Le Qi Zhong Stadium (en chinois : 上海旗忠森林体育城网球中心) ou Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena est une enceinte sportive, où se sont déroulés entre 2005 et 2008 les Tennis Masters Cup de Shanghai, puis depuis 2009 le Masters 1000 de Shanghai.
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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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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. After three years of cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, the tournament resumed in 2023.
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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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Minhang Development Zone is a metro station on Line 5 of the Shanghai Metro. It is the current southern terminus of the line, and is located in the suburban Minhang District. The zone is about 3.5 km2 in size and was opened in 1986. The location is close to the Outer-ringway giving the zone quick access to both airports of the city. The opening of Line 5 has significantly improved access to the central districts of Shanghai.
The station is located along the branch service of Line 5, which operates between this station and Dongchuan Road. Passengers can transfer to the main line at Dongchuan Road. However, since 26 December 2020, this is not the case, as trains have resumed service all the way to Xinzhuang.
The zone contains factories for companies that produce machinery, electronics, pharmaceuticals, beverages and entertainment products.