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The main stadium at night – like a gigantic orange sailing ship. So from a distance, driving in from the airport, the Hard Rock Stadium looks like a gigantic orange four-masted sailing ship. And it looked great from the balcony of my hotel room the night I arrived as well. And the whole facility looked amazing the next morning when I got on site. It’s at the Hard Rock stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins. The amount of work involved to create the tennis facility there must have been phenomenal. In the main stadium basically they used one sideline of the Dolphins football seats and then built a gigantic U around the other three sides. The football field is under there somewhere. Great viewing on the huge big screen on the concourse! The rest of the facility is laid out in front of the main stadium entrance. There is a large concourse that faces a gigantic high def video screen on the side of the stadium. And I mean gigantic. I sat and watched Federer’s 3-set first round win and felt no need to actually go inside. There are 4 more of those giant screens inside the stadium as well….