| （School of Sports and Leisure，Guangdong Ocean University，Zhanjiang 524088，China） Abstract: Having studied amateur tennis games emerging in China over the past decade, the author revealed the fol-lowing findings: tennis games have been transformed from “noble games” to “white collar games” and then to “civilian games”; the more people participate in such games, the higher the prizes will be; there are more and more game varie-ties, groups and participating cities. The author also put forward the following opinions: in order to develop amateur tennis games in China there must be a lot of tennis lovers; game designs should be popular, humanized and internation-alized whenever possible; the establishment of city game stations should be planned nationwide, etc.
Key words: sports sociology；amateur tennis game；China |
