OWL Arena

Gerry Weber Stadion
Location	Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia; Germany
Capacity	12,300 (tennis) ; 11,000 (handball)
Surface	grass court, (Gerry Weber Open every year in June)
Construction
Opened	1993
Renovated	1994 (Sattler Europe), 2005
Construction cost	€ 3,5 million (renovated 2005)
Architect	Sattler Europe
Tenants
	Gerry Weber Open (tennis) (1993–present)

Gerry Weber Stadion is an indoor sports arena, located in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany. The capacity of the arena is 12,300 people and it opened in 1993.

It hosts the Gerry Weber Open every year in June. It is one of the few grass court tennis tournaments around.

The stadium has a retractable roof which can be closed in 88 seconds so that tennis games can continue when it begins to rain.

The stadium is heated and also used for other sport events (handball, basketball, prisonball, volleyball and boxing), TV shows and concerts.

On 2 April 2005, Irish vocal pop band Westlife held a concert for their The No 1's Tour supporting their album ...Allow Us to Be Frank.

In January 2007, several games of the Handball World Championship took place there; most of them were sold out with 11,000 spectators.

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