Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, March 15 (Wang Jian and Chen Junliang) According to news from the Guangdong Tennis Association on the 15th, after three years, the fourth Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau "President's Cup" Tennis Invitational Tournament was recently held in Guangzhou.
Guangdong Tennis Association, Hong Kong Tennis Association and Macau Tennis Association each sent 5 pairs of doubles players to participate.
The event is sponsored by the Guangdong Tennis Association, guided by the Guangdong Social Sports and Training Competition Center, and co-organized by the Hong Kong Tennis Association and the Macau Tennis Association.
The competition adopts the team mixed competition system, and the competition will be carried out in five events: Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles, Men's Doubles, Men's Doubles, and Mixed Doubles.
During the competition, the contestants from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao united, cooperated and cooperated tacitly, exchanged tennis culture during the competition, and advocated sharing health and passing happiness through sports.
Photo courtesy of the Guangdong Tennis Association at the match site
At the end of the match, it was announced that the Hong Kong Tennis Association team won the winning award, the Guangdong Tennis Association team and the Macau Tennis Association team won the commemorative award, and then the representatives of the tennis associations of the three places presented trophies to each other.
Before the start of the competition, a symposium on the promotion of tennis work in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao for the 15th National Games in 2025 and further strengthening of exchange activities was held.
At the meeting, the heads of the Tennis Associations of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau shared and discussed the development of tennis in recent years, so as to better promote the deep integration and common prosperity of tennis in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau and sports in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Mai Liang, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau and chairman of the Guangdong Tennis Association, said that taking advantage of the important opportunity for the 15th National Games to be held in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in 2025, he hoped that the tennis associations in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao could seize this important opportunity. Opportunity, through tennis exchanges, to accelerate exchanges and cooperation between each other, and to promote coordinated development.
He Dongbo, vice chairman of the Guangdong Tennis Association, introduced the four sections of youth popularization to promote tennis development, amateur activities to promote tennis promotion, competition activities to promote tennis level improvement, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao platform to promote tennis exchanges and communication, and pointed out that the association will continue to build a good platform , closely communicate and interact with the Hong Kong and Macau Tennis Associations, and drive the province's tennis and sports cultural exchanges through the Greater Bay Area.
Photo courtesy of Guangdong Tennis Association
Mo Junyi, President of the Hong Kong Tennis Association, said that as the person in charge of tennis in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, it is their responsibility to use tennis as a traction to help the entire region, especially in sports, tourism, culture and other sectors, to develop exchanges in various aspects, regardless of It is the communication between players, the communication between amateurs, and the communication between coaches and referees, which should be the focus of promotion among the three places in the future.
Wu Yuling, chairman of the Macau Tennis Association, believes that she hopes to strengthen the development of tennis in Macau, especially the development of youth tennis, through activities and exchanges similar to this event.
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