Chapter 17: Sanada's Enlightenment
Chapter 17: Sanada's Enlightenment
"Bang!"
When the fireworks in the Tokyo Gymnasium were in full bloom, the first U.S.-Japan Junior Tennis Tournament officially began. Because it was the first session, the teams sent by the two countries were not the strongest.
The U.S. is a team composed of seven players selected from the top few players in the West Coast Tournament.
The representatives of Japan were selected by the participating schools of the Kanto Contest. Although it does not represent the strongest combat power in the country, the dream team of Kanto is also composed of top players.
"Next, I invite the U.S. West Coast team and the Japanese Kanto team to play." The host of the opening ceremony said loudly.
Immediately afterwards, the teams of the two sides slowly entered from the east and west directions.
The American team is Kempin Seven, while the Japanese team is a little different from the original, missing Akaya Kirihara from Tachihai's second year. However, what is more striking is the acting coaches of both sides.
Looking at Shiraishi and Tezuka, who followed the procession, some people thought it was incredible. Fans in Kanto and Kansai even have the illusion that this is not a friendly match between the United States and Japan, but a war between the East and the West.
Standing in tennis, the players on both sides are full of fighting spirit, and their eyes are eagerly looking at each other's players. Billy and Michaelly stared at Sanada and Kibe, Anruod looked at Fuji, and the Goliffi brothers watched Kikumaru and Shinobu carefully. The most battlelike was Kebin, who stared at Ryoma like a hunter about to catch his prey.
And this qiΔ was seen by Tezuka, and he was a little moved. In my heart, I also had a bad premonition.
"Really?"
Tezuka's reaction was naturally seen by Shiraishi, and he smiled: "Tezuka, don't be careless!" β
"Of course!" Tezuka was a little uncomfortable, which was originally what he wanted to say. He looked at Shiraishi, and for the first time, he couldn't read a person. This person feels very strange, it seems to be right in front of him, but in fact he is separated by an unbridgeable distance.
"Coach?"
Suddenly, Tezuka was startled. When he looked back, it turned out to be Qianshi calling him, and he was terrified in his heart: "How could I?" Thinking about it slowly, he understood.
"Did you use that moment of trance just now to make something similar to a fantasy on me?" Secretly analyzing in his heart, Tezuka felt even more unbelievable, did that man actually reach that kind of Cheng dΓΉ?
And Shiraishi, who returned to his coach position, saw Tezuka's reaction, and smiled in his heart: "It's really in the hand, but if it's Yukimura to do it, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to crack, right?" "Thinking of Yukimura, Shiraishi was in a trance, such a peerless genius, he couldn't leave tennis."
"In that case, I'll be very lonely"
In the stands, Nakamura sat in the VIP seat with those big conglomerates, and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, everyone, a grand tennis show is about to start!" β
The people in those consortiums nodded, and many of them focused their eyes on the two people sitting in the coach's seat on the field. Because of Baishi, the number of investors who originally didn't come much has doubled. This made Nakamura very happy, but when he looked at Shiraishi's back again, the smile on his face turned bitter.
On the other side, Inoue of the tennis monthly magazine sat with a group of Qingxue.
Suddenly, Horio shouted, "Look, everyone, who are those people?" β
Everyone followed his hand and saw six or seven young men in yellow-green sportswear, Inoue's eyes lit up, and he said, "They are the members of the Four Heavenly Treasure Temple, the strongest team in Kansai!" β
Everyone also sighed a little, after all, in the absence of the minister, he could still win the championship of the Kansai Competition, and at this point, Qingxue was a little weaker. (Lihai's Yukimura isn't there either.)
About five minutes later, a voice came over the radio: "Now for the second doubles match, please come on the court!" β
"Who could it be?" Everyone is looking forward to it.
Then, in the passage of the Kanto representative, two figures slowly walked out. When people saw the silhouettes of the two clearly, they all shouted: "How could it be them?" β
The two young men walked out, and all the people of Lihai and the Ice Emperor stopped breathing, their eyes looking straight ahead. The person who came was none other than the Minister of the Ice Emperor and the Deputy Minister of Lihai, Keigo & Sanada Koichiro. The two strongest among Japanese teenagers.
"Am I dazzled?" Momojo said in disbelief, looking at the two of them, he muttered, "Shouldn't their words appear in singles?" β
Only Kan and Inoue were thoughtful, and their eyes turned to the other side, to Sakaki Taro, who was calm.
"It's really the two of them!" On the other side, in the direction of the American team, Billy and Michaelly also slowly appeared. And looking at Sanada and Jibu on the other side, they were a little surprised, "I didn't expect what the coach said to be true!" At the same time, the hearts of the two tightened. If that's the case, the two will have to secure the advantage at the beginning, or else they'll be in trouble.
Both sides chosen, and the U.S. team got the right to serve.
Standing on the bottom line, Billy calmed the feelings in his heart, and looked at the two people who were standing a little strange on the opposite side, and he had to win with one shot. Thinking of this, he threw the ball into the air, and the racket in his hand spun like a rope sleeve.
When the ball fell, Billy's racket slammed into the tennis ball at a dizzying speed.
"Bang!"
The ball flew quickly to the opposite side, cutting an artistic arc through the air. And the moment it hit the ground, the ball exploded like a bomb, shaking the ground into a large cloud of smoke and dust. Neither Sanada nor Tracebe reacted to this strange serve.
β15:0β
"Liar, deceitful, how can there be such a terrible serve?" On stage, Horio said with a shocked face.
"That Billy, who used to be like an American cowboy, just," Inoue slowly recounted Billy's story, and at the end, he laughed, "So, he has a lot of power, and the change in the power of his shots is also very special." β
"I see." Listening to Inoue's explanation, everyone suddenly realized.
"Bang!"
"Gave, Billy, Michaelly, 1:0"
At this point, Billy also won a game with his special serve.
"How's that, Trace." Sanada asked as he swapped venues.
"It's nothing, he's weird on his serve, but it won't work next time." Traces replied, his tone full of confidence.
"Heh" Sanada smiled, he also understood Billy's serve, but for some reason, he felt an inexplicable irritability in his heart. Suddenly, he turned his head to look at Shiraishi not far away, and Shiraishi also looked at him and smiled at him.
Sanada's heart was vigilant, and his mentality began to be corrected.
In the second game, it was Sanada's serve. Standing on the baseline, Sanada took a breath, he tossed the ball up, and then hit it at a tricky angle.
"Bang!"
The ball flew and landed straight on Billy's side. Billy was shocked, if it was a singles match, he would lose this ball first.
"But it's a doubles." The corners of Billy's mouth curled. As soon as he turned, he hit Sanada's serve back, but at the same time, there was a gap on his side.
"Good chance!" Almost at the same time, Sanada and Tracebe both saw Billy's vacancy, and both of them ran forward at the same time.
"This is mine!" Traces roared at Sanada, and his body flew in front of him.
"Bang!"
Kibe hit the ball to the other side, feeling relieved. This goal, Billy must not have had time to receive it.
"Whew!"
Suddenly, just as the ball was about to hit the ground, a shadow flew by, it was Mikley, who was waiting for an opportunity.
"Bang!"
Facing the place where the two of them didn't have time to return to defense, Mikeley struck hard!
"Bang!"
β0:15β
"How so?" Trace's heart was shocked, he didn't even notice when Mikley appeared in that position. As for Sanada, although he didn't speak, he was equally shocked in his heart.
"Sure enough." Walking up to Mikley, Billy said softly. Michaelly also nodded slightly, these two should be playing doubles for the first time, and there is no tacit understanding at all.
Sanada looked at the two opposites and frowned slightly, but he still played the tennis ball in his hand
"Bang!"
"Gave, Billy, Michaelly, 2:0"
Almost the same situation, facing the Sanada duo who have not yet run in, the American team has another game.
"Gentlemen, see, this is the level of the American team, this is the real powerhouse." On stage, Nakamura smiled and promoted Billy and the two.
"Sanada, that ball just now is obviously mine, you," said the trail in the rest area with some dissatisfaction.
Sanada frowned, faintly, he seemed to have found the key.
"Play your own ball, it's not like your style!" Leaving this sentence in front of the trace, Sanada left his seat, leaving behind an ugly face
"Haha, indulge in Uncle Ben's world." Looking at one of the balls that Billy had raised high, he jumped up laughing.
"Bang!"
His shot was aimed at the back end of Billy's racket.
"It appeared, and this is the 'Wheel Dance of the Coming to Destruction' of the Traces!" The three of them shouted.
"Huh!"
Unexpectedly, Billy chuckled, and in the face of this smash in the track, he suddenly jumped up.
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, Trace's smash was struck back by Billy with the same smash.
"Gave, Billy, Michaelly, 3:0"
"Good chance!"
Sanada's eyes lit up as he watched the return ball in front of the net, and he leapt to his feet and aimed the ball at a place where neither of Billy had defended.
"Delusional!"
Suddenly, a figure jumped up and knocked his ball back, it was Mikeley. Sanada, of course, won't let the ball pass, and he hits the ball back again.
The two launched a fierce confrontation in front of the net, which shocked the audience outside the court and on the stage.
"Are they really just junior high school students?" Some people said dumbfounded.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, in the midst of a fierce attack, Michaelly made a move to confuse Sanada and won the ball.
"Gave, Billy, Michaelly, 4:0"
"Wow!"
The supporters of the U.S. team screamed loudly, and in their opinion, the U.S. vs. Japan game should have been like this.
ββ
Looking at the jubilant atmosphere on the American side and the slightly deserted atmosphere on the Japanese side, Sanada was silent in his heart. Tracebe was also silent, and it had been a long time since his trick had been broken by Billy.
Suddenly, Sanada looked back and saw Shiraishi with a smile on his face, the Tezuka with an indifferent face. His heart moved, and these two people were walking ahead of him. If here, in front of the two of them, they lose to the American team
"Impossible!"
Sanada roared in his heart, this is absolutely not allowed, he Sanada Koichiro is the strongest person in Japan. At this moment, he made a decision to no longer be silent.
"Huh?"
And looking at the changes that have taken place in Sanada's body, the trace has some understanding, and he is silent for a long time
PS: Thanks to the "Traces of the New Wind", "Hhad", Xiaoxin and Monkey for their tips!!
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