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| Mukahi gets serious after his pride was hurt by Kikumaru's return of his Moon Salute. Hyotei takes the first game and Momoshiro notices that Kikumaru is not exactly himself. Momoshiro tries to take back the flow by creating a chance to use his Dunk Smash. However, when he does have the chance, his smash gets countered by Oshitari, who also knows how to use Higuma Otoshi. Oshitari and Mukahi already won 4 games. As Kikumaru desperatly tries to think of places to attack, he remembers Oishi's words and finds determination to fight once again. Kikumaru and Momoshiro come up with a plan and even end up using the Australian Formation. Oishi told Momoshiro all the rules of playing doubles and this formation goes well. Eiji ended up taking Oishi's role in the game, supporting Momoshiro. Seigaku catches up, 4-4. They also notice that Oishi has come to watch them from the bleachers. |
Episode 57: Scud Serve
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| Mukahi is losing stamina quickly and the match has turned to Seigaku's favour. However, this Hyotei's Oshitari wasn't about to let Seigaku go like that for long. Oshitari begins to attack at Seigaku's game point. He was about to do a drop shot but Momoshiro saw through him and returned it. Ultimately, Seigaku takes the victory, 6-4. Doubles 1 from Hyotei features Shishido and Otori. Hyotei's crowd has lost its energy, but Shishido tells them to put some spirit into their cheering. Across them, Inui and Kaidoh are preparing to receive Otori's serve. Unfortunately it passes by so fast that they can't keep up with it. This is Otori's famous Scud Serve. But the control isn't 100% and Otori gets a double fault. However, Otori's serves don't decrease in speed at all. Again, Hyotei takes the first game easily. |
Episode 58: The Worst Compatability
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| Kaidoh's determination isn't wavered at all by the loss of the first game. Even though it's Inui's turn to serve, Kaidoh is standing at the back of the court, preparing to use his Bommerang Snake. He uses it but isn't pleased at all since it landed in the doubles court. It would have been out if he was playing singles. Seeing Kaidoh all fired up, Inui also takes off the weights on his wrist and plays at full strength. The speed of his serve immediately increased, almost matching Otori's Scud Serve. While they were getting the speed of Inui's serve, Atobe also tells Taki to look for Jiroh. Even though Inui's serve is fast, but it's not impossible to return. Once Otori returns it to the other side (even though it's a bad return), Shishido is able to counter any shot Seigaku throws at them. Shishido was able to improve this much from practicing to return Otori's Scud Serve. With this, Hyotei takes the second game as well. The pairs switch courts, and it seems Seigaku's pair has broken apart. Kaidoh is doing everything his own way, running around by himself and returning all the shots. Everyone thought it was the end of Seigaku, but in fact this was for Inui to gather data on their opponent. Even though Kaidoh seemed out of breath, it was just an act as they begin their counter attack. |
Episode 59: The Hidden Trouble
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| The situation doesn't look good. The game count is 5-0 for Hyotei. Just one more game and Seigaku is done for. But the tables start turning, as Inui is able to predict their every movement. This throws the Hyotei pair off and Seigaku catches up. But Otori's service game comes up. Otori serves, but none of it goes over to the other side. Inui was even thorough enough to notice that Otori tends to knead his hand when aiming for the right side of the court, and therefore losing control. Shishido advises him to just hit anywhere on the court since they won't be able to return it anyway. Otori does so and the serve indeed crosses the net, but Kaidoh is able to return it. Kaidoh was even able to pull out a perfect Boomerang Snake that landed in the singles court. But as a result of landing in the singles court, Shishido is able to catch up to it and return it. This leaves Inui a perfect chance but Otori read through Inui's mind and went to cover but Inui hit it elsewhere. This surprised Inui himself as it did not go according to his calculations. However, Inui was honest and tells the referee that his smash was actually 5.3mm out of bounds. And so the game continues but Seigaku was not able to take back the flow. Hyotei wins 5-3. |
Episode 60: Power vs Power
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| Singles 3's match is next, and Kawamura is fired up, lifting the heavy
Seigaku flag single handed. Hyotei's Kabaji also shows his power by
holding Akutagawa (Singles 2) in the air with one arm. On the court, wiht
his racquet in hand, Kawamura blurts out his usual provocations at his
opponent Kabaji. However, Kabaji is completely unaffected (which is
unusual). Kawamura serves, beginning the game. It's a powerful serve, but Kabaji's return is just as strong, pushing Kawamura back. Atobe gets impatient watching the rally and snaps his fingers. Hearing this, Kabaji's power increases dramatically. Having no choice, Kawamura uses Hadoukyuu (the flat shot used by Ishida from Fudomine). |