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DATE: 2-8 October, 2017
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: $4,280,460
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Andy Murray
Seeds:
1. Rafael Nadal
2. Alexander Zverev
3. Grigor Dimitrov
4. Pablo Carreño Busta
5. Roberto Bautista Agut
6. John Isner
7. Thomas Berdych
8. Nick Kyrgios
The Tournament:
The tournament, a combined ATP-WTA event is staged in Beijing Olympic Park at the China National Tennis Center. The facility - constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics - expanded to 11 courts featuring a new 15,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof in 2011. It utilizes space-age air-cooling technology. In 2006, the China Open became the first tournament outside the United States to implement Hawk-Eye electronic line calling.
The 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.
Tourism video:
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: $4,280,460
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Andy Murray
Seeds:
1. Rafael Nadal
2. Alexander Zverev
3. Grigor Dimitrov
4. Pablo Carreño Busta
5. Roberto Bautista Agut
6. John Isner
7. Thomas Berdych
8. Nick Kyrgios
The Tournament:
The tournament, a combined ATP-WTA event is staged in Beijing Olympic Park at the China National Tennis Center. The facility - constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics - expanded to 11 courts featuring a new 15,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof in 2011. It utilizes space-age air-cooling technology. In 2006, the China Open became the first tournament outside the United States to implement Hawk-Eye electronic line calling.
The 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.
Tourism video:
