Sumire Ryuzaki
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Sumire Ryuzaki (竜崎スミレ Ryūzaki Sumire?) is a fictional character in the popular Japanese manga and anime series Prince of Tennis. She is voiced by Barbara Goodson in English and Shizuka Ogohira in Japanese.
Sumire is the tennis coach and math teacher of Ryoma Echizen's school, Seishun Academy Middle School (Seigaku). It was much to her thanks that Echizen's father, Nanjiro Echizen, was able to gain his skill, 25 years ago.
Sumire is the grandmother of Ryoma's protegée and possible future girlfriend, Sakuno Ryuzaki; it's strongly implied that she raised her granddaughter alone, since Sakuno's parents are never ever referred to, not even in the official guides. She also has a sort-of rivalry with her ex-mentor, Mikiya Banda aka Banji, who is the coach for Yamabuki.
[edit] Ryuzaki-sensei and Seishun Gakuen Tennis Club
Having a whole team of "Racoons and foxes" (in her own words) isn't any easier. She's always there to yell or hauling the ears to them as a good coach. During the district tournament, after the lucky win of the Momoshiro-Echizen pair against Gyokurin Chuugakkou, she yelled them and put them in punishment position for giving a shamefull doubles match (playing as singles by dividing the court), or stopping the practice match between Ryoma and Fuji when it started to rain (the two boys weren't going to stop althought the big storm, so she had to stand up and yell both of them).
She isn't just the strict grandma, and also has a good relationship with her regulars, participating with them in their recreative group activities (the bowling reunion and the beach-volley mini tournament with Rokkaku Chuugaku). There we can see that Ryuzaki-sensei is really competitive and hasn't any doubts before crushing her guys during a friendly game.
Even during the Nationals, Ryuzaki-sensei showed her hard hand as a coach, pushing the guys and confronted Saotome Harumi, Higa's coach, about how a real coach should be.
[edit] Trivia
- She is the only one from the Tennis club who calls Ryoma by his given name without any suffixes.
- She is also a Math teacher in Seigaku.
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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 | |
