It's time to start! 2025 China Tennis Tour CTA1000 Huzhou Open Tennis First Day Preview

All eyes on you! The 2025 China Tennis Tour CTA1000 Huzhou Open Tennis Tournament will officially start on April 21 at the Huzhou International Clay Tennis Center. On the first day, the men's singles qualifiers will be held, with a total of 36 players battling it out for eight spots.

The men's singles qualifiers for this tournament are led by Shi Kangyuan and Duan Hao, 17-year-old Shi Kangyuan, a young player from Shandong who broke into the men's singles semifinals at the 2022 CTA800 Shenzhen Pingshan Station. Duan Hao, from Guangdong, who won the men's singles runner-up in the men's singles at the Wangcheng Station in Changsha in CTA1000 2023, is a new star to watch. A total of 20 matches were played on the first day of the tournament, which were arranged to be played on six pitches.

At 9 a.m. on April 21, the opening ceremony of the tournament will be held in Hall 1 of Huzhou International Clay Tennis Center.

Viewers can make an appointment through the "Watch a Game" WeChat mini-program to watch all the matches from April 21 to 25 for free, and the ticket price on the final day (April 26) is 100 yuan, and there will be four peak finals of men's and women's singles and men's and women's doubles on the same day. Halls 1-2 and venues 5-7 of this event are open for viewing.

Off-site activities are also colorful, and on April 21, there will be an environmental protection day for the event, when the audience can use their tickets to "trade in old balls" for new balls on the spot, and the old balls will be recycled and reused, which will further promote the implementation and promotion of the concept of "trade-in".

From 15 p.m. to 5 p.m. on April 21, the "Challenge Liu Xingyu" Top Ten Tournament will be held on the outer court, Liu Xingyu is a well-known tennis media person and tennis blogger loved by Chinese fans, and 30 local golfers will come to the scene to "compete" with Liu Xingyu. From 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., the "Tennis Rules Salon" presided over by Ning Jin, the international tennis white card referee and international tennis white card referee, will be held on the first floor of the clay tennis court at the match point. The above three activities can be registered and participated in through the "China Network Tennis" WeChat mini-program.