I am in Prince of Tennis, others are training me while I am lying down

U17 training camp.

The next day, in the monitoring room.

"Takushi, how are the junior high school students who came yesterday?"

Saito entered the monitoring room and asked Coach Takushi, who was in charge of physical training.

While doing push-ups, Takushi answered, "Takahashi's physical fitness is quite good. I thought a junior high school student would need 6 hours to do the same amount of training, but he was able to finish it in 3 hours, just like a high school student."

Saito was a little surprised.

The physical training for U17 was designed by head coach Mifune himself, and its strictness far exceeds that of ordinary junior high school students.

Kurobe and others' original evaluation of Takahashi was that it would be great if Takahashi could complete everything within 6 hours.

I didn’t expect that he could finish it in 3 hours like a high school student.

"Takahashi's endurance, explosive power, and various body functions are very good. Even among high school students, he is considered to be in the upper middle level. I don't know why he stays in the worst No. 16 court?"

Takushi asked with some confusion.

Saito was also confused: "He's still on court 16?"

Feeling something was wrong, Saito checked the surveillance footage of Court 16.

Takahashi was seen sitting in the rest area with a comic book in his hand.

Saito, Takushi: ...

Court No. 16.

"Hello, Coach Saito!"

As Saito approached, the other people at the venue stopped what they were doing and greeted him.

Saito strode to the rest area and came in front of Takahashi.

"Hello, coach!"

While flipping through the comic book, Takahashi did not forget to say hello to Saito.

"It's training time now, why are you reading comics?"

Saito suppressed the anger in his heart and tried to calm himself down.

"Doesn't it say on the training list that now is free training time? I can challenge myself or arrange it on my own?"

Takahashi is innocent.

"Then why don't you challenge me?"

Saito continued.

"I challenged, and now I am the boss of Court 16."

Takahashi continued.

"Why don't you challenge the court ahead?"

Saito's face almost turned black.

"As long as I am not at the end and am not eliminated, I can go to the back mountain to train. I don't have such big ambitions."

Takahashi Road.

As soon as he arrived, he discovered the biggest problem of U17.

The venue is divided into 16 courts. The court with a larger number challenges the court with a smaller number. The winner can successfully advance to the court with a smaller number, and the loser will be relegated to the court with a larger number.

It feels good and fulfilling to make progress bit by bit.

but.

Once you arrive at Court No. 1, you will face endless challenges from the players on the courts behind, and you cannot refuse the challenges.

The pressure is so great to keep the No. 1 court position!

No benefits yet.

The training volume is the same for all courses.

In order to keep his position on the No. 1 court, he even had to work hard to increase his training volume.

Forced to compete and forced to involute have formed a vicious cycle.

Once you're in it, you can't stop.

Therefore, Takahashi thinks Court 16 is pretty good.

He has now taken care of everyone else on the court, and no one else will challenge him.

He also doesn't challenge anyone on the field in front of him.

It’s great if everyone keeps to themselves!

Just play in their respective stadiums and live their own comfortable lives.

After all, the training volume is already so large.

Why add unnecessary pressure to yourself!

Saito's face turned completely black when he heard Takahashi's words.

The rules of this split-field challenge were jointly formulated by them under the leadership of head coach Mifune.

Originally they thought this rule was very good and took all aspects into consideration.

It not only gives the weak a chance to challenge the winner, but also prevents the winner from slacking off.

All players on the field, whether strong or weak, have a certain sense of crisis.

You have to maintain your position and not be successfully challenged by others, but you also have to strive to challenge the future.

Inspire everyone to be positive!

I didn't expect that there would be an outlier like Takahashi.

He clearly has the ability to at least challenge Court No. 5, but he chose to stay on Court No. 16 and was unwilling to leave.

He actually took advantage of the loophole in the rules!

Although there are some people in the training camp who deliberately stay in venues that do not match their abilities, they have other intentions.

Unlike Takahashi, he actually wanted to lie down in the U17 training camp.

Just outrageous!

Saito didn't know how to answer for a moment.

He has been a coach for so many years and has seen many players with average ability but great ambition and arrogance, but he has never seen such an unmotivated player!

Generally speaking, people who are so unmotivated cannot enter U17 at all, after all, U17 selects the elite.

But now, he has encountered a player who is strong but not motivated.

Wonderful!

So weird!

However, the rules of the training camp do not stipulate that every player must challenge others within this autonomous time, so Saito cannot criticize Takahashi. After all, Takahashi completed all other training on time and in full.

Saito was speechless and could only go back angrily.

Day three.

After the three-hour morning training session, the radio began to broadcast loudly.

"In order to better supervise the players, starting from today, there will be random matches every day. The list will be posted on the bulletin board nearby. Please designate players to be ready. The main arena will start in 10 minutes."

Takahashi, who was in the No. 16 court, was very confused. He had never seen any random matches before!

"Hey, have you ever had this kind of competition before?"

He stopped someone and asked.

"No, it turns out that the players took the initiative to challenge, or the entire field jointly challenged another field to a team competition."

“This kind of individual random competition is the first time.”

The man replied.

Takahashi had a strange premonition. He always felt that this game was directed at him.

Sure enough, he saw his name on the bulletin board at a glance.

Next to it was clearly written Court No. 1, Tokugawa Kazuya.

Did I actually meet Tokugawa so early?

Takahashi was a little surprised. Why didn't they give him some ordinary players and let him face such a strong opponent right from the start?

This group of people are so cruel. They are not afraid that a little junior high school student like me will become autistic after being beaten.

Takahashi had no choice but to open the system page in his mind that had not been opened for a long time.

Tennis Hang-up System

Host: Hikoichi Takahashi

Age: 12 years old

Speed: 5.8

Power: 5.8

Stamina: 5.5

Mental Power: 6.5

Technology: 7

Total: 30.6

Strength rating: World class

Takahashi silently closed the picture in his mind.

This strength seems to be enough!

……

In the monitoring room.

Kurobe held a cup of coffee and said, "Saito, your idea is great. Adding a random match will allow us to choose players from two different courts to compete according to our own ideas. This will add many possibilities. The head coach also agrees with your proposal."

Saito smiled and said nothing.

He didn't come up with this idea because he was angry at Takahashi Hiko.

Otherwise, according to the original rules of the training camp, except for the team qualifying match, Takahashi could lie on Court 16 for a month, and after a month he would go out to participate in the national competition.

If he really has to lie here for a month, how can Saito live up to his title of U17 professional coach?

So, he started with the rules, with the main purpose of preventing Takahashi from falling!