The Olympic Green Tennis Center or Beijing Olympic Green Tennis Court (simplified Chinese: 北京奥林匹克公园网球场; traditional Chinese: 北京奧林匹克公園網球場; pinyin: Běijīng Àolínpǐkè Gōngyuán Wǎngqiúchǎng), is a tennis centre located in the Olympic Green. It opened on 1 October 2007. It hosted the Tennis preliminaries and finals of singles and doubles for men and women at the Beijing 2008 Olympics (See Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics) as well as the Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis competitions (See Wheelchair Tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics).
The tennis centre covers an area of 41.22 acres (166,800 m2) or 16.68 hectares with a floor space of 285,394 square feet (26,514.0 m2) or 26,514 square meters. According to the requirements of the Olympic Games, the centre will have 10 competition courts and 6 training courts, with a capacity of 17,400 seats.
The main courts: Center court, Court one & Court two each represent a lotus flower, one of the emblems of the Beijing Olympics Each have 12 stands, each one representing a petal of the lotus flower. Center court has a capacity of 10,000, Court one: 4,000 and Court two: 2,000. The courts have been specially designed for natural air ventilation to reduce the amount of air pollution entering the courts, ensuring optimal health for both athletes and spectators. It also allows the courts to be cooled and with an installation of cooling machines, the courts’ temperatures can easily be reduced to five degrees Celsius. Curtains attached to the roofs of the courts also allows them to be cooled in the heat of the sun.
The project embodies the concepts of Green Olympics, Hi-Tech Olympics, and People’s Olympics. It integrates design experience of world sport architecture and will be a tennis competition venue of the state of the art design in keeping with international standards.
After the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic games of 2008, the center will remain standing and become the new home of the Chinese Tennis Association. It has not hosted the 2008 China Open Tennis tournament, despite rumors it would. However, it will become the new home of the China Open from 2009 onwards.
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- Location : Beijing, China
- Capacity : 17,400 seats