[Net King] The Crown of Tennis

The top four have been determined on the first day, and the ranking of the county competition and the qualifying schools in the Kanto competition will be determined on the second day.

Kirihara stayed up late last night looking at the dictionary and writing the review until midnight, and still struggled to get up at [-]:[-] in the morning.

"Akaya, your face is ugly, why are your eyes so red? Do you have a fever?" Mrs. Kirihara worriedly reached out to touch his forehead, but he avoided it.

"I'm fine." Kirihara finished his breakfast and milk, picked up his tennis bag and ran out the door.

When they disbanded yesterday, Yukimura asked Zhun Zhengxuan to gather at the school first, and then go to the tennis park together, so the meeting time was also earlier.

"It's all here." Yukimura counted the number of people and led the team to the competition venue.

Kirihara clutched the review in his pocket, hesitating when to take it out.

[The minister didn't even look at me just now. ] From yesterday to now, Kirihara has been feeling ignored by Yukimura, even if Yukimura still mentions him a few words, most likely to tell Sanada or Liu to take good care of him, to measure blood pressure every day or something.This makes Kirihara, who is often mentioned by Yukimura and cared by Yukimura, at a loss.

He was a little aggrieved. For the competition, the seniors gave him helpless looks, so forget it.only--

I seem to have let the minister down.

Liu had been quietly observing Kirihara who was walking at the end with his head lowered and biting his lower lip, watching him arrive at school early in the morning with swollen eyes, and was secretly wiping his face just now.

[Ah——] After all, Liu's heart softened.

When getting into the car, he put his arms around Kirihara's shoulders and pushed towards the seat next to Yukimura.

Sanada didn't say anything, and went to sit in the back row.The car is very quiet, including Marui.

Yukimura leaned on the window and looked out, Kirihara was sitting on the side of the aisle, secretly looking sideways at Yukimura.

His palms were sweating nervously, Kirihara murmured: "Minister..."

Yukimura naturally turned his head to look at Kirihara, "Is there something wrong, Akaya."

"I'm sorry, Minister, I was wrong." Kirihara's eyes were a little wet again, he stood up abruptly and bowed to Yukimura, "I was really wrong."

Kirihara, who hadn't finished expressing his apology, was pulled back to his seat by Yukimura: "Be careful, you're still in the car."

Because of Yukimura's gentle voice, Kirihara couldn't hold back his tears anymore, sobbing, he took out the review from his pocket and handed it to Yukimura: "My...review...Minister...I won't be late next time gone."

Yukimura took the paper that was crumpled by Kirihara and put it in his jacket pocket, and touched Kirihara's drooping head. "I don't mean to keep pursuing it. Those who should be punished have already been punished. Chiye, you have to promise me that there will be no next time."

"Ok!"

The atmosphere in the car relaxed.

Everyone has watched Kirihara's performance in the past few months. For this only outstanding elementary school boy who has a big problem of high blood pressure, he can pet and protect him as much as he can, but he is used to Kirihara's situation like yesterday. Come.It would be a lie to say that they don't feel distressed, even they are unwilling to bear Yukimura's neglect, even if it is unintentional.

Now that it's finally over, everyone who is a senior is relieved.

Marui was a little dissatisfied, he sat diagonally in the back row, watching with jealousy Yukimura took out a tissue to gently wipe Kirihara's tears, stroked his curly hair to comfort Kirihara.

"What a blessing, Chi Ye."

"..." Kuwahara on the side didn't understand what to envy.

The first opponent of the day was Kamakura, who broke out of the siege, and he won as expected.Chengcheng Shonan also kicked off Aihara No. [-] Middle School and met Li Haida in the final.

Huacun will have Lihai's ranking list as soon as the order of the battle between the two schools is announced.

"Is it still exactly the same, really confident children."

"So, my opponent is Liu Lian Er, who is playing three in singles? One of the 'Big Three' of Lihai University." Ruoren blew a kiss to the guards on the side, and raised a confident smile, "Totally No problem, can he memorize the hitting styles of all the world's best players?"

"Don't underestimate the enemy, if you are human." Kajimoto was dissatisfied with his slightly contemptuous attitude.

"What, our opponent doesn't seem to have heard of it." The twins who were arranged in doubles two also looked relaxed.

"Next is the match between Lihai University Affiliated Middle School and Chengcheng Shonan Middle School."

"Both sides line up."

Huacun is very interested in Yukimura, who is the head and coach of Rikkai.

"Please give me more advice today. I am Huacun, the coach of Shiroshinan Shonan. Yukimura-kun is really a piece of jade. I wonder if you are interested in my training method?"

"I've heard it a little bit." Yukimura held back his coat and expressed his opinion to Huamura's hint, "Unfortunately, I don't quite agree with your so-called 'work'. The road of tennis has no end."

"Then, please don't be polite in this game."

"We need to consider the thoughts of our Lihai players." Yukimura and Huamura saluted and returned to the coach's bench.

"The next doubles match will be Hiroshi Yagyu and Ichiro Shimazu VS Shonari Shonan Tanaka Yohei and Tanaka Hiroshi from Rikkai University High School."

"I think the last match should give you enough confidence, right?"

"Yes." Shimadzu has been named by Yukimura as a negative case from time to time since the practice match against Ice Emperor, and he is eager to prove his improvement in mental power.

"The game starts, and the High School Affiliated to Lihai University starts first."

"It looks like a temporary partner, can they keep up with our cooperation speed?"

"Idiot, how could you keep up?"

Snapped.

[15:0]

"..." The Tanaka twins couldn't help but startled because of the speed of the ball.

Yagyu, serving the ace, raised his glasses modestly: "Thank you both for your concern about our cooperation, but the game is over here, adieu~"

Yukimura raised his eyebrows and looked up at the sky. [Suddenly remembered something. ]

Although the two of them also have the ability to listen to the sound and distinguish the position, it's one thing to hear it, but another thing to be able to get it right.

[gameRikkaidai1-0]

"Basic skills seem to be far behind." Nioh leaned in front of the tall Moori, wearing Yagyu's coat to block the sun.

"What's the matter, you said that you are very powerful, but in fact, this is the level?" Kirihara held back for a day, and finally revealed his true colors, provoking hatred in the direction of Chengcheng Shonan.But after he finished speaking, he still glanced at Yukimura on the coach's bench with trepidation.

Yang Ping and Hao Ping have already begun to worry, their tacit cooperation, even the trick of hitting the ball together, is not threatening to the two of Li Hai.The solid and quick footwork of Yagyu and Shimadzu can completely reverse the slight gap in the coordination between the two sides, and even widen the distance.

[gamesetandmatch,wonbyRikkaidai6-0]

"It's completely crushed." Taki, who was in charge of collecting information for Ice Emperor beside the court, couldn't help but laugh.Last year, after Lihai's master seniors entered school, they were still able to draw strong members from the reserve team.Taki had personally experienced the abilities of these two.Even Shimadzu, who has the least sense of presence in the quasi-selection, is really not easy for him to deal with.

In general, Yagyu and Shimadzu performed very well in the county competition, especially Shimadzu, who is the main attacker, is known as the No.1 of Tachikai Maruishita in front of the net.

"The next doubles match will be a doubles match between Bunta Marui and Jack Kuwahara of the High School Affiliated to Likai University vs. Shonari Shonan Ota Sho and Kiriyama Daichi."

"You should have read the information on the opposite side."

"what."

"Li Hai's first doubles performance can't be worse than the second doubles performance just now, right?" Yukimura gestured to the scoreboard on the sidelines.

"Of course!" Marui puffed up his face, turned around and patted Kuwahara on the shoulder, "Go, Jack."

"Both salute."

Opposite Marui is Ota, whose height only reaches his chest, which makes Marui inexplicably comfortable. [However, the gap is really big. ] Kiriyama on the side is conservatively estimated to be 1.8 meters, and Kuwahara on the opposite side said it doesn't matter.

"Hey, let's show you our tennis." Kiriyama showed off his strong muscles. "Be aware!"

"Hey? It's the first time anyone's said that to us. Is it, Jack?"

"Ah, who wouldn't say big words, it's true on the court."

"The game starts, Chengcheng Shonan starts first."

It was the short Ota who served first.

"It's too slow!" Marui, who was receiving the serve, hit the net back. "Huh?" In front of the opposite net was the tall Kiriyama.

[Tsk, it really makes people angry. ]

Kiriyama's return ball was caught by Kuwahara, and he hit a straight ball in the opposite direction of Kiriyama's movement.

"Hey, is this all right?"

"Is there still such a style of play?" Nioh's smile was unspeakably weird, "Using the advantage of height and arm length in front of the net to increase the defensive range, and let teammates fill in the gaps in the backcourt?"

"There are blind spots everywhere." Liu was not very interested in recording information.

Kiriyama's unexpected return did not score, and Marui in front of the net hit a short volley towards him.Kiriyama, who didn't have time to adjust his posture, couldn't handle the close-in ball that was only a few centimeters away from his body.

[0:15]

"Is this the work Coach Huacun said?" Yukimura mocked.

"Please don't worry, Yukimura-kun, it's more than that."

"Is it."

On the second ball, Marui wanted to play a lob to pull Ota to the backcourt, but he was stunned by the next operation on the opposite side.

Ota, who is petite, used Kiriyama's back as a step, and jumped high to smash.The angle of this high-pressure ball is very large, although Marui can hit it back with a half volley, but——

Really surprised.

In the backcourt, Kuwahara went to the midfield to fill in the forehand and hit back. The speed is not too fast and the straight ball flies to the opposite backcourt to score.Ota had just landed at this moment.

[0:30]

"Qi." A series of tricks were deciphered, which made Cheng Cheng and Shonan, who wanted to suppress Li Hai's arrogance, feel a little disappointed.However, Marui, who was the main attacking position of Lihai, didn't give them too many opportunities to adjust their mentality.

"Secret technique - tightrope walking."

[gameRikkaidai3-0]

Kiriyama's high-pressure ball may not be handled by their previous opponents, but Marui, who is used to Sanada's powerful "fire", adapts well to this pure power smash, and even feels that the power is too weak.

[The purpose of a volley at the net is to attack, not to defend.Tongshan obviously does not have the all-around and exquisite attack ability.And with such a big body, in front of the net-so close to the opposite side is fatal, a close-up ball is enough to make him return the ball out of shape. ]

[Self-righteously relying on size differences to form a defense in front of the net, this is the so-called opportunism. ]

Yukimura leaned back on the bench calmly, watching Marui and Kuwahara's performance.

It was not the first time for them to participate in the county competition. Their performance last year impressed many people, and they gradually gained the title of "Golden Doubles" of Lihai University.To be honest, Yukimura is not very satisfied with the current strength of the two.Their cooperation is tacit enough, but Kuwahara's return is too good to predict and easy to deal with, and their backcourt has little threat to Yukimura.That's why Yukimura was able to concentrate most of his energy on Marui. Naturally, Marui couldn't cope with this kind of Yukimura.

There is also the problem of physical strength, Marui is the worst physical strength of all the quasi-selected.In Yukimura's usual coaching match, he can maintain a full nine rounds at most, and if he really plays two sets, he can directly lay on the ground.

Yukimura once said to Marui that if you play three sets, you are the soft persimmon in Li Hai Junzheng.The words are quite aggressive and harsh.Marui was depressed for several days because of this, but luckily Yukimura gave him a cake as a comfort, which didn't make him really depressed.

[Slightly improved. ] In comparison, Kuwahara's flaws are relatively large.

[gamesetandmatch,wonbyRikkaidai6-0]

"not bad."

"Just good? Yukimura, can't you say a few more words?"

"Hmm——you barely played the level you usually practiced with me just now. Is this okay?"

"...Okay." [Not as good as "good"! ]

"It's really a great duel. It's worthy of being the king of Lihai." From the coach's point of view, Huacun still likes these proud and tough teenagers very much.But she will not give up the students who are willing to do her "work". "This competition is very rare, you have to experience it well, Ruoren."

"I see, coach." Ruoren himself, no, all the main candidates in Chengcheng Shonan respect Huacun very much.Because of this, his admiration for Huacun against Lihai just now is a bit tasteful.

"Next is the singles match three, Lihai University Affiliated High School Liu Lian II VS Shonan Wakato Hiroshi."

"Lian Er."

"Don't worry, Jingshi."

"Are you the 'Military Advisor' Liu Lianer?" Ruoren, with slightly upturned orange hair, didn't look directly at Liu in front of the net, but waved to the girls of the guards on the sidelines. "Can you show me your 'data tennis'?"

"Ah~ Lord Ruoren."

"If you are a gentleman, please come on!"

Marui on the sidelines sighed softly: "It's too noisy, really." He now misses Bingdi's uniform calling and Atobe's snapping fingers very much.

Nioh thought for a moment, and nodded in agreement.He was quite disdainful of Ruo Ren's style.It’s fine if you imitate the playing style of the world’s tennis masters, but you imitate so arrogantly and confidently, how do so many of their admirers feel.

Sanada frowned tightly, and glared at the Lihai cheerleaders.

"jo—u—sho—Rikkaidai! Let's go, Let's go Rikkaidai!"

"Please advise me more." Liu Chao nodded to the members cheering for him, turning a deaf ear to the shouts of the girls.

"Then, let me begin. Change!"

"All right!"

Ruoren threw up his hat and snapped his fingers, then took the hat and put it on backward amidst the shouts from all around, his eyes became serious.

"The game starts, and the High School Affiliated to Lihai University starts first."

"Ah~ Come on Ruo Ren!"

[tsk. ] Yukimura turned to look at Sanada.

[I see. ] Sanada stood up, folded his arms and shouted at the girls outside the field with a black face: "Quiet! The game has begun!"

"..."

"The effect is really extraordinary, Sanada." Marui muttered softly, "Is the majesty of the chairman of the Disciplinary Committee?"

"It looks like this." Yagyu, who is very hard of hearing, pushed his glasses calmly, and after he left the stage, he took back the jacket on Nioh's head. Currently, Nioh is wearing the jacket of Senior Mori.The "comrade-in-arms" love that often goes to high school seniors for competitions is reflected at this time.

Liu beat the ball rhythmically from the baseline. [You can show imitation, which means that the basic skills are good.But, as Jingichi said, what you've shown is just the surface, and it's not enough.Likewise, blindly imitating someone else's style of play will only make your holes bigger, no matter who that person is. ]

The tennis ball was thrown into the sky, paused slightly at the highest point, and was hit by Liu's swing just as it began to fall.

[! ]

[15:0]

"Can't even catch the serve?" [Sure enough, the foundation is still too weak. ]

[hateful! ] "Comeon!"

[gameRikkaidai1-0]

"Don't look at Liu usually being so gentle, he is an absolute offensive player." At this time, the kind-hearted Marui explained to the Josei Shonan members with different expressions, "Your players can't even catch the serve, I still have to practice." Although Liu's four serve angles are all tricky.

"Don't talk too much, Marui."

"Hey, hey." Marui Satoshi, who was warned by Sanada, covered his mouth.

In the second game, Ruoren began to imitate Sampras, becoming dull and unsmiling.

"Ah~ It's still unacceptable." Seeing Liu's effortless forehand chip and scoring, Marui blew bubble gum as if venting his anger, "This serve is still very slow."

"Come on! Senior Liu, get rid of this guy who can only imitate..." Kirihara, who was still arrogant, immediately weakened after Yukimura glanced at him.

"Puri, sit on the bench obediently, little kelp."

"Senior Nioh!"

After changing his playing style, Ruoren had no achievements in front of the net. Liu's return is not only powerful, but also has a strong spin, especially before it touches the ground and rebounds.According to Ruoren's own strength, he could only barely volley and hit a soft return, and then Liu Hui scored again with a through ball.

[Unable to adapt to your own strains, imitation will only become a sharp edge for me to defeat you. ]

"jo—u—sho—Rikkaidai! Let's go, Let's go Rikkaidai!"

"Calm down, Ruoren." After the third round, Huacun comforted Ruoren who was adjusting, "Believe in your imitation and go all out."

Ruoren was suppressed by Liu in the first three rounds and was powerless to fight back, and his personal guards also quietly silenced, which made Ruoren, who had been smooth sailing since the beginning of imitation, feel indescribably sad.

In the first grade, Ruoren was considered a player with no characteristics, without his own style, only knew how to swing the racket and hit the ball back, it was mediocre.However, coach Huacun discovered that Ruoren's ability to imitate is extremely strong, and began to conduct targeted training on him, so he reached this state of similarity and a high sense of substitution.

However, the confidence he had built up gradually was shattered mercilessly by Liu.

"This time - Ivanisevic? Unfortunately, your serve is completely non-threatening."

If man persists in his imitation, there is no other way.

[gamesetandmatch,wonbyRikkaidai6-0]

Liu shook hands with Ruoren, who was in front of the net with his head bowed slightly, and said comfortingly, "You played hard."

"......Is it?"

"But you are invincible, every candidate of King Lihai."

"...Humph." After all, he was a young man, Ruoren curled his lips dissatisfied, and turned around to perform a closing ceremony for his personal guards.

"Come on Ruoren! We still support you!"

"If people work harder next time!"

The outcome has been decided, and Huacun led the minister Kajimoto to Lihai's coaching bench: "It's a great game. My 'work' can be carved to perfection."

"Probably." Yukimura was noncommittal.Although he has a different concept from coach Huacun, it seems that these players really love this coach.Yukimura is not conceited enough to dictate to other school tennis clubs.

"The game is over, Lihai University Affiliated High School 3-0 Chengcheng Shonan Middle School, Lihai University Affiliated High School is the champion of the Kanagawa County Competition."

The author has something to say:

In the animation, the bullet screen's verbal attack on Chengcheng Shonan was a bit unsightly.Although a bit biased, Huacun will at least develop their abilities and give hope to these mediocre teenagers.Chengcheng Shonan neither disregarded the rules nor disregarded his companions, it seems that there is no black spot...

One day, the ice emperor is electing the office——

Atobe: Let’s be intoxicated by my master’s skills today too.

Shinozu: Good, good.

Shishido: No way, Shinzuzu, you didn’t complain?

Xiang Ri: Yes, will you be stimulated by something?

Renzu: Normal people don't complain all day long.

Xiang Ri: Appeared!Alright Yoshi, you're alright.

Shinobu:  …