{"id":34748,"date":"2005-09-14T23:01:49","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T15:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/09\/14\/china-open-finds-its-shangri-la-in-beijing\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T23:01:49","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T15:01:49","slug":"china-open-finds-its-shangri-la-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/09\/14\/34748\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open Finds Its Shangri-La In Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/shangrila_logo_120x60.gif\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\">For the second consecutive year, Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing has been nominated as the official hotel to host the world's tennis superstars for the 2005 China Open Tennis Tournament, to be held at the Beijing Tennis Centre until September 25, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some of the familiar faces to Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing will be the defending champion and Grand Slam champion Serena Williams, and 2004 Wimbledon women's champion Maria Sharapova. Newcomers include Lindsay Davenport, and the 2005 Wimbledon champion, Venus Williams. Male players will include the 2005 French Open champion Rafael Nadal, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Carlos Moya, Guillermo Coria and other high-ranking players.<\/p>\n<p>In the second year of China Open, the athletes have already considered Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing as their home away from home, with every detail carefully attended to their exact requirements and preferences.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel's 800 plus staff members have undergone special training to fulfill any request and preferences from the players, from dietary requirements, exercise programs, gym necessities and specialized massages, to extra laundry services, and many other requirements not often sought by business guests and leisure travelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second consecutive year, Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing has been nominated as the official hotel to host the world's tennis superstars for the 2005 China Open Tennis Tournament, to be held at the Beijing Tennis Centre until September 25, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}