Us Open Arthur Ashe Stadium Roof

The newly unveiled roof over arthur ashe stadium was closed for the first time wednesday night with light rains forcing it to shut during the evening match between rafael nadal and andreas seppi.

Us open arthur ashe stadium roof.

Arthur ashe stadium roof closes for first time. Every august for the us open arthur ashe stadium hosts elite tennis athletes crowds of fans and sponsors for a two week period. The roof has two 800 ton fabric panels made of 210 000 square feet of lightweight ptfe membrane. The original stadium design completed in 1997 had not included a roof.

The same is true of armstrong stadium where. The usta will also open sections of arthur ashe so that players can move throughout the stadium and sit to watch matches or get out of the weather. The us open roof on the arthur ashe stadium and louis armstrong stadium was designed by rossetti architects and it s structure engineered by wsp global. 27 victoria azarenka in the first grand slam semifinal ever to be contested.

Completed for the 2016 us open arthur ashe stadium s innovative 150 million retractable roof is the largest of any tennis stadium in the world. If you were to visit the arthur ashe stadium today or say for the start of the 2016 u s. At 23 771 seats arthur ashe stadium is the primary tennis stadium on the billie jean king national tennis center campus and is the largest tennis stadium in the world. Largest retractable roof over a tennis stadium in the world.

Open on monday you would find eight concrete pads around the stadium s perimeter each with a set of steel. Rain started to fall with nadal up 6 0 3 3 forcing a slight delay in play while the retractable roof completed for 2016 was closed. The stadium is named after arthur ashe winner of the 1968 inaugural us open the first in which professionals could compete. After suffering successive years of event delays from inclement weather a new lightweight retractable roof was completed in 2016.