lhj_hisense_arena

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Hisense arena was completed in 2000, the construction of this arena began in the late 1990. This arena was designed by Peddle Thorp Architects and planners and was built by Theiss constructions. It is the only multi-purpose arena in Australia and the arena cost was a 65 million dollar development, it has a retractable roof which takes 10 minutes to open and close it also has retractable, raiseable and removable seats, raising the seats will expose Australias 250 metre cycling track called the Velodrome.The Velodrome is 7 metres wide and has a bank angle up to 45 degrees. The first name of this arena was the Multi Purpose followed by the Vodafone arena and now the Hisense. Some of the events that have taken place in this arena was some huge boxing fights in 2002 when Anthony Mundine took on Lester Ellis and some other were Mundine V Soliman and French V Nelson. The Hisense arena was the home to the South Dragons in 2006 and they overcome all ods and won the National Basketball Legue (N.B.L) championships in 2008. The Hisense was also previously the home to the Melbourne Tigers (the greatest N.B.L team), Victoria Giants and the Victoria Titans. The seating capacity of the arena is 10,500 people. Every year in January this arena is one of the hosts to the Australian Open. The first Australian open match to be played in this arena was on the 15th of January 2001 and it lasted less than ten minutes when Monica Seles advanced through the first round because her opponent Brie Rippner was injured. The first ever match to be completed in the Hisense was when Tim Henmans advanced through the first round against Hicham Arazi.

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