Net King Returns to the First Generation

Maori called the next day and arranged the game time after the training on Tuesday afternoon. It is best to have dinner before resting and recovering.The location was set at the tennis court in the Hyotei High School.

"I'll wait for you at the gate of the middle school. The end time of the department is still the same as before, right?" he said.

"Senior, you skipped training again." King Ren teased.

The schoolwork in high school is already more intense than that in junior high school, not to mention that the teenagers selected for the U17 training camp have half a foot into the professional circle, and the amount of training is not comparable to that of junior high school students.Mori can say "wait at the entrance of the junior high school", and it can be inferred that even if he enters high school, this senior's training attitude has not changed at all.

"Haha, King Ni, sometimes the truth doesn't need to be told." Mao Li's chuckling voice came over the phone, "What's more, the current high school tennis club of Lihai University..."

King Ren could understand what he said.

Morikawa-senpai and Aso-senpai no longer studied tennis after they entered high school, but chose to concentrate on their studies.Now those so-called OB members of the high school tennis club can even win Kirihara in one-on-one.Under such circumstances, Maori is of course training by himself instead of practicing with the team.

In the invitation issued by U17 at the beginning of the year, only Maori was selected from Lihai University and High School.

Of course, the situation with the Ice Emperor is similar.

It’s just that after the Atobe family took over the board of directors of Hyotei Academy, both the middle school and high school facilities have been replaced, and Hyotei has paid much more attention to tennis.In this regard, Li Haida is incomparable.

After hanging up the phone, King Ni turned to talk to Yagyu about it.

"I made an appointment with Maori seniors to play a practice match, doubles, after the training on Tuesday afternoon, in Tokyo." He said.

Yagyu pushed his glasses and asked in confusion, "Tokyo?"

"Well, Mori-senpai's current partner is the head of the High School Department of Hyotei Academy in Tokyo." Nioh said.

"...Wait, isn't Mori-senpai still in the high school of Tachikai University? What do you mean 'the current partner is the head of the Hiotei Gakuen high school in Tokyo'?" Yagyu didn't make a detour.

Nioh looked at the sky and was really not very patient to explain what U17 is. He said: "In short, there is a selection training for high school students that gathers all potential players together, and the final selected players are called U17 players. In the U17 training camp Rimori-senpai and the current Head of Ice Emperor High School are doubles partners."

"U17..." Liu Sheng was stunned, "The kind that will represent the country in international competitions?"

"Yes." King Ni nodded, "How is it? Are you going?"

"...You've made all the arrangements, so why should I still be afraid." Liu Sheng said, "Of course, it's just a practice match."

Yes, it was just a practice match.

After the training ended on Tuesday, Nioh took Yagyu to find Mori who escaped early and ran to the tennis court.I haven't seen him for more than half a year, and Mao Li has grown taller again, and he looks relieved to see King Ren: "Yo, I haven't seen King Ren for a long time."

"Senior has grown taller again?" King Ren looked gloomy, "Could it be that the growth plate of senior has not closed yet?"

"Haha, little Nioh, don't worry, you will grow taller too." Mori came over and grabbed Nioh's pigtails, "I heard that Yukimura is going to be discharged from the hospital?"

"Yes, this Friday, just in time for the final of the Kanto Competition." Nioh nodded.

"It's good." Maori smiled, "When he was sick, neither me nor Morikawa-senpai could help. It's fine."

"Senior, don't you often visit Yukimura?" Nioh pulled back his braid, "It is impossible for Yukimura to be knocked down by illness."

"That's right." Molly sighed.

At eight o'clock in the evening, at the indoor tennis court of Bingdi High School, the game officially started.

U17 will send out invitations in advance in the opening season of each year, conduct simple adaptive training on weekends, and then start closed training in summer vacation.Selection is done every week.The rotation of the first army and the second army has never stopped.

Lihai University and Ice Emperor have always been gay schools.

Mori, who fought alone in the U17 training camp, and Ochi Moonlight, who couldn't help but think of the scene of fighting alone when he saw Mori who was fighting alone, after both entered the U17 first army, they quickly drew closer and further promoted their ranks. They approached and played doubles, which was more or less due to the friendly relationship between Li Haida and Bingdi.

Ochi Moonlight is proficient in mental strength, and does not have much advantage in physical fitness.Maori is just the opposite.

The doubles combination of the two is unexpectedly complementary, and the coordinated training also has a positive impact on the growth of strength.

As a result, the seemingly inconsistent combination quickly became a stable combination.

In the eyes of Ochi Moonlight, Mori is a junior who is a little lazy on the surface, but has high demands on himself and has been working hard. The standard style of Rikkai.

Because of this, he was quite surprised when he received a call from Maori.

For the juniors of the tennis club... I can't tell that Mori is also a senior who loves juniors.

Thinking of this, Ochi Moonlight looked at the two teenagers on the opposite side of the net from a bird's-eye view—the so-called strongest doubles of Lihai University this year, really, I was looking forward to it.

Seeing Ochi Moonlight again, Nioh was still amazed at this boy's height which is different from ordinary people.

He still has the same point of view: Why don't you play basketball when you grow to more than two meters? !

But he also has to admit that the advantage of height is also obvious on the tennis court: ignoring external factors such as wind speed and light, and purely making a court model, you can know how much the height difference affects the ball speed, hitting point, and even spin.

"Xiao Nioh, I haven't played for more than half a year. If I don't improve, I will be very disappointed, senior." Mao Li said to Nioh with a smile in the front court.

"Pfft." King Ren hooked the corner of his mouth without a smile.He adjusted the weight-bearing wristband in his hand, held the racket with his left hand, and lowered his body.

After training, there is a kind of soreness and fatigue in the body. It is not easy to compete at this point in time.

The reason why Nioh would facilitate such a practice match was that he and Yagyu had never met an opponent whose strength on paper surpassed his own by a lot.

Some things have to be forced out.

If it cannot be achieved by gentle means, then...

"One round decides the outcome, you guys serve." Ochi said lightly.

His eyes were hidden behind his long and thick bangs, but Yagyu, who was standing in the backcourt holding a tennis ball, clearly felt an indescribable pressure at that moment.

Sweat broke out on his forehead in an instant.

Gritting his teeth, Yagyu took two deep breaths to adjust his state, and started the practice match with a standard high-speed serve.

"It's too slow, Xiao Liusheng." Maori intercepted the serve casually. He raised his eyebrows and turned his wrist, adding a strong backspin to the tennis ball. It crossed a high arc and headed towards the bottom line of the backcourt. go.

Yagyu rushed to the hitting point in two steps, and the strong spin restricted his return route. In order not to go out of bounds, he had to forcibly press down on the racket.

Lob.

Ochi's jump in the backcourt is a smash.

thump.

Yagyu couldn't see the path of the ball clearly, and Yagyu didn't react until he heard the sound of the smash due to the height difference and spin bonus.

He turned his head in surprise, the yellow tennis ball slowly rolled across the ground and stopped.

"Pfft, have you bypassed me?" King Ren turned his head to the side and said in a complaining tone.

"Pick persimmons softly, this is an eternal truth." Mao Li smiled.

Think of me as a soft persimmon...

Liu Sheng pushed his glasses a little annoyed.He spun his racket, calmed down and served the second serve.

This time, Ochi, who directly caught the serve, hit Nioh's feet with a backhand whip.

Nioh, who is more adaptable to the backcourt than the frontcourt, obviously adapted well to this kind of ball that is specially designed to deal with frontcourt volley players. He took a step back, and when the racket touched the tennis ball, he spun his wrist, and Marui's iron pillar fell.

It's just that this move is easy to hit back in Maori's eyes.

He forcibly changed the rotation again, and the tennis ball once again bypassed Nioh and headed for the bottom line of the backcourt.

"...Senior, you are going after Liu Sheng, right?" King Ren said helplessly.He has always thought that Mao Li's joints are very magical, can they be screwed back at such an angle... After entering high school, Mao Li's seniors have improved even more than he thought.

Sure enough, in the match between him and Atobe in the previous life, the seniors did not show their full strength.

"It's just the first game, it's a good thing for you to get Xiao Liusheng into the state earlier, isn't it?" Mao Li said.He didn't know that King Ren was calculating his strength comparison in the past half a year, so he simply commented from the perspective of a senior who hadn't seen him for a long time: "However, it seems that King Ren and Little Liusheng haven't improved much."

"Really?" King Ren asked back, ignoring such deliberately provocative words.

The height advantage of Mori and Ochi is reflected in the game, which is the natural increase in the speed and strength of each ball.

Moreover, height represents physical advantage, and physical advantage brings strength advantage.

When Liu Sheng's offensive advantage could not be realized, and he was stretched by the opponent's advantage...

Nioh really only regarded the first round as a warm-up, and he really didn’t take Maori’s “no progress” to heart: the training consumed most of his energy, and out of the original intention of self-protection, Nioh did not intend to use it in this game. Too many tricks that require a lot of consumption: such as different dimensions.So it didn't take long for Moori and Ochi to break the serve smoothly.

"1-0"

"You can't do this, Little King Ni, have you regressed?" Maori joked, raising his racket on his shoulder.

"This is only the first game, senior." Nioh responded, "Now it's your turn to serve."

He glanced back at Liu Sheng, not surprised to find that the competitive gentleman in his bones had completely burned up.

The opening of the second game started with Ochi Moonlight's Mach serve.

The tennis ball, which cannot see the shadow of the ball, hits the corner of the center line, accurately and quickly.

Nioh glanced out of the corner of his eye, and mentally calculated the difference between Mach's serve at this time and Mach's serve in the game deep in his memory. There is no doubt about U17's training for players. At this time, Mach's serve has not yet reached the level where even the traces cannot be caught.With his unique vision advantage, it is still possible to catch such a ball.

But... there is no need to expend extra physical strength just to catch this kind of serve.

"Don't pick up? Just give up?" Maori asked.

King Ni looked back at Liu Sheng, shrugged and did not answer.

"If you give up all of them, then this game will end too soon." Maori said.

"Senior, you are very wordy. When the serve is exchanged... I can still hit your serve, senior." King Ni responded.

"It's so cute." Maori complained.

Soon, the score became "2-0".

The third game was Nioh's serve.

He rubbed the tennis ball and chose the zero style without much hesitation.

Ochi was somewhat shocked by such a super spin so that the tennis ball landed without bouncing. He glanced at Nioh before turning his head to Mouri and said, "That's interesting, your junior."

"Yes, he has something more interesting." Maori laughed.

Similar to the zero serve and Tannhauser serve, which use strong rotation to make the tennis ball land quickly after passing the net, and slide against the ground instead of bouncing, it is necessary to quickly judge the path of the ball and return it before it hits the ground. The impact of rotation needs to be estimated in advance to avoid being out of the game.

Mori and Ochi obviously felt that it was too exhausting to forcefully catch such a serve.

They looked at each other, and tacitly decided to play the game by exchanging serves - after all, after training, even high school students have exhausted their physical strength.This practice match cannot be turned into a tug of war.

Nioh won the round with a zero serve.

In the fourth game, it was Maori's turn to serve.

That is what Nioh said, "can hit back" serve.

After working together for more than a year, Nioh made it easy for Nioh to predict Mori's ball path.He catches the tennis ball with his forehand, and the racket stays in place.This strength... Frowning, Nioh raised his right hand, clasped the racket with both hands, and took advantage of the momentum to return the ball into a classic JackKnife.

"Senior, you have trained your muscles well in the past half a year."

"Really, thank you for the compliment. But you, King Ren, your strength is still not as good as before." Mao Li laughed.

The tennis ball returned by Nioh with the JackKnife was intercepted by Ochi in front of the net, and Yagyu quickly went up to meet it.

A few back and forth volleys were exchanged, with increasing speed.

A few balls later, Ochi changed the course of the tennis ball with a subtle flick of his wrist when catching the ball.

Yagyu retreated to the middle net area in time, and this angle was the most convenient for him to practice the laser beam.So Yagyu clenched his racket and was about to use the laser beam, but at that moment, he met Ochi's eyes from under his bangs.

……this is? !

wait... wait... I...

There was a non-negligible pause in Yagyu's swing, and the ball naturally lost control and went out of bounds.

Seeing this scene, King Ren immediately understood.

Ochi Moonlight's mental attack, in his previous life, made the young master with excellent mental power in Atobe depressed for two whole rounds...

This time, Liu Sheng...

He exhaled and smiled: "It's too bad."

"Oh? Feel it?" Ochi asked.

"Psychic attack." King Ni blinked, "Hey, Yagyu, are you alright?"

"Your Majesty, please be careful." Liu Sheng endured the psychological fear and pushed his glasses, using this movement to adjust the unnaturally tightened muscles all over his body: "I haven't reached the point of saying 'no'."

"Really." Niwang shrugged noncommittally.

Whether it works or not depends on the next game.

It's just that the timing of the mental attack is faster than he thought... Is it because there is only one practice match?Then, it's time for me to use a little more.

It has nothing to do with winning or losing, the purpose of this match, in fact, is to try to force out the synergy between him and Bilushi.

Since it is to force out the coherence, then...

King Ni lowered his body, and the fluctuation of mental power spread from him.

Under Ochi's surprised gaze, a white halo connected him to Yagyu in front of the net.

"Synchronism?" Ochi asked tentatively.

And Mao Li in the backcourt put his hips on his hips and said with a smile: "Well, it's finally used, Tongtun."