Chapter 8

Since Aki is getting used to his tactic and with the shorter distance between them Soji tried to do a consecutive down the line shots successfully making the score.

"40-Love"

Hitting the serve wide again Soji tries to just hit under the baseline and try to use his old tactic of cross shots, successfully scoring with it as Aki is running out of gas.

"Game. 3-4"

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Chapter 8

Taking another break Aki uses this to take a rest.

Switching side again, it is now Aki's turn to serve.

Instead of going on a long rally with Soji, Aki uses her accuracy and familiarity of the court to do very difficult shots aiming at the lines instead.

Since she needed to keep the ball low she changes to continental grip to add more backspin on the ball to keep it really low.

Thus making Soji hesitate and with her winning but with a few errors.

"Game. 3-5"

Aki continues with it while still doing lobs and drop shots even though it is now Soji's serve game.

While Soji tries to return every ball, he is now getting more agitated with Aki's change of playing style so he commits more and more mistakes making Aki break his game and walking with the win.

"Set 3-6"

Noticing that Soji is a bit bummed out, Uchika decided to tell him something.

"Don't take this loss to harshly since this is just a practice match to assess your skills. Also If you have beaten Aki who I have been coaching this whole time then, what's the point of you trying learning from me?"

"First of all let's improve your spins, and we will start with a topspin since if you have that although you will still miss sometimes you can at least use more of your power and speed."

"Since I notice that when Aki is making the ball bounce low you also return it slower and making it easier for her to do her shots. Although you have nice flat shots, topspin is better for balls that bounce below the net level."

"I will give you two a 15-minute break while trying to ready the things we will use today." Saying that Uchika goes to the storage room.

Thinking that he will be training with Aki for the rest of the golden week, he tried to strike a conversation with her.

"Which school do you go to Aki-san?"

Hearing him Aki tries her best and answers. "I go to Seio Girl's School."

"So that's why you're not used to the opposite sex."

"It's not like that it's just I don't interact with them much. Also, I met with them often because of where I usually train at the center where my mom coach."

"I guess. So how much time have you put to get this good at tennis Aki-san?"

"I don't know but ever since I was a kid I always practice with Okaa-sama and most of the time we always watch sports in our downtime."

"That's a lot of dedication right there, I don't know if I can do that myself."

"Not really, since I'm used to it."

"I see then you should also interact with other people since you can't always choose the people you interact with."

"I guess. But I don't know how to start."

"Wel you are conversing with me like normal right now so that's an improvement."

Confused for a few seconds, Aki tilted her head to think, before suddenly slightly blushing after she notices what she is doing.

What she doesn't notice is that she is much more open to people she plays against since that is the way they communicate in this household.

"Well since you now know you can do it, then let's just continue with this till you get used to it."

Not knowing why she can suddenly do this Aki just stop thinking about it and replied with a nod.