5 tennis stadiums named after tennis legends

#3 Margaret Court Arena

Margaret Court Arena - before construction of the roof

Australian tennis legend Margaret Court is the greatest tennis player of all-time looking at numbers. She won a record 24 Grand Slam Singles titles - a record which stands even today including an all-time record of 11 Australian Open titles. She is one of 3 women to have won all 4 Grand Slam titles in Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles categories. She is also the only woman to have completed the Calendar Year Slam in Singles and Mixed Doubles.

Show Court 1 at Melbourne has been hosting Australian Open matches since 1988. It was re-named as Margaret Court Arena in 2003. It has a seating capacity of 7,500.

In response to the issue of recurring heatwaves at the Australian Open, a retractable roofing system was constructed at the Margaret Court Arena - the third one to get such a system in Melbourne after the Rod Laver Arena and the Hisense Arena.

Of late, there have been calls to strip Margaret Court's name from the Stadium on account of requests from people who are opposed to her homophobic views. However, as of 2018, no such change has been made.