On April 24, the 2025 China Tennis Tour CTA1000 Huzhou Tennis Open's daily tennis-themed event "Bubble Teacher Takes You to Shoot Clay Tennis Matches" ended successfully!
Li Jianyi, a well-known Chinese tennis photographer, has been interviewing and photographing top international tennis tournaments all year round, and has photographed Grand Slam tournaments 19 times, covering more than 10 countries on four continents, witnessing the ups and downs of the international tennis world and the highlight moments of Chinese tennis. Because he always carried a long gun and a short cannon during the filming, he was named "Bubble Teacher" by netizens.
At the beginning of the event, Mr. Bubbles first showed the photographers who attended the event the photographs he took by himself at the French Open last year. Mr. Bubble said that this is because the Huzhou Open tennis tournament is also held on clay, and the same color palette can help photographers quickly immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the event. In the process of displaying the photo album, Mr. Bubble also explained the shooting skills and precautions of tennis photography, shared interesting stories that happened in the process of communicating with the event, brands and players, and showed his shooting equipment.
In the question session, a photographer proposed how to quickly choose the right shutter and aperture at the competition site, and Mr. Bubble explained that this requires adjusting various parameters according to different lighting conditions and venue types in the venue. "If the picture is all flat light, it is not good-looking, and the reasonable use of the lighting conditions of the venue to create light and shadow and create light and dark contrast can make the photo more layered, and the characters in the film will be more three-dimensional."
Subsequently, Mr. Bubbles led the photographers to visit the photo exhibition "The Glory of Chinese Tennis, the Indissoluble Clay Court", and told the scene of each photo when it was taken, and all the photographers were immersed in it. "The completion of the Huzhou International Clay Tennis Center made my eyes shine, and I filmed for a week, whether it was the size of the venue, the color, or the mental outlook of the players, the finished film was very similar to what I shot at the French Open." In an interview, Mr. Bubbles said: "I hope that this place will become China's Roland Garros in the future, and it will also be a mecca for tennis. If you like tennis, I think you should also make a pilgrimage to the Huzhou International Clay Tennis Center. ”
Mr. Bubble also mentioned that more and more high-level clay tennis tournaments have settled in Huzhou, which will mobilize the enthusiasm of local photographers in Huzhou for tennis photography, and have a deeper understanding of tennis and produce more tennis photography works. "I have met a group of excellent photographers during the French Open interview and shooting over the years, and the local photographers who came to participate in the event today are very enthusiastic, and I believe that some of them will become excellent tennis photographers and contribute to the development of Huzhou's tennis career."