[News from the news center] On May 25-27, the 23rd China University Student Tennis Championships (North China Division) organized by YSU was held on tennis courts at YSU. 28 universities participated in this championship, including Tsinghua University, Peking University and Renmin University of China among others.
The opening ceremony. (Photo by Jia Mengwei)
Zhao Yongsheng addresses in the ceremony. (Photo by Wang Xinpei)
A tennis player in the competition. (Photo by Wang Xinpei)
The competition is sponsored by the China University Student Sports Association, executed by CUSA-Tennis and organized by YSU. It is a grand event for college students. This year's University Tennis Championship consists of East China Division, West China Division, South China Division, North China Division, Central China Division, Northeast Division, Northwest Division and Southwest Division, with a total of 8 divisions covering all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.
On the morning of May 25, the opening ceremony was held on the tennis court of YSU East Campus. Zhao Yongsheng, Vice President of YSU, Niu Weilin, Branch Chairman of the China University Sports Association Tennis, Yu Hongyue, Project Director of the China University Student Sports Association Competition Department, and Fu Hao, General Secretary of the China University Sports Association Tennis Branch attended the opening ceremony. Party Secretary of YSU School of Physical Education Jiang Zhongwei hosted the opening ceremony. The opening ceremony started in the solemn National Anthem. Zhao Yongsheng gave a welcome speech, introduced the basic situation of YSU, and pointed out that this event was meaningful for promoting the popularization of tennis on campus, and display college students’ passion and enthusiasm. Niu Weilin, Chairman of CUSA-Tennis, made an opening speech and announced the start of the tournament.
YSU attached great importance to the hosting of this event. The School of Physical Education set up a competition committee in order to do a good job for the preparatory work and coordinated with some departments like Propaganda Department, Finance Department, Logistics Sector, Security and other departments to ensure a complete success of this conference.
Awarding ceremony. (Photo by Zhang Fan)
In the three days of fierce competition, the athletes from colleges and universities across the country launched high-level sports competitions at YSU tennis courts. Although the weather was hot during the competition and the schedule was tight, athletes fought hard to for their own university and honor. YSU won the third place in the women's C group and the eighth place in the men's C group under the training and guidance of coaches Zhang Yi and Yang Yi. At the same time, they fought through to the finals of NSTC.
It is reported that this competition aims to promote the tennis activities in colleges and universities and strengthen the exchanges and contacts between colleges and universities. This competition contributed to the development of sports activities in universities.
With the top three teams:
Top three of men's group A: Peking University, Tsinghua University, China University of Petroleum.
Top three of men’s group B: Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Renmin University of China, and Central University for Nationalities.
Top three of men’s group C: Beijing University of Physical Education, Beijing Normal University, North China Institute of Technology.
Top three of women's group A: Tianjin University, Tianjin University of Foreign Studies, North China Electric Power University.
Top three of women's group B: Renmin University of China, Central University for Nationalities, Beijing University of Chemical Technology.
Top three of women's groupC: Beijing Sport University, Beijing Normal University, Yanshan University.
(Translated by Liu Shuai)
