The tournament has officially adopted this two-venue format for 2026. Until Thursday 22 October everything happens at the ING Arena, qualifying included. On Friday 23, the players still in the draw move to the Palais 5, also inside the Brussels Expo complex. The big room’s diary explains most of it: PLK on Saturday 24 at 8pm, Djadja & Dinaz on Sunday 25 at 8pm, the day of the final, Duran Duran on Monday 26.
Céline, C30.4 (a club-level ranking), read the news and did not find it remarkable.
Changing centre court between the second round and the quarters, technically, I do that every Sunday. You start on court 2, they move you to court 4 with the strip light, and in winter they put you in the bubble we rent by the hour, which you feel straight away in the rallies. So yes, the intentions change, the reference points go, the ball sits at a different height. But two practice sessions away, mind you, you absorb it.
She adds that the level in club league (interclubs, Belgium’s weekend team league) has gone way up and that people don’t realise what a change of hall mid-competition actually involves. For her the real problem arrives at the service: the back of the court, the light, the back wall.
Arthur Fils, world number 11, winner of the Cincinnati Masters 1000, five ATP titles and a former finalist here, is announced in Brussels.
Right, it’s very simple: I said it back in January, Brussels was going to move its centre court. Careful, I’m not saying the opposite of what I said, I’m clarifying: what I said was that it wouldn’t move. In spirit, ninety percent, same thing, all right?
The final is played on Sunday 25 October at the Palais 5, at the hour when the ING Arena takes in its eight o’clock concert.
It’s true, we checked: Tennis Actu.
