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The
Shanghai Rolex Masters (formally the
Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 presented
by Rolex) is a professional tennis
tournament played on outdoor hard
courts. It is currently part of the
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the
Association of Tennis Professionals
(ATP) World Tour. It will be held
annually in October at the Qizhong
Forest Sports City Arena in
Shanghai, People's Republic of
China.
All
matches are played in outdoor
conditions for the first time at the
Qizhong Arena, after the venue held
the Tennis Masters Cup indoors four
times from 2005 to 2008. The surface
is a hard court one, specifically
DecoTurf.
The
venue was originally built in 2004
and 2005 to host the Tennis Masters
Cup, after the ATP awarded the
tournament to Shanghai for a
three-years contract (2005-2007),
later extended to a fourth year. The
site was conceived to become the
biggest tennis venue in Asia, with a
15,000-seats main stadium, featuring
a magnolia-shaped retractable roof,
and twenty additional indoor and
outdoor courts (the facility was
eventually surpassed by the Olympic
Green Tennis Center, created for the
2008 Summer Olympics, as the largest
Asian tennis complex).
In
preparation of the first edition of
the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000, it
was decided that the venue would be
expanded, with several new stadiums
and courts to be constructed by
August 2009, including a Grand Stand
Court 2, with a seating capacity of
5,000 spectactors, and a Grand Stand
Court 3, with a seating capacity of
3,000 spectators
Playing in 2010: Rafael Nadal Novak
Djokovic Roger Federer Andy Murray
Robin Soderling Nikolay Davydenko
Tomas Berdych Fernando Verdasco.
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