Wimbledon Retractable Roof

Wimbledon s court no 1 is to have its own retractable roof by 2019 after a 70m modernisation of the all england club was given the green light reports the london evening standard.

Wimbledon retractable roof.

A new retractable roof has been unveiled over wimbledon s no 1 court ahead of this summer s competition. The building of the wimbledon championships retractable roof began with the removal of the existing roof over the stands at the end of the wimbledon championships 2006. During the 2008 championships the fixed parts of the new construction were visible. 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.

Some of tennis greatest players went head to head under the new roof at no 1 court in wimbledon. A wimbledon style retractable roof to shelter drinkers during the winter months is among the innovative ways dundee pub landlords are trying to stay open in anticipation of a second wave of. Wimbledon s court no 1 retractable roof. Ten steel trusses each weighing 70t and spanning 77m fasten the bays.

Each truss is supported by a set of wheels that move along a track. There was no roof over the stands during the event in the following year. So when jennins team was designing a retractable roof for the centre court the main stage of the wimbledon tennis championship the most important thing to determine was how not to block the sunlight that feeds the world s most visible patch of grass. The result is a 65 by 75 meter roughly 213 by 246 foot hydraulically operated structure of translucent fabric supported by steel trusses.

The new roof cost 70million and is identical to the one that has covered centre court since.