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.

Entrance to the National Squash Centre

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]

See also

References
  1. "Sportcity - Manchester". Sportcity-manchester.com. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  2. "Full details from recent events", webmaster - Steve Cubbins Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved on 2011-02-13
  3. "Venue - ROWE British Grand Prix Manchester". Britishsquashgrandprix.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2011.

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