Shandong Province, Tennis Compulsory Education Feasibility Study

The tennis in China has a vigorous development, and now it is in an important transition time for its development. On the first conference of "The Tennis Forum", the tennis administrative center in Sports Bureau of China expressed that the tennis education would join in the compulsory education. At present, the domestic research of this area is still without feasible proof. This research studies the tennis compulsory education in the elementary and middle schools in Shandong Province. It will analyze the social popularization and the compulsory education of tennis, and will attempt the way which will seek China's elementary education and the popularization of tennis. Thus, this research will make the function in the development and the popularization of tennis in China.This thesis employs the literature material method, interview, the questionnaire, the logical analytic method, and the computer processing method. This research points out that the education of tennis in the elementary and middle schools has not enough conditions in Shandong Province. The most important question of the tennis compulsory education is insufficiency of school sports' funds investment. The first step for developing the tennis compulsory education is the development of courts and tennis teachers' training. The investigation of the tennis location equipment condition shows that the quite majority of schools' sports equipment is not to be able to achieve the standards of the courts. Through the investigation of tennis teachers, the data shows that the elementary and middle schools sports teachers' contest structure is not mature in Shandong Province. Before the graduation, the majority of sports teachers have very few opportunities to contact with tennis, and the tennis teaching is difficult for them. Therefore, the tennis class is very difficult to give a course. With the highly teacher training, this insufficiency can abated in the certain degree.