Chapter 12 Tennis Match (2/2)

”Doesn't that hurt? Yet he looks like it did nothing to him!”

”If he can hit that strongly with his barehands imagine what kind of shot he would make with the racket.”

Even though Alex was losing, the surrounding students were already thinking that if Alex could get used to the racket then victory will be his without a doubt.

Oliver had his eyes wide open as he looked at Alex, he had seen that stance numerous times in youtube. That was a Baguazhang stance the way Alex did the move was so natural.Was he a practitioner? Oliver got a bit confused, if Alex Baguazhang was at this level, then what was the grapplingmove he used? It was similar to an aikido move... 'Well Alex did say his dad was a martial arts enthusiast, he might have learned it from him.' Even though there were many loopholes in this idea Oliver simply accepted it.

'I already knew he had abnormal fighting ability, since I saw the way he restrained Aldrich... But is he some kind of martial arts master? Is this a plus or a negative? I'm going to put this as plus points for becoming my possible official boyfriend. The ability to protect one's girlfriend from external dangers is definitely a plus.' Rachel was grading Alex as he played.

The first set went to Aldrich easily, but this time it was Alex's service game. He was observing Aldrich's form and the way he served. Alex threw the tennis ball upwards, with the same form as Aldrich, Alex's smashed the tennis ball.

SWOOSH! BAM!

Aldrich couldn't react, everyone else including the umpire was shocked by that one serve of Alex, they couldn't see it at all. Aldrich wanted to know how fast that ball travelled, but they didn't prepare a speed gun for the match, since he thought he was facing an amateur. Once they saw Alex's serve some of the tennis club members ran to fetch the speed gun.

The umpire finally regained his sensesand announced, ”15-love”

Alex got ready to do another serve, this time Aldrich was fully concentrated. The other tennis club members had the speed gun ready. Aldrich then smashed the tennis ball with the same form as before.

SWOOSH! you could practically hear the ball cutting through the air. ”BAM!”

Once again Aldrich wasn't able to react at all. He looked at his fellow tennis club members and waited for them to tell him the speed of the serve. The surrounding students were curios as well. The tennis club members looked at the speed gun dumbfounded, they stared at the number displayed not believing what they saw.

Alex just stood there waiting for the umpire to tell the score so he could continue serving, but the umpire was also interested on how fast Alex's serve was, so he couldn't say the score yet.

”Hey tell us how fast his serve was already?!” One of the students couldn't wait anymore and shouted at the tennis club members. The tennis club members got their bearings back and answered.

”The serve was at 157 mph!” When everyone heard the number the group of students got excited.

”Shit, isn't that like the super fast! Even at the pro level only some people can serve as fast as that!”

”Wasn't Alexander an amateur?!”

”Damn how good will his serve be if he practices? He might actually take the world with his serve!”

The group of students were excited as they felt that they were watching the birth of a legend. Aldrich on the other hand was burning red in embarrassment. He challenged Alex to a tennis match to show Rachel how much better he was. Yet not only was he losing in his own specialty, he was losing to Alex a complete amateur who just recently held a tennis racket for the first time.

The match after that couldn't even be called a match, when Aldrich's focus broke he couldn't even keep his service game. The match was won 1-6 Aldrich only won one set.