On Saturday, December 2, the Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Student Tennis Championship was held at the Maqiao Qizhong Tennis Center. 1,184 primary and secondary school students from 242 schools in the city participated in the competition, which was attended and watched by Wang Hao, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Liu Yan, deputy mayor of Minhang District, and other guests.
Since 2017, the Shanghai Primary and Secondary School Tennis Championship has been held for 6 consecutive years, becoming one of the highest level and largest student tennis tournaments in the city, and even the largest in East China. This year's competition is divided into Primary School Group A, B, Junior Secondary Group and Senior Secondary Group, including singles, doubles, mixed doubles and team competitions, which lasted for two days.
This year's event has improved the professionalism, atmosphere creation and publicity of the event, upgraded it in an all-round way, designed the logo of the event, and become a benchmark sports event for students at the municipal level. The championship logo integrates elements such as magnolia, tennis, and students, with two magnolia petals holding up the tennis ball, and four small dots representing participating schools and students from all over the city, highlighting the characteristics of tennis.
It is reported that tennis in Minhang School is also one of the characteristics. Minhang has nearly 20 schools with standard tennis courts, tennis courses, and tennis teams. At the district level, there is a perennial training team of about 120 campus tennis leagues, which carry out district-level student tennis competitions and point competitions every year, and create 9 national youth tennis characteristic schools.
After more than ten years of construction of "Tennis on Campus" and "Campus Tennis League", more than 50,000 students in Minhang have received universal tennis education, and a large number of outstanding tennis talents have been cultivated through the integration of sports and education, and have won many good results in various international and national competitions.