{"id":276271,"date":"2025-11-11T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276271\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:03:08","slug":"jack-draper-and-jessica-pegula-to-play-queens-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/276271\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula to play Queen’s in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I’ve got a picture of me next to the trophy when I’m a kid and I’m just about taller than the trophy so hopefully one day I’ll get to lift it up. <\/p>\n

“Queen’s is one of the tournaments I want to win the most because it’s my home tournament, a beautiful place and making the semi-finals this year, I just came up short, so next year I’ll be really motivated to come back and go a couple of steps further.”<\/p>\n

Pegula, 31, said: “I’ve heard great things from other players about the set-up, the atmosphere, and the history there, so it’ll be fun to experience it for myself.”<\/p>\n

The women’s tournament takes place from 6-14 June, with the men’s held from 13-21 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I’ve got a picture of me next to the trophy when I’m a kid and I’m just about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-276271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}