001. A Prince Appears

001. A Prince Appears

In the train, 12-yrs-old Sakuno Riyuzaki, is almost being hitted by a swaying tennis racket as its holder, the 16-yrs-old Sasabe, tries to brag to his friends about the correct gripping styles. He is then corrected by a boy of Sakuno's age who is sitting in front of them and told him the difference of an Eastern grip from a Western grip. While Sakuno was waiting on the train station for her grandmother(they are going to see a tennis match), the same boy approaches her for directions to the tennis club tournament and mistakenly gave him the wrong directions.
As Sakuno arrives to the tennis club, she quickly looks for the boy and found him sleeping on the grasses with a cap covering his face. She apologizes but the boy's match was already forfeited because he was 5min late. She asks him for a drink but it turns out that she did not carry any coins with her. So the boy treats her a can Ponta instead. They also met Sasabe again who then challenges the boy for a tennis match. But Ryoma seems to outplay him. Ryuzaki's grandmother then introduces him as Ryoma Echizen, a 12-year-old tennis genius who won four consecutive titles in the American Junior Tennis Tournament. But Sasabe was pissed off since he cannot accept that only a boy can beat him, he throws his racket to Ryoma and it hits its head.Sakuno tries to interfere in the game upon seeing Ryoma's bleeding head but he refuses. They continue the game as Ryoma tries to reveal that he's really left handed making Sasabe to run away.

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