Set sail for the first stop! The 2025 YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament Ganzhou Station opens!

On April 12, the 2025 YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament officially set sail at the Da Vinci Tennis Club of Ganzhou Sports Center, Jiangxi Province. As the first stop of this year's YONEX Elite Cup, Ganzhou Station attracted more than 100 young tennis players from Ganzhou and surrounding areas, who fought for honor and dreams here.

Mr. Xia Xiang, Director of the Tennis Section of the Promotion Department of Yonex (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., Ms. Yang Shangqing, Tennis Section Specialist of the Promotion Department of Yonex (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., Mr. Huang Shangfu and Mr. Qiu Dehua, Vice Presidents of Ganzhou Tennis Association, and Mr. Xia Shaobin, Secretary General of Ganzhou Tennis Association and General Manager of Ganzhou Extraordinary Sports Co., Ltd., attended the opening ceremony and kicked off the competition. At the opening ceremony, the referee Dai Yingzhi and the athlete Hu Jiayun took the oath on behalf of the referees and athletes respectively.

Mr. Xia Xiang, Director of the Tennis Section of the Promotion Department of YONEX (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., said in his speech that YONEX as a sporting goods company has always adhered to the business philosophy of contributing to the world with original technology and the best products, and guided people to live a healthy life through sports. "In recent years, we have established close cooperative relations with Ganzhou Tennis Association and Da Vinci Tennis Club, and will directly give more products to the majority of tennis fans in Ganzhou and Jiangxi, give more support to young athletes, and fulfill the responsibility of sports enterprises."

This year, the YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament will continue the previous format of "sub-station competition + finals", and will be held in Guangzhou, Chongqing, Xinjiang, Baotou, Zhengzhou, Qionghai and Harbin after starting from Ganzhou, and will finally hold the finals in Kunming, Yunnan. YONEX Elite Cup actively responds to the "Little Tennis Project" launched by the Chinese Tennis Association to meet the participation needs of young players of all ages, make tennis closer to beginners and young children, arouse more children's love for tennis, and promote the popularization and promotion of tennis nationwide.

The 2025 YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament Ganzhou Station is hosted by Yonex (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. and undertaken by Ganzhou Extraordinary Sports Co., Ltd. There are three groups of U8, U10 and U12 competitions, of which the U8 age group matches are gender-neutral and use red balls; The other age groups are divided into men's singles and women's singles, using cucumber, and the competitions in each group are held in the form of group stage + knockout round. Last year, the YONEX Elite Cup was upgraded and officially included in the CTJ junior points system of the Chinese Tennis Association, and the champion players of this tournament will receive 100 ranking points. It is worth mentioning that this event has a parent-child doubles competition, and the players and their parents partner on the court, which is full of fun.

In addition, the tournament provides complete equipment support and event guarantee for all players. During the event, YONEX sent a professional service team to provide trial play, stringing and other services for all young players on the spot, and also distributed customized T-shirts to each player, and the YONEX logo can be seen everywhere inside and outside the stadium. At the check-in booth, there was a wide variety of YONEX products for players to choose from. Each game is equipped with professional referees to ensure the fairness, impartiality and professionalism of the event, and standardize the game behavior of young players. In addition, a viewing platform was set up on site for the parents of the players to rest and watch the game.

The YONEX Elite Cup is another national youth tennis tournament created by YONEX after the Zheng Jie Cup, which has been successfully held for five years since the first event in 2019, and has formed a huge YONEX competition system with TEAM ONE team competition, Zheng Jie Cup, women's tennis exchange tournament and other events. This weekend, the players will be working the field to sprint for the championship of the first Elite Cup of the year!