Research of the career transition of excellent tennis players

• Main Authors: Liu , Hung-Hui, 劉虹慧
• Other Authors: Kwan,Wen-Yen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58589683338963582311

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 休閒運動管理學系暨碩士班 === 102 === This research aims at getting straight the career course and retirement motivation of excellent tennis players in our nation before retirement and their interdisciplinary career transformation after retirement. This research mainly employs Semi-structure Thorough Interview of Qualitative Research to collect materials. There are six first-division players who were born between 1960 and 1990 and entered junior colleges through 「Higher Education and Tutorship Method for Excellent Athletic Students in Schools over Medium Level」are chosen to be the research objects. The results of the research are as follows: 1. The career of the players Excellent tennis players can not take their study work into consideration in their career, so they generally enter a higher education through 「screening and review」 and 「experiment」. The school provides lessons tutorship, flexible school time, nourishment, scholarship and tuition waiver. Subject ability decides their choice in school and department when they enter universities. They mainly chose tennis because their families guide them to this vocation or were chosen in school’s selection. The enlightenment age of tennis players is between 6 years to 11 years, and their training time is between 5 to 8 hours. In the training process, they may come across lassitude because of overtraining and lack of tutorship in facing pressure. Though extra costs may be derived in the training process, excellent tennis players usually can win over enterprise sponsor. 2. The retirement of the players They may choose to retire because of injury, choke point in achieving a better performance, career burnout and recognition of career system. They generally retire when they are going to enter universities, released from military service, graduate from universities and in their 26. Most excellent players have no concept on pre-retirement planning, but part of them would make preparation for retirement in choosing school and department when entering university. 3. Career transformation The players’ mood may experience a process of being at a loss, considering letting nature take its course, feeling full of hope, excited, free and no pressure. They are often high in adaptability after retiring, behave well in resisting pressure and usually keep hopeful and positive attitude toward life. The problems they may encounter in career transformation include adapting a new interpersonal relationship, learning knowledge of different domain, adjusting life pace, distinguishing the order of priority, and managing their time. Most of them bear a teaching position or become tennis coach after retiring. The factors that contribute to their successful transformation include their indomitable traits, positive attitude, ability to bear frustration, crushing resistance, contacts and opportunities accumulated in tennis career, their totally different life experience attract attention and curiosity and the international concept and foreign language ability cultivated in their career. Here are some suggestions for the players in their career transformation: improving foreign language ability, cultivating international view, making the best use of available resources, commanding advantages, accomplishing pre-retirement planning, humbly learning, fostering a second specialty and creating self-worth. Key words: tennis, career, transformation process