National Tennis Center

National Tennis Center

National Tennis Center is a professional tennis court for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. It is one of the top tennis courts in the world.

The center is located in Beijing Olympic Forest Park, with North Fifth Ring Road in the north, West Olin road in the East and lincui road in the West. It covers an area of 16.68 hectares and has 30 pieces of international standard competition venues, including 17 outdoor venues, 12 indoor venues (including two red clay courts that meet international competition standards) and a diamond court with openable roof.

The diamond ball hall, air film indoor hall, lotus, yingyue and other venues in the National Tennis Center form a new venue cluster. The entire venue competition area can accommodate nearly 30000 spectators at the same time. With the stop watching area set up in the training venue, the hardware facilities and functional configuration of the entire venue cluster have reached the standard of undertaking Grand Slam events, providing guarantee for the "China open" event to move into the "fifth grand Slam" in the future. The National Tennis Center will become the symbol of Chinese tennis, the center of Asian Tennis, the landmark of Beijing's sports and cultural construction, and a new international city card of the capital.

Introduction to the center

Venue size

National Tennis Center is a professional tennis court for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. It is one of the top tennis courts in the world. Located in Beijing Olympic Forest Park, it is adjacent to the North Fifth Ring Road in the north, the West Olin road in the East and the lincui road in the West. It covers an area of 16.68 hectares and has 30 pieces of international standard competition venues, including 17 outdoor venues, 12 indoor venues (including two laterite courts meeting the international competition standards) and a diamond stadium with openable roof. During the 2008 Olympic Games, Lotus Court, yingyue court, No.1 court, eight preliminaries and six driving ranges undertook the tennis and wheelchair tennis events. Among them, the lotus stadium can accommodate 8814 seats, the yingyue stadium can accommodate 3404 seats, the No. 1 stadium can accommodate 1732 seats, and each of the eight preliminaries can accommodate 200 seats, with a total of 15345 seats. In 2011, according to the needs of the competition, a new diamond arena with a total of 48 visible air rooms on the upper and lower floors was built. At present, it is the only arena with double-layer visible air rooms in Asia. The roof can be closed or opened in 12 minutes. The convenient conversion between "field" and "Hall" can be realized quickly. It has become a real all day stadium. The diamond arena has 13520 seats for spectators. The overall building is one floor underground and eight floors above ground. Diamond arena has a player area of 1500 square meters for players from all over the world, which can accommodate 500 players at the same time. In addition, the new hall has also set up six players' exclusive lounges ranging from 15 to 30 square meters, which include rest, shower, massage and other functions, bringing players a noble and luxurious competition experience. The spectator viewing platform is specially set up in the outer ring of the stadium, so that the spectators can know the competition situation of the surrounding stadium or the performance process of the carnival square at any time, and even have a bird's-eye view of the Olympic Forest Park to get a panoramic view of the surrounding natural beauty.

Air model Stadium

The indoor air film Tennis Hall of National Tennis Center was built in July 2012. The indoor air film pipe is a light-weight membrane structure building without steel beam. The air film building is a special building membrane material as the building shell, with closed building space, equipped with mechanical and electrical system to maintain the internal pressure. The tension of the membrane material is maintained by the group internal pressure to form the curved surface ball hall required by the design, and the intelligent management of the air film ball hall In addition, there are VIP lounge, physiotherapy massage room, geothermal bath room, dining room and other facilities. The stadium is warm in winter and cool in summer, with constant temperature and humidity, 24-hour air circulation system, and lighting mode of non glare chandelier. There are 10 pieces of high elastic international standard indoor hard earth courts made of acrylic acid and 2 pieces of international standard laterite courts in the museum. The same laterite material as French Open is used as the venue material, so that the majority of tennis lovers can feel the fun of playing in the French Open. At present, a new venue cluster has been formed in the original areas of diamond ball hall, air film indoor hall, lotus, yingyue and other venues of the National Tennis Center. The entire venue competition area can accommodate nearly 30000 spectators at the same time. With the stop watching area set up in the training ground, the hardware facilities and functional configuration of the entire venue cluster have reached the standard of undertaking Grand Slam events, providing guarantee for "China open" to move into the "fifth Grand Slam" in the future. The National Tennis Center will become the symbol of China Tennis and the center of Asian Tennis.

Basic data

City: Beijing

Events held: China open, tennis competition of the 29th Olympic Games in 2008

Number of seats in main venues:

Diamond courts: 13520

Lotus Stadium: 8814

Yingyue Stadium: 3404

Court 1: 1732

Eight peripheral courts, 220 each

Total seats: 15345

Completion time: 2007

Architecture Overview

Build a new Center National Stadium - Diamond court, with an openable roof and 13520 fixed seats. It was completed in August 2010.

The existing three main ball courts are all dodecahedral in architectural style. Visually, low-scale buildings are formed in the north area of the Olympic Park. The twelve petals of the central stadium stretch out under the blue sky and white clouds, just like the "Lotus" blooming in the Olympic Park hidden in green. Together with the other two delicate flowers, No. 1 and No. 2, it creates a "natural" landscape with the Olympic Forest Park as the background. The grandstand of the central stadium is divided into twelve parts, which just form the twelve petals of the lotus. With the change of the number of seats in the stands, the height of the stands rises gradually. The white canopy is like twelve pure lotus petals blooming in the green forest.

The national tennis court was funded by Beijing Shiao Forest Park Development and Management Co., Ltd. It was opened at the end of 2009 and completed on August 10, 2011. It was officially named "national tennis court" on September 7, 2011. At the beginning of the design, it was temporarily named "corolla court" and the original "Lotus" central court less than 500 meters away. After a grand name campaign, the new central court of China open was named "national tennis court"

. The new stadium, which stands in the National Tennis Center, has a name matching its shape and scale. It will become the symbol of Chinese tennis, the center of Asian Tennis, the landmark of Beijing's sports and cultural construction, and a new international city card of the capital.

The main body of the diamond court is 1 floor above the ground, 8 floors of surrounding ancillary buildings and 1 floor underground. The first floor is the equipment room (including catering kitchen); the first floor is the functional room for management, athletes and referees; the second floor is the auditorium, service room and private room; the third floor is the private room and service room; the fourth floor is the service room; the fifth floor is the sponsor commercial room; the sixth floor is the equipment room and audience service room; the seventh floor is the outdoor platform; the eighth floor is the auditorium and broadcasting room Spare room. The highest building height is about 45.3 meters.

2008 Olympic Games

The tennis competition of the 29th Summer Olympic Games in 2008 was held in Beijing Olympic Park Tennis Center (National Tennis Center) from August 10, 2008 to August 17, 2008. There are four events: Men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles. All the finals of the champion and runner up were held in the "Lotus" Center Stadium.

Men's singles champion: Nadal (Spain) - 3-0 win over Gonzalez (Chile) in the final on August 17, 2008

Women's singles champion: Dementieva (Russia) - 2-1 victory over Safina (Russia) in the final on August 16, 2008

Men's doubles champion: Federer / wallinka (Switzerland) - 2-0 win over asperin / Johansson (Sweden) in the final on August 16, 2008

Women's doubles champion: Williams / Williams (USA) - 2-0 win over Gary quez / pasquel (Spain) in the final on August 17, 2008

China open

In 2009, the China open was relocated from Beijing Guangcai tennis center to the National Tennis Center in the Olympic Park. The National Tennis Center has a total construction area of 26514 square meters, with a total of 10 venues. Among them, the central court, as the final venue, can accommodate 10000 spectators, with a total number of seats of 17400, and 6 driving ranges. Such a gorgeous venue has been highly praised by Mr. Larry Scott, President of WTA, and will become a tennis Mecca that fans yearn for.

The China open was upgraded after it was moved to the National Tennis Center in 2009. The men's event is a "500 point event" with a total bonus of US $2 million, while the women's event has a total bonus of at least US $400