The Queen’s Club Championships women’s singles draw has been revealed, and Emma Raducanu could find herself up against a Grand Slam champion in round two.
It will be the first grass-court match of 2025 for Raducanu, who had a relatively strong grass season in 2024.
The Brit reached the semi-final in Nottingham and the quarter-final of Eastbourne, before reaching the second week of Wimbledon.
After her second-round loss to Iga Swiatek at the French Open, Raducanu will await to see who she faces in her opening match at the WTA 500 event in London, with the Brit up against a qualifier.
However, the 22-year-old could then find herself up against reigning Wimbledon champion and former world No 2 Barbora Krejcikova in the second round.
Seventh seed Krejcikova has struggled with injury in 2025 and has missed most of the season to date, losing in the second round of the French Open to Veronika Kudermetova.
The Czech begins her campaign against Rebecca Sramkova, before a potential clash against Raducanu.
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Krejcikova and Raducanu are in the same quarter of the draw as top seed Zheng Qinwen, with the Chinese a potential quarter-final opponent for both women.
After receiving a round-one bye, world No 7 Qinwen will begin her campaign against either wildcard Francesca Jones or America’s McCartney Kessler.
Qinwen’s projected semi-final opponent is third seed Emma Navarro, who will be in action for the first time since losing 6-0, 6-1 in the opening round of the French Open.
The world No 9 will start her campaign against either Beatriz Haddad Maia or two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova.
Navarro is projected to face an all-American quarter-final against eighth seed Amanda Anisimova, who begins her campaign against wildcard Jodie Burrage.
The bottom half of the draw is headlined by two Grand Slam champions, with second seed Madison Keys and fourth seed Elena Rybakina set to meet in the last four.
Reigning Australian Open champion Keys, like all top four seeds, receives a bye in round one but could face 2024 Wimbledon semi-finalist Donna Vekic in the second round.
Keys is projected to meet fifth seed Diana Shnaider in the quarter-final, before a hypothetical semi-final against fourth seed and former Wimbledon champion Rybakina.
The Kazakh could face compatriot Yulia Putintseva in her opening match, with Putintseva up against a qualifier in round one.
Former world No 3 Rybakina is then projected to face sixth seed Karolina Muchova in the last eight.
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