Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium
Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium was opened in 1997 and replaced Louis Armstrong Stadium
as the park's main tennis facility. The 23,000-seat stadium cost $254 million and is
the main arena for the U.S. Open. During the remainder of the year, the indoor and
outdoor courts of the stadium are open to the public. The facility is named
after Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (1943-1993), a dominant player in the late 1960s and
1970s who was forced into an early retirement by heart problems and into an early death
from AIDS contracted from a contaminated blood transfusion.
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