Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

The centre court where Canada watches world tennis sits on the bones of the Expos' first ballpark. IGA Stadium at 285 Rue Gary-Carter in Montreal's Jarry Park is the main stadium of the National Bank Open, the ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 event that alternates its men's and women's draws between Montreal and Toronto each summer. The site's sporting pedigree predates tennis: Jarry Park Stadium hosted the Montreal Expos from 1969 to 1976, and the tennis stadium's south seating remains a remnant of the baseball grandstand - the address itself honours Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter. International tennis arrived at Jarry in 1981, played for years in a rudimentary converted ballpark with improvised boxes. The modern era began on 9 February 1995, when the City of Montreal granted Tennis Canada twenty acres of the park; ground broke that August and the new centre court opened in August 1996 as Du Maurier Stadium. Expansions added 1,250 centre-court seats in 2001 and the 4,500-seat National Bank Court plus indoor courts in 2004; the venue carried the Uniprix name from 2004 and became IGA Stadium in 2019. Current capacity is about 11,800-12,000. The complex is Canadian tennis's engine room: Tennis Canada, Tennis Quebec and Tennis Montreal are headquartered on site, half the year-round court time is reserved for public play, and the National Tennis Centre - opened in September 2007 - trains the country's most promising 13-to-19-year-olds, the pipeline that produced the generation of Auger-Aliassime, Andreescu and Fernandez. The next chapter is already drawn: after a year-long feasibility study, Tennis Canada announced in June 2026 a plan to build a new 15,000-seat centre court with a retractable roof elsewhere in Jarry Park, replacing the aging stadium whose south end still dates to 1969 - keeping the tournament in Montreal while retiring one of the last working pieces of Expos-era concrete.