Lehigh High School Boys Tennis Club

At the half-time break, Lihai had recovered from the score behind at the end of the first quarter.

Aida Reiko was very unbelievable: "What's the matter with that little curly hair over there?! At first, he looked like a beginner, was he pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?"

She thought she had made a mistake in her visual body measurement skill... No, how could she make a mistake!There must be something wrong with the little curly hair itself!

In this practice match, Koganei, who was on the bench, took a towel to the starters.

Hearing Aida Reiko's whispers through gnashing of teeth, he hesitated for a moment.

This expression was seen by Aida Reiko.

"Xiao Jinjing! Did you find anything? Tell me!" She raised her hand and patted Xiao Jinjing's junior.

"Actually... I seem to know him."

"! Who is it! Tell me!"

Koganei glanced at his friend Mitobe, then turned to look at the people at Lihai.

He didn't recognize him at first, but later on, the more he knew, no matter the height or the more he knew about this person, he had a guess about Maori's identity. Recalling the experience of playing tennis in junior high school, he naturally got the so-called " The fact".

Although it's ridiculous no matter how you think about it.

"That should be Mori Kosaburo." Koganei paused after speaking, and added a suffix, "Tennis player."

"……tennis?!"

Aida Reiko repeated in surprise.

Even Heizi and Vulcan, who were sweating, looked over.

"You mean, doesn't he play basketball?" Heizi asked curiously, "I can't tell. I thought he didn't play games very often, so he didn't get used to it at first."

Koganei nodded: "The tall one over there is Ochi Tsukiko-senpai, former Head of the Tennis Department of Hyotei Academy. You may not know that tennis is played in our country. In our country, Hyotei Academy was the first Entered the top eight in the country once, so Senior Ochi is very famous."

"Then what about the Mori Kosaburo you mentioned?"

"Speaking of which, I might be a little more familiar with Mori-kun, but I just didn't remember it." Xiao Jinjing said while recalling, "I and Mori-kun are students of the same level. I heard that Mori-kun was at Sitianbao Temple when he was in the country. Oh, It is a very famous tennis school in Kansai. It was also selected as the first grade in the first grade. Later, it was transferred to Lihai University, and it has always been the main election of Lihai University. I remember that when we were in middle school in our country, Lihai University won consecutive He has been the champion of the national competition for two years, and he has also won the championship of the county competition and the Kanto competition for more than ten years. Speaking of which, our school failed to pass the second round of the Kanagawa County competition. Later, he came to play basketball in high school."

In fact, it was because Mitobe was playing basketball.

But part of the reason is that the tennis team teammates in junior high school were not motivated at all, and they seemed to be used to Li Hai's dominance.

Thinking about it this way, it's quite comfortable to be able to overwhelm Li Hai on basketball now?

"Kuroko! Vulcan! And Mitobe! This practice match must be won." Koganei sighed suddenly.

"It's up to you!" Aida Reiko couldn't help but tap Koganei on the back again.

If they lost after knowing that Maori was a tennis player, what is their basketball team? !

They all felt that Li Hai underestimated them.

Seirin was strong in the second half.

Heizi's spiritual misdirection doesn't work on Maori, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work on other people in Lihai.And Vulcan also let go of his firepower to play basketball.He is a standard American style, with a wild style of play, good at fast break, and very confrontational.

As power forwards, Vulcan and Maori face each other directly.

Defensively, Maori is unstoppable.On the one hand, he is about the same size as Vulcan, and has no advantage in muscular confrontation, and his flexible joints are useless for basketball—it would be better if he could pass the ball, but his basketball level has not yet reached the level that needs to be used The extent of your own soft joints.

The most important thing is that he is not very familiar with the rules of basketball.

For example, he knows that walking is a foul, but he always remembers it when he is taking a step. If he has not started running, he can adjust it immediately, but if he has already run, it will be a foul.

He's already been fouled twice for walking.

He had a total of three fouls, excluding the walking foul, and one blocking foul.

When defending, you need to stand still in advance, otherwise it will be a blocking foul.

Correspondingly, if the defensive team stands early and the attacking player bumps into it, it is an offensive foul.

With Maori's reaction ability, when he sees the opponent's actions, such as disguise and breakthrough, he will naturally react and respond accordingly, but in this way, it becomes easy to become a blocking foul.

As for feints.

In fact, Mao Li still can't tell what is a fake move and what is not.

This is a basketball technical ability.

Defensively weak, what about offense?

In fact, Maori's shooting accuracy is not bad, but his posture seems weird-he "puts" the ball into the basket entirely by virtue of his muscle control ability and mastery of mechanics.

As a skilled tennis player who can accurately press the tennis ball against the line, it is not difficult to control the landing point of the basketball with his own hands.

Maori is fast.

He and Ochi teamed up for a long time.Yuezhi is good at playing in the backcourt with quick attacks and assisting mental attacks, and he naturally has to adapt to Yuezhi's attack rhythm.

On the basketball court, even his offensive speed is very fast.

Even Vulcan couldn't stop him.

It seems to be the same way as Duizi, but in fact the gross profit is still limited.

He is used to playing tennis one-on-one. Even if it is doubles two-on-two, in fact the frontcourt and the backcourt can cooperate with each other or fight alone.All in all, all in all, he didn't know what a five-on-five team match meant.

But basketball is not a one-man game.

The whistle of the game fell, and Lihai fell behind by eight points.

This is a score that can be completely caught up in 2 minutes.

Maori just felt that he was aggrieved by exercising.

Running, and throwing, seems to be completely restricted.

And he hates losing.

He left the field, his expression was not very good.

Kiyota came over, wanting to comfort and further persuade Maori.

But this time Maori directly refused.

"Mr. Qingtian, basketball is not suitable for me." He said.

Sugiyama laughed when he heard that.

"Why?" Qingtian was a little anxious.

Maori glanced at Oshichi: "I still like sports where I can fight alone."

"Okay, okay." Mu came over and pressed Qingtian's head.He turned his head, and said to Mao Li, who obviously finished the match without expending too much energy, but his air pressure was a little low, "I'm sorry for this practice match."

Maori froze for a moment, then shook his head: "No, it's okay."

He went to the locker room to change his clothes, and was going to go back to prepare their "food court" with his friends from the tennis club.When he was about to walk out of the court, Vulcan chased him out, with an impatient expression on his face: "Hey, are you really not a basketball player?"

Maori glanced at him: "I'm a second-year student."

Vulcan froze for a moment, almost rolled his eyes, but still took a deep breath, and said another way: "Senior."

Maori frowned in satisfaction, and said, "It's like if someone told you not to play basketball, but to play volleyball, would you agree?"

"Of course not," Vulcan said.

"So." Maori said, "This is a very rude request, Lord Vulcan."

"...How do I know what your Lihai basketball team coach thinks...Tch."

After Vulcan returned to the basketball court, Yukimura said to the relieved Mori, "Actually, there might be a chance to become a basketball player."

"... Yukimura?"

"Mr. Mu told me just now that this year's U17 training camp will have a new strategy." Yukimura said with a smile, "This time it will not be a separate tennis training camp, but will be training together with basketball and volleyball, and the training will be organized by autumn. It has become two seasons of training in summer and autumn, and of course the World Cup is still in the winter season."

The high school league is more complicated and bigger than the middle school league.

In addition to the most authoritative Summer League (County Tournament → Kanto Tournament → National Tournament) in each school year, individual competitions are added in the fall, which is the week before the second semester starts (also the week after the summer national competition). , the schedule is relatively tight, there are competitions every day, and the final individual champion will be determined within one month after the start of the second semester.Maori was selected for the U17 training camp last year because he won the autumn championship.Otherwise, with the result of being eliminated in the first round of the Liguan East Competition, it would be very difficult for Mao Li to be selected.

As for the winter season, there is the Winter League.It's just that the time of the Winter League completely coincides with the World Cup, so it is destined that the best players will not participate.As a matter of fact, the Winter League itself is only for third-year students who are about to graduate but have not yet received a university recommendation and want to make a last-ditch effort. Many well-known colleges and universities will not sign up for the Winter League.

In addition to the three high school leagues, every summer, from the end of the first semester to one week after the start of the summer vacation, there is usually a Kanto youth selection training camp.According to the usual practice, it is a duel with foreign teams.

This is a selection that belongs to Kanto. At the beginning, I contacted European teams to improve the local tennis strength in Kanto. Later, I also found an American team.Last year, I even met a team that was extremely commercialized and did live broadcasts and game ticket sales.In fact, the competitions in previous years will not be held publicly, but similar to international practice games, which will be held directly in the training camp after a short-term (one week) training camp.

The reason why a short-term training camp is added in the middle of the heavy competition is also to strengthen the strength of the Kanto players and the connection between the players.

Divided by region, tennis players in Kanto have worse results than tennis players in Kansai.

This cannot simply be explained by strength.Kanto's style of play tends to be refined, which is a textbook style of play.The Kansai style of play has always been wild, and it is more adaptable to professional competitions.

Therefore, in the U17 World Cup every year, there are more outstanding players in Kansai than in Kanto. In the end, Kansai is better than Kanto in the first rank.

The Kanto youth selection training, which originally existed to solve the excessive regional disparity, suddenly became public last year.

Originally, this training camp had been carried out for several years, but the effect was not good, and it was about to be cancelled.It's just that last year's results were so good, this year the Tennis Association has maintained this training.The Internet Association also wants more commercial value.Now the people of the Tennis Association have discovered that the commercial effect of holding the games that were originally closed to the public is very good.

Counting like this...

"Training in summer and autumn? Is there time for this?"

The county competition ended at the end of May, followed by the Kanto competition. After the Kanto competition, there was the final exam, and then the youth selection training. The training camp ended almost in mid-July, and there was a month of free time before the national competition.

Could it be during this month?

"The national competition will be advanced, one month in advance." Yukimura said.

Mao Li's face suddenly changed: "That is to say, after the Kanto training camp, we will play the national competition immediately, and then go directly to the U17 selection? The second semester of the training will start after one month, and there will be an autumn individual competition in between... To participate in the autumn individual competition, you need Is this what you mean by asking the coaches for leave in advance to participate?"

"That's right." Yukimura nodded, "After the autumn individual competition, there will be a one-month rest period, and then there will be U17 training in the autumn."

The training camp starts in November, lasts for two months, and ends at the end of December.The World Cup is held in January, which coincides with the winter season.

"There are too many games." Maori said bitterly.

This is not good news for him who is a bit lazy.

"It's better to be able to train in a place where strong players are concentrated than to build a car behind closed doors at your own school." Yukimura didn't think such an arrangement was very difficult, "If possible, it would be better to arrange a month of autumn for training."

"... Yukimura, you are the minister, and you have to arrange the internal affairs of the tennis club."

"The current tennis club doesn't need much management at all." Yukimura's expression was very innocent, "There are no more than twenty people in total."

In fact, there were eleven people in total.

There are seven students in the first grade, all of whom are selected.There are four people in the second grade, except for Maori, there are three seniors who just use tennis as a physical exercise, have no obsession with the main election, and have a good temper.

Maori was speechless.

They chatted about the changes in the league and gradually walked to the tennis court.

The Haiyuan Festival has been opened to the public, and many students from other schools have come.For example, Yukimura saw the familiar team uniform.It was Atobe and Shinobu who were greeting Sanada.

He also saw some companions who were arranging the ingredients in a hurry.

Sure enough, there are still too few people?Eleven people looked too shabby on the court.

That's right, the Ice Empress still has a 200-man army...

Yukimura thought so, and looked around.

Then his eyes jumped: "Where is King Ren?"

Liu held the notebook in his hand: "He just disappeared from the basketball court."

Yukimura: "..."

The author has something to say:

Been organizing things for the past few days.

My train on the 19th should not be updated that day because I am moving home.