| With the deep development of nationwide fitness campaign, various sports activities for the elderly have evolved throughout the country. Tennis, an elegant sport embodying health-building, recreation, competition, and leisure in one, whose unique characteristics and rich culture caters to the need of the contemporary elderly for high quality sports and recreation, has become very popular among the elderly. Nowadays, the elderly have the ability to participate in more sports of tennis. All sorts of elderly tennis exchange activities are increasing and the elderly tennis sports are gradually unfolded nationwide. It can enhance the mental and physical health of the elderly, expand elderly sports consumption, improve the quality of elderly fitness, and improve the elderly spiritual level and aesthetic values in the meantime, which has great significance in achieving healthy aging, promoting the construction of spiritual civilization and the healthy and harmonious development of sports for the elderly, giving fitness for the elderly a new meaning.This paper, with the current development of tennis for the elderly in Jiangsu Province as the research object, using various research methods such as literature data method, questionnaire, interviews with experts, data statistics and logic inference method, carries out a deep investigation into a series of problems regarding tennis sports for the elderly in Jiangsu Province, including participant characteristics, exercising status, sources of funds, organization and management, facilities, and development of activities. Summarizing the elements restricting the current development of tennis sports for the elderly in Jiangsu Province, this paper puts forward relevant development countermeasures to better promote the development of tennis sports for the elderly in Jiangsu Province. The results of the study indicate that:1,The development of Jiangsu elderly tennis is still in its early stage. There are not any professional management organizations for the elderly tennis sports in Jiangsu cities, except Nanjing. 2,Local sports department, the elderly sports association and tennis association do not pay enough attention to elderly tennis, and the fund investment for the activity is little. The quantity and quality of elderly tennis competition activities needs to be improved.3,Elderly tennis sports participants are mainly the elderly with high education, high income and stable career before retirement, and their main participating purposes are to strengthen body, entertain, make friends and enrich leisure cultural life.4,Jiangsu now has relatively few tennis court resources, and most of which are centered in schools, various entertainment fitness places, or hotels, exhibition centers, and other special places, while communities and parks, which are convenient for the elderly, possess even fewer tennis courts. There is contradiction between supply and demand.5,Most elderly participate in tennis sports without professional guidance and they are not satisfied with the effect of existing tennis fitness guidance.6,Using questionnaire and statistics methods, main factors influencing the development of tennis sports for the elderly in Jiangsu Province obtained are as follows: participants'factors, site factors, sports departments attention and support degree, publicity factors and guiding factor.Based on the current development and restricting factors of Jiangsu Province's elderly tennis, this paper puts forward the corresponding development countermeasures:1,Expand media publicity, and actively advocate the elderly to participate;2,Actively explore various ways suitable for the elderly to participate in tennis;3,Strengthen the government's attention to it and increase capital investment through multi-channel;4,Actively carry out various forms of elderly tennis competitions;5,Strengthen construction of basic-level organizations such as local elderly tennis association and senile tennis club;6,Actively build community development platform for the elderly tennis;7,To increase guidance strength to the elderly tennis... |
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