Chapter 34

"Kikumaru, well played!"

"Thank you, Senior!"

The first doubles match ends, and Kikumaru high-fives his partner to celebrate.

But what exceeds Jiecheng Wu's expectations is that Kikumaru Eiji's partner is not Oishi Shuichiro, but another third-year player he has no impression of.

"This..."

Jiecheng Wu frowns and leans forward.

"Please have the Doubles No. 1 players from both sides come forward!"

"Qingxue, Dazhong Yongtai, Oishi Shuichiro group.

Da Wusuo, Qianye Tailang, Wudao Xinyan group."

Jiecheng Wu's gaze fluctuates.

Sure enough, Oishi is also playing doubles with a third-year regular.

"Could it be that the Golden Pair hasn't formed a team yet?" Jiecheng Wu guesses.

He casts his gaze toward the Qingxue players' bench, and familiar faces immediately come into view.

Tezuka Kunimitsu, Bu Er Zhou Zhu, Gan Zhen Zhi, and Kikumaru Eiji who just finished the match.

They are all wearing the blue and white team uniforms of Qingxue regulars and are watching the match from the sidelines.

No, where is Kawamura Takashi?

Jiecheng Wu is suddenly surprised in his heart; if he remembers correctly, that Kawamura Takashi who decides the winner with power should be in the same grade as Tezuka.

Is he not a Qingxue regular yet?

"Oishi, come on!"

"Oishi Senior, come on!"

At this time, cheers come from the audience, and Jiecheng Wu looks in the direction of the sound.

Kawamura Takashi with brownish-yellow hair is holding the team flag to cheer for Oishi, and there are two other people beside him.

One is wrapped in a green striped headband, with a gloomy expression and sharp eyes; while the other is just the opposite, with hair standing up like a hedgehog, full of vitality and sunshine.

"Kaidoh Kaoru and Momoshiro Takeshi."

Looking at these two slightly immature faces, Jiecheng Wu still recognizes them based on their characteristics.

These three are together...

It seems that Kawamura Takashi indeed hasn't become a regular.

Just when Jiecheng Wu is surprised by Qingxue's current lineup.

Budongfeng on the other side is winning one after another.

Bang!

"Game, Shenwei Ming, score 6-0!"

Bang!

"Game, Yiwu Shen Si, score 6-0!"

"Budongfeng wins, total score 5:0!"

As the referee's voice falls, the first round of the match comes to an end.

Budongfeng wins easily, and every match ends with a score of 6-0.

Yiwu Shen Si leads the team to the next match venue, while the Jinsongchuan Middle School players look at their departing figures, all shocked and unable to speak.

In the first round, Qingxue won the match as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

Jiecheng Wu has been following behind Qingxue, observing silently.

The Qingxue in front of him is very different from his impression.

First point, the Golden Pair has not yet formed, and Qingxue's current fixed doubles combination is Oishi and the third-year Dazhong Yongtai.

And the other doubles pair is decided randomly by Coach Ryuzaki according to the match situation, temporarily combined by Kikumaru, Bu Er, or Gan Zhen Zhi with a third-year regular.

Second point, Tezuka Kunimitsu has not yet become the captain; he is currently just the vice-captain of Qingxue.

As for the current captain, it is held by a third-year regular named Qing Tian Bang Nan.

And Qingxue's lineup for the match is as follows.

Tezuka Kunimitsu serves as Singles No. 1, Captain Qing Tian Bang Nan serves as Singles No. 2, and Oishi and Dazhong Yongtai serve as Doubles No. 1.

As for other positions, they are played by corresponding personnel arranged according to the opponent school.

After understanding everything, Jiecheng Wu looks at the purple-red figure in the Qingxue players' bench with a complicated gaze.

"No wonder with trump cards like Tezuka, Bu Er, and the Golden Pair, Qingxue still always fails to make it to the National Competition..."

Seeing a spot can reveal the whole picture; based on what he sees before him, combined with the memories of his past life, Jiecheng Wu finally understands the level of this Coach Ryuzaki.

And her image in Jiecheng Wu's heart also becomes complete.

If he were to evaluate her, he thinks Ryuzaki is a good person.

However, her ability is seriously insufficient, which has had a great impact on the development of Qingxue.

First of all, Coach Ryuzaki must be a good person, otherwise Tezuka, Bu Er, and the others could not respect her from the bottom of their hearts.

Echizen Nanjiro would also not be so reassured to let Echizen Ryoma go to Qingxue.

This is completely different from Coach Yokoyama of Budongfeng and cannot be mentioned in the same breath.

But why say Ryuzaki's ability is insufficient?

Jiecheng Wu naturally has his own reasons.

The point that Ryuzaki's ability is insufficient can be seen from many aspects.

The most obvious one is the series of decisions she made regarding Qingxue's doubles.

Just like now, letting Oishi and the third-year Dazhong Yongtai form a doubles pair, in Coach Ryuzaki's view, this might be a very good arrangement.

She takes it for granted that experienced seniors can drive newcomers to make rapid progress; this kind of combination is conducive to Oishi's development.

But this seems kind, but is actually extremely stupid.

Jiecheng Wu simply cannot understand this behavior.

What doubles combinations need most is tacit understanding, and tacit understanding must be cultivated by the two people spending time.

Even if Oishi and Dazhong Yongtai successfully cultivated tacit understanding this year, Dazhong Yongtai will graduate next year, and this doubles pair that was cultivated with such difficulty will be gone.

And if they want to cultivate a new doubles partner, it will take more time to grind and fit.

If Budongfeng didn't have no other choices, Jiecheng Wu would not let Yingjing Ya and Heping Minchun form a doubles pair.

Because of this decision, the time for the Golden Pair of Oishi and Kikumaru to form a team is later than the doubles pairs of other schools.

This is what led to the third-year Kikumaru still having low-level problems like mental imbalance in the match.

And after the Golden Pair was established, Ryuzaki started to feel that there were no suitable talents for doubles in the Qingxue team.

But in reality.

Gan Zhen Zhi was famous for doubles when he was in elementary school, and his doubles cooperation with Kaidoh was quite harmonious.

Kaidoh has super endurance and can drag out the match, while Gan Zhen Zhi's Data Tennis needs enough time to collect data.

The characteristics of the two of them are a perfect match.

The temporary doubles of Momoshiro Takeshi and Kikumaru also had excellent performances.

Relying only on Oishi's guidance, they defeated the combination of Bing Di's Ren Zu You Shi and Xiang Ri Yue Ren in their first cooperation, which was surprising.

And the combination of Momoshiro Takeshi and Kaidoh Kaoru even defeated the comedy combination of Shitenhoji in the National Competition.

You must know that the doubles strength of this group is not at an ordinary level.

It can be said that besides the Golden Pair, Gan Zhen Zhi, Momoshiro Takeshi, and Kaidoh Kaoru all have very high doubles potential in Qingxue.

Guarding such a bunch of talents, Coach Ryuzaki cannot see a single one, which shows her poor ability to recognize people.

And later, Qingxue's doubles indeed appeared to have big loopholes.

To make up for the lack of doubles, Ryuzaki repeatedly mobilized Bu Er to form doubles.

Bu Er's record in his third year, his singles winning percentage was as high as 85%, but his doubles winning percentage was only 44%.

So the final result was that not only did the doubles strength not go up, but the singles also lost Bu Er as a main force.

Clearing these up, Jiecheng Wu finally understood why Qingxue had to wait until Echizen came before they could charge all the way to the National Champion.

This is not just because of the addition of Echizen Ryoma, more importantly, Tezuka became the captain this year.

Ryuzaki would discuss many things in the Tennis Club with him before giving orders.

Instead of being like now, where the captain Qing Tian Bang Nan has no opinion and listens to all of Ryuzaki's instructions, leading to a chaotic team lineup.

(End of this chapter)