Net king: Muying Guanghua

Chapter 40 The Beginning of the Journey

Chapter 41 The Beginning of the Journey

This year is a critical year for the third graders. This is their last year to participate in the middle school stage. Everyone attaches great importance to this year's competition.The same is true for the six third-year players from the Qing Xue Tennis Division. For them, this is the last chance.Ximu didn't have this psychological burden, her journey in the team competition ended right after it started, and she didn't understand it as deeply as other people.

After the final list of the Tennis Club was confirmed, coach Ryuzaki announced that the regional qualifiers would start soon, and asked everyone to actively prepare for the competition. The other teams have grown after a year, and Seigaku is not far behind.Ximu invites Longma out to play on the weekend. Ximu intends to test his strength in person. It is not enough to just watch other people's games. Some things can only be understood by going to the stadium.Ximu could see that Tezuka had high hopes for him, otherwise he would definitely not have agreed to allow Ryoma to participate in the school practice match.At the end of that match, Ximu defeated Ryoma 6-4. At the same time, Ximu realized that there is a huge potential hidden in his body. If he can stimulate his potential, he will definitely become a first-class tennis player.Longma has won many battles before, so he is naturally a little arrogant, and Ximu is a girl, so Longma somewhat underestimates the enemy.However, this emotion dissipated when Ximu broke his serve, and Ryoma began to get serious, but even if he was serious, he couldn't beat Ximu, because there was still a gap between them.After the game, the two went to the net to shake hands, and Ximu smiled faintly: "Longma, work hard." People usually say that the person who knows themselves best is themselves, and sometimes the person who knows themselves the least is also themselves, and someone needs to be timely. remind him.Longma understood that this was the encouragement from his seniors. Losing to Ximu made Longma somewhat unhappy, but this became the motivation for Longma to practice harder.

The daily training of the candidates is jointly designed by Gan and Ximu, but the punishment measures are decided by Gan unilaterally.Ximu once expressed his objection, and in the next second, he handed the cup full of vegetable juice to Ximu, "Taste it! It's delicious".Since then, Ximu has never dared to say no again. Every time he waited for someone to make a mistake after the training started, he took out the vegetable juice. The mirror reflected treacherously and said: "I forgot to say, the mistake Those who get it will drink my special dry vegetable juice."Ximu feels sad for everyone, but he can't do anything about it. With such an assistant coach, you just accept it!Even coach Ryuzaki can't do anything about him. Although Kikumaru and the others always say that Ximu is the nemesis of dryness, but that's only on the court. Usually, as long as he encounters dried vegetable juice, Ximu can run faster than anyone else. Er's words describe... how far the mind is, how far Ximu can run.Speaking of which, the only person who can really restrain dryness is Buer. He is the nemesis of dryness in life. The biggest difference between Buer and Ximu is that Buer has a special taste and is not afraid of dry vegetable juice.Even Tezuka stays away from dried vegetable juice on weekdays, its power can be imagined.

The regional qualifiers started, and Qingxue first met Yulin Middle School.On the day of the match, Taocheng and Longma asked to play doubles one after another, which surprised everyone. Ximu blinked in doubt. In her impression, neither of these two were good at doubles, so why did they ask for doubles in the match?Taocheng's youthful and hot-blooded mind is a little less developed than his limbs, so it's not surprising for her to play doubles on a whim, the key is Ryoma.Ximu fully affirmed that Longma was a more rational person, but how could he cooperate with Taocheng to play doubles?She doesn't know if Ryoma has doubles experience, she only knows that Taocheng has a little doubles experience, a little, just a little.Before Ryuzaki coach asked Ximu to pick two second-year players to play a practice match with the golden pair of Kikumaru Oishi. Ximu picked Taocheng and Ikeda at random. Before the game was halfway through, Ximu was black The face shouted to stop.Taocheng didn't have any doubles awareness at all, and he caught all the balls from the opponent, not to mention not catching the ball, and knocked out his partner Ikeda, who fell to the ground unconscious.In the end, coach Ryuzaki asked Ximu and Fuji to play a practice match with Kikumaru Oishi. Both of them are good singles players. Ximu has never played doubles and almost knows nothing about pairing. It has to be more tacit.In the end, the two beat Kikumaru Oishi 7-5, turning the defeat into victory. Everyone joked that if there is a mixed doubles match, let them play.

The matter dates back to the night before the game. Considering that there will be a game the next day, coach Ryuzaki deliberately ended the club activities early, and the members went home separately.Ryoma and Momoshiro pass by a burger shop on the way home. After eating a lot at the burger shop, they decide to find a place to burn off their energy, and the street tennis court is the perfect place.When the two rushed to the street tennis court, they saw a doubles match in the court, and they were eager to try.After defeating more than a dozen pairs of doubles, a boy with ponytails and his partner walked onto the court. They were Yulin Middle School's strongest doubles, Izumi and Ichikawa.How could two laymen in doubles be able to match the experienced doubles, and Taocheng and Ryoma lost as expected.In the end, Izumi and Ichikawa issued a letter of challenge to the two, "We are players from Yulin Middle School. We will play doubles two tomorrow. If you want to get revenge, we will see you tomorrow." So Momoshiro and Ryoma asked to play doubles today.

Coach Longzaki finally agreed to their request, but Ximu was guessing why they played doubles.During the competition, the four talked about yesterday's events from time to time, and the thoughtful Xi Mu probably heard some signs.Izumi and Ichikawa's doubles team is pretty good in the middle school world. With the strength of Ryoma and Momoshiro, it's hard to say whether they can win.It's okay for singles, she can be [-]% sure that Ryoma and Taocheng can win, but for doubles, she is not sure.Not long after the match started, Ximu could see that the two had no tacit understanding at all. Although Ximu didn't have much experience in doubles, she had watched a lot of doubles matches and had a certain understanding of doubles.Besides, a team always has doubles players. As a manager, she can’t just focus on singles. She once asked Dashi to teach her doubles knowledge. Ximu’s idea was good, but she found the wrong person. After speaking for three hours, Ximu almost fell asleep. Afterwards, Ximu expressed regret. If he knew this was the case, he might as well ask Coach Longzaki to make up lessons for her.

Taocheng and Ryoma were 2-4 behind and learned some doubles essentials through Oishi's tips. After the two played and lost a game first, they changed their tactics and used opening and closing tactics. They once evened the score and finally overtook.Although the two won, Coach Ryuzaki gave them a hard lesson. After the game, Coach Ryuzaki pinched the cheeks of the two of them, "You two idiots, it's a good thing to win the game. But you have to think about the people who are sitting here watching the game.” The two grinned in pain, and were punished by coach Ryugasaki to kneel and each was suspended once.Ximu covered her mouth and sniggered, the two of them were reaping the fruit of their own accord, she probably understood the reason why the two of them played doubles, didn't they just want to avenge their shame, and now they have to pay the price.

During the game break, Ximu saw a person who was not familiar but annoying. It was the first time they met in the fourth grade. It was not until Ximu became the manager that he was seen on the field again.Kiichi Kuki of Persimmon Middle School had a bad first impression of him, and it got worse and worse after that.It seemed that he knew about Ximu's arm injury in a car accident, and would humiliate her every time he saw her. Ximu was very annoyed, but she knew that there was no need to argue with this kind of person, and she would have many opportunities to teach him a lesson in the future.Kiichi Kuki grabbed Tezuka's arm and said with an evil smile: "Tezuka, I heard that your arm is injured and you can't participate in the competition, so let me see it!" Kuki quietly exerted force, Tezuka felt a little pain but didn't show it When he came out, he waved his hand coldly, "Let me go" Seeing Jiugui's deflated look, Ximu couldn't help snickering, he deserved it!According to Qian's data, after defeating his opponent, Jiu Gui would say "It's not that you are too weak, but that I am too strong."

Just when everyone thought that this year's regional qualifier final was another match between Qingxue and Shimu Middle School, no one expected that a dark horse would suddenly appear.Ximu smiled when she learned that Qingxue's opponent in the final was Fudofeng Middle School. It was meaningless to compete with Shimu Middle School. If it was against Shimu Middle School, she could predict the result. Such a match would be too lacking in passion.It's also good to change opponents, let them get in touch with some different players, maybe there will be greater improvement.Ximu saw a name, Ju Juping, when she was in Osaka two years ago, she had heard the names of the two heroes of Kyushu, one was Chitose Qianli who had acquaintance, and the other was Ju Juping who had never met before.She just heard that this person is the ace player of Shizile Middle School, with a fierce style of play and even called a lion, but isn't he in Osaka?How did you come to Tokyo?Fortunately, Ximu is interested in solving riddles but not in riddles, so I leave this kind of matter to Qian to discuss.

The battle for the finals of the regional qualifiers started, and Ximu sized up Ju Juping, feeling that he had the aura of a leader in him.The Fudo Peak team has a total of seven people, and there is not even a backup manager.Ximu held the match list in his hand. Except for the minister Ju Juping, the others were all second-year players. Ximu smiled, and the reserve force was sufficient.The opening game was the second doubles. Aigaku sent Kawamura, who is a genius and has always been known for his strength, and Fudo Peak sent Sakurai and Ishida.Seeing that the strong muscles on Ishida's arms are comparable to those of Kawamura, could it be that he is also a strength player?Xi Mu guessed.

Ximu found that Ishida looked at the coach's bench frequently, Ximu followed his gaze, and his gaze fell on Ju Juping, until Ju Juping showed his index finger, Ishida's expression became a little joyful.Ximu couldn't help but wonder, these two people still make eye contact?Seeing the blue veins on Ishida's arm, Ximu suddenly felt ominous. After he hit the ball, Ximu shouted: "Fuji, Kawamura, don't catch the ball!" Judging by the speed of the ball, , the impact on the arm is quite large, and the arm is too slender to catch such a ball at all. Although Kawamura is a strong player, he can only withstand such a ball at most. Either one of them risked to catch the ball.But Ximu forgot one thing, there is a strong opponent, and he must find a way to surpass him, and this is exactly the spirit of competitive sports.Ximu was too worried about his companion, but he forgot the wise words that his grandfather said to him.Obviously Fuji and Kawamura did not listen to Ximu at this time, when Fuji was about to catch the ball, Kawamura shouted "Fuji, get out of the way!" With the powerful ball, Ximu's eyes were fixed on Hecun.To Ximu's surprise, Kawamura actually hit back the extremely heavy ball.While everyone was still rejoicing, Ximu stared at Hecun's wrist. Is there really nothing wrong with his wrist?Bu Er approached He Cun calmly, grabbed his wrist, and He Cun jumped up in shock, "It hurts..." Xi Mu turned to Qian and said, "Get the medicine kit ready." He turned to the third grader behind him Personally ordered, Gan sprayed some spray on Kawamura's swollen wrist, and then said: "It's better to go to the hospital to have a look." Due to Kawamura's injury, Qingxue gave up the second doubles match.

What followed was the first doubles match. Kikumaru and Oishi were known as the golden doubles and had a national level.Kikumaru's flexible movements defended the net very well, and it was difficult for the opponent's ball to pass through the backcourt. Even if the ball fell to the backcourt, there was still a big stone.Oishi's singles strength is not very strong, but his ability to control the overall situation is extraordinary, and his combination with Kikumaru is perfect for doubles.The opponent's slender player is called a frontcourt killer, but his volleying ability is far behind that of Kikumaru. Kikumaru can always catch unexpected balls, and Kikumaru is flexible and can never stop. So everyone gave his move a name - dancing tennis.Kikumaru and Oishi swept their opponents with a big score and won the next game.

The doubles match is over, Qingxue has one win and one loss, and the next is the first and third singles match in the singles match.Haitang was the third singles player. Because of the rain, the field became muddy, and he would slip and fall if he didn't pay attention.Xi Mu sat on a chair, chatting casually with the people next to him. The two players walked into the court and settled down in front of the net. "Hey, your nickname is Haitang Snake, right?" Kamio looked at Haitang provocatively, Ximu raised his eyes, this guy's bangs are strangely long, covering one eye, dare to provoke Haitang?Xi Mu snickered and said: I admire your courage very much.The more irritable Kaitang swung his racket quickly, and Kamio jumped away in a very quick reaction. The referee scolded: "What are you doing?" Kaitang glared fiercely, "What did you say?"Tezuka, who had been on the sidelines, suddenly shouted: "Kaitang" was frightened by the power of his minister, so Kaitang apologized obediently.Tezuka went to the Fudo Peak camp and apologized to them, "I'm sorry, I apologize to you on behalf of my members." "No, I should be the one who should apologize. It was my members who provoked them first." Tachibana Tachihira remained calm replied.The corners of Ximu's mouth twitched as he listened to the words of the two, this is how ministerial figures compete.I saw Kamio's movements just now. His reaction nerves are very quick, and his movements are very fast. I am afraid that only Eiji Kikumaru can compete with this speed. What will be the result of this game?
"Follow my rhythm!" Kamio yelled this sentence for the nth time since the start of the match, Ximu managed to restrain the trembling of his eyebrows, what kind of weird mantra is this?It's true that he is fast, but he doesn't look at how many balls Kaitang missed.Haitang's tenacity is probably no one in Qingxue can match him, he will try his best to persevere until the last point.Similarly, Ximu had to praise Kamio's adaptability. This was the first time the two confronted each other, but he was able to fight back Kaitang's snake ball. What would Kaitang do when his trick failed?At the end of the game, Kaitang suddenly hit a churl, which is not considered a violation in tennis, but it is considered a violation in badminton.There was a look of approval in Ximu's eyes, it's okay to work hard!The few first-year juniors outside the field named this move Snake Dart, which sounds quite majestic.

Next came the match between Echizen Ryoma and Ibu Fukaji. To everyone's surprise, Ibu Fukaji's serve was exactly the same as Ryoma's outspin serve. Ximu smiled secretly. This time Ryoma met a well-matched opponent.The score was not much different, and rose alternately. After the two played more than a dozen rounds, Ryoma's movements suddenly froze, and Ibu Shinji scored.Ximu frowned, what happened to Longma?Ximu carefully observed the movement of the ball, and found that Yiwu Shensi had been playing the ball alternately with topspin and backspin. Ximu couldn't help wondering, why did he do this?Thinking about Ryoma's movements again, by the way, hitting the ball with alternating up and down spins will easily cause arm muscles to become paralyzed, and this paralysis will not last long.Instant paralysis, although this move is time-consuming and physically demanding, it is still a very effective move.Ryoma on the field has realized that with Ryoma's character, he will not be complacent, and he will definitely try to change the situation.After another instant paralysis, Ryoma recklessly turned his body.A drop of sweat slid down Ximu's head, Longma, are you crazy?Don't you know what happens when you force your body to move?Your arm is still paralyzed, and reckless turning of your body will most likely cause the racket to drop.Echizen Ryoma, you stupid boy who does things recklessly!Xi Mu cursed secretly in his heart.

Seeing coach Ryuzaki bandaging him, Ximu felt distressed again. He had already tasted the consequences of Ryoma's reckless turning of his body. The racket dropped his hand and hit the pillar and bounced back and scratched Ryoma's eyes.Fuji summed up brilliantly from the side: "This is the consequence of your recklessness." Ryoma pretended not to hear anything and did not answer, but he couldn't help feeling a little regretful in his heart.Ximu put away Longma's broken racket, and his face was extremely pale. Since the car accident, Ximu seemed to have a little fear of blood.Fuer stood in front of Ximu with empathy, blocking her sight. Once, in a home economics class, a classmate accidentally cut a deep cut on his hand, and the blood kept gushing out. His face became pale, and he retched while stroking the desk.

Ryoma asked to play again, but Oishi strongly opposed it. However, Tezuka handed the beat to Ryoma, "10 minutes, if you can't win the game after 10 minutes, you will quit." Tezuka Kunimitsu, head of the Seigaku Tennis Club.Longma lived up to the expectations of the seniors and won the game at 9 minutes and 58 seconds.Qingxue won with a 3-1 advantage, successfully won the championship of the regional qualifiers and qualified for the Tokyo Metropolitan Competition.As coach Ryuzaki said, their journey has just begun.

(End of this chapter)