St. Rudolph Gakuen
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St. Rudolph Gakuen (私立聖ルドルフ学院中学校?) is a school in the popular anime/manga series, Prince of Tennis. They first appear in the Tokyo Prefectural Tournament Arc and face Seishun in the quarterfinals. The school itself only recruits students who are gifted at tennis and they only practice together once a week.
[edit] Team Members
[edit] Yoshirou Akazawa (赤沢吉郎 Akazawa Yoshirō?) (Captain)
We first see Akazawa play in Doubles one with Kaneda against the Golden Pair Oishi-Kikumaru. He is the captain of the team and, along with Kaneda, is one of the few persons who were originally on the team and wasn't brought in by Mizuki. Although Akazawa is initially bad at Doubles, and even hits Kaneda, he calms down and learns from him. In St. Rudolph's losses to Seigaku and Hyoutei Gakuen, the Akazawa/Kaneda pair provide their lone victories. His only weapon is a backhand, where the ball hits the top of the racket instead of the sweet spot. This causes rapid movement of the ball, which makes it appear, to a select amount of people with exceptional talents for seeing moving objects, as a mass of balls. As he executes the shot, he says "Kimi Teru", which is what the shot is called.
In the Previous year, Akazawa managed to defeat a Seigaku player, who has since graduated, in Singles.
[edit] Takuya Nomura (野村拓也 Nomura Takuya?) (Vice-Captain)
Nothing is really known about him, except for the fact that he is constantly hit by Yuuta for calling him Fuji Shuusuke's little brother. He is also known to be the weakest player on the team based on the lineup that Mizuki created. (All the strongest played in the first matches while he was the last.)
[edit] Hajime Mizuki (観月はじめ Mizuki Hajime?) (Manager)
Mizuki is a brilliant tennis player, who can make scenarios just by watching people play. He studies players and eventually learns their weakness, which allows him to map out an entire tennis match in his head. He then tells the players what to do and they have a high chance of winning. Mizuki taught Yuuta the dangerous Twist Spin Shot, but failed to mention that it could be very damaging on an arm that hadn't completely matured yet.
He arrogantly believed that he had collected all the data on Shusuke Fuji, but he was sorely mistaken and suffered a humiliating defeat. After this rude awakening, he threw his bad attitude away and has been known to help Yuuta much more honestly in his training in the anime. In the manga, Mizuki still appears to have the same attitude as before. Mizuki often comedically says that he is Fuji's rival, when in fact Fuji is a much better tennis player than him.
[edit] Yuuta Fuji (不二裕太 Fuji Yūta?)
Yuuta is Shuusuke Fuji's little brother. After getting annoyed at people always referring to him as Shuusuke's brother, he left Seigaku. Soon he was scouted by St. Rudolph. His main shots are the Rising Shot, which hits the ball on the rise. By doing so, he can make the ball go faster, giving his opponent less time to react. His other is the Twist Spin Shot, which puts a topspin on the ball, causing it to bounce upwards with the same effect as Ryoma's twist serve. Yuuta's nickname is the Lefty-Killer, because of the angles he can hit the balls at. He then loses to Hyotei Gakuen's Akutagawa Jiroh, which kicks them out of 5th place. After the match with Seigaku, Yuuta is able to let go of his jealousy and starts re-building his brotherly bonds with Shuusuke.
[edit] Shinya Yanagisawa (柳沢慎也 Yanagisawa Shinya?)
Not much is known about Yanagisawa, except that he has much loyalty to Mizuki and seems to be a good friend of his partner, Atsushi. He is often called a duck, because of his appearance and he ends the majority of his sentences with the word "dane" (what Disney's Donald Duck says in Japanese dubs). During the match against Seishun Gakuen he and Atsushi team up against Kaidoh and Momoshiro. The match ends when Yanagisawa is accidentally hit in the face with Momoshiro's dunk smash.
[edit] Atsushi Kisarazu (木更津淳 Kisarazu Atsushi?)
Atsushi is a player who actually enjoys playing tennis. He is a gifted player who wants to get the best out of games. Typically he sports a bandanna and his twin brother goes to Rokkaku, a later opponent of Seishun Gakuen. Atsushi's only real shot is a drop volley, which he fakes as a Jumping Smash.
Atsushi was originally a student at Rokkaku, but Mizuki mistakenly recruited him instead of his twin brother Ryo. In his anger, Mizuki forced Atsushi to cut his long hair and wear a bandana to make sure he wouldn't be confused for his brother.
[edit] Ichirou Kaneda (金田一郎 Kaneda Ichirō?)
We don't learn much about Kaneda, except for the fact that he is on the original team, and that he is a regular in his first year, much like Echizen Ryoma, the protagnist of the show. Kaneda has also been dubbed the 'tensai doubles player' for his talents. He is calm during matches and watches Akazawa's back as much as possible. He is well studied in tennis techniques. He's a soft-spoken boy who has a lot of respect for Akazawa, but he managed to stand up against him when Akazawa lost his cool during their doubles match against Oishi and Kikumaru; he called his partner "Bakazawa" (stupid Akazawa) in front of everyone and forced him to re-focus in the match.
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| Tennis team members: | Ryoma Echizen | Kunimitsu Tezuka | Shuichiro Oishi | Shusuke Fuji | Eiji Kikumaru | Takashi Kawamura | Sadaharu Inui | Takeshi Momoshiro | Kaoru Kaidoh |
| Schools: | Seishun Academy Middle School | Fudomine Middle School | St. Rudolph Gakuen | Yamabuki | Hyotei Gakuen | Midoriyama | Jyosei Shonan | Rikkai Daigaku Fuzoku | Rokkaku Chuu |
| Supporting characters: | Sumire Ryuzaki | Nanjiro Echizen | Masashi Arai | Satoshi Horio | Kachiro Kato | Katsuo Mizuno | Sakuno Ryuzaki | Tomoka Osakada |
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| List of Prince of Tennis episodes | Tennis no Ojisama - Futari no Samurai | The Prince of Tennis (film) | The Prince of Tennis Musicals | Takeshi Konomi | |
