The Strongest Ryoma in Prince of Tennis

Chapter 944 : Regional preliminaries for the new year

Time flies, and it’s already June in a blink of an eye.

June is the first semester of Japan Middle-School students, and it is also the opening day of the new Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament of Japan Junior High School Tennis.

At this time, Echizen Ryoma’s injury has completely healed.

However, recovery does not mean that Echizen Ryoma will join the Seigaku Tennis Club and follow them to play another national tournament.

At the beginning of the regional preliminaries in April, although Echizen Ryoma’s body had not completely healed, he could only show less than 50% of the strength, but most of his opponents were only at the level of the regional preliminaries. .

However, it is precisely because of the large gap in level that Echizen Ryoma has no interest in abuse of food at all.Therefore, although Echizen Ryoma is still in the Seigaku Tennis Club, he did not play. Resigned.

In this regard, Momoshiro Takeshi, Haitang Xun, and 26 Ryuki Jinshi coaches also understood this, and did not require Echizen Ryoma to play.

After all, a person who already has the level of a top professional player, returning to the stage of a junior high school student, would be too bully.

Even now, Echizen Ryoma is just a second-year student.

Of course, Seigaku, who didn’t play Echizen Ryoma, faced challenges in the initial regional preliminaries.

In the final matchup in the regional preliminaries, they lost to the Fudomine Middle-School Tennis Club.

Of course, this is not the elimination of Seigaku, this year’s tennis road ends here.

The reality is that Fudomine won the regional preliminaries, while Seigaku advanced to the regional preliminaries as runners-up.

At the time of the match, Echizen Ryoma also went to the scene to watch, or that, after the regional preliminaries started, Echizen Ryoma has been there, as an audience, with Tachibana, Tomoka, and Sakura.

In the first two games, the doubles Seigaku was defeated. After that, the singles No. 3 senior Haitang met Fudomine’s Kamio again, and the final score was 6-4. Haitang senior won with a difficult win to get back one point.

But in the second singles, Taocheng Senior VS Fudomine’s Tian ー ー Itake Shinji, the final 5-7, unfortunately lost.

From the beginning, Fudomine spotted the weakness of Seigaku this year. The only masters were Momoshiro Takeshi and Kaidoh Kaoru, so they directly put all the fighting power on, and did not care about singles at all.

Doubles No. 2: Mori Tatsutoku, Kyosuke Uchimura, Doubles No. 1: Sakurai Masaya, Ishida Iron, singles No. 3: Akira Kamio, singles No. 2: Itake Shinji, only Singles No. 1, originally owned by Tachibana Yoshihira, stay It was given to a new member of the second grade.

This person’s strength is only a novice, and last year when Fudomine first debuted, the strength is about the same, or even weaker.

If, in the matchup between Momoshiro Takeshi and Itake Shinji, Seigaku wins, then put the tiebreaker on singles, saying that there may not be hope for Seigaku.

This is also Seigaku’s strategy. Seigaku also saw the arrangement of Fudomine, so he took the plan and placed the team’s strongest forces, Kaidoh Kaoru and Momoshiro Takeshi, on singles number three and singles number two.

However, Shinji Itake deserves to be the opponent who made the protagonist Echizen Ryoma fight hard in the original Prince of Tennis. One year of growth has allowed him to rise rapidly, even surpassing Momoshiro Takeshi.

Of course, the final score of 5-7 shows that the gap between the two is also quite subtle.

However, as far as Echizen Ryoma is concerned, even if Momoshiro Takeshi defeated Itake Shinji in the end, Seigaku’s desire to win Fudomine is still very uncertain.

Because, Seigaku’s singles number one is Arai.

Yes, that’s right, the original trick.

Of course, Arai’s strength a year later is still good, at least at the level of Yinhua’s original election.

However, Echizen Ryoma looked at Arai in the blue and white glory team uniform and felt a little uncomfortable.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that in this year’s Seigaku election, apart from Kaidoh Kaoru and Momoshiro Takeshi, there are no Katsuo, Katsuro, and Horio, and there is no first-year election. The rest All six of them are in the second grade of the past and are now the third graders.

Although Katsuo, Katsuro, and Horio have many roles, there is still a gap in the strength of the three compared to the third grade seniors.

Katsuo, Katsuro, and Horio want to be elected, maybe they can only wait for the next year.

As for the level of the third graders such as Arai, the newly elected level cannot be said to be bad, it just depends on whom it compares with.

If compared with the previous Echizen Ryoma, it is naturally far from enough.

But in this session, the strength of Arai and others are still qualified.

At least, before facing Fudomine, Arai 453 and others performed well and won their opponents when they played against old opponents Yulin Middle-School and Shuiyuan Middle-School.

Moreover, it is not just the regional preliminaries. Judging from the information collected by Seigaku, the strength of other academies in other places this year has basically been cut in half compared to last year.

Seeing this, Echizen Ryoma faintly reacted: The golden age of Japanese junior high school tennis is over.

A large number of strong players born in the golden age last year fouled out, which directly caused the overall level of junior high school tennis to drop by several levels, leaving only the elites from the previous era to support them.

Echizen Ryoma once worried that Seigaku may not even make it to the Kanto Championship this year, and this situation will not happen at all.

Seigaku’s strength has been weakened, as is the case with other schools, and it may be weakened even more, and there are no successors.

Japan’s golden age is not yet completely over. The glory of the golden age will begin again in the high school stage. However, if there is no change in the situation of no successors, it will not be enough for Japan’s golden age to completely end sooner or later.

Echizen Ryoma has a hunch that maybe this year’s national championship will be picked by Fudomine.