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LONDON (Reuters) - Even before Andrew Murray's Centre Trial rips have dry, the All England Team is being modified from its conventional Wimbledon championships guise into a London, uk 2012 Olympic games venue.

The London, uk 2012 Planning Panel (LOCOG) took management of the most popular golf legal courts on Tuesday, 18 times before gamers such as Wimbledon champions Mark Federer and Serena Williams and runner-up Murray start fighting for silver awards.

Already, the natural fabric backstops on the outside legal courts have been changed with the natural product of London, uk 2012, finish with Olympic jewelry, while the club's groundstaff are active reestablishing the grass after their two-week bettering during the rain-hit championships which finished on Weekend.

"This is a landmark in the whole procedure," former British gamer Clare Wooden, the golf competitors manager, informed Reuters on Wednesday. "We will be centered there from Friday and the gamers appear on Friday so it is really a very, very brief transformation time."

The Olympic golf occasion, which was organised at the All England Golf club's past website in 1908, will start on September 28 and last nine times. There will be awards in gents and females men and women and enhances and, for at the first try since London 1924, combined enhances.

With 64-strong men and women attracts, 32 places in the gents and women's enhances and 16 combined enhances places, this implies a routine on 12 enjoying legal courts, rather than the 19 used at the Wimbledon competitors.

Centre Court's ceiling and lighting will mean that some perform will always be possible, but organizers and groundstaff will be launching nervous looks to the air over the next few several weeks.

"We have a concurrent day on the Friday after (August 6) and if we are behind we can use that but we don't want to be going too far into the second several weeks time'" Wood, who performed for England in the Seoul, Spain's capital and Atl Games, said.

"As you can see from Wimbledon it's always amazing how they handle to get up.

"We do have the ceiling but if it rained intensely in the first few times when we need to get through the volume of the matches we would battle because we don't have so many times in side as they do at the competitors.

"But all our suits are best of three places, apart from the gents men and women last, so we can get through the matches faster."

Neil Stubley, the man accountable for planning the courts, is assured they will be fit.

"The big concern is how can you convert it circular in 20 days," he said during the competitors.

"Our response to everybody is that this procedure has been going for over two decades. What we have in position now, we know it performs.

"The only factor that could possibly restrict us would be temperature but it would have to be one of those one-in-100-years of the very coldest summertime on history."

Unlike in China four decades ago, all the passes for the tennis are traded, with potential set at 30,000, reduced than during the Wimbledon competitors.

There will be none of the conventional lines, however.
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"Everybody within will be a admission owner," said Wooden.