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zheng qinwen won again!

at the recent u.s. open, despite the time difference, many people still flocked to the live broadcast room late at night to watch her game and cheer her on from afar.

she really inspired the whole nation to appreciate tennis.

this was especially true during the women's singles tennis final of the paris olympics not long ago, where she showed off her skills, and the live broadcast market share once exceeded 50%.

among the many viewers, the most special audience were a group of children from jingshan city, hubei province.

because among these children, there may be the next zheng qinwen.

this prediction is well-founded. although these children are still young, almost every one of them has several championship medals in their hands and is the future hope of china's tennis.

the hubei jingshan where they are located is full of hidden talents and is known as the hometown of tennis in china. every year, millions of tennis enthusiasts come here for "pilgrimage".

jingshan, hubei, is known as the "emerald of central hubei". it has beautiful scenery and rich resources. it is also the only city in the country that has been awarded the honorary title of "china's tennis characteristic city" by the chinese tennis association.

jingshan has a strong tennis atmosphere.

jingshan also has a "chinese tennis characteristic town" with complete facilities such as competition center and comprehensive gymnasium.

walking on the streets of jingshan, you can always see men, women, old and young sweating on the tennis court. after all, there is a saying in jingshan:“it is better to ask people to sweat than to ask them to eat.”

here, the farmers, who work hard in the fields, put down their hoes and pick up their rackets.

peng jufang, 62, has been playing tennis for more than 35 years.

apart from feeding the cows once in the morning and once in the afternoon, he spent the rest of his free time playing tennis.

he has won multiple tennis championships and has trained more than 3,000 apprentices.

zou juncheng and zeng fanying, a couple in their seventies, have been playing tennis for more than 30 years and also encourage their son and grandson to play tennis together.

jingshan has not only made tennis a national sport, but also made the city a "tournament center" for tennis.

tennis tournaments of all sizes are held in jingshan one after another, and tennis masters from all corners of the world flock here to show their skills.

when zheng qinwen was 10 years old, he won the first place in the singles of the hubei youth tennis tournament in jingshan.

in 2021, mass tennis will be included in the national games as a competition event for the first time, and jingshan will be the venue.

in recent years, jingshan has hosted a series of domestic and international events including the itf youth u18 tour, china (jingshan) green forest tennis heroes conference, and china (jingshan) tennis festival. the hubei "village network" represented by communities and rural areas is also held in jingshan.

there are competitions held in jingshan almost every month.

with jingshan as its center, the sport of tennis seems to have extended its tentacles to the wider world.

today, jingshan is the "hometown of tennis in china", but more than 30 years ago, jingshan was just an unknown small county town.

more than 30 years ago, 10 tennis enthusiasts from jingshan formed a team to participate in the hubei senior tennis open, but no one expected that they would win the championship, which caused a sensation in the entire county.

among the delegation was an old leader from the power supply bureau who hoped to promote tennis in jingshan, so he drew a blueprint and gave it to peng juying, a 25-year-old young man from the power supply bureau.

peng juying took a shovel and built the first tennis court in jingshan, becoming the founder of jingshan tennis.

since then, the popularity of tennis has spread across the walls of government agencies, over more than 30 years, and across the land of jingshan.

there are more and more tennis courts in jingshan, more and more people love tennis, and more and more tennis-related honors are won.

the sport of tennis took root, blossomed and bore fruit in jingshan.

education should start from childhood, and champions should be cultivated from an early age. jingshan is no exception in this regard.

hubei tennis school (hereinafter referred to as "tennis school") is a nine-year school. it is the first "provincial-school-municipal-run" demonstration school in hubei province and the only public professional tennis school in china. it is located in jingshan.

the school once invited zheng jie, the double grand slam champion of the australian open and wimbledon, as its honorary principal.

it was only established in 2018, but it has attracted many talented tennis players.

when the coach asked on the tennis court who had won the provincial championship, most of the students raised their hands.

image source: hello tennis

the international training class at this school is coached by retired players from professional tennis teams. the tuition fee is 40,000 yuan per year, which is not cheap compared to ordinary schools.

but there are still parents who don't care about the tuition fees and specify that their children should be admitted to this class as soon as they enter the admissions office.

ever since zheng qinwen won the championship, the vice-principal's phone has been ringing since seven in the morning and has not stopped. they are all calls from parents who hope to enter this school for training.

but locally, it is not easy to get into a tennis school.

every year, the school goes to local kindergartens and conducts five rounds of tests on more than 3,000 children, and finally admits 30 students. the admitted students must be extremely outstanding in both cultural and sports.

the average score of students in the primary school of the tennis school is higher than that of the best local jingshan primary school.

image source: time weekly

every year, nearly one-third of the students in the junior high school are able to be admitted to jingshan no. 1 middle school, the best in the county, through tennis specialty programs and other means.

the high school department of the tennis school is also in jingshan no. 1 middle school. it is the goal of students with tennis expertise to be admitted to 985 and 211 universities through individual recruitment.

the tennis school even played"study at a tennis school and go to a prestigious university"slogan.

in 2023, students enrolled in the tennis school received admission letters from famous universities such as south china university of technology, northwest a&f university, and hunan normal university.

image source: hubei tennis school official account

in addition to the sound of reading, the tennis school is also filled with the sound of rackets hitting the ball and the sound of students' sweat dripping on the court.

these sounds together form the bgm on the road to success.

jingshan, with its strong tennis atmosphere, seems to be a microcosm of hubei.

in hubei, tennis is considered a national sport.

tennis classes are offered in youth sports schools across hubei, and the government has also introduced special funding policies for youth tennis training.

in wuhan, tennis skills training has been included in the youth sports summer camps. in less than ten years, nearly 13,000 young people have received free tennis skills training.

the number of tennis courts is closely related to people's enthusiasm for sports.at the end of 2022, hubei's tennis ranking in the country was only lower than guangdong, and higher than beijing and shanghai.

when we trace back along the timeline, we will find that hubei people have a long history of relationship with tennis.

before the xinhai revolution, many church schools in wuhan began to play tennis.

in 1905, a tennis court was built next to the wuhan xishang racecourse. since the 1920s, tennis has become an event in the hubei provincial joint games.

the "tennis gene" that has been passed down for more than a hundred years has left a "hubei imprint" on each shining gold medal.

the three groundbreaking "firsts" in the history of chinese tennis are all related to hubei.

in 2004, hubei native li ting and her partner sun tiantian won the women's doubles tennis gold medal at the athens olympics, changing the situation where chinese tennis had never won an olympic gold medal.

in 2011, li na, a native of wuhan, hubei, won the french open, becoming the first chinese athlete to win a grand slam singles title.

in 2024, zheng qinwen made history at the paris olympics and became china's first olympic tennis singles champion.

in this sport long dominated by the west, several tennis players from hubei have created highlight moments belonging to the chinese.

not only that, many well-known athletes in the chinese tennis world, such as yan dacui, pan bing, and yu liqiao, are from hubei.

after returning to their hometowns, some tennis champions passed on their valuable experience from generation to generation, becoming the guardians of the younger generations' growth and gradually turning hubei into a cradle of tennis champions.

behind zheng qinwen's victory, there are countless "zheng qinwen" ready to go.

we believe that the next championship belonging to hubei and china is on the way, and it will come sooner or later.