Ryoma and the 26 other middle schoolers take part in the drunken coach's weird tasks such as digging an enormous hole just for the Coach to urinate in, a jog through the forest, and a 'Special Mission' for himself, Kenya, and Kei.
The 26 middle schoolers against the High Schoolers on the mountain cliff and Survive being chased par eagles within a time limit.
Eventually, he and Tooyama avoid all the Eagles and decide to have a match on the haut, retour au début of the mountain par the camp to decide who is the best and use conkers as tennis balls.
While playing, 5 Eagles capture Ryoma and Kintaro hits conkers at the eagle to free him.
Kintaro then hits 5 conkers to Ryoma and once the eagle drops him, and he hits the 5 conkers at the 5 eagles.
Suddenly realizing their fast improvement in now being able to hit 5 balls at once like Oni and Tokugawa.
The Drunken Coach notices this, and tells them they are still a long way from Tokugawa and Oni who can actually hit up to 10 at once.
Ryoma asks the coach arrogantly to teach him how, to which the Coach furiously hits him across the face.
In retaliation Ryoma gets up and serves a conker past the Coach's face on purpose stunning the Drunken Coach.
To this, the Coach ends the exercise.
Later on, Ryoma is lying down on the herbe staring at the sky and is interrupted par Sanada Genichiro, as Ryoma tells the latter to go away, Sanada says to that the 27 middle schoolers are going to steal the Coach's sake.
This angers the Coach to the point he decides they should all go back to the camp and start a revolution.
In the anime, Ryoma is approached par Yamato who comes to visit him on the mountain with an invitation to watch the 3rd VS. 5th Court Shuffle Match between Tezuka and himself.
Surprisingly, Ryoma recognizes Yamato, though Yamato has changed his physical appearence.
Ryoma goes through the jour with Coach Nyudo's training with heavy lead filled rackets, but is asked to leave par the Coach because his mind was elsewhere.
Ryoma sneaks back into the main camp unnoticed and watches the match between the two captains of Seigaku.
When Tezuka unlocks Tenimuh (Pinnacle of Perfection), the last door behind Muga no Kyōchi, Ryoma is seen still watching on, amazed at his captain.
After Tezuka's win, Ryoma tells Yamato that he was glad he came to watch.
After the Court Shuffle ended, the 27 middle schoolers returned to camp, claiming the 2nd Court.
It is unknown which of the 27 middle schoolers, but they were able to crush the 2nd Court which angers other High Schoolers.
They quickly handle the High Schoolers, who were throwing balls at them after montrer their new abilities (Kenya ran so quickly behind them they did not even notice, Sanada's black aura was huge, etc.) and Court 1's Shūji Tanegashima welcomes the middle schoolers back.
The Coaches then announce they are accepted as the new 2nd Court.
All of the middle schoolers engage in a pillowfight and then it is announced that the 1st Stringers will return to the camp soon.
The 26 middle schoolers against the High Schoolers on the mountain cliff and Survive being chased par eagles within a time limit.
Eventually, he and Tooyama avoid all the Eagles and decide to have a match on the haut, retour au début of the mountain par the camp to decide who is the best and use conkers as tennis balls.
While playing, 5 Eagles capture Ryoma and Kintaro hits conkers at the eagle to free him.
Kintaro then hits 5 conkers to Ryoma and once the eagle drops him, and he hits the 5 conkers at the 5 eagles.
Suddenly realizing their fast improvement in now being able to hit 5 balls at once like Oni and Tokugawa.
The Drunken Coach notices this, and tells them they are still a long way from Tokugawa and Oni who can actually hit up to 10 at once.
Ryoma asks the coach arrogantly to teach him how, to which the Coach furiously hits him across the face.
In retaliation Ryoma gets up and serves a conker past the Coach's face on purpose stunning the Drunken Coach.
To this, the Coach ends the exercise.
Later on, Ryoma is lying down on the herbe staring at the sky and is interrupted par Sanada Genichiro, as Ryoma tells the latter to go away, Sanada says to that the 27 middle schoolers are going to steal the Coach's sake.
This angers the Coach to the point he decides they should all go back to the camp and start a revolution.
In the anime, Ryoma is approached par Yamato who comes to visit him on the mountain with an invitation to watch the 3rd VS. 5th Court Shuffle Match between Tezuka and himself.
Surprisingly, Ryoma recognizes Yamato, though Yamato has changed his physical appearence.
Ryoma goes through the jour with Coach Nyudo's training with heavy lead filled rackets, but is asked to leave par the Coach because his mind was elsewhere.
Ryoma sneaks back into the main camp unnoticed and watches the match between the two captains of Seigaku.
When Tezuka unlocks Tenimuh (Pinnacle of Perfection), the last door behind Muga no Kyōchi, Ryoma is seen still watching on, amazed at his captain.
After Tezuka's win, Ryoma tells Yamato that he was glad he came to watch.
After the Court Shuffle ended, the 27 middle schoolers returned to camp, claiming the 2nd Court.
It is unknown which of the 27 middle schoolers, but they were able to crush the 2nd Court which angers other High Schoolers.
They quickly handle the High Schoolers, who were throwing balls at them after montrer their new abilities (Kenya ran so quickly behind them they did not even notice, Sanada's black aura was huge, etc.) and Court 1's Shūji Tanegashima welcomes the middle schoolers back.
The Coaches then announce they are accepted as the new 2nd Court.
All of the middle schoolers engage in a pillowfight and then it is announced that the 1st Stringers will return to the camp soon.
He played in Singles 3, beating Yuuta Fuji 6-4.
It was during this match that he invented Drive B, his first original signature shot.
He also utilized the Super Rising, but it was not perfected.
In the semi-finals, Ryoma did not get to play as Ginka forfeited because of a "stomach ache" (they were afraid of Seigaku's regulars).
In the finals, against Yamabuki, he played in Singles 2, beating Yamabuki's Jin Akutsu 6-4, leading his team to the Kanto tournament.
It was in this stage that Ryoma perfected the Super Rising and invented a new shot, Drive A.
It was here that Ryoma had his revenge (Akutsu had come to Seigaku and served rocks at Echizen and cut his face).
Ryoma was placed in Singles 1, as Tezuka had played in Singles 2 against Kabaji Munehiro.
Both teams get two matches a piece, and Ryoma's opponent was Atobe Keigo, and very soon he proved a tough nut to crack, as Muga no Kyouchi did not work on such a high level player who could handle most techniques like Atobe.
Atobe took the first 4 games with his World of Ice but Ryoma countered it with his "Samurai Zone", forcing the ball towards him.
The game gradually turned into a tiebreak.
They both went all out, and soon the score was 117-117.
Both players had collapsed to exhaustion.
Atobe stood up first, but in the last 12 secondes of the service time, Ryoma manages to stand up and hit 2 twist serves, winning the game 7-6.
After that, Ryoma jumped over the net to shave Atobe's hair (from a bet they placed earlier), but Atobe shaved his own hair despite Taki Haginosuke's objections.
Ryoma uses Drive Cs 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.
Because of the tremendous force, the rope slices the ball in half, resulting in both pieces going in different directions.
In the manga, the force of this shot is strong enough to loosen the net itself, while in the OVA, the ball simply gets cut through without even harming the net.
It was first seen during his one-point match against Kintarō Tōyama, but only the outcome of the ball was shown, not the technique itself.
Ryoma first shows how the technique is done during his match against Yukimura Seiichi, which is also when its name is revealed.
He manages to win the first game par using a blitz of techniques, but loses control of the game when fatigue sets in.
While Ryoma manages to keep steady and return Sanada's Fuu, Sanada merely responds par using Ka.
With all hope seeming lost, Ryoma manages to gain a burst of energy and begins fighting back.
Sanada is undaunted, but Ryoma manages to catch up and take the lead.
Sanada goes into the State of Self Actualization himself, determined to end the match, but Ryoma manages to win par debuting his Cool Drive.
Ryoma is a first an student at Seishun Academy ('Seigaku' for short), which he attends immediately after his arrival in Japon after formerly residing in the United States.
Although only a first an in middle school, Ryoma had already earned notoriety through winning four consecutive titles in the American Junior tennis tournaments – all in a little over a year.
Due to his nearly invincible tennis play, Ryoma has earned the label 'prodigy' par the age of twelve.
His good looks and confidence make him highly populaire with ladies, although he seems not to notice, having his focus exclusively on tennis.