Net King Returns to the First Generation

When two very efficient people come together, the speed of decision making is evident.

Two people who came to an open tennis court in the park walked into the center of the court.

Before taking off the tennis bag, Sanada made a final confirmation: "Is it really all right? If you are found out about playing without authorization before the final, you will be in trouble."

"If you're afraid, forget it." Ryoma said.

Sanada snorted lightly, and took out the game: "The end of the game, is it okay?"

"OK."

The open tennis court is under the flyover, the rain has no tendency to weaken, and the sky is very dark.

Akutsu, who was on the tram, was leaning against the door in boredom.

Click, click, click... The tram moved forward at a constant speed, and his eyes fell randomly on the scenery outside the car door.As the tram passed the overpass, Akutsu's vision suddenly froze.

That's... Echizen Ryoma, and Sanada Genichiro?

There are only two players on the court, the sound of rain and the intermittent passing of the overhead bridge make the tennis court not silent.

Sanada hit the tennis ball to the ground amidst the rhythmic sound of rain, and then caught it with his hands. He turned his head: "I don't know your name yet."

Talk nonsense with your eyes open.

Not to mention that Li Haida's attitude to the outside world has always been "contemptuous of opponents in attitude and respecting opponents in tactics", just because there is a Liu in the team who is keen on data and information, it is impossible for Sanada to even know who the opponent in the final is. have no idea.

What's more, Li Haida, who watched the first round of the Kanto Contest between Ice Emperor and Seigaku, would never fail to notice that this first-year student who is doted on by all the seniors of Seigaku can see at a glance that Tezuka has placed high hopes on him. .

However, it has become a habit for Lihaida to show contempt in various ways before the game to irritate the opponent.

According to Nioh's words, it is pretending.It can be pretended vigorously.If you pretend to make yourself hate yourself, then it's not hard to imagine how disgusted the other party is.What the game needs most is calmness. When the calmness is lost, how much strength can be left?

Ryoma has already seen Master Lihai's disgusting attitude to the outside world (provoking others when he went to other schools, and he didn't even change his clothes when playing games), he held the racket and said: "Before asking someone's name, you should report it first." Your own name, this is common sense."

Sanada let out an oh (second voice) from the bottom of his heart, but his face was still calm as usual. He closed his eyes and said, "Genichiro Sanada, third grader of the High School Affiliated to Lihai University, deputy head of the tennis department."

"Yigaku's first grader, Echizen Ryoma." Echizen said in a low voice.

"Speaking of Qingxue's first-year main election, it turned out to be you." Sanada slightly raised the corners of his lips, "I've heard a lot of rumors."

Whether it's from the news, magazines, or... or those teammates who always make fun of him for fear of chaos.

The son of the so-called Echizen Minamijiro, a genius boy who broke the decades-old rule of Seigaku that one-year-olds cannot be selected for the main election.He has won the U.S. Youth Tennis Championship for four consecutive years, and is highly rated by his opponents...the first-year student of Qing Xue University.

Let Tezuka pin high hopes on the child.

"What is the rumor...?" Echizen asked.

"It's not bad as a first-year, that's it." Sanada said lightly, he had settled his posture, and he still had the leisure to remind the other person to stand up straight and listen to him, and he looked better than his juniors (specifically Kirihara). The more polite cat-eyed boy said, "I'm here."

In a game in the rain, the eyes and ears will be able to catch much less traces than in a sunny day.

The heavy rain kept falling, which not only covered up the sound of many tennis balls spinning, but also blocked the tennis players' sight.

Sanada didn't intend to take it too seriously.

Knowing that this kid can use the state of selflessness the day before, it really gave him a lot of surprises.However, as one of the people who realized the state of selflessness in elementary school (others include Yukimura and Tezuka), Sanada, who can perfectly control the state of selflessness in Kuniichi, is only a good evaluation of Echizen's strength now. That's all.

He has great potential, great talent, and looks like he has a good attitude and brains. He is indeed a junior and a good seed that can't be met.

only……

He will not be happy about this!

Sanada tossed the tennis ball high, a standard high-speed serve, and landed precisely on the corner of the center line.

He was still wearing a weight-bearing wristband, and he had no desire to take it off.

The previous practice opened up his physical activity, which is really the most relaxed and competitive state.

It goes without saying how solid Sanada's basic skills are.He already has the habit of getting up at four o'clock every morning. Apart from kendo, he also spends no less time on tennis than anyone else.

He has known Yukimura since he was four years old, and has been working hard to defeat Yukimura since then.There was another Tezuka when he graduated from elementary school, and last year, he lost to Atobe... Even in the tennis club, there is a Nioh who is not pleasing to the eye, even if he knows how hard he works, it is difficult to verify. Masaharu!

How can the victorious Sanada accept this?

He won't lose again!

Sanada, who keeps moving forward with such momentum, Sanada, who realizes that there are omissions in Yukimura's illness and constantly self-reflects, Sanada, who admits every failure and decides to step on failure to win success...

The racket made a perfect arc, and the tennis ball flew towards the opposite court under such a blow.

Ryoma didn't react at all, his eyes widened slightly, only feeling that the yellow trajectory was about to be out of sight.

It's just a simple high-speed serve.

A tennis ball played purely by strength and basic skills without skill...but he couldn't catch up.

"15-0" Sanada said in a deep voice.

He strikes a pose again.Same as before, just normal high serve.

Ryoma stared at his movements, watched him swing his racket, bend his knees, and hit the ball! ... the right corner!

Ryoma hurriedly twisted his ankle and ran to the right, but still missed the ball.

So fast... He turned around and looked at Sanada, gritted his teeth secretly.

"30-0"

Is this Genichiro Sanada...

Such strength...

Ryoma took a breath and adjusted his posture again: "It's amazing, but it's just the beginning."

His legs were slightly bent and he was jumping rhythmically.It's a small step.

"Small steps." Sanada snorted coldly, "This kind of trick..."

There is nothing to be afraid of the small skills that even Chi can master!

He served the ball cleanly.

This time Ryoma managed to capture the trajectory of the ball and got there before the ball hit the ground.

catch up!

The smile on the corner of Ryoma's mouth hadn't spread yet but suddenly froze.He quickly raised his right hand to assist his left hand to hold the racket, but it was too late, the huge force coming from the center of the racket made his hands tremble slightly.

It's so heavy... Ryoma thought so, the huge force made him have to let go of his hand.

The racket lands.

"40-0"

The remaining strength made the muscle that connects Echizen's palm to his wrist tremble continuously.He stared at his hands with a surprised expression.

"Hey, Echizen." Sanada took the time to stand up straight and used his fingers to straighten the surface of the racket: "Can you pick up the ball?"

Ryoma didn't respond.

Sanada raised his eyebrows and raised his voice: "Echizen, pick up the ball."

The startled Ryoma gritted his teeth and turned around to pick up his racket and tennis ball.

He concealed his panic: "Don't be so nervous, the ball won't run away by itself."

Bumping the ball twice with his racket, he hits the ball into the air with his racket and whips it with a backhand.The ball went straight for Sanada's face.

Sanada raised his racket to catch the tennis ball, which was played purely for passing without much force.

In just a few seconds, Ryoma has readjusted his state.He took a small step again, and raised the corners of his lips: "You really have two skills."

Compared to yesterday's seaweed-headed Kirihara Chiya... even more powerful!

"Oh, really?" Sanada held the tennis ball with an unchanged expression, "Thank you for the compliment."

The last ball of the first game had exactly the same trajectory as the previous ones.

This time Ryoma finally managed to hit back.

only……

Sanada had been waiting in front of the net for a long time, and with a simple volley in front of the net, he successfully scored the last point.

"1-0"

Ryoma panted and turned his head.

On the other side of the court, Sanada showed no joy in winning the next game, as if he had just successfully returned the serve from the serving machine.this attitude...

"This time, it's your turn to serve." Sanada lowered his body and said.

Holding the tennis ball, Ryoma thought, it's time for me to turn the situation around with my serve!

He raised his hand to serve with an outspin.But to his surprise, Sanada intercepted the tennis ball before the ball bounced off the arc, and hit a forehand. The tennis ball jumped over the net briskly and hit the halfway line in front of the net.

Ryoma failed to catch up again.

How could it be... Ryoma couldn't help but gritted his teeth. Wasn't even an outspin serve useless?

And Sanada straightened up, adjusted the wrist guard casually, adjusted the distribution of the lead weights inside, and prevented the weight from hindering the twisting of the wrist.

Sanada's strength was developed from practicing kendo since childhood.

The daily knife-drawing training has brought the flexibility of his wrist and the muscle strength of his arm to the top level.

Yukimura once teased that although Sanada's muscles don't look very big, they are really cheap compared to Kuwahara's unattractive level.

Nioh complained about how good quality and low price can be used in this way, this should be said to be...

what is itYukimura asked.

Uh, dense?Nioh made an annotation with purely scientific thinking.

Ryoma has fully realized the terrifying power described by his teammates.

After a few simple balls, he had already started to sweat, and his breathing became heavier.

With a slender figure and a technique-oriented player, he is the most difficult player like Sanada, who is tall, strong, skilled, top-notch, and even more impeccable.It was clearly an initiative to initiate a challenge, but in the end it was easy to admit defeat?

Ryoma can't do it.

But...he couldn't find any means to win.

This guy... this guy... this guy is standing on the opposite side of the net, like a mountain that cannot be climbed no matter what... the so-called Tachikai Taisho, are they all as strong as Minister Tezuka...

Ryoma gripped the racket tightly.

The next game was completely one-sided.

Sanada, who didn't even use Fubayashi Volcano, was playing the game purely with basic shots, and got the match point smoothly.

He looked at Ryoma who had written surprise on his face: "Match point."

After speaking, he threw the ball neatly and swung his racket in a clean and standard posture as before.

For the last ball, Ryoma made a final struggle.It didn't work, but it didn't help at all.

Except for the rain, Sanada's aura was steady without much trace of sweating, and the movement of opening his arms was also easy to handle.

Ryoma, who tried to catch the ball backhand, watched the tennis ball hit the ground.

He tipped over his head, lost his balance, and fell to the ground.

"The game is over." Sanada said slowly.He walked back to the sidelines and put the tennis racket into the tennis bag, put it on his back, and then turned his head to look at Ryoma who was still kneeling on the ground: "This game is more interesting than hitting the ball against the wall. So, goodbye."

After he finished speaking, he stepped on a rhythmic pace and walked away.

On the other hand, Ryoma lowered his head and silently pressed the brim of his hat.

"Cut." He bit his lip.

How much shock and motivation this game left for Ryoma, Sanada had no time to take care of it.

When he was halfway there, he received a call from Liu: "MOXIMOXI."

"Where have you been, Genichiro? The school bus has been here for a while."

"Ah, sorry, I ran a little far, I will be there soon." Sanada said.

"It's good that you didn't have any accidents. In short, the competition is cancelled. Let's go back to school and arrange this week's time. Don't waste it."

"Well, well, let's talk about it in detail when we arrive."

Putting the phone away, Sanada remembered the performance of the cat-eyed boy in the competition.

Can this kind of strength defeat Chiye...

No self realm.This can only be used to explain it.

Heck, that kid Chiye doesn't have any intention of introspection at all, Lian Er was so worried yesterday, but didn't this kid arrogantly go to provoke Qingxue again today?

——Although that kid from Qingxue doesn't remember the result of the competition.

Only this time, for sure.

Qing Xue is not a threat to Li Haida!

They set up a big three-in-a-row battle with no dead ends!

The time brought by the postponement of the game for a week, neither Qingxue nor Lihai University intends to waste it.

Qinggaku chose to go to Karuizawa for training, and for this reason also invited Yamato, who had already entered the high school, to give them special training.

Li Haida, on the basis of maintaining the usual training, each finds ways to improve himself.

After returning to school, Yukimura, who was still in the hospital after hearing the news from the radio, called and said that the time for his discharge from the hospital had been set, and it was probably on Friday, just in time for the Kanto competition this time. finals.

"Thinking of it this way, it's time for the rain to fall, right?" Yukimura said on the other end of the phone, "With me here, don't try to be lazy one or two of you."

Yanagi who was holding the phone, Sanada who was standing next to Liu, and Marui who was bending over to listen to the speakerphone, all looked at Nioh in unison.Even Yagyu pushed his glasses and patted Nio on the shoulder.

"...Hey, why are you all like this, Yukimura didn't specifically refer to it." King Ni said helplessly.

Yukimura, who deduced what happened here from this sentence, couldn't help laughing: "Hehe, Nioh, do you have the confidence to say this?"

Of course I have confidence.

Niwang shrugged and said nothing.

What can I do with an extra week?

Pay more attention to the progress of Xia Shu's writing, and see if there is anything that can help (although Xia Shu still looks very disgusted, saying that you don't come to make trouble for me); maintain a good competitive state, don't take it lightly; and... … Make good use of the extra few days, sprint and try again to see if you can practice attunement.

Nioh sometimes felt that he was too persistent about this.

But he couldn't help but care about the fact that they were called "Invincible Doubles", but they lost to Qingxue's troubled "Golden Doubles" in terms of tacit understanding and popularity.

It’s like Sanada was bitter about Tezuka after losing to Tezuka, and Yukimura learned from the pain after losing to Echizen. He Nioh Masaharu has lost many games, but the last thing he wants to admit is that he and Yagyu lost to Oishi and chrysanthemum pills.

——Obviously they were the winners of the matches they played, but the commentators all think that the pair of Qingxue has a higher attainment in doubles.

This is what he cares most about.

In tennis, there are many tacit understandings between doubles partners.Coherence is the most basic one, followed by ability resonance, and after that there are spiritual fusion, two bodies and one skill, and so on.

Coherence is the basis for all subsequent ability development.

The foundation is often the most important and also the most difficult one.

True attunement requires the two partners to trust each other, depend on each other, protect each other, and also match the attributes in terms of spiritual power.

Not to mention how much the famous doubles partners in the international tennis world trust each other, it is also debatable whether they have achieved true harmony.

After all, even if you don't know how to synchronize, or you can unilaterally synchronize, you can still practice ability resonance, spiritual fusion, etc. later.It's just that the effect of skill development on the basis of true attunement is naturally more excellent.

For example, in the U17 National Invitational Tournament that year, Yukimura temporarily partnered with the Tokugawa team.The mental attributes of two people match, when the fluctuation frequency reaches a certain degree of similarity, and then assisted by the exceptionally consistent will during the game, they will enter a state of ability resonance.

But this kind of ability resonance is largely a mistake, neither the strength nor the toughness are under the control of the two.This is the reason why those two people, even if they entered the state of ability resonance, still failed to win the game.

The world of doubles is not that simple.

People who can casually say things like "It's just doubles" and "I can also empathize with abilities" don't know what doubles are.

The professional world is much crueler than imagined. No matter how wonderful a dream I have ever had, when I actually enter the battlefield, what I feel will only be completely different from the dream.There are many young players who started playing professional tennis with the dream of playing professional tennis, but very few of them persisted.The world ATP ranking has not changed much every year. Those who can step up to the top step by step are those who have endured hardships and injuries, overcome countless difficulties, and walked forward with their own blood.

Needless to say for singles, the combination of doubles cannot be static.

When doubles partners split up, how many people stabbed their former teammates for their career path?

Nioh does not intend to play a professional network.

He admired a person like Tezuka who was able to move forward unswervingly despite suffering all the way, and he felt sorry for and admired a person like Chiya who, no matter how many side roads lost his way, still crawled forward with a stupid energy.

It's just that Masaharu Nioh can fight with passion and desperately, but he can never put reason behind sensibility.

He even made sacrifices by weighing the pros and cons of his past and making sure that he could bear the consequences before making such a choice.

So, there won't be another chance like this.This is an opportunity to go back to the past and re-cultivate a tacit understanding with partners who have long agreed.

If there is no way to practice the real coherence, then Nioh can only give up on the coherence and go straight to the back - to be honest, with his current mental strength, it is not difficult to enter the later state.

Mental strength is not like technical and physical strength, which will regress due to lack of exercise.

This is pure personal quality plus the accumulation of time.

Nioh, who has 20 extra years of time, can only confidently and confidently say that in terms of mental strength, even among the current professional players in the tennis world, few people have stronger mental strength than me.

...and only spiritual power.

On the night when he learned that the game was postponed, he talked with Yukimura at school, and communicated with Natsuki when he got home. Nioh finished his scheduled work and study plan for the day, turned off the lights and lay on the bed. Insomnia.

He thought, I have to think of a creative way to cultivate tacit understanding, and it’s best to have a quick one. The mutual cosplay doesn’t seem to be very efficient...

what else can we do?

He turned over and suddenly thought of someone.

Turning on the desk lamp again, Nioh got up and took his mobile phone from the table, and sat down beside the bed.

beep.

"... MOXIMOXI."

"Senior, are you asleep?"

"...What, it's you, King Ren, why did you call me so late?"

"That's right, there is something I want to ask you, senior."

"Please? What's the matter?"

"Today's Kanto Tournament final was postponed due to rain. In my case, I'm a little short of the same tune as Yagyu. If possible, senior, can you arrange a time to play a practice match with us? I seem to have heard from somewhere Senior, you and Ice Emperor's previous minister are now playing doubles."

"Practice match.... I don't know where you got the news from Xiao Nio. Tsk, okay, okay, I'll discuss it with Ochi-senpai, and I'll call you back tomorrow."

"Thank you, senior."

"It's nothing. Go to bed early, little King Ren, staying up late is not good for your health."

After hanging up the phone, Nioh blinked.

In his previous life, he played doubles with the Atobe team against the combination of Kamori-senpai and Ochi-senpai, and they played very fiercely.And looking back now, he can more or less see how many opportunities the two seniors gave them and how much guidance they did during the competition, in exchange for him and Atobe's victory.

The difference between doubles and singles is that the result of the game cannot be predicted by the comparison of strength on paper.

The so-called mental attack of Ice Emperor's Ochi Moonlight might be able to stimulate more of his and Yagyu's potential in doubles.

I hope this game... will have a result that exceeds expectations.

Having settled his mind, King Ni threw away the phone, turned off the desk lamp and closed his eyes contentedly.

It was easy to fall asleep this time.