Tennis: Berdych to make return to Queen’s Club

LONDON: World number six Tomas Berdych will play the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event at Queens Club in June as he targets a repeat of his 2010 run to the final at the grass court slam.

The Czech confirmed yesterday that he would take part in the London event, now called the Aegon Championships, in a bid to sharpen his grass court skills after the European clay season.

It will be Berdych’s first return to the club in eight years and comes on the advice of his new manager and former world number three Ivan Ljubicic.

“I think it could be a good advantage to be in London to get used to the conditions and to those great courts, and I think this is exactly what I need before Wimbledon,” said Berdych.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 5^th, 2013.