Us Open Arthur Ashe Stadium Roof

The day honors the legacy of tennis legend and former american world number.

Us open arthur ashe stadium roof.

Us open at arthur ashe stadium duration. Video courtesy usta. If you were to visit the arthur ashe stadium today or say for the start of the 2016 u s. Billie jean king stood at the modest speaker s stand tuesday afternoon patiently jabbing at the controller used to open and close the new 150 million roof over arthur ashe stadium.

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. 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. Rain is no longer an issue for the us open. The three year construction of the roof over arthur ashe stadium is boiled down to a minute in this time lapse.

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. The roof has two 800 ton fabric panels made of 210 000 square feet of lightweight ptfe membrane. With the completion of the retractable roof over arthur ashe stadium and the other enhancements on campus the billie jean. Arthur ashe stadium is a tennis stadium at flushing meadows corona park in queens new york city part of the usta billie jean king national tennis center it is the main stadium of the us open tennis tournament and the largest tennis stadium in the world with a capacity of 23 771.

Open on monday you would find eight concrete pads around the stadium s perimeter each with a set of. The underlying ground in corona park was not stable enough to support a new 5 000 ton roof placed on top of the cavernous 24 000 capacity arthur ashe stadium so instead it has been built as a. Arthur ashe stadium roof closing for the first time at us open tennis tournament 2016 us open arthur ashe kids day 2016. In addition to the new roof the stadium features new seating for 23 771 fans state of the art broadcast and audio systems 90 luxury suites five restaurants including media and player dining and a two level players lounge.