Arthur Ashe Stadium - Queens, NY
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bluesnote
N 40° 44.992 W 073° 50.821
18T E 597334 N 4511628
A large tennis stadium, home to the US Open.
Waymark Code: WMYP7F
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/06/2018
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Taken from Wikipedia, "Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis stadium located in the Queens borough of New York City. As part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament, the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the calendar year — and is the largest tennis stadium in the world (by capacity), with a capacity of 23,771.
Located within Flushing Meadows-Corona Park — a reclaimed site that had previously served as a world's fair site, prior to that Manhattan's coal ash dump and prior to that a natural wetland — the original stadium design had not included a roof. After suffering successive years of event delays from inclement weather, a new lightweight retractable roof was completed in 2016.
The stadium is named after Arthur Ashe, winner of the 1968 inaugural US Open, the first in which professionals could compete."
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