 It also maintains youth teams, and is recognized to be one of the most important formation centers of new sports talents in Brazil.Currently the club has approximately 1000 competing athletes, being about 900 youth athletes.= History =
The land that would become the first location of Minas Tênis Clube (currently Minas I) was originally assigned to become a zoo at Belo Horizonte's original urban plan, from the 1890s.