Shandong Province Junior Tennis Movement Development Present Situation And Countermeasure Research

As a big sports province, Shandong established the tennis teams in1998. By2010,17cities had set up tennis schools, and recruitedadolescents.3coaches and180in training athletes from17differentcitiy sport schools of Shandong province and twenty coaches from20different tennis clubs in various prefectures were investigated. Literaturematerials, expert interviews, field investigations and questionnaire surveysare used to support the research. The selection of tennis players fromteenagers, the training and competition of athletes, the study situation ofathletes, the athlete’s security, the present status of coaches and the trainingmodes of athletes are analyzed in this paper. Research conclusions are asfollows:1．In the17cities of Shandong province, there are only eight cities hasestablished tennis teams. One tennis team was established in each year of1999,2007and2009. Tow were established in2003and in2010threetennis teams of city sport schools were established. The number of tennis schools is not enough and the development of tennis is very slow. Thefields in city sport schools for training tennis athletes is so small that cannot meet the needs of tennis training teenagers. Indoor tennis courts ofprefectures are even more insufficient.2．No professional tennis schools exist in shandong province. There are20tennisclubs in17cities and no unified management of these clubs. Almost all thepopular tennis training clubs are established by individuals for the purposeof profit. The club has no real sense of exercise training, conveying athletesand joining club leagues. The exsit of great distance between the teachingqualification of club coaches and their coaching abilities, the frequentchanges of clubs’ amateur tennis players and the short training cycles,caused frequent replaced of coaches and repeated training situation. Overallamateur tennis training market is chaos.3．Coaches of Shandong tennis playing teenagers are not enough and theyare so young that their coaching abilities are not very good. In addition mostof them are of low degrees and low levels. Because85%of coaches are so urgent to attend job training and69%of coaches not satisfied with jobs atpresent, they can’t do their best in teaching.4．In training athletes of Shandong sport schools is only a few. Thedevelopment levels of male and female athletes are imbalance. One fifth ofin training players had short form tennis training experiences. Athletestaking most of learning and athletes are more concerned with wether tennistechnology can help them enter a university in the future than take part inthe professional tennis team5．A scientific and reasonable selection mechanism which suit ourprovince has not been formd. Competition system in the game has not beenformed either. It is not enough scientific and reasonable in game quantity,competition level and time arrangement and the details are not perfect.There are only a few oppurtunity for athletes to participate in games,communication chances for them is fewer so the athletes can not getenough training.6. A reasonable, effective and continuing security mechanism has notbeen established. The possible injury athletes suffered in training and the uncertainty of the athletes’ future against their development in the careerpath.7. The main sources of economic investment for citiy sports schools isnational funding, but it is far from satisfying the athlete’s training andcompetition needs.8. The mode of Shandong youth tennis training preliminary appearedmulti-layered trend. Besides prefecture school cultivation mode, familytraining mode has raised recent years.Based on the existing problems of Shandong teenagers’ tennisdevelopment, some countermeasures of youth tennis development are putsforward as follows:1. The government could encourage large enterprise to investment orsponsorship communities and schools to construction tennis courts.2. Standardize authentication system of the professional tennis coaches.3. Short form tennis should be spread in kindergartens and elementaryschools. Push the middle and primary school, high school and universityform a systematic tennis training system. Sound management organization should be established. Management organization should be perfected andscholarships can be used to attract sports elites. Make learning, training andcontest development harmoniously, form a sustainable developmenttraining system.4.Standardize amateur tennis training market.5.Broaden the sources of funds.6. Explore variety modes of tennis training. In view of the differenttraining mode, effective measures can be taken through administrative,legal and contract.7. Make the competition systems more perfect according to the needs ofdifferent ages.8. Establish scientific training system. The above researches areexpected to provide theoretical basis on the development of tennis sports ofShandong teenagers.