YONEX “Zheng Jie Cup” Teenager Tennis Tour in 2016 was launched from June of this year, the tour attracted over 3,000 youth tennis contestants around the country to attend the competition, and it offered professional display opportunities and competition platform for them. In order to respond to national call of nationwide fitness and quality education, “Zheng Jie Cup” events were enlarged into eight stations this year, including Zhengzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Tai’an, Beijing, Fuzhou, Hohhot, Guiyang. In August of this year, Dalian Sports Center as host place of finals will witness the rising of many new tennis stars.

       Successful host of WTA 125K Dalian International Women’s Open Tennis Championship started to spread popularity of Sports Center, and created good tennis atmosphere as well, attracted more and more tennis matches to converge in Sports Center. Established by China’s tennis golden flower, Zheng Jie, “Zheng Jie Cup” Teenager Tennis Championship has passed 7 years till now since 2009. For the event named after her own name, Zheng Jie paid more attention to it. In the matches, she participated in setting up each detail of the matches by herself, and took a lot of time to exchange and interact with small contestants who took part in matches. For specific program setup, “Zheng Jie Cup” is divided into two programs as men’s singles and women’s singles this year. The matches adopt competition form of tournament for the first time, and first 16 contestants with total points in respective female and male competition for each age group can be promoted to national finals. All Championships, Second Winners, Third Winners in different groups will be invited to attend “Elite training camp” activities created by Zheng Jie team and accept guidance by Zheng Jie. Zheng Jie introduced that the initial intention of creating “Zheng Jie Cup” was to make more teenagers to participate in tennis activities, promote and develop tennis activities of China’s teenagers, select tennis talents, and finally improve overall strength and levels of China’s tennis.