Why Professional Tennis is Broken in China

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• WD

  @wdsa7129 · 5 years ago

  Forget Federer vs Djokovic<br>I wanna see Donald Young vs Yonald Doung

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• KE

  @kelvinniez · 5 years ago

  Petition for Cult Tennis to make the Rise And Fall of Swedish Tennis

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• FO

  @FootFaultTennis · 5 years ago

  Yonald Doung, 2025 US Open Champion, calling it now.

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• WI

  @WivoRN · 5 years ago

  Dude you can literally talk about anything and it&apos;ll be interesting as hell, can&apos;t wait for more and more of your work!

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• NE

  @neptis3300 · 5 years ago

  That quote from Djokovic about Serbia producing exceptional players is actually mad interesting.

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• ST

  @Strtvkrjlux7-12 · 5 years ago

  Petition for cult tennis to upload a video every week<br>Goal:100 likes and he must do it

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• JA

  @Jamsome59 · 5 years ago

  The definition of a quality tennis video.

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• VI

  @VincentDuxD · 5 years ago

  Our best boxer on the team who’s won a Olympic silver medal Zhilei, now works in a gym close to my home in China. 5000 RMB a month, round about 700 Euro.

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• ZH

  @zhezhang5257 · 5 years ago

  Thanks for your video, it is showed some great ideas. As a Chinese who played a lot of tennis in Europe, I would like to share my views. <br> <br>I have also discussed this question with my friends, why there are so few great Chinese tennis players? Besides the point mentioned in the video, such as the sports system, I think the tradition and history of China should not be ignored. <br><br> <br> <br>The country is poor for a long time, even the government want to encourage people to do sports, they should select the &quot;cheap&quot; ones, such as table tennis, basketball, and football, just imagine, how expensive and venerable the natural gut is back to that time, the rubber used in one tennis ball can reach 50g, which can only last several weeks at most, but the rubber can be made for a table tennis racket. In fact, I have witnessed many rackets without rubber when I was a child and people can still have a lot of fun from it. You also need only one solid table and a small net to play table tennis, but for tennis, you need a much larger space and need to be quite flat and solid. A high fence is also necessary for the tennis court.<br><br> <br> <br>So time keeps going and the selection of Chinese when choose sports kept stay away from tennis. Table tennis and badminton art top two single-person ball sports in China and there are few tennis courts. Obviously, the construction of a tennis court is more complex, it takes more space, needs more maintenance, and of course, takes more money, which results make tennis not an optimum choice for sports and social contact.<br><br> <br> <br>Li Na and the era of the big three changed this cycle slightly, I can recall back to the time in 2011-2015, tennis matches are very popular on TV. In fact, the broadcast time of AO is just in the afternoon of the Chinese new year, when everyone is on holiday and stays at home, so the great performance of Li Na and Zheng Jie made a great influence in China. I also started to play tennis during this time. Even more and more people enjoy the pleasure of tennis, they are still facing the following questions: expensive courts, expensive training fees(much more than in Europe, maybe *4 times and more), lack of tennis friends, and low-level tennis environments. In my opinion, that is the biggest problem of tennis in China: lack of environment.<br><br> <br> <br>Europe is really a heaven for tennis lovers, just like table tennis lovers in China. The training, the clay court, the scale system, and the tennis population are great. With the rapid growth of tennis lovers in China, one day they can produce their feds, nadals, and tennis systems. But the building of a great tennis environment needs time, so this is a question of the selection of Chinese people, if they choose to play tennis, one day China can be a great tennis country, if they still prefer other sports, no systems can really help.

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• PR

  @pranavsawantcoder · 5 years ago

  Hey maybe make a video of this : Why does India struggle to win grand slams in singles whereas it&apos;s players regularly win doubles slams. We have players like Leander Paes and Sania Mirza doing well in doubles but in singles we&apos;re struggling (nothing more than the singles bronze by Paes in 96). I can also help you with this video as I have myself been through much of the tennis structure in India. Cheers

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• LI

  @Liamjlm · 5 years ago

  When is the Genie Bouchard sequel coming?

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• RU

  @Ruud_Brouwer · 4 years ago

  Where is Peng?

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