The Prince of Tennis: The Quincy of Rikkai University

Chapter 7 Winter Vacation, French Trip, Mysterious Boy (Signed)
Life after returning to school is boring.

Because after the national conference, there will be no more competitions for the tennis club this year except for the rookie tournament in November.

However, the rookie competition is just a training match for Li Haida. There is no need to send any regular players to participate. It only needs to let some members who usually cannot play in official competitions to experience the atmosphere of the game.

However, although there are no more competitions, there are still some activities.

On the day of the Kaihara Festival, the number of people visiting the tennis club venue directly broke the previous record. All of this was the impact of the national championship.

As for the theme of the tennis club on the day of the Kaihara Festival, it was a drama performance led by Seiichi Yukimura.

The content of the drama is the tennis club's experience of winning the national conference this year.

The drama received unanimous praise from all the audience present and attracted many teachers to watch.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to performing the drama, Marui Bunta also participated in a cooking competition held by the cooking club next door, and won the second place in the dim sum group.

However, according to Marui Bunta's own statement, his skills were not mature enough and he would definitely win the first place next year.

Yuuki Maya also went to the kendo club's venue to watch the open competition that day. It's not that he was interested in kendo, but because if he didn't go, he was sure that Kanzaki Tomoyo would come to visit him with a wooden sword the next day.

However, there were some minor incidents in the kendo club's competition. In the men's open challenge, Genichirō Sanada, the deputy director of the tennis club, took the stage to challenge as a kendo enthusiast, but he ended up challenging five people in a row and defeated the director of the opposing kendo club.

Afterwards, the other party's director did not turn pale. Instead, he was extremely enthusiastic and pestered Sanada Genichirō, trying to persuade him to join the kendo club.

After scolding, "You are too lax as the head of the kendo club," Genichirō Sanada left with a gloomy face.

As for Maya Yuuki, after waiting for the women's competition of the Kendo Club to end, she left holding the hand of Tomoyo Kamijou, who was known as the "High Mountain Flower" of the Kendo Club, amid the envious eyes of everyone.

After the Kaihara Festival ended, the entire campus returned to its former tranquility.

Many students are about to face their final exams.

After enduring the final exams, the last holiday of the year finally arrived - winter vacation.

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Paris France.

At the entrance of a tennis stadium, tourists from various countries have gathered in groups outside the venue.

The group round-robin matches of the U-17w Cup qualifiers, which are held every two years in tennis, will be held as scheduled in this venue in half an hour.

Today's match is between Japan and France.

Outside the venue, tennis fans from all over the world are already discussing topics related to this match and making bold predictions about the direction of the match.

There is no doubt that most of them are optimistic about France.

It's not that we look down on the Japanese team, but the French team is too strong. As a team that has always been in the top four in points, the name "BIG4" makes people unable to see what chances the Japanese team, a weak country in the tennis tournament, has of winning.

Although according to pre-match reports by the official media of the tournament, this year's Japanese team was hailed as "the strongest Japanese team in history" and "the golden generation of Japanese tennis", in their eyes, how strong can the weak Japanese team be?

At this moment, tourists were passing by an open-air tennis court near the venue. However, they seemed to be attracted by something. They stopped involuntarily and looked at the same place at the same time.

"God! Unbelievable..."

"Which team is this player from?"

"Oriental appearance, Chinese? Japanese? Or... South Korean?"

"Isn't that a tennis desert? How could there be players of this level? I guess they are most likely Asian." "..."

These people had the same expression: shock, astonishment, and disbelief.

And within their sight, they were looking at a boy who was no more than thirteen or fourteen years old.

But the handsome appearance was not the reason why those people stopped. What really attracted them was the series of actions that the black-haired boy was doing at that moment.

Juggling the ball.

This is something that every tennis enthusiast present can do easily, after all, it is the basic skill for beginners of tennis.

And the black-haired boy in front of him was also doing the same thing.

However, ordinary people use the forehand of a tennis racket to juggle the ball, but the black-haired boy is different. He uses the thin edge of the racket.

Like a precise machine, the boy held the tennis racket in his left hand and repeated the same action over and over again. The distance of each swing of his arm was exactly the same.

And the tennis ball seemed to be controlled by some force, and there was no deviation in the direction of its fall every time.

咚

咚

The tennis ball bounces up and down as it is hit by the racket frame, and the collision between the two makes a strange sound that is different from when it is hit with the racket face.

Some careful passers-by even noticed that the flying height of the tennis ball each time was almost the same when observed with the naked eye, and those who discovered this were deeply shocked.

But if it were just that, it wouldn't have kept people there for so long. At most, they would just think that this way of juggling the ball was fresh and strange.

The more important reason is that while the black-haired boy was bouncing the ball with his left hand, he was also holding a racket in his other hand and practicing hitting the ball against the wall at the same time.

Normally, most people would only use a tennis ball to practice hitting the ball against the wall.

The number of tennis balls used by the black-haired boy in front of him was seven!
Boom—Boom—

He stood there motionless, repeating the same swinging motion, hitting back all the oncoming tennis balls.

The movement trajectories of the seven tennis balls did not deviate or change at all from beginning to end, just like a movie clip being played over and over again.

The black-haired boy, on the other hand, looked relaxed, and even yawned slightly with his mouth open. His eyes were half-closed, as if he would fall asleep at any moment.

It seemed that for him, what he was doing at this moment was just an ordinary and simple tennis practice.

The crowd of onlookers were still whispering to each other, speculating and discussing the origins of this young man.

The opponent showed such powerful ball control skills, and at such a young age, they believed that such a genius could only be cultivated by a few tennis powerhouses.

But those who have such strength are all famous rising stars.

But even if they reviewed all the geniuses of similar age from various countries in their minds, none of them could match the black-haired boy in front of them.

So, who is he?
This question flashed through the minds of countless people, but no one could answer it.

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(End of this chapter)