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DATE: 3-9 October 2016
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: $2,916,550
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Novak Djokovic
Seeds:
1. A. Murray
2. R. Nadal
3. M. Raonic
4. D. Thiem
5. D. Ferrer
6. L. Pouille
7. R. Bautista Agut
8. R. Gasquet
The Tournament:
The Beijing Olympic Green Tennis Center, purpose-built for the 2008 Olympic Games, is the venue for the China Open. In 2011, the venue expanded to an 11-court stadia as it boasted a new 15,000-seat Stadium with a retractable roof, named the Diamond Court due to its likeness. The tennis centre employs space-age air-cooling technology to benefit players and spectators.
About City
Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and, with 21+ million inhabitants, is world's most populous capital city. (And second most in China, after Shanghai.) Beijing has 3 millennia of history, richly demonstrated in some of it's most famous attractions: the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, amongst others, and the Beijing Opera. The Great Wall is accessible in the mountains a short drive to the north. At the same time, it has embraced the 21st Century in it's architecture, and the West, as it now has Starbucks, Planet Hollywood, for better or worse. And also for the worse is Beijing's air quality, which is often dreadful and noxious. Shopping is a major tourist attraction. The old district is Wangfujing Street, and the modern option is Taikoo Li Sanlitun. Beijing is at it's most wacky and compelling in the early morning, when the residents take their "Chi" (energy) of the day. They work this out in tai chi, tango dancing, walking their birds in cages, barking like dogs and generally behaving like the Minister of Silly Walks in Monty Python. Mornings in Beijing are like visiting an alternate universe...charmingly.
Tourism Guide:
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: $2,916,550
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Novak Djokovic
Seeds:
1. A. Murray
2. R. Nadal
3. M. Raonic
4. D. Thiem
5. D. Ferrer
6. L. Pouille
7. R. Bautista Agut
8. R. Gasquet
The Tournament:
The Beijing Olympic Green Tennis Center, purpose-built for the 2008 Olympic Games, is the venue for the China Open. In 2011, the venue expanded to an 11-court stadia as it boasted a new 15,000-seat Stadium with a retractable roof, named the Diamond Court due to its likeness. The tennis centre employs space-age air-cooling technology to benefit players and spectators.
About City
Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and, with 21+ million inhabitants, is world's most populous capital city. (And second most in China, after Shanghai.) Beijing has 3 millennia of history, richly demonstrated in some of it's most famous attractions: the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, amongst others, and the Beijing Opera. The Great Wall is accessible in the mountains a short drive to the north. At the same time, it has embraced the 21st Century in it's architecture, and the West, as it now has Starbucks, Planet Hollywood, for better or worse. And also for the worse is Beijing's air quality, which is often dreadful and noxious. Shopping is a major tourist attraction. The old district is Wangfujing Street, and the modern option is Taikoo Li Sanlitun. Beijing is at it's most wacky and compelling in the early morning, when the residents take their "Chi" (energy) of the day. They work this out in tai chi, tango dancing, walking their birds in cages, barking like dogs and generally behaving like the Minister of Silly Walks in Monty Python. Mornings in Beijing are like visiting an alternate universe...charmingly.
Tourism Guide:
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