Wimbledon Court 1 New Roof

The all england lawn tennis club unveiled the fully retractable roof on top of its second biggest court in a star studded ceremony featuring the likes of paloma faith and players including pat cash jamie murray and venus williams.

Wimbledon court 1 new roof.

The no 1 court celebration in support of the wimbledon foundation will take place on sunday 19 may. Five years and 70m later wimbledon gets ready to unveil new no 1 court roof the new roof over no 1 court has also coincided with an increase in the seating capacity by about 1 000. As wimbledon unveiled its new no. The new roof cost 70million and is identical to the one that has covered centre court since.

A new retractable roof has been unveiled over wimbledon s no 1 court ahead of this summer s competition. Former brit award winner paloma faith will perform as the headline music act for the no 1 court celebration in support of the wimbledon foundation on sunday 19 may 2019. Ahead of the july 1 start of wimbledon the all england lawn tennis club aeltc debuted the new no 1 court retractable roof an. The test event for the new.

In april 2013 the all england club confirmed its intention to build a retractable roof over no. It has not been in use yet. As well as a retractable roof the seating capacity of the court was increased by approximately 1 000 to seat 12 345 people. 1 court roof to the nearly packed stands and national television audience the heavens opened an hour or so before.

This year there have been two major innovations at wimbledon. The first match played on the new court was between tim henman and daniel nestor. Wimbledon s 70million new retractable roof for its historic no 1 court was unveiled today at a star studded ceremony and a bout of rain saw it immediately in action. Internationally renowned maltese tenor joseph calleja will also perform as the new no 1 court roof is closed for the first time accompanied by grange park opera s chorus.

The event will be a special exhibition of tennis and music and will test the new no 1 court roof and air management system showcasing live tennis in front of a capacity crowd of more than 12 000 with proceeds donated to the wimbledon foundation the official charity of the club. Indeed the bbc and it is very much. 70m quids worth of new clobber. Some of tennis greatest players went head to head under the new roof at no 1 court in wimbledon.

Gates will open from 11 30am with warm up entertainment commencing at 1 15pm ahead of the main event at 2 00pm.