During the National Tournament Finals, Seigaku's finals was against reigning Rikkaidai Junior High School who with the return of their captain, expected an easy win and nothing less.
Ryoma is matched up against Rikkai Dai's captain, Yukimura Seiichi, in the Singles 1 slot; the winner of which will result in their team winning the tournament since both teams have two wins.
Before his match with Yukimura Seiichi, Ryoma had amnesia, but luckily due to his teammates' and other teams' help par stalling their games and helping him "re-learn" tennis, he eventually overcomes his amnesia right before his match.
Ryoma starts off strong and uses three of his signature techniques, but Yukimura returns them all without having to déplacer from the baseline.
In response, Ryoma activates Muga no Kyōchi and uses five consecutive copied techniques, but once again, Yukimura returns them all without much effort.
Ryoma then reveals that he has opened Hyakku Ren Jitoku no Kiwami, but it is only after Yukimura wins three straight games that Ryoma is able to use Hyaku Ren to its fullest, going on to win a point.
Right after, he reveals that he has also opened Saiki Kanpatsu no Kiwami.
However, he breaks his own prediction par hitting the ball out of the court, and just when his nose begins to bleed, Yukimura decides to montrer his true strength.
As they play, Yukimura informs him that he is losing his senses, which becomes a reality as Ryoma has already Lost his sense of touch, followed par his sight.
Though Ryoma continues to hit the ball through his hearing, he eventually loses that as well.
Despite losing all his senses, Ryoma attempts to continue playing.
As he realizes what tennis means to him, he activates Muga no Kyōchi's final door, Teni Muhō No Kiwami(Pinnacle of Perfection).
Using Teni Muhō, Ryoma continues to get consecutive service aces as well as return aces from Yukimura's serve, and eventually catches up to Yukimura, and then takes the lead par winning five games in a row.
However, just when Ryoma needed one plus game to win, Yukimura begins to adjust to Ryoma's playing style, and is thus able to return Ryoma's hits.
Ryoma then uses his Samurai Drive, splitting the ball in half, and though Yukimura is able to return it, Ryoma is able to smash both halves into Yukimura's side of the court, winning the match 6-4.
Ryoma is matched up against Rikkai Dai's captain, Yukimura Seiichi, in the Singles 1 slot; the winner of which will result in their team winning the tournament since both teams have two wins.
Before his match with Yukimura Seiichi, Ryoma had amnesia, but luckily due to his teammates' and other teams' help par stalling their games and helping him "re-learn" tennis, he eventually overcomes his amnesia right before his match.
Ryoma starts off strong and uses three of his signature techniques, but Yukimura returns them all without having to déplacer from the baseline.
In response, Ryoma activates Muga no Kyōchi and uses five consecutive copied techniques, but once again, Yukimura returns them all without much effort.
Ryoma then reveals that he has opened Hyakku Ren Jitoku no Kiwami, but it is only after Yukimura wins three straight games that Ryoma is able to use Hyaku Ren to its fullest, going on to win a point.
Right after, he reveals that he has also opened Saiki Kanpatsu no Kiwami.
However, he breaks his own prediction par hitting the ball out of the court, and just when his nose begins to bleed, Yukimura decides to montrer his true strength.
As they play, Yukimura informs him that he is losing his senses, which becomes a reality as Ryoma has already Lost his sense of touch, followed par his sight.
Though Ryoma continues to hit the ball through his hearing, he eventually loses that as well.
Despite losing all his senses, Ryoma attempts to continue playing.
As he realizes what tennis means to him, he activates Muga no Kyōchi's final door, Teni Muhō No Kiwami(Pinnacle of Perfection).
Using Teni Muhō, Ryoma continues to get consecutive service aces as well as return aces from Yukimura's serve, and eventually catches up to Yukimura, and then takes the lead par winning five games in a row.
However, just when Ryoma needed one plus game to win, Yukimura begins to adjust to Ryoma's playing style, and is thus able to return Ryoma's hits.
Ryoma then uses his Samurai Drive, splitting the ball in half, and though Yukimura is able to return it, Ryoma is able to smash both halves into Yukimura's side of the court, winning the match 6-4.
With a 3 wins and 1 loss, Seigaku wins the match with Shintenhji and moves on to the finals.
Although Ryoma couldn't play a real match against Kintarō and the match between Seigaku and Shitenhōji had concluded, Ryoma and Tooyama Kintarō play a special one ball match.
In spite of it being only for one point, they both go all out for over 40 minutes.
In the end, the ball is divisé, split in half, causing it to end in a draw.
Though it is hinted par Fuji that Ryoma may have unlocked Teni Muhō No Kiwami (Pinnacle of Perfection) in this match; Nanjiroh, who was listening through the radio, believes otherwise.
In spite of it being only for one point, they both go all out for over 40 minutes.
In the end, the ball is divisé, split in half, causing it to end in a draw.
Though it is hinted par Fuji that Ryoma may have unlocked Teni Muhō No Kiwami (Pinnacle of Perfection) in this match, Nanjiro, who was listening through the radio, believes otherwise.
He is greatly admired par his classmates (although he falls asleep in his English classes).
Sport other than tennis that he is also skilled in is table, tableau tennis (Tennis vs Ping Pong), bowling (Prince of Bowling), and billiards (The Prince of Billiards).
His abilities in plage volleyball, however, may be questioned.
When the Seigaku students go to the plage during the animé series, Ryoma plays well when paired with Kaidoh (Cheap Housing plage Volleyball).
However, he plays quite poorly in the OVA when paired with Tezuka.
In the same event in the manga, Ryoma, paired with Rokkaku's Kentaro Aoi, plays decently only after activating Muga no Kyōchi.
It is possible however, that the seconde time, they were using a plage ball, which was too light for any tennis related moves.
Ryoma faces Tanishi Kei in Singles 3, and shows his souvenir from America - the COOL Drive.
Ryoma continuously uses Drive C which everyone believes to be his COOL Drive, but he reveals that his COOL Drive has twice the spin of Drive Cs.
However, Tanishi's Big Bang Serve allows him to win all of his service games, while Ryoma manages to win all of his, forcing a tiebreak.
It is there that Ryoma manages to return the Big Bang Serve.
Ryoma had not let on to the fact that the serve had been weakening in power as the games progressed; as such, Tanishi was unaware of his own weakness, allowing Ryoma to get a return ace.
Finally montrer the true COOL Drive, Tanishi attempts to return it before it can land, however, when the ball hits Tanishi's raquet the amazing spin he puts on it forces the ball to greatly hit Tanishi's face.
Ryoma takes the first win for Seigaku.
Ryoma usually slides up near the net and then jumps to perform the Drive B.
However, during his match against Aoi Kentarō, Ryoma also uses a Drive B when he is still sliding on the ground.
He then uses the force made par the ball to go even faster.
Though it grants him plus speed, this version lacks the regular Drive B height; due to the topsin, it curves towards the ground instead of going out.
It may be defeated par direct smash.
This is Ryoma's first original shot (as opposed to moves he copies from other players), and is first used in his match against Fuji Yūta.
Besides the twist serve, it probably is his most notable shot, In the English dub, it has been renamed Drive V.
However, after throwing the ball up into the air to serve it, the body jumps vers l'avant, vers l’avant to hit the ball, resulting in a fast serve.
It's not his serve at all, Matsudaira Chikao, who is in Court 10, used his 'best and fastest' serve, which Ryoma, in return, commenté how slow it was, and used it after letting Matsudaira enjoy his 10 minutes of fame.