Olympic Green Tennis Centre
 
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| Full name | The centre court of the Olympic Green Tennis Center |
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| Location | Beijing, China |
| Owner | Beijing Shiao Forest Park Development & Management Limited |
| Operator | Beijing Shiao Forest Park Development & Management Limited |
| Capacity | 32 400 seats (12 Match Courts & 6 Practice Courts) 15,000 (National Tennis Stadium / Diamond Court) 10,000 (Lotus Court / Center Court) 4,000 (Moon Court / Court 1) 2,000 (Brad Drewett Court/ Court 2) 200 (Court 2-8/ Court 3-9) (Previous courts name are currently used) |
| Surface | Hard, outdoors |
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| Broke ground | 2003 |
| Opened | 2007 |
| Expanded | 2011 |
| Construction cost | USD ? million |
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Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics (2008) China Open (2009-) |
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Coordinates: 40°01′08.88″N 116°22′24.44″E / 40.0191333°N 116.3734556°E The National Tennis Center (simplified Chinese: 国家网球中心; traditional Chinese: 國家網球中心; pinyin: Guójiā Wǎngqiú Zhōngxīn), is a tennis centre located in the Olympic Green. It opened on 1 October 2007. [1] It hosted the tennis preliminaries and finals of singles and doubles for men and women at the Beijing 2008 Olympics as well as the Paralympic wheelchair tennis competitions.
The Center is located in Beijing, just 1.7 mi (2.7 km) from the Beijing National Stadium (a.k.a. The Birds Nest Stadium).
The tennis centre covers an area of 41.22 acres (166,800 m2) with a floor space of 285,394 sq ft (26,514.0 m2). The centre currently has 12 competition hard courts and 35 training courts, including 20 hard courts, 10 indoor hard courts, 2 artificial grass courts, 2 indoor clay courts, and a mini hard court.
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