Chapter 1003 Doubles Practice Match
After a period of training and rehearsal, everyone had basically overcome the first stage of line shame.
Wendy has been eating, drinking and staying in the club every day recently, and people go to him every day to listen to his stories.
"This scene seems a little familiar..." Yanagi Renji looked for Kirihara Aka but couldn't find him, and finally found him at Wendy's place.
"Manager, you learned the ability to tell stories from Mr. Wendy, right?" Niou Masaharu heard that part of the story Wendy told was the same as the one Gojo Aiko had told them before.
There are some differences in the details that the two people tell. Wendy tells it in more detail, but she likes to be a riddler in some plots.
Moreover, the stories Wendy tells have a hazy sense of unreality and fairy tale feeling, as if he is not telling a story but performing on stage. In short, the stories he tells are very detached from reality and have a fairy tale feeling.
Many people secretly call him "the real bard" in private.
Many people also asked Aiko Gojo where she found such a magical Wendy.
Aiko Gojo would always look at them as if they were fools, and repeatedly emphasized that Wendy was an artist. In short, if they found anything strange about him, it was the embodiment of his art!
Wendy stayed for a total of one week. After designing the costumes, memorizing the lines and rehearsing the play, he left. The next time she comes will be during the summer vacation, when they will start their official performances.
Atobe Keigo decided to invite all the club members, their parents and some friends to watch the performance in person. At the same time, he would select some loyal fans who had purchased candy many times from the official shopping website of Surprise Candy Shop and send them tickets, travel expenses, gift packs and commemorative peripherals.
In the last few days before the holiday, the club held a practice match.
"I really want to know who arranged this match?" Inui Sadaharu was a little skeptical about his life, because all the matches this time were doubles, with a total of 10 games. Each side would be assigned a designated person, and then you would be allowed to choose your own teammates, but the teammate you chose could not be the one who had been designated.
For example, in Inui Sadaharu's match, he and Yagyu Hiroshi were designated personnel, and they needed to choose a teammate each.
Although Hiroshi Yagyu and Masaharu Niou are an ace doubles pair, unfortunately, he cannot choose Masaharu Niou as his teammate because Masaharu Niou is a designated person for other matches.
Almost all the ace doubles teams were separated into designated personnel for different matches, which means that they could not choose their own golden partners.
"Isn't this still a random match?" Echizen Ryoma felt that this was similar to the previous activities like drawing lots to choose doubles partners.
"They are different." Fuji Shusuke pointed at the designated personnel on the form and said, "Take a closer look at these people."
Echizen Ryoma looked for a long time but didn't notice anything unusual.
"These people's playing styles and personalities make it relatively easy for them to form doubles with others." Fuji Shusuke himself is one of them.
In other words, the results of their previous draw matches and random matches have already come out. It is obvious that Aiko Gojo and her team have already selected a group of people who are more suitable for doubles from previous matches and training.
Now we have to start looking for suitable partners for this group of people.
Although some people's personalities and playing styles are suitable for playing doubles with others, they may not be able to find suitable teammates. If they cannot find them, they will naturally continue to play singles.
Separating the original golden partners is also to give them some experience and challenges. It does not mean that they really need to be separated, it is just a special training method.
The people in the tutoring class did not participate in this competition, but they needed to watch the game from the side.
Aiko Gojo took the list of contestants and asked the designated persons to stand aside, while the others who were not designated all crowded to the other side.
"Okay, those whose names are called go to the opposite side and choose a partner." Gojo Aiko sat down behind the table, "Come over to me and register after you've chosen a partner."
Then she started calling out names one by one.
Say five names at a time, and wait until at least three people have chosen them before announcing the next five.
I have to say that the process of choosing a partner is indeed very time-consuming. Some people choose people they have been interested in for a long time, some people don’t know how to choose and just choose randomly, and some people naturally choose people they have a good relationship with.
Naturally, there have been cases where two people fell in love with the same person.
In short, Aiko Gojo watched the excitement for an hour with great gusto, and then went to arrange the game schedule with the final roster of the contestants.
After completing all ten games in two days, some people have already felt something.
"Atobe actually chose Sanada to join him..." Gojo Aiko's understanding of doubles has always been "let the second and third ranked singles players team up together." In other words, to form a doubles team, the abilities of the two people themselves cannot be weak. It is highly unlikely that two weak people will become super strong after forming a doubles team. Their strength must be at least average or above.
The level of each of them is at least above average, so there is no need to worry about this problem.
Although doubles involves two people working together, based on her experience, there will always be one person who is stronger in a doubles game and the other person needs to cooperate with him or her to assist him or her. Also, if the game situation is not going well, in the end it will often be the stronger person playing one against two.
Whether or not the situation can be turned around basically depends on the stronger person.
However, most people cannot see this difference. In their eyes, these people are equally powerful.
Aiko Gojo scored the competition and partner situations, and then sent the form to the group.
They have an "admin group" which consists of managers, department heads, and other management personnel.
The video of the game was also uploaded to the group, and other people in the group also had to participate in the scoring process. Some of them had participated in the competition themselves.
"Do we need to conduct an assessment during the next holiday?" Liu Lianji calculated carefully and found that they had a lot of work to do during the next holiday.
There are club assessments, stage play performances, training camps, doubles practice matches...
Most importantly, there is their boys' high school summer tennis league!
They, Rikkai University, will definitely be the champion this time!
"The seniors have also gone on to higher education." Gojo Aiko could only sigh that fortunately Maori Jusaburo is still here, "and exchanges with foreign tennis players should also be arranged."
In other words, there is no busiest, only busier!