{"id":594494,"date":"2026-05-20T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594494\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:03:13","slug":"hsbc-championships-2026-jiri-lehecka-cam-norrie-rafael-jodar-join-line-up-as-entry-list-is-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594494\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Championships 2026: Jiri Lehecka, Cam Norrie &#038; Rafael Jodar join line-up as entry list is announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex de Minaur will headline the men\u2019s draw at this year\u2019s HSBC Championships, with last year&#8217;s runner-up Jiri Lehecka, British No.1 Cam Norrie and rising star Rafael Jodar added to the line-up.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the men\u2019s entry list follows the WTA 500 entry list being revealed last week.\u00a0In total, the combined\u00a0men\u2019s and\u00a0women\u2019s entry\u00a0lists contain\u00a0four\u00a0players\u00a0from\u00a0the world\u2019s top 10 and\u00a013 players\u00a0who feature\u00a0in the\u00a0world\u2019s top 20, with the\u00a0women\u2019s\u00a0list headed by\u00a0Jessica\u00a0Pegula,\u00a0Amanda Anisimova\u00a0and\u00a0Victoria Mboko.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since breaking into the world\u2019s top 10 for the first time in 2024, De Minaur has been one of the most consistent players on the men\u2019s tour. <\/p>\n<p>Always among\u00a0the favourites for titles wherever he plays,\u00a0the current world No.9 claimed the\u00a0ABN Amro ATP 500 title in Rotterdam in February,\u00a0and\u00a0having\u00a0reached a semi final and final\u00a0at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/international\/hsbc-championships\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queen\u2019s Club<\/a> in the past\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0missing\u00a0out\u00a0on the title\u00a0in 2023 to\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0he will be\u00a0hoping to\u00a0go one step further this summer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like\u00a0de Minaur, Lehecka will return to West London\u00a0also\u00a0seeking to go one step further after missing out on a title to\u00a0Alcaraz, having\u00a0just missed out after a thrilling final in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2024\u2019s\u00a0final two of\u00a0Tommy\u00a0Paul\u00a0and\u00a0Lorenzo Musetti\u00a0return\u00a0to\u00a0Queen\u2019s,\u00a0alongside\u00a0two-time champion\u00a0Marin\u00a0Cilic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2025-cam-norrie-hsbc-championships-r1.jpg\" alt=\"2025-Cam-Norrie-HSBC-Championships-R1.jpg\" width=\"2398\" height=\"1536\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>British stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/british-tennis-players\/cameron-norrie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norrie<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/british-tennis-players\/jack-draper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Draper<\/a> will also\u00a0feature,\u00a0with Draper returning from injury and\u00a0looking to avenge his semi-final loss\u00a0to Lehecka last summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Along with\u00a0leading names from the ATP Tour,\u00a0Spanish rising star Jodar\u00a0is set to play both at Queen\u2019s and the following week at the Lexus Eastbourne Open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The current world No.29 is one of the ATP Tour\u2019s most promising talents,\u00a0with the 19-year-old claiming his first ATP title in Marrakech\u00a0in April, before thrilling runs to the quarter finals on clay in both Madrid and Rome\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0the first teenager\u00a0to reach that stage in the same season since Rafael\u00a0Nadal in 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jodar said,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to competing in my first season on grass, starting at the HSBC Championships at The Queen\u2019s Club. I grew up watching Queen\u2019s on television, so to now have the opportunity to play there for the first time feels very special. The same goes for Eastbourne, both tournaments have such a great history and are an important part of the grass court season. I\u2019m very excited to get started.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"rt-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/international\/hsbc-championships\/player-entry-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full entry list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2025 champion Carlos Alcaraz\u00a0will\u00a0not\u00a0return to\u00a0defend his title\u00a0at\u00a0this year\u2019s\u00a0tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Writing\u00a0on social media, Alcaraz\u00a0stated,\u00a0\u201cMy recovery is going well and I\u2019m feeling much better, but unfortunately I\u2019m still not ready to compete, which is why I have to withdraw from the grass-court swing at Queen\u2019s and Wimbledon. They are two truly special tournaments for me and I will miss them a lot. We\u2019ll keep working to come back as soon as possible!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Murray, Tournament Director of the\u00a0ATP 500 event at the HSBC Championships,\u00a0said,\u00a0&#8220;It\u2019s\u00a0great to have such a strong field of players confirmed for the HSBC Championships \u2013 a really exciting combination of top ranked players, experienced champions, and some of the most exciting break-out stars on the Tour right now. We\u2019re looking forward to welcoming them all to The Queen\u2019s Club and treating fans to another brilliant week of tennis.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are sold out for this year\u2019s\u00a0ATP 500 event at the HSBC Championships. However,\u00a0limited tickets remain for this year&#8217;s WTA 500 event at the HSBC Championships, with grounds admission tickets starting from \u00a315 and Centre Court tickets from \u00a320.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"rt-button--secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/tickets.lta.org.uk\/content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buy tickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur will headline the men\u2019s draw at this year\u2019s HSBC Championships, with last year&#8217;s runner-up Jiri&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}