Arthur Ashe Stadium to get revamp under $800m plan

Arthur Ashe Stadium - nan US Open's showcase tribunal - is group to beryllium expanded arsenic portion of an $800m renewal task astatine Flushing Meadows, nan United States Tennis Association has announced.

The USTA has described nan projected activity astatine nan Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre arsenic nan "largest azygous finance successful US Open history".

It includes a scheme to summation by astir 2,000 nan capacity of Arthur Ashe Stadium - which presently holds 23,771, and is nan largest tennis arena successful nan world.

The stadium is group to get a caller main entrance, pinch accommodation wrong for fans to beryllium modernised.

Further plans see a caller subordinate capacity centre astatine Flushing Meadows, pinch expanded indoor and outdoor warm-up areas for players.

The USTA intends to money nan renewal task itself - pinch activity to beryllium done successful phases betwixt tournaments to minimise disruption - and hopes to get it completed by 2027.

Lew Sherr, CEO and executive head of nan USTA, said: "This task enables america to support nan top shape successful tennis - Arthur Ashe Stadium - which was constructed much than 25 years ago, and modernize it successful a measurement that will group it up for nan adjacent 25 years."