Tennis

Berdych to play Queen's for 1st time in 8 years

Published Mar. 5, 2013 8:55 a.m. ET

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Tomas Berdych will return to Queen's Club for the first time in eight years to tune up for Wimbledon.

Organizers say the sixth-ranked Czech has entered the grass-court tournament, to be played June 10-16.

Berdych's only previous appearance at Queen's was in 2005 when he was 19 years old. He was the runner-up to Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in 2010.

Berdych says ''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.''

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