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Tennis in China is a rapidly growing sport that has received much private and public support, and has today become firmly entrenched in the Chinese consciousness as one of the most popular. Tennis is now the third-most popular sport on television in China, behind Association football and basketball. The national governing body is the China Tennis Association. China has 30,000 tennis courts and an estimated 14 million people in China regularly play tennis, up from 1 million when the sport returned to the Olympics in 1988, according to the WTA Tour. The Chinese government is aiming to increase that by 15 percent every year. The nation’s tennis market has reached $4 billion annually, according to Tom Cannon, a professor and sports finance expert at the University of Liverpool Management School in England. The women’s tour last year upgraded the China Open in Beijing to become the only combined event with the men’s tour in Asia. Played at the Beijing Olympic Tennis Center with combined prize money of $6.6 million and a main stadium that holds 10,000 spectators, the China Open is now one of the WTA’s top four tournaments. The ATP’s other flagship tournament in Asia is the $3.24 million Shanghai Masters. == "Swing For The Stars" China tennis junior development program == "Swing For The Stars" China tennis junior development program launched in 2007, and gave tennis training courses to about 400 players at 12 years old and under and over 100 coaches from different provinces, nationwide. At the same time,on-line counselling and activities are also key parts of the item, over 2,900,000 people took advantages of high-efficient tennis training mode which was taught by Jeff Bearup, an elite coach of USTA. In 2009 starting with the international clinic which is held at Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A, four selected players (2 boys and two girls) from “Swing for the stars” and two coaches from junior group are going to participate in a four-week high-level tennis training and enjoy the thoughtful hospitality under the cares from coach Jeff Bearup and a special guest – former champion of Davis cup Dennis Ralston. In 2009, provincial and municipal “Swing for the stars” tennis clinic will be expend to 8 cities(doubled 2008). Then more 12 years old and under players are going to have chance to participate in a five-day most advanced, best tennis training, the whole training plan and teaching conception is designed by the best junior tennis coach of U.S.A for junior tennis player, and all trained in person by provincial outstanding junior tennis coaches who have participated in Jeff Bearup’s training course. At the same time, ”Swing for the stars” junior clinic will continue to provide online interactive and other characteristic services. Meanwhile, the Mercedes-Benz “Swing for the Stars” Junior Coaches Seminar with the aim of providing high-level tennis teaching philosophy is a new addition to the highly successful “Swing for the Stars” Program. The SFS advanced coaching seminars will be conducted by international coach Josh Rilla and Coach Liu Shuo using the SFS method as developed by Coach Jeff Bearup centering around "High Performance". Meanwhile we’ll pick two excellent coaches from each station to participate the National Coaches Advanced Seminars when Bearup will give more profound training and instruction in person. The year will conclude with the national training camp as part of the"Mercedes-Benz Cup" China Tennis Grand Prix. The instruction will once again be led by Bearup and we'll pick two male players and two female players (4 in total) to attend a week-long top-class tennis training course. After the national camp, 4 players (2 male and 2 female) together with two coaches will be selected to participate in the international camp in Eugene, US. All the participants will enjoy a wonderful time with coach Jeff Bearup. view the detail China Tennis Official Website () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tennis in China」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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