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Centre Court may be used generically as the British English
British English

British English or UK English is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere....
 term for the main court
Tennis court

A tennis court is where the game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both Types of tennis match....
 at any tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
 complex. However, it is most frequently used as the identifier for the main court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is based at Wimbledon, London in London, England, at British national grid reference system . It is best known as the venue for the The Championships, Wimbledon, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass, but is also a private members club....
 in Wimbledon
Wimbledon, London

Wimbledon is a suburb of London, part of the London Borough of Merton and located south west of Charing Cross.For most of the past one hundred years, Wimbledon has been internationally known as the home of the The Championships, Wimbledon....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

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. Built in 1922, it held 13,810 spectators for the 2008 Wimbledon Championships
The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely considered the most prestigious....
, to increase to 15,000 for the 2009 Championship. Its only regular use is for the two weeks a year that the Championships take place, but it is arguably the most famous tennis venue in the world.






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Centre Court may be used generically as the British English
British English

British English or UK English is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere....
 term for the main court
Tennis court

A tennis court is where the game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both Types of tennis match....
 at any tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
 complex. However, it is most frequently used as the identifier for the main court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is based at Wimbledon, London in London, England, at British national grid reference system . It is best known as the venue for the The Championships, Wimbledon, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass, but is also a private members club....
 in Wimbledon
Wimbledon, London

Wimbledon is a suburb of London, part of the London Borough of Merton and located south west of Charing Cross.For most of the past one hundred years, Wimbledon has been internationally known as the home of the The Championships, Wimbledon....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. Built in 1922, it held 13,810 spectators for the 2008 Wimbledon Championships
The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely considered the most prestigious....
, to increase to 15,000 for the 2009 Championship. Its only regular use is for the two weeks a year that the Championships take place, but it is arguably the most famous tennis venue in the world. This venue has a premier box that the Royal Family
British Royal Family

The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in his or her Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realmss, thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family....
 use, as well as other distinguished guests. Centre Court will also be used for the tennis competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics
2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, are due to be celebrated in London in the United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012....
. The original roof for the centre court from 1922 was replaced in 1992. The second roof for the Centre Court was removed after the 2006 Championships in preparation for plans over a three year period to add a retractable roof
Retractable roof

A retractable roof is a Kinetic Architecture architectural element used in many sports venues, in which a roof made of a suitable material can readily be mechanically deployed from some "retracted" or "open" position into a "closed" or "extended" position that completely covers the field of play and spectator areas....
 to the venue. For the 2007 Championships
2007 Wimbledon Championships

The 2007 Wimbledon Championships were held between 25 June and 8 July, 2007. For the first time there was equal prize money for the men's and women's singles champions....
, Centre Court had no roof at all for the first time since the stadium opened in 1922. The fixed portion of the new roof was completed by the 2008 championship and the retractable roof structure is scheduled to be in place for the 2009 Championships. Capacity will be increased to 15,000 by adding six rows of seats to the upper tier on the east, north and west sides. New media facilities, scoreboards including video, and commentary boxes will be built to replace those currently in the upper tier. New wider seats will be installed and new additional stairs and lifts will be added.

An inscription above the entryway to Centre Court reads "If you can meet with triumph and disaster / And treat those two imposters just the same" - lines from Rudyard Kipling's
Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
 poem If— .

See also

  • List of tennis stadiums by capacity
    List of tennis stadiums by capacity

    The following is a list of tennis stadia. They are ordered by their Seating capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the stadium can accommodate....

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  • features time-lapse video of the construction work