Watch: Queen's Club - Women's Event Day One
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Date: 12:48 BST 8 June
Title: The Queen's champion who reigned for half a century
Content: Written by Sophie Brown & Laura Scott
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1973 Queen's Club Championships, London, Saturday 23rd June 1973. Olga Morozova, Women's Final
When Olga Morozova lifted the biggest trophy of her career, she might not have thought she would be the reigning champion for more than 50 years.
But next week she will finally lose her crown when the Queen's Club Championships stages a women's event for the first time since 1973.
The winner will get a new trophy, which has the previous champions engraved on it, as the original one could not be located.
And the tennis world itself is also a different one to Morozova's days of wooden racquets and taking public transport to events.
As Queen's prepares to welcome today's players to its grass courts on Monday, Morozova reflects on a time when rain meant matches were moved indoors on to a tricky wooden court, the event was sponsored by a tobacco company and her prize money for the title was £1,000.
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Date: 14:57 BST 6 June
Title: Who to watch
Content: BBC Sport
Brits in Action
The British women's number 1, Katie Boulter, will be looking to continue her good form on grass having won the Nottingham Open for the previous two years. She will be looking to be the first British women to win the event since Ann Haydon-Jones in 1969 and follow in her footsteps of winning both the Queen's Club Championship and Wimbledon in the same year.
British men's number 1, Jack Draper, is looking to continue his fine year with another win before Wimbledon. Draper won at Indian Wells earlier this year beating Holger Rune in straight sets and currently sits 5th in the world rankings, the highest of his career.
Best of the rest
American Madison Keys won her first grand slam this year, winning the Australian Open in January. She'll be eyeing up her second grand slam at Wimbledon and a win at Queen's could put her in a good position. Keys has previous success on grass from a 2023 Eastbourne win.
World number two Carlos Alcaraz will be looking to continue his dominance on grass as he sets to defend his Wimbledon title for a second time. The Spaniard has won Queen's once before in 2023, the year he won his first Wimbledon grand slam.
Katie Boulter, Jack Draper, Madison Keys & Carlos Alcaraz
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