Us Open Ashe Stadium Roof

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.

Us open ashe stadium roof. Every august for the us open arthur ashe stadium hosts elite tennis athletes crowds of fans and sponsors for a two week period. Arthur ashe stadium was given a retractable roof built at a cost of about 150 million in 2016 which has now turned into a public relations disaster for the united states tennis association. 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. In arthur ashe stadium a blue tarp covering the seats in the lower tier read black lives matter and murals of black stick figures were placed in the front row of the stadium with the line.

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. Largest retractable roof over a tennis stadium in the world. The original stadium design completed in 1997 had not included a roof. 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.

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. The game day experience at at t stadium will be a little bit different sunday s estimated crowd for cowboys falcons is in. The same is true of armstrong stadium where. 1 stadium at the u s.

The roof has two 800 ton fabric panels made of 210 000 square feet of lightweight ptfe membrane. When the tournament begins on aug. Pods prepackaged food and an open roof maybe. 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.