A tennis feast on the grassland, the 2025 YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament Baotou Station is hotly opened

On June 7, the 2025 YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament kicked off at the tennis dome of the Olympic Sports Center in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Baotou is the fourth stop of this year's YONEX Elite Cup, which also marks the official entry of the second half of the tournament, which attracted more than 100 young tennis players from Inner Mongolia and surrounding areas.

Mr. Wu Erbin, former Deputy Mayor of Baotou Municipal Government, Ms. Cui Xiaojing, Director of Baotou Sports Bureau, Mr. Li Luyang, Director of Baotou National Fitness Center, Mr. Li Kuan Yao, Executive President of Baotou Tennis Association, Mr. Liu Jingcai, Sales Department of Beijing Branch of Yonex (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., Ms. Wang Ziyi, Head of the Elite Cup of Yonex (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., Ms. Tian Yating, General Manager of Inner Mongolia Yulin Industrial Co., Ltd. and other leading guests attended the opening ceremony and kicked off the competition. The lucky young player who gets the signature tennis ball from the leading guests will receive a YONEX Elite Cup event gift package.

After the opening ceremony, a YONEX tennis racket trial lottery was held on the spot. The young players will hit the markers placed on the court with the rackets of various YONEX series, and the successful hitters will be lucky draws, including vouchers and various sports equipment. Through the trial lottery activity, the young players fully warmed up for the competition and experienced the excellent performance of various series of YONEX tennis rackets.

This year, the YONEX Elite Cup Junior Tennis Tournament will hold a total of 8 sub-tournaments and one finals, and the champions and runners-up of each category of the sub-tournament will be able to obtain direct places in the finals. The 2025 YONEX Elite Cup Youth Tennis Tournament Baotou Station is hosted by Yonex (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. and undertaken by Inner Mongolia Yulin Industrial Co., Ltd., with a total of U8, U10, U12 three groups of competitions and parent-child doubles competitions, and the competitions of each group are carried out in the form of group stage + knockout round. Since last year, the YONEX Elite Cup has been officially included in the CTJ junior points system of the Chinese Tennis Association, and the champion players of this tournament will receive 100 ranking points.

Baotou City, located in the central and western part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an industrial city inhabited by many ethnic groups. According to Ms. Wang Ziyi, the person in charge of the elite cup of YONEX (Shanghai) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., the youth tennis tournament held by YONEX in Baotou aims to bring tennis to the hearts of more ethnic minority youths, and bring YONEX's action to help the development of Chinese youth tennis to the broader inland areas of the motherland.

"In the past, YONEX has also held Zheng Jie Cup, women's tournaments and other events in Baotou, including youth open classes and exchange meetings, and the experience and feedback from local players and tennis enthusiasts in Baotou are very good." Wang Ziyi also specifically mentioned that the YONEX contracted player and the current Chinese men's tennis No. 1 brother Buyun Chaoket is a minority player, and the holding of youth tennis tournaments in Baotou will profoundly promote the development of youth tennis in ethnic minority areas. "Baotou's tennis foundation and atmosphere are very good, and we bring the YONEX Elite Cup to Baotou so that more ethnic minority children can join in tennis, exercise their physique, improve their tennis skills, and maybe they will be able to represent China to the international arena in the future."

At the event site, YONEX provided complete equipment support and event guarantee for all players. YONEX sent a professional service team to provide services such as trial play and stringing for each contestant on the spot, and also distributed customized T-shirts to each contestant; The sign-in booth is full of YONEX series of products for players to choose from, and a sumptuous tea break is for players and parents to enjoy; Each game is equipped with professional referees to ensure the fairness, impartiality and professionalism of the event, and standardize the game behavior of young players. In addition, a lounge for contestants and parents was also set up at the competition site, and the thoughtful service was well received by the contestants and parents.

The YONEX Elite Cup is another national youth tennis tournament created by YONEX after the Zheng Jie Cup, and forms a huge YONEX competition system with TEAM ONE team competition, Zheng Jie Cup, women's tennis exchange tournament and other events. This weekend, players will be battling their tennis love for the trophy and qualification to the Grand Finals!