National Squash Centre
The National Squash Centre is a squash venue in Eastlands, Manchester, England, which was constructed for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The National Squash Centre is part of the Sportcity complex.
Costing approximately £3.5m, the facilities include six courts and one glass-walled show court (this alone cost £110,000). The show court is moveable: it floats on air like a hovercraft and can be positioned in the athletics hall for all major tournaments. The show court has a maximum capacity of 1,200.[1]
All of the courts can be converted into either singles or doubles courts.
The Centre has hosted the British National Squash Championships since 2003,[2] the Men's World Open 2008, the Women's World Open 2008 and hosts the annual British Grand Prix, a PSA World Series event.[3]
References
- "Sportcity - Manchester". Sportcity-manchester.com. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
- "Full details from recent events", webmaster - Steve Cubbins Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved on 2011-02-13
- "Venue - ROWE British Grand Prix Manchester". Britishsquashgrandprix.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
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