The Olympic Green Tennis Center
or Beijing Olympic Green Tennis Court
(???????????), [1] is a tennis centre located in the Olympic Green. It opened on 1 October 2007 . It hosted the Tennis preliminaries and finals of singles and doubles for men and women at the Beijing 2008 Olympics (See Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics) as well as the Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis competitions (See Wheelchair Tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics)
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OLYMPIC GREEN TENNIS CENTER TICKETS
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General Information
The Center is located in
Beijing, just 1.7 miles from the
Beijing National Stadium aka. The Birds Nest Stadium.
The tennis centre covers an area of 41.22 acres or 16.68 hectares with a floor space of 285,394 square feet or 26,514 square meters. According to the requirements of the Olympic Games, the centre will have 10 competition courts and 6 training courts, with a capacity of 17,400 seats.
The main courts: Center court, Court one & Court two each represent a lotus flower, one of the emblems of the
Beijing Olympics Each have 12 stands, each one representing a petal of the lotus flower. Center court has a capacity of 10,000, Court one: 4,000 and Court two: 2,000. The courts have been specially designed for natural air ventilation to reduce the amount of air pollution entering the courts, ensuring optimal health for both athletes and spectators. It also allows the courts to be cooled and with an installation of cooling machines, the courts' temperatures can easily be reduced to five degrees Celsius. Curtains attatched to the roofs of the courts also allows them to be cooled in the heat of the sun.
The project embodies the concepts of Green Olympics, Hi-Tech Olympics, and People's Olympics. It integrates design experience of world sport architecture and will be a tennis competition venue of the state of the art design in keeping with international standards.
Timeline
Before The Olympics
The courts were opened on 1 October 2007 and were tested between 6 October and 20 October 2007 in the , where 36 men and 44 women competed.
During The Olympics
The Courts hosted the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing. The following competitions were played:
Men's Singles - 64-Player Draw
Women's Singles - 64-Player Draw
Men's Doubles - 32-Player Draw
Women's Doubles - 32-Player Draw
The Winners
| Event
| Gold
| Silver
| Bronze
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Men's singles
| Rafael Nadal
Spain (ESP)
| Fernando Gonzalez
Chile (CHI)
| Novak Djokovic
Serbia (SRB)
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Men's doubles
| Switzerland (SUI)
Roger Federer
Stanislas Wawrinka
| Sweden (SWE)
Simon Aspelin
Thomas Johansson
| United States (USA)
Bob Bryan
Mike Bryan
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Women's singles
| Elena Dementieva
Russia (RUS)
| Dinara Safina
Russia (RUS)
| Vera Zvonareva
Russia (RUS)
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Women's doubles
| United States (USA)
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
| Spain (ESP)
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Virginia Ruano Pascual
| China (CHN)
Zi Yan
Jie Zheng
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During The Paralympics
The Courts also hosted the
Wheelchair Tennis competitions of the
2008 Summer Paralympics in
Beijing. These were played between 8 September and 15 September 2008.
112 athletes (approximately 64-80 male and 32~48 female) were classified into disability group.
The competitions played included:
- Men's singles
- Women's singles
- Men's doubles
- Women's doubles
- Quads singles
- Quads doubles
The Winners
| Event
| Gold
| Silver
| Bronze
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Men's singles
| Shingo Kunieda
Japan (JPN)
| Robin Ammerlaan
Netherlands (NED)
| Maikel Scheffers
Netherlands (NED)
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Men's doubles
| France (FRA)
Stephane Houdet
Michael Jeremiasz
| Sweden (SWE)
Stefan Olsson
Peter Wikstrom
| Japan (JPN)
Shingo Kunieda
Satoshi Saida
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Women's singles
| Esther Vergeer
Netherlands (NED)
| Korie Homan
Netherlands (NED)
| Florence Gravellier
France (FRA)
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Women's doubles
| Netherlands (NED)
Korie Homan
Sharon Walraven
| Netherlands (NED)
Jiske Griffioen
Esther Vergeer
| France (FRA)
Florence Gravellier
Arlette Racineux
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Quad singles
| Peter Norfolk
Great Britain (GBR)
| (Johan Andersson)
| (David Wagner)
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Quad doubles
| United States (USA)
Nick Taylor
David Wagner
| Israel (ISR)
Boaz Kramer
Shraga Weinberg
| Great Britain (GBR)
Jamie Burdekin
Peter Norfolk
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After The Olympics/Paralympics
After the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic games of 2008, the center will remain standing and become the new home of the
Chinese Tennis Association