北京网球中心

Beijing Tennis Centre, better known as the National Tennis Centre, occupies 2 Lincui Road in Chaoyang District, near the west gate of the Olympic Forest Park, with the North Fifth Ring Road to the north, Aolin West Road to the east and Lincui Road to the west. Built as the tennis and wheelchair tennis venue for the 2008 Olympic Games, it later became the home of the China Open, moving the capital's flagship tennis event from Guangcai in the south to the Olympic Green and adding a year-round racket-sports cluster to a district already anchored by the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube. The 16.68-hectare site holds 30 international-standard courts: 17 outdoor, 12 indoor, including two clay courts built to tournament specification, plus the retractable-roof Diamond Court. Support buildings include the air-dome indoor hall, Lotus Court, Yingyue Court and a service complex. At the 2008 Games the built area was 26,514 square metres with 17,400 seats across the site, of which Lotus Court, the then centre court, held about 10,000 spectators for the Olympic tennis and wheelchair tennis events. The clay courts opened in April 2023; a 2025 upgrade added a south-plaza link, five international-standard training courts and a clay-themed garden viewing area, lifting the competition zone's capacity to nearly 30,000. The venue is run on a dual track of tournament-grade sport and daily public use. Outdoor courts use tournament-certified acrylic hard-court systems, the indoor halls use air-supported membranes to create long-span column-free space for winter and wet-weather play, and Diamond Court's opening roof carries the China Open night sessions and finals. The park is normally open to the public from 9am to 10pm with court booking, coaching and junior events. Lincuiqiao station on metro line 8 is about 400 metres from the eastern edge of the site, and drivers reach it from the Aolin West Bridge of the North Fifth Ring Road, surrounded by the green of the Olympic Forest Park.