the 2014 Aegon Championships.

The first two matches on Centre Court feature British wild-cards James Ward and Dan Evans. Ward opens proceedings when he takes on Slovenian Blaz Rola. British No.2 Evans will be looking to recreate the great form he found on the same grass-courts last year when he made the last 16, when he faces Jurgen Melzer.

Away from Centre Court, the 2010 Aegon Championships winner Sam Querrey faces Frenchman Jeremy Chardy on Court 1. This is followed by British wild card Daniel Cox who faces Adrian Mannarino of France.

In the doubles draw, British brothers Ken and Neal Skupski will face a formidable task against current Australian Open champion, Stan Wawrinka and 2012 Queen's Clubs semi-finalist Grigor Dimitrov in the last match scheduled on Centre Court.

The final round of qualifying concluded on Sunday with four players coming through to earn places in the main-draw.  James Duckworth of Australia, Daniel Brands of Germany and Turkey's Marsel Ilhan all feature in Monday's play, with Ilhan arguably having the toughest test against No.13 seed Nicolas Mahut of France.  The final qualifying place went to Farrukh Dustov.

Gates open at 10:30 and play is scheduled to start at 12:30.