Queen’s Membership: Laura Robson appointed event director for brand spanking new ladies’s occasion

Former British No. 1 participant Laura Robson has been appointed event director of a brand new ladies’s occasion at The Queen’s Membership in London.

The WTA 500 occasion, which begins on 9 June 2025, would be the first ladies’s tour-level occasion in London for greater than 50 years.

Robson has been event director on the Nottingham Open for the previous two years, having formally retired from taking part in in 2022.

The 30-year-old, who gained silver on the Olympic doubles in London in 2012, stated she was “delighted to tackle this function”.

He added: “I hope the ladies’s occasion will likely be simply as thrilling and I can not wait to get began.”

Two-time Multi-Grand Slam winner Jamie Murray may even host the lads’s event beginning every week later.

Following Robson’s appointment, Amy Hitchinson has been named as her successor at Nottingham, which means greater than 70% of main LTA grass court docket occasions can have feminine event administrators.