God of Tennis

Okuda's racket hits the serve hard. It was pretty quick and sharp, but not special in the professional world. In response, Han Woojin's body flashed like lightning.

Bam!

There is no room for anger. Hanwoojin, who ran in a coldly groomed line, kicked out the bounced ball.

Tidy pohand slices.

The two of them no longer looked at each other. All you see is a ball, a coat, and the body of each other that moves without waste. Okuda heavily retreats back and kicks the ball close to the base line again.

The rally of tennis players who have reached the professional level continues exquisitely. Unless either of them makes a mistake, it is possible to continue until they run out of stamina, as long as they just exchange ordinary strokes with each other for a hand. And to some extent, both.

He hides his loss and hides his battle numbers.

‘... Let's go first. ’

It was the rainy side that broke the flow.

Roughly bends the ball into normal orbit and flies it to the left of Okuda. It was an unacceptable position with a right-handed hand. An official aiming at Okuda, vulnerable to a backhand.

The ball pops up at a rapid rate, although the restraint drops while forcibly changing direction.

And as Hanwoojin predicted, Okuda moved.

Bam!

A missing ball is hammered on Hanwoojin's left side. It was so far away that there was no way to respond.

But the rally just went his way. Han Woo-jin lost his points, but got a little slack in his face.

“30: 0! ”

Sato scored in fluent English for Japanese. Despite Okuda's score, his face didn't look so good.

‘I have to use it already... Who is that player? ’

Hanwoojin had no interest in Sato looking straight through him. His gaze stayed only in Okuda's racket. A racket in your left hand.

Yeah, left hand.

‘Okuda is a switch Stroker, a freelancer for both hands. ’

Right hand, left hand, free material. Moreover, Okuda is a dual handle that is similar in strength to both arms. The balance of the body is also almost completely parallel.

An unusual style of play that immediately shifts posture as soon as you change the hand that holds the racket.

You don't even have to hit the back hand. All you have to do is change the hand that holds the racket, and the whole coat becomes the domain of the hand. The weakness of not being able to hit the back hand loses meaning.

Moreover, the body is inwardly curved in the direction of movement of muscles, joints, and bones. Forhand strokes that bend forward are stronger than the backhand, and can have delicate contours.

That was the weapon that made Okuda Ryosuke special.

However, Han Woo-jin knew that he had not yet revealed the floor. Even with a switch stroker, it's hard to climb the Major Games with just a simple pohand. You need something to overcome it.

Okuda tosses the ball again. This serve had a racket in its left hand.

Switches can also disrupt the speed or direction of the ball. ’

However, I did not train hard enough to get over the tricks. Han Woo-jin looked at the blowing helmet without any confusion.

Okuda's sub hits the service coat at a reasonable speed. They distribute their cultivated power equally among their hands in life. In other words, it meant that there was no clearly strong arm.

Strong hands, weak hands, or just plain.

For some reason, Okuda's serve was not difficult to cope with.

‘Roughly understood. ’

The trajectory and velocity of the serve is like a telephone punch. Hanwoojin heavily twisted the racket to match the protruding sub.

Queek.

A rubber-wrapped grip creaks from his grip.

There are many different ways to play tennis.

A topspin that bounces up and down, a drive that bends to the left and to the right, etc.

If you choose the most powerful method, then Flat is by far the number one.

The flat hitting the ball in a straight line has a speed that you can never get unless you read the trajectory in advance.

Bam!

A missing ball to Okuda's right knocks on his coat without a crack. If you tilt and shoot with a sharp line, it won't leave even if you hit with a flat line.

“30: 15! ”

Hearing the score resonating with a slightly strange English pronunciation, Han Woo-jin was certain of the opponent's weakness.

‘There's a time gap on the switch. I can't afford to get a stroke like rising or smashing. ’

A moment ago, you slapped the racket in your right hand, where you could barely get it. But Okuda couldn't help but chase after him. The moment he switched rackets caught his ankle.

Then the victory was certain. Perhaps Okuda's style will be completed beyond this competition.

Hanwoojin was delighted with the immaturity of his inner enemy and hit the flying sub again with a rising.

“30: 30! ”

Sato Takesh, Okuda's agent, notices things are getting worse.

With just two rallies, the South Korean noticed Okuda's weaknesses. There wasn't even a player who knew Okuda's dictionary information that didn't have a name yet. If you're right about finding the two rallies,

‘It's too dangerous. Okuda is still incomplete. I can't believe I met a guy like that in a competition to improve my skills. ’

Okuda Ryosuke was a hidden card being raised by the Japanese Tennis Association.

Switch Stroker, outstanding sense, young age.

In all respects, he had sufficient grounds to leap as a world-class athlete. Maybe I could start a proper ATP tour in a year.

If Okuda had to keep up the pace with the rising tide and lost at the edge of this tennis, she might not have enough slumps to come back later.

Sato was most worried about that.

Okuda's face gradually begins to grow furious. My calm face is burning and my nose is swollen.

It was proof that my composure was shaking.

‘All right, bring it to the floor. ’

Hanwoojin raises his mouth. Taunting was not a skill, but it can be easily shaken by a young opponent like that. Slightly lowers the racket and shrugs once.

That was enough.

“Dammit…! ”

Okuda muttered like a spit and changed her position. Center the racket in your left hand. Both the right hand and the left hand gripped the grip.

‘... Is it done already?! ’

Han Woojin's face sank because it felt like the family fit together. It was because the position holding Okuda's racket was no exaggeration even if he was sent to the world stage.

A style designed by Okuda Ryosuke, whose dual handles and switch strokers were lacking.

Forehand Double.

If you have perfected it, it is not strange that you have already swept through the fusers. But Okuda hasn't had a special career yet. Hanwoojin decided to bet that his skills were incomplete.

For serve, Okuda releases her left hand for a moment and toasts again. This time it was going to start with the right hand.

Bam!

Immediately after being provoked, I felt empathetic. A slightly wobbly trajectory that restrains faster than expected. Hanwoojin corrected the projected point of the ball and quickly took two steps.

Just before the beating, Han Woo-jin saw Okuda beyond the net. I felt like time was running slow because the focus of the match was high. Okuda steps forward shortly after hitting the serve, returning to grip with both hands.

If you are looking for a similar posture, it is the Eye of the Sword.

Either vertically shifting the racket so that both sides can correspond, this is a Forhand Double, which will be nicknamed Okuda Ryosuke.

‘Let's test it.’

The previous serve was blown with your right hand. Then the back hand is to the left.

Hanwoojin flicked a bounced ball with Okuda's left coat. I had good hands, it was a perfect drive.

Tongue!

The moment the ball returned to take the left sideline, Okuda's entire body leaps to the left. Okuda, whose knees, waist, shoulders, and all joints rotated to the left, immediately turned and struck the protruding ball in the opposite direction.

Bam!

The benefits of stroke with both hands are clear. The speed and strength of the ball are enormous.

Any sport is more energized by rackets with both hands than by rackets with one hand. Have you seen a batsman swing a bat with one hand in baseball?

Of course, it's the right place. Just as no one wields a ping-pong pole with both hands, a tennis that needs proper mix of strength and speed needs to be one-handed and two-handed, depending on the time and situation. Two hands when pushing boldly, two hands when tapping barrels

When I'm in need of a complicated spin, the same goes for a one-hand.

Now Okuda's batting was just a flat with little spin, but the speed was not unusual.

Bam!

“… 30: 40! ”

‘Whew, it's out. ’

After hearing Sato's hard voice, Han Woo-jin sighed of relief. The rally just proved that Okuda's double is still incomplete. Two hands that cannot properly control one point of ignition are worthless.

‘Otherwise he would have walked all the way to the spin and plugged it in. That bizarre turnaround speed gives me goose bumps. ’

The strength of Okuda's style, Forhand Double, is never just the strength of the two-handed stroke. As a two-handed, switch stroker, he was able to reverse left and right without any time difference from holding the grip with both hands.

When the ball flies to the right, your right hand grabs the grip up and your left hand down, and when the ball comes to the left, hold it in reverse.

Powerful style of play where you can hit a ball with your two hands, whichever way they move, just by switching up and down.

That was the face of the future world ranker, Ryosuke Okuda.

Okuda bites her lip as she pulls out something worthy of her spleen. As he tries to toast the ball again, Sato, who is looking at the referee, climbs onto his coat.

“ Wait! ”

“What?”

Hanwoojin relieves his posture with a face of embarrassment. Okuda stares at Sato, even stunned by the sudden agent's intrusion. As soon as Sato got up on his coat, Shin Se-yeon approached him and opened her mouth.

“Is there a problem? ”

“Okuda is in bad shape. This is the end of the game. ”

When Shin Se-yeon glared at me, Okuda shook her head. He signs that he's fine, but Sato reaches out and pinches Okuda's back. A silent scream leaks from his mouth.

“!? ”

“I'm sorry, but let's go back to the competition. ”

“No, wait…"

They left the coat before Shin Se-yeon could say anything. Then Han Woo-jin understood the situation and stretched his racket. Apparently, the opposing agent took a high-profile picture of him.

“I won't see him again before the competition. ”

That agent will probably never face Hanwoojin and Okuda again.

He was not a fool enough to reveal additional information to the player who had exposed himself even before the game was over. Even though he didn't seem to mind.

Shin Se-yeon shook her head as she watched the friendship match that ended in vain. As a woman, it was over before she even got a good look at Han Woojin's abilities.

‘Standard style. Overall, she's highly capable. I don't think it's a problem that you're so short. ’

From Shin Se-yeon's observation, Han Woo-jin was fit to sit on the outskirts of the world ranking. In South Korea, it was within three fingers, but the chairman of NK products was not a person who expected that kind of performance and could come up with a support plan. Perhaps his potential

It must have something more than what you just showed me.

Only Shin Se-yeon looked back at Han Woo-jin, who was just looking back at the previous match, shaking the racket tightly, left a lump on his coat.

The two were immersed in each other's thoughts without moving until he was competing with another club member who came in a few minutes later.

And as expected, Han Woo-jin was not able to meet Okuda Ryosuke until the day of the Games.

* * *

On July 20, Han Woo-jin, who had lived on a thorough schedule, woke up in bed. A splash of sunlight pierces his smudged eyelids.

The sky is clear. Hanwoojin looked out the window and thought he would never have to play indoors. He turns his sleepless eyes and looks at the desk.

The racket, which I worked hard to clean yesterday, waited for the owner's hand to shine a bluish frame.

Hanwoojin reaches out and grabs the racket.

Hanwoojin

Strength 57/HP 60/Agility 50

HP 2400/2400 SP 550/550

Forehand: 9/20

Backhand: 8/20

Sub-Level: 12/20

Bali Level: 7 of 20

Smash Level: 10/20

Dropshot Level: 5 of 20

Robe Level: 4 of 20

Special Skills: Sparrow (Sub),?? (Smash)

SP recovered after 24 hours, rested enough to let Hanwoojin know that his health was full.

Blood runs through the back of his hand holding the racket.

It was time to go fight.

End

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