NOVEL WEB Chapter 22
Chapter 22
Time is in Mifune Zongzheng’s continuous training day by day, and in a blink of an eye, the county competition is about to begin.
The prefectural contest is the largest competition in Kanagawa Prefecture. Only the first and second places in the regional qualifiers are eligible to participate, and only the champion and runner-up of the prefectural contest are eligible to participate in the Kanto contest.
Before the start of the county competition, because one month has passed since the last positive trial, the Rikkai Grand Tennis Club once again held a positive trial to determine the candidates for the county competition.
This time the positive selection is also extremely fierce, because the Rikkai Grand Tennis Club emphasizes the supremacy of strength and the respect of the winner. As long as you have the strength, you can be selected as a representative of the school to participate in the competition.
The players of the Rikkai Grand Tennis Club are all looking forward to this day. They have been training hard for a month in order to show their strength today and win the right place.
The players who were originally elected naturally have to maintain their position and not let others take it away.
After a day of fierce competition, the results of this positive trial finally came out. Mifune Zongzheng, Echizen Ryoga, Tanegashima Shuji, Oni Jujiro, etc. had a complete victory in the final selection. Each game ended 6:0. The time for the end of each game is also the shortest, so Rikkai’s main election remains the same.
After all, Mifune Zongzheng’s strength is still too strong for ordinary players like Rikkai.
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“The county contest is going to be held tomorrow. Next I will announce the candidates for this competition. Doubles No. 2 is composed of Akuto and Tanegashima, Doubles No. 1 is composed of Yuho and Yuma, Singles No. 3 is Echizen Ryoga, and singles No. 2 is ghost. Serving as the singles number one is me, as for Suzuki this time as a substitute.” Mifune Zongzheng announced the roster for this competition.
“Although the list of matches is like this, the county competition is still able to advance as long as you win the first three games. Therefore, it is not certain whether I have the chance to play as the ghost of singles number two and the number one of singles.” Mifune Zongzheng looked at Tanegashima. Waiting for someone to say with a smile.
And Mifune Zongzheng is also true. After all, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Rikkai’s strength can completely crush other schools.
“It’s so decided, today’s training is over, everyone, go back and prepare for tomorrow’s county competition, disband!”
Mifune Zongzheng said that tomorrow is the county competition. Today, he does not want Tanegashima to wait for the candidates to train. The most important thing is to deal with tomorrow’s game with the best attitude.
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Early the next morning, the scene of the competition in Kanagawa Prefecture.
At the gate of the stadium, all the people from Rikkai gathered here. Not only the players who came today, but the other players from the tennis club also came here. They came to watch the game and cheer for their own election.
Rikkai Tennis Club has always been known for its rigor, and naturally there will be no such thing as being late for the selected players.
When all the players were selected, Mifune Zongzheng handed over the roster to the staff, and then led all the players into the competition venue.
The level of the county competition is naturally different from the regional qualifiers. The schools participating in the county competition are the first and second places in each region, but even so, in the eyes of Rikkai, there is nothing to care about.
Rikkai has been the overlord of the Kanagawa area for a long time. There is no school in the entire Kanagawa area to match. It can be said that the results of today’s prefectural competition are very clear.
“Look, it’s Rikkai’s big player!”
“It’s worthy of being a school known as the overlord of Kanto. Their players are really strong.”
“I heard that Rikkai’s strength has become even stronger this year!”
Mifune Zongzheng and the others along the way, the surrounding discussion has not stopped, they are all talking about Rikkai, after all, Rikkai is the overlord of Kanagawa, for them, it is a superior existence.
However, Mifune Zongzheng and the others didn’t care. No matter what they were talking about, their task today was to win the game. Moreover, they had seen this kind of scene many times and were used to it.
Inoue from the Professional Tennis Monthly is here today. He is very interested in Rikkai now. He heard that this year the head of the Rikkai Grand Tennis Department is a first-year freshman, and the new head of the first-year score is 6-0. The score crushed the former minister, the nation’s No. 2 Tanegashima Shuji, which made Inoue more interested in Rikkai.
When Inoue saw that Rikkai was big, he thought of his favorite school, Tokyo’s youth Gakuen, and now Seigaku is really worse than a year.
Seigaku once played a professional player like Echizen Nanjiro, and was also a famous tennis school in Tokyo, but it has been getting worse and worse over the years. He has been lingering in the conference, and even the Kanto tournament can’t even enter.
Inoue thought that Seigaku’s first-year players are still picking up the ball, while Rikkai’s freshman freshman can already become a minister. The gap is too big.
“Oh!” Inoue couldn’t help sighing. The youth Gakuen, the famous tennis school of the year, is now sunset, and it seems that he can’t get up again.
The prefectural competition started soon. Rikkai’s first game was against Taihe Middle-School. Taihe Middle-School did not have any great players. The entire Kanagawa great players were all grown up in Rikkai.
After all, the title of Rikkai’s great Kanto overlord and the purpose of the supremacy of strength have attracted many powerful players from Kanagawa to join, which can understand why the entire Kanagawa powerful players are in Rikkai.
The first game was doubles No. 2. The players sent by Rikkai were Mitsuya Akuto and Tanegashima Shuji. It can be said that Rikkai has only a fixed pair of doubles from the Mutsu brothers, and the other pair of doubles can only combine two. Singles players put together to form doubles.
In fact, this is very unfavorable. Doubles are not like singles. Doubles are more important for cooperation and tacit understanding. They may be able to defeat ordinary players by virtue of their respective strengths, but if they encounter a strong combination of doubles, for example, they have mastered the same doubles. Combination, then even the strength of the individual will be defeated even if it is strong.
Mifune Zongzheng also knows that Rikkai’s current defect is doubles, but Mifune Zongzheng has no good solution.
But fortunately, Rikkai singles are very strong now. Let two strong singles form doubles. As long as they don’t encounter the top doubles combination, winning the game is not a problem.
“Akuto, Tanegashima, don’t lose.” Mifune Zongzheng looked at the two Tanegashima Shuji and laughed.
“Zongzheng, don’t worry, we won’t lose,” Tanegashima Shuji also replied somewhat speechlessly.
“Then it depends on your performance.” Mifune Zongzheng smiled faintly, but he was very relieved of Mitsuya Akuto and Tanegashima Shuji.
After all, Mitsuya Akuto and Tanegashima Shuji are both national-level masters, and Tanegashima Shuji still exists at the national level. Even if they don’t know doubles, their personal strength can make up for this deficiency.
What’s more, the school opposite is only a third-rate school.
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