Spreading the spirit of sportsmanship to the world, the 2025 YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament Ganzhou Station came to an end

On April 13, the 2025 YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament Ganzhou Station came to an end at the Da Vinci Tennis Club at the Ganzhou Sports Center in Jiangxi Province. After two days of fierce competition, the final champion of each category was determined.

Although there was a sudden heavy rain before the first match day, with the flexible arrangement of the organizers, the understanding and active cooperation of the participating players and parents, the competition of the U8 Red Ball Mixed Singles Group ended successfully on the first day. Lu Xingyou from Nanning, Guangxi Province, has won six games in a row since the group stage, including five clean sheets in all but the semi-finals. In the final, Lu Xingyou staged a "rematch" with his opponent Cheng Muyi in the group stage, and completed two consecutive wins to win the championship. Wu Muchen and Wu Yunxi are the other two semi-finalists.

According to the parents, Lu Xingyou has learned tennis since he was a child, and has participated in various tournaments held by YONEX many times before, but his self-confidence is not very high because he failed to win the championship. He will participate in the YONEX Zheng Jie Cup next week, and after communicating with the experts and building confidence, he will focus on the U10 competition.

The U10 men's singles was won by Lu Jiarui, also from Nanning, Guangxi, who only lost one game in the semi-finals on the way to the title. In the final, Lu Jiarui defeated He Yanle 6-0, and Wang Hongyi and Liu Xiaoran were the other two semi-finalists. After the match, Lui shared: "I have learned that you have to be patient when you hold on to your opponent, and your opponent's shallow appearance is your own opportunity to attack. "The U10 women's singles was carried out in a single round-robin manner, and in the end, Zuo Jiachun won five consecutive games to win the championship; Liu Chenyuan only lost to Zuo Jiachun and won the runner-up with four wins and one loss; Ling Ziyu lost to Zuo Jiachun and Liu Chenyuan respectively, and won the third place with three wins and two losses.

It is worth mentioning that Lu Xingyou and Lu Jiarui are a pair of cousins, and this time the family came to Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province to participate in the competition, and both won the championship and returned with a full load. Their parents spoke highly of the YONEX Elite Cup: "Because of the rain, the organizers immediately adjusted the game, and yesterday we came to warm up very early, and we also saw the main committee take the referee to mop water and clean up the field to ensure that the game can be carried out normally." She said that because of the long waiting time, the organizing committee also prepared bananas for the young players, which was not treated when participating in other competitions.

In the U12 men's singles competition, Zhou Gaoyi passed all the way, and after breaking through with four consecutive wins in the group stage, he defeated Liu Hongqing, Zeng Jiajing and Li Zexun in the knockout stage respectively and won the championship. Li Zexun was the runner-up, and Zeng Jiajing and Lai Yuxuan were the other two semi-finalists.

In the U12 women's singles competition, Zhang Yutong, who swept all the way to the promotion in the group stage, encountered a tough battle in the semifinals, and she fought with Zhong Peiyu until 7-5 before finally winning; In the final, she defeated Chen Yiqing 6-4 to be crowned champion, and the other semi-finalist was Huang Jingxuan.

In this year's newly established parent-child doubles competition, He Yanle/Lu Yuxiang won the championship, Yuan Zichun/Yuan Weiwei won the runner-up, and the other two semi-finalists were Zheng Qiuyi/Zheng Xuhan and Zhang Xiaoxiao/Zhang Detai. According to Yang Shangqing, a tennis expert in the promotion department of Yonex (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., the establishment of the parent-child competition is to hope that parents and children can participate in tennis together, and hope that through parent-child activities, the atmosphere of family happiness can be promoted, and tennis can become better in such an atmosphere.

Bathed in the warm spring sun, the first leg of the 2025 YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament came to a successful conclusion in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, and congratulations to all the players on their achievements. Let's meet at the remaining 7 sub-tournaments and finals of this year's YONEX Elite Cup, and I believe that with the continuous support and assistance of YONEX, more outstanding talents will emerge in Chinese youth tennis and write a new brilliant chapter for China's tennis career!