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Updated On :08 Apr, 2021
Full Name
Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena
Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena
Capacity
15,000
15,000
Type
Both Indoor & Outdoor
Both Indoor & Outdoor
Location
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena is a tennis arena in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The complex is located on an area of 200 acres, in Maqiao Town, southwest of Shanghai, in Minhang District, which has a remarkably fragmented steel roof that opens and closes to accommodate indoor and outdoor events. The Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena is a 15,000-seater tennis venue and was specifically built to host the 2005 - 2008 ATP World Tour Finals, and was Asia's largest tennis venue until the creation of the Olympic Green Tennis Center in Beijing.
The arena was opened in October 2005 after a construction process that cost approx. $250 million. In 2009, it was honoured with the IOC/IAKS Silver Award for exemplary sports and leisure facilities. It has a retractable steel roof that opens and closes in a pinwheel or spiral manner, with eight sliding petal-shaped pieces that can be moved in 8 minutes and resemble a blooming magnolia. Since 2009, the arena has facilitated the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, an ATP Masters Series tournament that began that year. It also serves as one of the locations used for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic amid their tour of China in 2007.
Trivia
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The arena roof takes eight minutes to fully open or close. -
At present, the tennis park around the Center Court Stadium is expanding. When arena's phase 2 will be completed, there will be a total of 40 tennis courts in the arena, including the Center Court Stadium, 3 small indoor stadiums, 14 indoor courts and 22 outdoor courts.
Significance
- The Arena has a volume rate of 0.187, building density 15.1%, green/open space 46.1%, with a parking capacity of 993. The facility has 25 courts, with three primary courts - the center court, grandstand court 2 and court 3.
- The Center Court Stadium is spread over 30,649 square meters. It has four floors, with a total height of 40 meters (131 ft) above ground level. The court of the center is covered with eight petal-shaped pieces where each petal weighs two tons, by a steel roof that resembles a magnolia, the flower of the city of Shanghai.
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