Chapter 42 County Competition in the New Year
Once the main selection rounds were over, time seemed to fly by a lot, and in the blink of an eye it was the regional qualifiers again.
For this year's county competition, Lihai University's arrangements were as usual, with four main candidates and four quasi-main candidates.
The participants are singles 1, singles 2, and singles 3. Hoshino Genichi, Kirihara Akaya, and Urayama Shota alternately play. Doubles 1, Nioh Masaharu, Yagyu Hiroshi, and doubles 2, Marui Bunta, Jack Kuwahara. In addition, Sanada, as the deputy director, is responsible for leading the team to participate in the competition, and Mori is responsible for sitting on the coaching bench.
Although the candidates for this competition are relatively weak in the Rikkai University Tennis Club, in fact, they are not weak compared to other schools.
After all, there is really no worthy opponent in Kanagawa Prefecture at the moment.
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On the day he set off to participate in the prefectural competition, Mori Juzaburo looked hopeless. He didn't want to participate in such a boring competition at all, and the opponents were so weak. Although he didn't have to play, he still had to stay at the competition site. ...Isn't this just a waste of time? (ー_ー)!!Why am I so unlucky! How did you get such a thing by drawing lots!
Sanada, who was in charge of leading the team, had a straight face and could not see any changes.
Nioh Marui had participated in a few games last year and knew the level of other schools, so he had no expectations for the game. Yagyu maintained his superficial image of a 'gentleman' and looked indifferent.
The only ones who still have expectations for the prefectural competition are the three newcomers Kirihara Akaya, Urayama Shota and Hoshino Genichi.
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"6-1, game won by Rikkai Daimarui Bunta & Jack Kuwahara"
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"6-0, game won by Tatekai Daihito Masaharu & Yagyu Hiroshi"
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"6-3, game won by Hoshino Genichi Tatekai"
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"6-1, game won by Tatekai Ohkihara Akaya"
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"6-3, game won by Urayama Shota"
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Several games in the county competition were ended as quickly as possible by the members of Rikkai University.
The audience who watched the game were surprised.
"There are many newcomers at Rikkai University this year!"
"That is to say, I heard that half of the players who played are regular candidates. We didn't see these people last year. They might be in the first grade again."
"Who says it's not the case! But I think we met that little white-haired guy and the bubblegum chewer at last year's county competition!"
"Those two were last year's regular candidates, right? Aren't there four third-year students at Lihai University this year? They should have been trained in advance."
"Perhaps this year's quasi-primary candidates are also being trained in advance to take over the primary posts in the future."
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With the audience talking a lot, the Lihai University members refused to be interviewed after receiving the championship medals and planned to go back to school.
On the way, Kirihara couldn't help but complain, "What? I thought there would be many powerful opponents in the prefectural competition! It turns out it's just that!"
"Kombu-chan, you have to know that the more powerful tennis players in Kanagawa, or the tennis players who want to get excellent results in the competition, will choose Tatekai University first."
Maori smiled and rubbed Kirihara's hair, thinking: This child's head is pretty good.
Then he moved his eyes to Nioh's pigtails. Looking at Nioh's pigtails, he started to think: It seems that this white hair is more rugged. This is the same style of white hair as Mr. Tanejima~ But this kid is very difficult to deal with~ To rua or not to rua, that is the question.
Mauli was lost in thought.
When Maori was staring at his hair, Nioh Masaharu suddenly felt a chill. He raised his head resting on Yagyu's shoulder, looked around, and found nothing wrong. He suddenly felt strange: Pfft! Could it be that I feel wrong? ! But just now I always felt...
The group returned to school and placed the medals in the tennis department's designated area for these medals and trophies.
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