Who would still play tennis after being reborn?

Chapter 30: The Guidance Match Begins

It's no exaggeration to say that Zhang Ming's motivational speech was highly effective, even surpassing Deng Yunhua's. Even students who had never been exposed to tennis were thrilled after hearing it.

Not to mention those like Yu Xinjie who had experience with tennis, they all cheered enthusiastically after hearing this.

On stage, after Zhang Ming finished speaking, Deng Yunhua and Zhang Ming chatted quietly for a while. Then Deng Yunhua spoke into the microphone: "Students who have signed up for the coaching competition can go change their clothes now. Don't forget to bring your rackets. Of course, it's okay if you didn't bring any; the school will provide rackets."

"Those who want to watch live can go to the court now and wait. Whether you know how to play or not, or are interested in tennis or not, at least you can experience the atmosphere of a tennis match."

Deng Yunhua was a well-known tennis enthusiast at school, and immediately after making the announcement, she started chatting quietly with Zhang Ming.

Judging from this, he seems to be planning to personally take to the field and compete against professional player Zhang Ming.

After the students dispersed on the spot, Li Yang anxiously grabbed Gu Cheng and ran towards the basketball court.

"Hurry, hurry, the best spot to watch the game will be taken by someone else."

"You don't even play tennis, why are you in such a hurry?"

Gu Cheng shook off Li Yang's hand, quite helplessly: "It's not a basketball or football match, there won't be many people watching."

Li Yang scoffed: "Not many? Look how many people are rushing to the tennis courts."

Gu Cheng turned his head and glanced around, noticing that the crowd was mostly moving towards the tennis court, with the majority of the group being boys. As for the girls, apart from a few who were following the crowd, most of them were heading towards the teaching building.

what happened?

Do so many people like tennis?
To be honest, let alone this kind of instructional competition, even the four Grand Slam tournaments are not followed by anyone other than tennis enthusiasts.

But the situation before us was quite unexpected.

Li Yang tugged at Gu Cheng's arm and winked at him, "They're all after Xia Zhitong."

Gu Cheng glanced at the room and realized that Xia Zhitong seemed to have gone to the girls' dormitory.

"Now you know why, right?" Li Yang smiled, his eyes crinkling into crescents.

A bunch of old perverts.

Gu Cheng cursed inwardly.

……

With Li Yang pulling them along, the group managed to secure a good spot with an excellent view.

In about ten minutes, Yu Xinjie had changed into his tennis match clothes and appeared at the side of the court with a tennis racket on his back.

"Come on, Lao Yu! Let's try to get a point from Zhang Ming and show everyone the strength of our Class Two!" Li Yang shouted at the top of his lungs.

"I will do my best!"

Yu Xinjie clasped his hands in a fist salute, looking incredibly chuunibyou (a Japanese term for someone with delusions of grandeur), before glancing nervously at the others.

Logically speaking, someone like him who has participated in many competitions shouldn't be nervous at this moment, but to be honest, this is his first time playing against a world-class professional player.

Not just Yu Xinjie, but everyone else is the same.

Those who were a little timid were trembling as they held their rackets.

Just as everyone was wondering why Zhang Ming hadn't arrived yet, a commotion arose, and the previously noisy scene suddenly fell silent.

"It's Xia Zhitong."

Li Yang exclaimed softly, and Gu Cheng subconsciously looked in the direction where everyone was staring at him.

She wore a white tennis polo shirt, with the top button undone, revealing a sliver of her fair shoulder blades. Her white tennis skirt reached just to mid-thigh, its hem flaring out in a slight A-shape, like layers of softly clustered clouds. Her porcelain-like legs gleamed faintly in the sunlight.

Her long, flowing hair was tied into a high ponytail, with a few strands occasionally dancing in the wind, stirring the surrounding air and captivating hearts.

At this moment, she stood there quietly, yet she had already become the most moving scenery under this sky.

However, unlike Yu Xinjie and the others who were gathered together, Xia Zhitong stood quietly at a distance, ignoring the exclamations around her, looking like she wanted to keep strangers away.

Several senior high school boys who had also signed up for the coaching competition were about to greet Xia Zhitong when they saw her, but they were scared back by the girl's cool gaze before they even took two steps closer. "That's Wu Yifei from senior year, right? I heard a lot of senior girls have a crush on him. I didn't expect him to be just as timid as Xia Zhitong. He's not much better than me!"

Zhou Xiao loves playing basketball even more than Gu Cheng. When he can't find enough people in his class, he teams up with upperclassmen from other grades, and over time he gets to know quite a few people.

Wu Yifei was one of them.

In Zhou Xiao's eyes, Wu Yifei played basketball very well, his academic performance ranked among the top 30 in the whole school, and he heard that his family was quite wealthy. In addition, he had good looks, which made those senior high school girls lose their temper.

However, there has never been any news about Wu Yifei liking anyone.

This senior has extremely high standards.

Unexpectedly, I became timid when I tried to approach a girl for the first time.

Gu Cheng looked at the senior high school student who had turned back halfway. He was indeed good-looking, no worse than him, but he was a little shorter than him.

At the same time, Xia Zhitong seemed to notice something and glanced back slightly.

The moment she met Gu Cheng's gaze, her aloof face softened slightly, but under the gaze of so many people, she quickly reverted to her usual haughty expression—aloof and unapproachable.

"She's too aloof. Even Senior Wu Yifei felt a little inferior in front of her."

"Indeed aloof."

Gu Cheng also gave a fair assessment, then shifted his gaze away from Xia Zhitong.

"Acheng, I told you before that you'd definitely succeed in pursuing her, but look at you now, forget it, there's no chance." Li Yang also looked away.

The aloof, beautiful woman is stunning, but a toad can't possibly eat swan meat.

Didn't you see that the frogs all slunk away?
Gu Cheng smiled but didn't say anything.

At this moment, Zhang Ming also changed his clothes and rushed over. He exchanged a few words with Wei Wentao, and soon Wei Wentao jogged over to Yu Xinjie and the others: "I just discussed it with Zhang Ming. All the students who signed up will have a chance to play, but each person is limited to playing one service game and one return game, with the time limit controlled within five minutes."

Upon hearing this, the students who were worried about not getting a chance to play immediately brightened up and couldn't help but look at Zhang Ming with gratitude.

"Yu Xinjie, you're going first. Wu Yifei, get ready. You're going second."

"Once you're up there, make sure you're in your best form. Don't be nervous. If you can get a point or two from Zhang Ming, with his recommendation, it might be your chance to step onto the professional stage."

"Especially Yu Xinjie and Wu Yifei, you two have been playing tennis since you were young, so you must seize this opportunity."

"Ah."

Wei Wentao gave a few instructions, and Yu Xinjie took a breath, picked up his racket, and walked onto the tennis court, which had been completely renovated a couple of days ago.

Against Zhang Ming, he was more interested in understanding how strong a real professional player really is and how big the gap was between him and his opponent through his service and return games than in winning the match.

……

the other side.

Herves Elementary School.

"Brother Xuan, if our parents find out we're skipping class, they'll beat us to death."

"It's okay, I've already asked Uncle Lu to pick us up. We'll go straight to No. 1 Middle School in a bit. My sister has a competition today, and as her younger brother, I have to go cheer her on!"

"But...why are you dragging us along?"

Xia Mingxuan rolled his eyes at the little boy who had spoken: "Nonsense, how can I cheer alone? I could shout myself hoarse and no one would hear me. You know, there's strength in numbers."

"Oh."

As they were talking, Xia Mingxuan saw a minivan pull up. Lu Youwei rolled down the window, parked the car, got out, opened the door, and looked at him with some helplessness: "Young Master, if President Xia finds out about this, you're in big trouble."

Xia Mingxuan patted his chest and said nonchalantly, "It's okay. We'll just say my sister asked me to go. My dad definitely won't ask, and even if he does, my sister won't tell. Don't worry."

Lu Youwei was helpless, but thinking about it, given Xia Zhitong's personality, she probably wouldn't say a word to President Xia. So he had no choice but to call a few kids to get in the car, and the car slowly drove towards No. 1 Middle School.

(End of this chapter)