The Buick LPGA Shanghai is a women's professional golf tournament in China co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and the China LPGA Tour. It debuted in October 2018 at Qizhong Garden Golf Club in Shanghai. Danielle Kang won the inaugural event by two strokes over seven golfers. Kang repeated as champion in 2019.
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The Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena, also known as Qizhong Stadium, is a tennis arena in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
The complex is located on an 80-hectare area, in Maqiao Town, in the southwest of Shanghai, Minhang District. It has a steel retractable roof which opens and closes in a pinwheel or spiral manner, with eight sliding petal-shaped pieces resembling a blooming magnolia. The roof enables the stadium to host both indoor and outdoor tennis events. The seating capacity is 13,779 people.
The stadium was specially created to host the ATP World Tour Finals between 2005 and 2008, and was the largest tennis venue in Asia, until the construction of the Olympic Green Tennis Centre in Beijing. Since 2009 it has hosted the Shanghai Masters, an ATP Tour Masters 1000 tournament which began that year. It also served as one of the venues used for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic during their tour of China in 2007.
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The Shanghai Masters, known as the Rolex Shanghai Masters for sponsorship reasons, is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Shanghai, China in the month of October. It is played on outdoor hard courts at the Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena in the Minhang District. The tournament is part of the nine ATP 1000 events on the ATP Tour, and is the only one not played in Europe or North America. The tournament was not held from 2020 to 2022 due to Chinese travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Chunshen is a railway station on the Jinshan railway in Songjiang District, Shanghai. It opened for intercity passenger service on September 28, 2012.
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Zhuanqiao is an above-ground station on Line 5 of the Shanghai Metro. Located at the intersection of Humin Highway and Zhuanxing Road in the city's Minhang District, the station opened with the rest of the first phase of Line 5 on 25 November 2003. Between 28 December 2018 and 26 December 2020, passengers who wish to travel to stations on the branch line of Line 5 between Dongchuan Road and Minhang Development Zone stations must transfer to four-car trains at Dongchuan Road station. Since 26 December 2020, both the main and the branch line trains run all the way to Xinzhuang with no shuttle service.
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Yindu Road is an above-ground station on Line 5 of the Shanghai Metro. Located at the intersection of Humin Highway and Yindu Road in the city's Minhang District, the station opened with the rest of the first phase of Line 5 on 25 November 2003. Between 28 December 2018 and 26 December 2020, passengers who wish to travel to stations on the branch line of Line 5 between Dongchuan Road and Minhang Development Zone stations must transfer to four-car trains at Dongchuan Road station. Since 26 December 2020, both the main and the branch line trains run all the way to Xinzhuang with no shuttle service.
After three years of cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, the tournament resumed in 2023.