Original title: 2024 China Tennis Tour Jianxinyuan Tennis Open starts in Chengdu
China News Service, Chengdu, October 26 (Reporter He Shaoqing) The 2024 China Tennis Tour Jianxinyuan Tennis Open will kick off in Chengdu on October 26.
This event is hosted by the Tennis Management Center of the State Sports General Administration and the Chinese Tennis Association. It is a CTA500 amateur level event. The championship points are 500 points and the total prize money is 300,000 yuan. The event has five events: men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles, attracting 292 players from 25 provinces and cities across the country and overseas to sign up for the competition.
As a national tennis brand event launched by the China Tennis Association in 2020, the China Tennis Tour activates and opens up the three fronts of domestic professional tennis, amateur tennis and youth tennis, and promotes the “internal circulation” of the high-quality development of Chinese tennis.
The athlete representative Guo Yilin is a local player from Chengdu and is also a coach. In Guo Yilin’s view, the China Tennis Tour gives tennis players more stages to showcase themselves. “Registration for this competition is very popular and it is hard to find a place. This also shows that tennis is becoming more and more popular in China.”
In recent years, with the deepening of the construction of a world-famous event city, tennis has experienced rapid development in Chengdu. A series of international events such as the ATP250 Chengdu Tennis Open, the ITF World Junior Tour (J60), and the ITF World Tour Youth Year-end Finals are held, allowing more and more citizens to watch high-level events “at their doorstep” Tennis tournament.
