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Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client October 24 news (reporter Zhang Lin correspondent Hu Jingjing) On the afternoon of October 24, the 3-day 11th Wuhan Municipal Games Youth Sports Children's Group Tennis Competition came to a successful end at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center.
According to the age of the participants, the competition is divided into four groups of A, B, C and Ding, the oldest is 13 years old, the youngest is only 8 years old, with men's and women's singles and men's and women's doubles, attracting a total of 212 young players from 13 urban areas such as Jianghan District, Wuchang District, Hanyang District and Hongshan District of Wuhan City to compete on the same stage. After 3 days and 490 fierce competitions, the winners of 10 events were finally settled.
As a tennis event for the children's and teenagers held at the four-year municipal games, it can not only provide a big stage for young players to communicate and show their own style, but also a test of the development level of the city's youth and children's tennis. Don't look at the contestants who are not very old, but everyone plays the ball. On the field, the two sides of the game ran actively, the footsteps were flexible, and there was a fierce competition between you and me, and the standard serve, the powerful smash, the coordinated swing, and the accurate interception all showed the passion and vitality of the teenagers, and the cheers and cheers on the sidelines rose and fell.
Ma Taibozhi, a junior high school student from Wuwaiying Middle School in the East and West Lakes District, is the men's singles champion of The First Division of this competition. At the age of 13, he has been playing tennis for nearly 6 years, and he is thrilled to be able to achieve such results all the way through the level. "I am very grateful to the coach for all these years of cultivation and the support of my parents, I especially like to play tennis, although I usually focus on learning, I only maintain 3 hours of training twice a week, but I am very much looking forward to each training and fully engaged. Sweating is particularly comfortable, sports can also relieve the pressure of studying, I hope to participate in more tennis games in the future. ”
Although the competition is won or lost, for all the participants, the experience is more important than the result. Zhang Ruike, an 8-and-a-half-year-old from the East Lake High-tech Zone, has been practicing for 3 years, and her father said that although her child failed to achieve satisfactory results in the Ding group women's singles competition this time, her performance still made her proud. "The kids are very focused on the pitch and every ball is going to hit back with all their might. In her, I felt the sportsmanship of striving upwards and never giving up until the last moment, and I was very moved. Zhang Dad said with a smile that compared to the results of the competition, he cares more about the growth that this sport brings to his children. Through tennis, she has met many new friends, and what makes me happiest is that since she started practicing, her height has grown very fast, this year she is nearly 7 centimeters tall, and now she is 1 meter 42. ”
Sun Yanyan, the leader and coach of qiaokou district team, is the enlightenment coach of tennis star Wu Di and the mother of former tennis national player Zhou Yimiao. This time, she led the Qiaokou District team to win two gold medals in the women's singles of Group C and the men's singles of Group D at the Municipal Games. Sun Yanyan is now training in youth tennis at Hanjiangwan Sports Park. "There was a Li Na in Wuhan, and she really warmed up the tennis in Wuhan. Coupled with the strong support of the government, the number of primary and secondary school students participating in tennis has increased significantly. However, I think this support can be a little stronger, so that the tennis in Wuhan can go one step further. She said, "In this city games, I saw a lot of talented young players." In time, maybe there will be another Li Na among them. ”
In recent years, through the holding of the Wuhan Open Tennis Tournament, tennis has entered the lives of more and more Wuhan citizens. Under the background of the current "double reduction" policy, Wuhan International Sports Event Management Co., Ltd. actively explores a new model of sports and education integration, and further popularizes and promotes this sport among young people through tennis summer camps, tennis into schools, tennis events and other ways. Today, youth tennis has a strong participation base in Wuhan. The reason why the youth and children's tennis competition is included in the Municipal Games is that it is hoped that through this large-scale event with high attention, the enthusiasm of children to participate in tennis from an early age can be mobilized, and more excellent reserve forces can be discovered and excavated, and a talent echelon can be built to inject a steady stream of new impetus into the development of tennis in Wuhan. The event is held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center, which is also hoped that everyone can have a high starting point and high goal in the initial stage of tennis by experiencing the atmosphere of the international top event at close range, so as to lay a solid foundation for Wuhan to train more high-level athletes to go out of Hubei to the world.
"Little Lotus shows sharp corners", the stage of the Municipal Games gives the young players in Wuhan the starting point to realize their dreams of tennis championships. May they add glory to the Wuhan tennis movement in the near future.
The event is hosted by the Wuhan Municipal People's Government, organized by the Wuhan Municipal Sports Bureau, the Wuhan Municipal Education Bureau, the Administrative Committee of Wuhan East Lake New Technology Development Zone, the Wuhan Table Tennis and Badminton Sports Management Center, the East Lake High-tech Zone Culture, Tourism and Sports Bureau, the East Lake High-tech Zone Education Bureau, the East Lake High-tech Zone Youth League Working Committee, the wuhan sports development investment (group) Co., Ltd. support, and the Wuhan International Sports Event Management Co., Ltd.
【Editor: Zhou Fei】
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