Four big questions ahead of the 2025 HSBC Championships

Which Brits will star in West London?

Across both the men’s and women’s events this summer, you can guarantee a strong British challenge from players competing at the very top of the game.

World No.5 Jack Draper made his ATP Tour debut at The Queen’s Club four years ago with a win over now world No.1 Jannik Sinner and will come in this year as a potential favourite to win the title.

Draper has been one of the form players of the 2025 season – he won his first ATP Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells, reached finals in Madrid and made the fourth round at the Australian Open. He’s already shown he has the quality to win titles on the grass after winning his first ATP trophy at the Boss Open last summer.

He’s not the only grass court title winner representing the Brits at Queen’s this year – two-time Nottingham champion and British No.1 Boulter has confirmed her place in West London.

2021 US Open winner Raducanu has shown her strength on grass over the past couple of seasons and could be set for a deep run at The Queen's Club as well.

That’s not to mention as well the British players set to compete in qualifying this year and with wild cards still to be announced.

Could this be the year we get the first British singles title winner since Andy Murray?

Who can stop Carlos Alcaraz on the grass?

It’s hard to argue that Carlos Alcaraz has been the best player on grass over the last two seasons.

Since making his debut on the surface in 2023, the young Spaniard has won two Wimbledon titles and a trophy at the Queen’s Club – one of only eight players to complete the Queen’s, Wimbledon double in the same season.

In fact, Alcaraz has only lost one match on grass in two years, which came against Britain’s Draper last season.

Having suffered that early defeat last season, the four-time Grand Slam champion will be determined to get his hands on the title once again and it’s fair to ask, who can stop him?

Will it be Draper again, or maybe last year’s champion Tommy Paul? World No.4 and three-time Eastbourne title-holder Taylor Fritz? Former runner-up and world No.6 Lorenzo Musetti? Or anyone else from the star-studded line-up.

Who are the outside challengers for this year’s titles?

Throughout the women’s draw there are several past grass court champions who will fancy their chances at challenging for at year’s HSBC Championships.

Three years ago, Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia dominated the British grass court season with back-to-back titles in Nottingham and Birmingham.

Donna Vekic is another former Nottingham champion who has reached the top of her game in the last year – including a semi-final run at Wimbledon last year.

Then there’s last year’s Birmingham and Eastbourne champions Yulia Putintseva and Daria Kastakina who will come into the summer full of confidence that they can repeat their success in 2025.

In the men’s draw, there are a few players to keep an eye on throughout the entry list. 2021 and 2022 champion Matteo Berrettini will be someone that all the top seeds will be hoping to avoid, playing on arguably his best and most effective surface.

Watch out for two-time former semi-finalist Seb Korda as well, alongside the big-serving young French star Giovani Mpetshi Perricard and in-form Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.