Us Open New Stadium Roof

The stadium is named after arthur ashe winner of the 1968 inaugural us open the first in which professionals could compete.

Us open new stadium roof.

The three year construction of the roof over arthur ashe stadium is boiled down to a minute in this time lapse. Open title rallying to beat victoria azarenka 1 6 6 3 6 3. The two sided video board center hung from the stadium s roof weighs more than two million pounds. For 40 years louis armstrong stadium played host to some of the most memorable moments in tennis history.

Open tennis tournament all times local. Four time us open champion john mcenroe joined internationally acclaimed musician wynton marsalis and former new york city mayor david dinkins in officially opening the new louis armstrong stadium at a. New york the latest on on the u s. The day honors the legacy of tennis legend and former american world number.

Sofi stadium is a porous indoor outdoor year round complex featuring yes a 70 000 seat stadium and lots of parking but also a 2 5 acre public plaza an adjacent 6 000 seat performance space. Two years later the retractable roof over arthur ashe stadium was completed and a new 8 000 seat grandstand opened. Today a new thread in the rich and vibrant tapestry of the us open was woven. That s about 800 000 pounds heavier than the dallas cowboys video board at at t stadium.

When the new armstrong debuts almost the entire campus will have been. 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. After suffering successive years of event delays from inclement weather a new lightweight retractable roof was completed in 2016. Naomi osaka has won her second u s.