Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 15 (reporter Li Bowen) sponsored by the Tennis Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports and the China Tennis Association, the National Youth Tennis team training camp hosted by the Training Bureau of the State General Administration of Sports and Beijing yiyiyiqi3 youth tennis club opened on the 15th at the training bureau of the State General Administration of Sports.
From February 15 to March 14, 40 of the best young athletes under 14 in China participated in this training camp. The training camp is divided into two stages. The first stage mainly focuses on athletes under 12 years old from February 15-28. The second stage mainly focuses on athletes under 14 years old from February 28 to March 14.
This training camp has gathered the best young players in China. First of all, according to the year-end ranking of the 2018 National Youth points ranking competition, determine a certain number of players to be selected into the national youth tennis team athlete selection training camp held in Liuzhou from January 20 this year to 27; Then, these players participated in the training camp trials and passed the multi-dimensional considerations such as physical quality test, psychological test, sports function and injury screening, developmental level test, height prediction, expert review, etc, finally, the list of national youth tennis teams in 2019 was determined. The 40 people in this training camp are on the national youth tennis team’s list of athletes under the age of 14.
In order to make the players get better exercise, this training camp is equipped with a strong coaching team: led by Grand Slam champion coach Chen Li and famous coach Zhang Yu, Hu Bing, Sun Peng, Liang Shuangqiang, jiang Chuan, Zhou Zhuoqing, Yang Shujing, Wang Yingzheng, Li Yucheng and a large number of former national players personally guided, and the physical coach was Li Haixiao, the coach of the national tennis team. During the training camp, the Chinese Tennis Association will also invite famous coaches from the Swiss Tennis Association to guide.
For a long time, the tennis management center of the State Sports General Administration and the Chinese Tennis Association have attached great importance to the youth tennis work. In the new cycle, around doing a good job in youth tennis, the Internet Association will actively build four systems: youth tennis reserve talents training, U series competitions, coach training management and popularization. The first two of the four systems have been launched and implemented, and the latter two will be launched soon. Its purpose is to create a better growth atmosphere for young tennis players in the new cycle.