Love Tennis and Yumiko Miura

And she herself didn't realize how soft the ball was. She stayed where she was, thinking it was an ace, so she didn't move. As a result, Yuigahama successfully hit back.

"It's okay, Yumiko, it's just a serve." Ye Shan turned around and comforted Yumiko. Although he realized that something was wrong with the girl, he was not sure, so he could only encourage her verbally.

But the next serve was a double fault.

The scene suddenly became very quiet, and the audience who had been cheering for Yumiko also shut up because of this double fault.

11. Mixed Doubles (IV)

Yumiko looked at the tennis ball rolling near the net in disbelief, unable to believe that she had actually double faulted - even when facing Yuigahama.

"It's about time you realized that you are no match for Zhixian." A voice in the girl's heart seemed to say this to her.

"You haven't played tennis seriously for a year, and the guy opposite you has never stopped training since his first year. You can't be his opponent." The voice further dissuaded Yumiko.

"Yeah... There's no way I can defeat Zhixian..." Yumiko muttered to herself as if she was being guided, pessimistic thoughts filling her mind.

Since I can't win, forget it.

With this thought in mind, Yumiko swung her racket and served the ball very casually.

Then score.

At this time, Yukinoshita also returned with a first aid kit. It was because she was not in Hikigaya that they decided to ask Chixian for help. After all, apart from Yukinoshita, the "Ice Queen", no one present could deal with Miura Yumiko, the "Fire Queen".

After Yuigahama and Yukinoshita talked, Yuigahama decided to replace the former. Hayama did not object to this move. Yuigahama did not know how to play tennis, and receiving the serve was just a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

"Ms. Yukinoshita? Who is that? Sorry, I won't let you off. You are a grown-up lady, right? If you don't want to get hurt, I advise you to give up." Yumiko challenged him angrily.

Perhaps it was simply a way of venting his frustration. After all, even if the opponent was an elementary school student, he would definitely win. Although it wasn't very entertaining from a doubles perspective, it was the most reliable way to win based on the outcome.

"Don't worry, I'll be gentle. I'll crush your worthless pride." A smile appeared on Yukinoshita's face. "You actually bullied my friends...my members. Are you prepared? Just in case, don't look at me like I hold grudges."

In fact, it was purely because of Yuhihama Taina, and Yumiko had already paid close attention to it.

The game is still on Yumiko's serve.

She saw Yukinoshita as if she had seen her natural enemy.

"I don't know if Miss Yukinoshita knows, but I'm a real good tennis player." Yumiko repeated, bouncing the ball off the ground. She had restrained herself earlier because of her friend Yuigahama, but now that it was Yukinoshita, she didn't need to worry. "I'm really sorry if I left a scar on your face."

As a result, her serve was easily returned by Yukinoshita and she scored.

"I don't think you'd know this, but I'm also pretty good at tennis."

According to normal thinking, it is probably the combination of Yukinoshita and Chixian that will win. After all, Chixian and Yuigahama can take the initiative.

But, this is a doubles match.

Yumiko's serve is currently at 40:0. As long as Yukinoshita and Chizuru get one more point, they can successfully break the serve and win the game.

However, the two have not exchanged a single word since Yukinoshita came on stage.

Several balls were missed due to various problems.

The overall score is 4:3.

Then it was Yukinoshita's serve game.

4: 4.

"......" Zhixian said nothing, his face expressionless, no one could see through his thoughts at this moment.

Yukinoshita frowned, and she spoke to Zhixian with a questioning tone: "Tachibana-san, are you really the third place winner of the national competition? Or is it that you've played so many singles matches that your poor brain capacity can't accommodate the common sense of doubles?"

"Yukinoshita-san..." Totsuka wanted to stop him, but Yukinoshita just gave him a look and he had to shut up.

"Yukinoshita, you've never played doubles, have you?" Zhixian said calmly. "Although my brain capacity isn't as good as yours, I was once a national top eight doubles player. Do you think you know more about tennis than me?"

There was some tension between the two.

"Maybe you're a hundred times better than me in other areas, but you're still far behind me in tennis."

Still a long way to go.

Yukinoshita was silent.

She'd always been able to do things easily, so she'd never persevered in anything. The person who taught her tennis was beaten after just three days. Most sports, and not just sports, but music as well, can be mastered in about three days.

"And this amount of energy won't last the whole game." However, after only two games, Yukinoshita's breathing began to show signs of problems.

Yukinoshita can do everything, but she has never persisted in anything or continued doing anything, and she suffers from a fatal lack of physical strength.

Moreover, Yukinoshita only mastered the technique of tennis, but did not have enough actual combat experience. Perhaps in terms of technique alone, she was not inferior to Yumiko, but in terms of actual combat experience, the latter was overwhelmingly stronger.

Experience can do many things that technology alone cannot do.

Next is Ye Shan's serve and Zhi Xian's serve.

According to Zhixian's original plan, the score would be fixed at 6:4.

But now he has changed his mind.

12. Mixed Doubles (End)

Hayato Hayama felt something was wrong.

He had been easily broken in the previous two service games, but the third seemed to come easier. The feeling of being led around by the nose was gone, like a prisoner whose handcuffs and shackles had been removed.

What is even more incredible is that the obviously stronger Yukinoshita Yukino who came on the opposite side seemed to make the originally clear situation take a sharp turn for the worse.

Ye Shan knows the ultimate of brilliance.

He knew very well that although it was his serve, the national third place winner on the other side, who was extremely calm, easily used this ability to calculate the path of his ball and then chose the simplest and most direct way to end it.

And the most terrifying thing is that the opponent still has a lot of strength left - this is natural. Although Ye Shan is omnipotent, he is still an amateur after all.

However, when Yukinoshita came on the court, the situation unexpectedly turned to Yeshan's side, which puzzled him.

Ye Shan successfully held his serve.

Zhixian then successfully held his serve, still hitting four clean aces, and Ye Shan had no power to fight back.

The score is 5:5.

It was Yumiko's serve game again.

Yumiko was also confused. She could have won 6:4, right? Why was the score now 5:5? She had bravely provoked Yukinoshita, but that was merely a personal grudge. On the contrary, she didn't believe she could ultimately win; she was already certain of defeat.

Could it be...

Yumiko's serve begins.

The girl raised her hand to serve the ball and headed straight for Yukinoshita.

Yukinoshita hit back, and Hayama blocked it at the net.

The ball came in front of Zhixian.

He gently raised his racket and flicked the tennis ball towards Yumiko. After completing the stroke, he began to move from the net to the backcourt.

Seeing Yumiko swinging her racket, Yukinoshita was also on high alert, ready to fight back.

The ball was indeed moving towards Yukinoshita, but halfway along the way it bent towards Zhixian in a strange arc.

The tennis ball appeared in the boy's forehand position, and all he had to do was swing the racket.

The ball bounced towards Yumiko again.

Like a moving wheel, the tennis ball kept flying back and forth between Zhixian and Yumiko until Yumiko made a mistake in returning the ball.

"What do you mean?" Yukinoshita asked in a questioning tone.

"You don't know how to play doubles, so I decided to solve it with singles."

"..." Yukinoshita was very unhappy after hearing this. In the following game, she tried to hit the ball. However, once the ball hit Zhixian's racket, it would return like a precise boomerang.

The score was 6:5, and then it was Yukinoshita's serve game.

Yukinoshita used a jump serve and successfully held her serve.

6:6 flat.

Just as Yumiko and Yukinoshita were preparing for a tiebreak, the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch break - meaning the match would end in a draw.

Yukinoshita was very upset, thinking that even she could beat Miura. Yumiko on the other side also had the same idea, so both of them were very depressed that they couldn't go to the tiebreak.

Yukinoshita was very dissatisfied with Chixian, but Chixian ignored Yukinoshita and returned the racket to Totsuka, leaving a sentence "Tennis is not as easy as you think" and left. It is not clear whether this sentence was meant for Totsuka or Yukinoshita.

In short, this farce came to an end.

----split line----

After school in the afternoon, Hikigaya followed Chigen.

"What's up?"

"My lunch break ended in such a hurry that I didn't have time to thank you. Please accept this." Hikigaya handed over a bottle of oolong tea.

Zhixian raised an eyebrow and did not refuse.

"You know I like to drink this."

"Totsuka said so."

"so."

Zhixian nodded and was about to leave.

"You deliberately didn't win the lunch break match, didn't you?" Hikigaya said, looking at his opponent's back. "At 5:5, you clearly intentionally hit a few extra shots to force Miura into an unforced error."

Unforced Error, also known as active error, refers to a player's own active error in a tennis match that causes the ball to go into the net or out of bounds, and has nothing to do with the opponent.

"You've made a very careful observation." Zhixian turned around. "That's called a domain. I don't move my body, and the ball will be attracted to me, just like a magnet." (Actually, it's Tezuka's domain, but in Prince of Tennis, Tezuka is not the only one who can use it, so here it's just called a domain.)

"Why did you treat Yukinoshita like that?" Hikigaya asked, "Or should I put it another way, why did you treat Miura like that?"

"What happens between her and me is none of your business. Isn't my job to deal with them? And after this match, I'm sure more people will become interested in tennis."

Is that why he chose such an extreme yet technically impressive style of play? Hikigaya frowned, but this did solve Totsuka's request.

"But Yukinoshita..." She still wanted to defend her minister.

"It's okay. She and I are from different worlds, so it's understandable that we have different philosophies."

Zhixian raised his hand, waved, and left.

"I'm just a guy who can play tennis." The boy muttered to himself, and only the wind blowing on his face heard his whisper.

13. Order of appearance

Nozaki House.

"Wow, I really enjoyed an amazing game that day!" Chiyo exclaimed. Even as a member of the art club, she fully appreciated the charm of tennis.

"After all, we're third place in the national competition, Yoshi, so let's draw a tennis match!" Nozaki seems to be able to draw inspiration from any conversation. Is this perhaps why his comics are so well-received? After all, the plot is realistic enough, and the characters are even more vivid after referencing real friends.

For example, the somewhat tsundere Mikoshiba... No, it's the heroine Mamiko!

"You want to draw a tennis match?" Zhixian became interested when he heard this.

"I think it will be fun." Nozaki said, "Tachibana, do you have a tennis skirt? Lend it to me for reference." The tall boy looked serious.

"......" Zhixian was speechless, wondering if this guy was too immersed in the role. Could it be that the person standing here in his eyes was the senior sister in the comics?

"How could Tachibana-san have a tennis skirt for girls? Nozaki-kun, what a fool!" It was Chiyo who complained first. After all, the man she had a crush on always had some weird ideas.

For example, getting a bicycle just to experience what it feels like for a boy to carry a girl on a bicycle.

Maybe girls will feel romantic and happy, after all, it is the boy they like. But what if the boy you like pushes a tandem bicycle?

Well, that's great! This way I won't break the traffic law.

——Hey! Why are there bicycles here that are only found at tourist attractions? This is at the school gate!

At that moment, all the strings in Chiyo's brain were snapping.

Yet she still got on the bike and shared her thoughts. It's truly remarkable how powerful love is.

"...I have a good tennis equipment store I recommend. You can buy one and refer to it." After a moment of silence, Zhixian finally solved the problem. "You can use my rackets and other things."

"As expected of Tachibana," Nozaki praised. "Then I'll leave the action direction to you."

"Just find a street tennis court." Zhixian said indifferently.

"Eh? But isn't Tachibana-san practicing in the club?" Chiyo asked.