Net King: Black Glory

Chapter 454 The strong men of the four countries
One month of preparation time has ended.

As South Africa and Australia appeared one after another at Tokyo International Airport, the four-nation exchange competition officially began.

As the nominal host Neon Team, they had no idea about the invitation and convening of the teams for this exchange match, nor anything that happened before the match, nor did they have any involvement.

They are all organized by America, which is equivalent to borrowing neon places alone. As for why neon was chosen as the hosting location, there are different opinions.

In addition to event sponsor America and local representative Neon, the participating teams this time include South Africa and Australia.

As the host of next year's World Cup in Melbourne, Australia also attaches great importance to this exchange. Basically, all the strength of its own team has come over.

In order to adapt to the rules of next year's World Championship, this time the competition will be conducted entirely in accordance with the World Championship group stage format.

Because of changes in world tennis rules, half of the junior high school students will be included in the next U-17 World Cup.

And a new rule was added to the game.

Then there must be at least three junior high school students among the seven players who appear in each game, and each person can only appear once in the group stage.

In this way, whether it is Australia, South Africa, or the Neon team themselves, they have turned this exchange match into a training rehearsal.

The four teams participating in the exchange competition are not weak in strength. The strongest is of course America. Neon, who seems to be lacking in strength, seems to be in the weakest position.

Therefore, how to arrange the troops is also a challenge for the leaders and coaches of each team.

In the Neon U17 training camp, the junior high school students who had just announced the final selection list gathered in the restaurant with the high school students who were participating in the competition and were talking about it.

Excitement, nervousness, and excited emotions continued to flow from the words of the junior high school students.

As a spiritual coach, Saito Zhi saw this and said nothing more. His mission for this training camp had been completed.

This sentiment among junior high school students is reasonable now.

However, when he looked at the battle list in his hand, there was still a flash of worry in his heart.

As the coach of Neon U17, he certainly wants his players to achieve good results in communication, but thinking about the strength of the current training camp, he sighed.

It's just an exchange competition, winning or losing doesn't matter, the growth of these junior high school students and high school students is the most important.

I believe that after this time...

With so much investment in the early stage, next year's World Championship is the best time for them to reap the rewards.

Tokyo, ARENA Forest Park Center Arena.

This is the venue for the third-year national competition in the original work, and it is also the venue for this four-nation exchange competition.

Although Neon did not publicize this competition very much, the news did some coverage.

Therefore, most tennis fans know about this exchange match.

As the game time approached, crowds began to gather at the entrance of the venue, with many familiar people among them.

For example, Seigaku’s Oishi Kikumaru, Momojo Kaido, Hyotei’s Ryo Shido, Mukahi Gakuto, Hochotaro, etc…

There are also players from various schools including Yamabuki and St. Rudolph.

At this time, a very decent-looking practitioner wearing black Taoist uniform also walked into the venue.

However, the other party's upright appearance suddenly turned into a wretched pig brother appearance after seeing many beautiful girls around him.

Just when he was about to comment and appreciate the level of development of these people, a soft hum came from behind him:
"Uncle, if you look like this, I'm going to tell my aunt!"

"Ah, Nanako, I didn't do anything! Hahaha, let's find a seat and sit down!"

The middle-aged man is none other than Echizen Nanjiro.

They all came to watch the game. In addition to the audience, there were also many sports reporters who came specifically to report on this event.

..."I didn't expect that just over a month after the national competition ended, this four-nation exchange competition would be held again. I heard that many junior high school students would participate in this competition.

So, Saeki, Yukimura, and Tezuka should all participate, right?I just don’t know how good those foreign players are…”

Seeing the crowd getting bigger and bigger and the venue getting busier and busier, Inoue Mamoru couldn't help but let out a sigh after taking a few photos.

In the past few years, because the entire East Asia region was called a tennis desert, Neon Tennis had no achievements in the world tennis world and was in obvious decline.

These world-famous teams will never come to compete with Neon, so there will be no news coverage at all.

But since last year’s World Championships, neon tennis seems to have taken on a completely new look, and more and more countries have become interested in neon.
This four-nation exchange competition is a very obvious signal.

This is the first time in recent years that a foreign team has appeared in Neon. The reporters who came here with Mamoru Inoue were overjoyed. This means that Neon is finally no longer a tennis desert.

But they are also worried. After all, they have no idea about the strength of these foreign players.

"Yes!"

A reporter next to him who was also a tennis fan heard Inoue Mamoru's words and nodded in agreement:

"From the information we have collected, America is performing extremely well in the world of tennis.

Now they are even heading towards the fifth ranking, and both Australia and South Africa are among the top fifteen teams in the world..."

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding reporters were also a little nervous. Their Neon ranking was now just close to the twentyth place, and the top fifteen were all difficult opponents for them.

"Yes, they are all strong teams. I don't know if our Neon players can achieve good results."

Upon hearing this news, even Inoue Mamoru, who was very confident in junior high school students, couldn't help but sigh, and his expression became a little solemn.

Thinking of this, Inoue Mamoru stopped talking and prepared to shoot some more material. When he pointed the camera at the auditorium, as the camera focused, a middle-aged man in black gi appeared in his sight.

"This is? Echizen Nanjiro?"

Inoue Mamoru was immediately excited. As a big fan of Echizen Nanjiro, although he didn't know when Nanjiro returned to Neon, he saw his idol actually appearing here.

How could he bear it!
He directly left the group of reporters and ran towards the audience.

……

At this time, in the Neon team's rest room, Mitsuya Akuto was also introducing to the Neon players the strong players who needed to pay attention to this exchange competition.

"I have sent all the detailed information of the four teams to everyone. Please wait and see the specific information carefully. Now I want to introduce the real strong players of these three teams!"

Mitsugu gently lifted the hair beside his ear, and his voice was clear and loud: "First of all, it's America's captain and their leader, Ralph Reinhardt!"

"He has the strength of a professional player. I am afraid that no one here except Gui can compete with him. However, I estimate that in this exchange competition, he will only hold the line and not appear!"

"Besides him, America's other strong players who need to pay special attention to are Dudu O'Bandu, Alan Hopkins, and this junior high school student Chico Balentin."

Mitsugu enlarged the portrait of this person, and everyone saw this petite boy who looked like a girl. This person was likely to be an opponent that junior high school students would encounter.

Afterwards, Mitsuya continued to talk rapidly and continued to introduce Australia’s talented players, Noah Gorgias and J.J. Gorgias.

And South Africa’s talented captain Shapoka Golpe…

But Zongyan didn't listen at all at this moment, except for the fact that Australia's genius Noah, who had not yet over-exploited his mental power like Yukimura and died, made him a little surprised.

All his attention was drawn to America's other person.

"Echizen Ryuya, junior high school..."

……

ps: "Beautiful country has two years of junior high school and four years of high school. Next year, Longya High School will be a junior high school in other countries."

　After Australia and South Africa are written this time, the World Championship will not appear, and the Neon team's group stage roster will also change.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)