The U-17 training camp is a selection camp for the top potentials in the japanese tennis world. This training camp is held once a year and many high school tennis teams from the different cities of Japan are invited to heighten their tennis skills so that later on the top players would gather to make the top team.
The U-17 training camp is a boarding camp for participants who stay in shared dorms based on the players abilities and/or personality; the aim is for them to grow from having to live together. In the camp, everyone is separated by their strengths from court 1-16. The lower the court number, the stronger you are - the higher the court number, the weaker you are.
Everyday, before practice, there are shuffle matches between players from different courts. To rise a court, you need to win against a 'stronger' opponent. But if you lose against someone 'weaker', you will be dropped a court.
This year, however, there are new tennis teams which have been invited to this prestigious training camp. Surprisingly, these teams are middle schoolers. Never in history have middle schoolers been invited, so when the high schoolers found out this new piece of information.. well, you can simply guess how they were feeling. If middle schoolers were joining the camp, then they must be strong - the high schoolers didn't want to believe this as they didn't like to think that younger kids were stronger than them. So, as soon as said middle schoolers arrived, they decided to see if they were up to the challenge.
Kurobe Yukio - the stand in director of the U-17 as well as the strategist coach of the camp - observed in amusement, as Seigaku's tennis team outsmarted two members of the high schoolers section, from the monitor room. He couldn't help but let loose a small smirk as he thought how interesting the new recruits would be. Surely enough, his time with these tennis teams would be rather entertaining; not only for him, but for the other coaches of the camp as well.
Itaru Saito - the U-17 camps mental coach - was also observing from his place behind Kurobe, his hands lazily placed inside his long white lab coats pockets as a wide smile made its way upon his face. The insanely tall man was quite excited to say the least. Of course, he would be able to have some fun now that there were more interesting kids at the camp.
Ryuuji Tsuge - the circuite coach - however, couldn't really care less as he had better things to do in his time, such as training, rather than watching the high schoolers make fools of themselves.
"Saa.. this year is going to be very interesting. Ne, Kurobe-san" Saito more like stated than questioned, an obvious hint of excitement in his voice. He was extremely excited to be honest. With the new members as well as the high schoolers, there was going to be another arrival.. a very special arrival and Saito couldn't wait to meet her.
Earlier that week, Kurobe had come back from America with a wide smile plastered over his face; the whole day he just wouldn't stop grinning. This caught Tsuge and Saito's, especially Saito's, attention as he barely ever grins that much - Except when something extra interesting has happened.
Not being able to lock in his curiosity any further, Saito asked. He was expecting Kurobe's answer to be short and simple as it usually was. However, this time it wasn't. Kurobe kept on babbling about a young girl he had met in America, New York. He explained every detail of their time together, everything about her, how she would act. It was obvious that this girl - Supposedly named Riririn - was someone very interesting and Saito couldn't keep his excitement, from that moment on, from boiling over. So, when Kurobe informed the two other coaches that said girl was going to be joining them at the U-17 training camp, Saito insisted that he would get to meet her as soon as she arrived - to which Kurobe agreed to with a chuckle.
Things were going to get very amusing from now on.. the three coaches (well, two of the coaches since one only cared about his exercise) were sure of this.