In the current reality of talent cultivation in vocational colleges in China, there is a widespread emphasis on skills over literacy. As an essential way to enhance students' comprehensive literacy, physical education urgently needs to explore its deeper function as a "sports person". This article focuses on the core issue of how to effectively integrate the fundamental task of "cultivating morality and talent" into the specific practice of physical education teaching in vocational colleges. The primary research methods are action research and case study, and the 15-year practical exploration of tennis teaching and school teams at Zhongshan Polytechnic is used as a case study for systematic summary and model construction. The core of the research lies in proposing a three-in-one tennis education practice model, which integrates the cultivation of professional core competencies such as rule awareness, resilience, and collaborative spirit into the entire process of teaching, training, and cultural construction. Through typical student cases (such as Guanjie Zheng's growth leap from a junior college student to a doctoral student) and the collective achievements of the "Tennis Hundred Alumni Team", the significant effectiveness of this model in promoting students' comprehensive development has been demonstrated. Research has shown that tennis is an effective carrier for vocational colleges to implement the "sports-oriented" concept. The "Zhongshan Polytechnic Model" has not only achieved excellent competition results but, more importantly, laid the foundation for students' lifelong professional ethics and life, and provided replicable and practical paths and typical examples for similar colleges to carry out characteristic sports education work.

Ruijuan Liu, Xuexue Pan. Cultivating Morality, Cultivating Talents, Forging Souls, and Strengthening Skills: The Practical Model Construction of Tennis in Vocational Colleges with Sports Talents. Frontiers in Educational Research (2026), Vol. 9, Issue 2: 84-96. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2026.090211.

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