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By Kevin Mitchell at Queen's Club on June 19th, 2017
Andy Murray joins sports stars pledging donations to Grenfell appeal
• World No1 will hand over his winnings from Queen’s Club tournament• Footballers Raheem Sterling and Hector Bellerin also plan to donate
Andy Murray on Monday pledged his winnings at this year’s Aegon Championships at Queen’s Club – which will be more than £346,000 if he wins his sixth title on Sunday – to the families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy.
When he won the Queen’s Club title in 2013, Murray donated his £73,000 winner’s purse to the Royal Marsden Hospital, who successfully treated his friend, the former doubles player Ross Hutchins, for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The tournament , the most prestigious on grass in the leadup to Wimbledon, has since been upgraded to an ATP500 event.
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