Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

The grandstand bones belong to the Montreal Expos' first home. Rogers Court is the 4,300-seat second show court of IGA Stadium at 285 Rue Gary-Carter in Montreal's Jarry Park, the Tennis Canada complex that hosts the National Bank Open - and whose centre court seating is a remnant of Jarry Park Stadium, where the Expos played from 1969 to 1976. The park itself dates to 1925; baseball arrived with a 3,000-seat diamond in 1960 that was frantically expanded to 28,000 seats when Montreal won its National League franchise, making Jarry the last single-deck, uncovered park in the majors. Tennis took over in stages after the Expos left for Olympic Stadium: the Canadian Open moved in from 1981, and a 1995 agreement between the city and Tennis Canada granted twenty acres of parkland for the modern complex, which opened its centre court in 1996. Rogers Court - built in 2004 along with four indoor courts, and previously named National Bank Court - gives the tournament its second stadium, while the main bowl holds 11,815 after a 2001 expansion; the men's and women's National Bank Open alternate between Montreal and Toronto each August. Since 2007 the grounds have doubled as Tennis Canada's National Tennis Centre, the full-time training base where the country's most promising 13-to-19-year-olds develop - the pipeline that produced the generation of Canadian contenders now seeded at majors. The main road through the site honours Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, and the Parc and De Castelnau Metro stations put the complex fifteen minutes from downtown - a sports property whose baseball ghosts are literally built into the bleachers. Beyond tournament week the complex works year-round: twelve indoor hard courts that double as a multipurpose hall, four indoor clay courts, ten outdoor courts and public court time written into the original city agreement - a quarter of all hours reserved for free play by Montrealers.