Ryoma is an all-rounder, otherwise known as an all-court player, meaning he has aspects of every tennis style; he can use techniques from different tennis styles with many special shots and abilities, depending on his current needs.
One of Ryoma's greatest talents is his ability to learn new techniques after only seeing them performed a few times.
His dominant hand is his left hand, but he is ambidextrous, able to use his right hand when he needs to.
He also has an amazing amount of stamina and does not sweat as much as the other players.
His tennis sense is extraordinary, since he has great sight not only in his eyes (very great sense of motion vision), along with fellow Seigaku regular Kikumaru Eiji, Ryoma is known to have an exceptional talent for seeing moving objects.
He also can see what kind of technique his opponent is using and can figure out a way to counter such techniques, as well as being able to copy them sometimes.
During the crucial points in a match, he seems to be able to increase his speed and the velocity of his shots, making others mistake him as playing at a higher pace and tension as usual, but actually, that is his best tension.
This, along with his one-footed divisé, split step, is noted to be the ability of the haut, retour au début pros as well as being natural for people.
However, these were actually ingrained into him par his father when he was a kid through special training.
One of Ryoma's greatest talents is his ability to learn new techniques after only seeing them performed a few times.
His dominant hand is his left hand, but he is ambidextrous, able to use his right hand when he needs to.
He also has an amazing amount of stamina and does not sweat as much as the other players.
His tennis sense is extraordinary, since he has great sight not only in his eyes (very great sense of motion vision), along with fellow Seigaku regular Kikumaru Eiji, Ryoma is known to have an exceptional talent for seeing moving objects.
He also can see what kind of technique his opponent is using and can figure out a way to counter such techniques, as well as being able to copy them sometimes.
During the crucial points in a match, he seems to be able to increase his speed and the velocity of his shots, making others mistake him as playing at a higher pace and tension as usual, but actually, that is his best tension.
This, along with his one-footed divisé, split step, is noted to be the ability of the haut, retour au début pros as well as being natural for people.
However, these were actually ingrained into him par his father when he was a kid through special training.
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.