Lehigh High School Boys Tennis Club

The plane landed in Tokyo.

The team leader has already booked the hotel in advance, and the bus will take the players and staff to the hotel directly from the airport.

The United States has naturally made corresponding preparations for the friendly match invited by Japan this time. It probably regards this match as a preseason match for this year's World Cup, and uses the result of this match as a basis for the new round of World Cup selection and competition in the second half of the year. one of the criteria for assessment.

The open friendly match between the champion and runner-up of the World Cup has also attracted the attention of the top four and even the top eight teams in the World Cup.

The Japanese team did not shy away from the rules of this selection from the very beginning, indicating "partial regional selection". Naturally, the US team did not go all out, and kept their secret weapon. They only trained ordinary players and those who were previously stuck on the edge of selection and were eligible to be selected. Quasi-national team member.

Reinhardt counted the number of people in the hotel lobby.

This time the coach with the team is just an ordinary player coach, and the main right to lead the team is in the hands of Reinhardt.In fact, Reinhardt will not be eligible for the U17 competition after September. This time, as the team leader, he is only holding the lineup, and by the way, he will participate in the evaluation of the next round of team leader competition.He will not play tomorrow's game.

Among the people who came this time, apart from the newly selected junior high school students and senior high school students, the strongest ones were probably the two Japanese players who would have represented their US team in the competition last year but withdrew after the group stage.

In fact, Reinhardt also knows that there is a high probability that these two Japanese players will not stay in the US team in this year's World Cup.

But it is more convenient for him to use the two brothers surnamed Echizen as a standard of evaluation and a factor that stimulates the progress of other players.

"If you want to go out, you can move freely. But you have to go back to the hotel before 11 o'clock in the evening, and I will roll the roll with Coach Kassel at 30:[-]." Reinhardt said, "Come and get the room card first."

After taking the room card and putting away his things, Echizen Ryoma went downstairs with his tennis bag.

Echizen Longya followed behind him, stretching lazily: "Do you want to go home and see Dad?"

Ryoma adjusted the straps of the tennis bag: "Hey, why do you always follow me?"

"Dear brother, you are only 13 years old, if I hadn't followed you, do you think Dad would leave you alone in the United States at ease?" Long Ya said.

Longma pressed the brim of his hat: "There is nothing to worry about."

He still didn't remember Long Ya's matter, and felt vaguely familiar with some places, but he couldn't remember the specific details at all.It's just that it's my brother's face that can be seen from his face, so far Ryoma's mouth is stubborn, but he just thinks this guy is really annoying.

He hailed a taxi in front of the hotel and sat in the back seat.

Long Ya opened the front door of the car, quickly got on the co-pilot, and buckled her seat belt.

"Where does our family live?" He turned around and asked Ryoma.

Longma: "... XX Road XX."

In fact, Echizen Minamijiro did not stay in Japan all the time.

Of course, he couldn't completely ignore his son being sent to the United States to participate in professional competitions.

At least the registration of youth events and the signing of clubs require parental supervision.Echizen Minamijiro didn't even ask his son to sign with the club, but found an agent he trusted to act as an agent.

and……

Hanging up on the phone call from Mifune, Echizen Nanjiro rarely felt troubled.

Although the so-called joint plan of the Tennis Association seemed whimsical, it was actually done. Even he couldn't help feeling that one day those people from the Tennis Association would be able to accomplish such a thing.

Mifune sent him invitations several times, and two years later the Olympic Games will be held in Tokyo.If you don't use the invisible and intangible things like honor as an excuse, then there is indeed no shortage of talents among the Japanese players who participated in the World Cup with their sons.

In the past two years, the development of tennis in Japan has really exceeded his expectations.

No, it's not something that can be done quickly in the past two years.

It is the result that Sanfu has insisted on for more than ten years.

He did not expect that Mifune, who has excellent performance in various fields and is like a joke to participate in the tennis world, will spend more than ten years in tennis, stay in the remote mountains without people, and lead the development of a U17 The training camp shocked the sports world with the results of the training camp.

In terms of results, the Japanese team is already the champion of the World Cup.

So, are you going to let your son come back to participate in the training camp in Japan?

Echizen Minamijiro wanted to see it again.

"Anyway, there is a game tomorrow." Echizen Nanjiro lay on the wooden corridor in the backyard of his home, with his eyes closed, blowing the hot afternoon wind, and the electric fan in the room whined at him, "Go ask the little devils for help." Tickets should be available, right?"

Hey, it was the commercial tennis team from the United States that broke the Tennis Association last year.

Generally speaking, the competitions organized by the Kanto training camp will not be open to the public.

Fortunately, the chosen opponent was the American team, so it seemed that the advantages of such an open choice outweighed the disadvantages.

Echizen Minamijiro didn't share his thoughts with the two boys who returned home afterwards.

And he could actually feel that his little boy actually wanted to come back.

Purely in terms of personal hard power, the US team has a steady stream of talents.Only in the Japanese team, Ryoma can face the US team as opponents.And the Japanese team...

Maybe in Longma's view, they are all defeated by him?

Will anyone win this time?

The game on the second day is a team open game, saving time and adopting a one-game system instead of a three-game system.

Both sides don't think that they can sweep their opponents in three games, and they also think that it is impossible for them to be swept by their opponents in three games. Then the number of games will definitely be more than three games. If a three-game system is adopted, one day is definitely not enough.

But for two days of group competitions, it is not easy to sell tickets to outsiders.After all, this is not a formal professional competition, but a team competition for a group of quasi-professional youth troops.

Except for the rule of one game, the other rules of the game are the same as the World Cup.

Both sides submit a list of players before the game, but there is a chance to change it during the game.

However, the number of candidates for the eight players cannot be changed. Even if the list is changed, only one person's order of appearance can be replaced, or the original order of appearance can be changed.

However, both parties have the meaning of assessment for this competition, so they did not submit the competition list separately, but met with each other before submitting the list to discuss how to arrange the competition list.

Kurobe was still a little emotional when he saw Reinhardt standing opposite him.

The future young player already has a small reputation in the world tennis world, and his prestige as a team leader is also sufficient.And this year's US team also has several players who have just registered for professional qualifications on the main list.

Kurobe greeted Reinhardt.

The two sides tentatively expressed their respective goals, and finally understood that they wanted to arrange some games in advance.

Since the purpose is the same, it is easy to say.

"Echizen Ryoma, where will you place him?" Kurobe asked first, "There are players in my team who hope to play against him."

"I understand." Reinhardt understood.

He thought about it, and it was difficult for the Echizen brothers to be placed in the doubles position, but if both of them let them play in singles, it would be more difficult for him to complete the team leader assessment and the new national team assessment tasks.

If the opponent is demanding a duel with Echizen Ryoma, then Echizen Ryoma can be placed directly on the bench.

And in order to ensure that this pair of singles will definitely go on...

"How about singles two?" Reinhardt suggested.

Kurobe understood what Reinhard meant after a second thought.

Singles [-], in case one side performs abnormally, this will become a match point.

It is estimated that Reinhardt also wants to see how far Echizen Ryoma can do-speaking of which, in the World Cup finals played at the beginning of the year, the US team was also considered a lore by the Japanese team.Knowing that it is unlikely that Echizen Ryoma will stay in the team, Reinhardt naturally wants to collect more information about Echizen Ryoma, and the more pressure he puts on him, the better.

For now, he can only hope that the opponents Japan has picked for him will put enough pressure on Echizen Ryoma.

And since the opposite coach has made such a request, it is naturally someone who can pose enough threats to Echizen Ryoma.

After agreeing to the "ridiculous" request of the Japanese team, Reinhardt naturally had to make corresponding requests.

In comparison, the number of singles players joining the national team this year is actually enough, but for doubles, last year's doubles players on the national team were both high school seniors, so they will definitely not be able to participate in this year's national team.Among the reserve players, there is no established doubles team to play professional matches.

At least a doubles combination of all-professional players must be formed, and Reinhardt only has a preliminary idea of ​​how to combine, and wants to verify in the game whether the "strongest combination" he thinks has the potential to take shape and enough tacit possibility.

"Doubles two," Reinhardt said, "I need you to put your strongest doubles in doubles two."

"Doubles two? I see." Kurobe nodded.

Reinhardt remembered something: "I remember your game against Germany last year. Is the little guy who played with duke on the list this year?"

"...do you want him to play?"

"Of course, I'm looking forward to it."

Not only does he want to "test" his partner combination, he also wants to see how the player who surprised him but did not play in the finals performed this year.

Being able to make myself play a complete Byodoin Phoenix move is amazing enough even if it is only for a short time.

That is Byodoin Temple Phoenix.

Originally, he thought this would be a strong opponent for the US team.

As a result, the finals did not play.

At that time, he understood that the player must have some flaws.

What exactly is the flaw?

Reinhardt wanted to find out.

Even if the flaws of last year may not exist this year, it is always beneficial and harmless to try it out.

After the meeting, Kurobe and Reinhardt together submitted the entry list to the organizers of the competition (the business partners who signed the contract with the two tennis associations and the staff of the referee associations who applied).

The list of the Japanese team also confirmed the order of appearance of the eight main players at the same time.

The author has something to say:

I really don’t have a clue about the relationship between the Echizen brothers and Echizen Minamijiro. It’s because I don’t care about it, so it’s naturally OOC. ORZ

And this match between Yukimura and Echizen will definitely be played, it is one of my personal obsessions.

Nioh will play doubles two, but I haven't figured out who to play with yet, let me think about it another day.