A few days ago, the Japanese media dug up his composition written in elementary school, which read: "Take Japan first, then take the world!" " "When he graduated from Naimu Primary School in Songjiang, Japan in March 2002, he had won the national junior tennis championship in Japan three times.
Nishikori Kei's success is not accidental. He is an idol cultivated and carefully created by the Japan Internet Society. He studied tennis in the United States since childhood, and now he studies under the famous Chinese American Zhang Depei. Now he has obviously completed the original "45 Plan" of the Japan Tennis Association.
The so-called "45 Plan" is rooted in the construction of Japanese tennis player Su Songgang. From 65438 to 0986, it created the best ranking 46th in the personal world, but the Japanese Tennis Association was not satisfied with the top 50 rankings in the world. They hope that more players will break through this ranking in the future, thus promoting the development of tennis in the whole country. This plan is led by the Internet Society of Japan, with financial support from large enterprises such as Sony. Since the 1990s, good seedlings under the age of 12 have been selected through trial planting every year and sent to the United States for cultivation. Nishikori Kei is part of the "45 Plan". At the age of 65,438+03, he was selected and sent to Nick Politelli Tennis School in the United States. There, he grew from a Japanese teenager who couldn't speak a word of English to an international top player who can now use new york as his home court. Nick Tennis School is the world's most famous tennis superstar cradle, where Becker, Sharapova and others all come from. Good young people all over the world want to go there, so the tuition is extremely expensive. However, the Japan Tennis Association insists that young Japanese players can get the best living guarantee in a foreign land before they can concentrate on playing, so Sony and other big companies have spent a lot of money in this regard.
Take Nishikori Kei as an example. In addition to tennis school, he also studies English at the Japanese Overseas Chinese School. Since 2002, the "45 Plan" has cost him at least 10 years. Since 16 years old, he has gradually established his own team, including batting coach, physical fitness coach, psychologist, media consultant, nutritionist, sparring partner and even parent liaison specialist. The money comes from the tennis foundation established by Masaaki Morita, the former CEO of Sony, who is just one of the players trained by the foundation for more than 20 years. Nishikori Kei's breakthrough and the development of Japanese men's tennis team made China feel both pressure and encouragement. However, from the tennis point of view, we still have a long way to go, because Nishikori Kei's success not only comes from his own support and the support of tennis associations and consortia, but also is rooted in his environment.
There are many tennis schools in Japan, which have their own courts and employ coaches to train players. According to different stages of people, schools will be divided into elementary classes, intermediate classes and advanced classes. Elite players from these schools will form purely commercial clubs and participate in club competitions in Japan. At the same time, Japanese companies will also set up clubs called "industrial groups". Many members of the industrial group are retired professional players, as well as members of the school team who played in the university league. They fight on behalf of enterprises and also teach internal employees. Youth competitions, club competitions and university leagues connect all the tennis population of different ages and levels in Japan. It is with such a huge and well-functioning foundation that a player like Nishikori Kei can reach the Grand Slam final.