Us Open Roof 2015

They need only look up.

Us open roof 2015.

Open the qualifying event for the u s. The final piece of steel was installed above ashe on june 10. The stadium is named after arthur ashe winner of the 1968 inaugural us open the first in which. The 2015 united states open championship was the 115th u s.

Fans coming to this year s us open will not have to look long or hard to discover what s new at the 2015 event. When open the fixed steel roof will have the tennis world s largest stadium opening at 250 feet by 250 feet 62 500 square feet. Arthur ashe stadium one of the tournament s main show courts the us tennis association s national tennis center in queens new. Open played june 18 21 2015 at chambers bay in university place washington southwest of tacoma on the shore of puget sound.

Open televised by fox sports 1 and fox sports. The us open retractable roof was finally completed and was unveiled in august 2016. A tour of the new roof on arthur ashe stadium at the 2015 us open tennis championships with andy taylor and brooke taylor hosts of arthur ashe kids day 2015. Jordan spieth won his first u s.

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. New roof structure among changes at arthur ashe for 2015 u s. Open is the best value in sports and not simply because they are free. Open and consecutive major titles one stroke ahead of runners up dustin johnson and louis oosthuizen this was the first u s.

Open planned to use the roof only for rain unlike the australian open which also does so in cases of extreme heat. During the 2015 us open the fixed parts of the new construction were visible. The superstructure for the roof over arthur ashe stadium is complete with more than 6 000 tons of steel surrounding arthur ashe stadium in a technological first.