After Ryoma is forced to withdraw from the Japan U-17 training camp, Ryoga invites him to play for the US team.

Teams from all over the world competing in the U-17 World Cup gather to start things off with the Pre-World Cup exhibition matches.

Pre-World Cup (World Cup), 3rd match. In the champion Germany, captain Bork finally goes to the court. The challenge is the Tokugawa & Yukimura pair. However, shortly after the start of the game, Yukimura was "deprived of his five senses." Tokugawa will fight alone against the German pair while hiding Yukimura. Meanwhile, Yukimura was also fighting loneliness. Yukimura's ears, deprived of his five senses and fighting "fear alone" in the closed darkness, heard his voice overcoming it while being deprived of his five senses.

Japan's Pre-World Cup match ended. After seeing the match and leaving the venue, Ryoma encounters Sakurano, who is entwined by local bad guys. Doberman attacks Ryoma, who confronts the bad guys while sheltering Sakurano. It was a boy who straddled Hakuba who rejected it. He shoots the ball with a tennis racket while straddling a horse and drives away the bad guys. Ryoma, who was mistaken for a boyfriend by a boy who was fascinated by Sakurano, was challenged to play a game, and they would fight each other in tennis while riding horses.

In the Japan team's first doubles match against Australia, Sanada's tricky shots initially baffle his opponents, but they quickly adapt their defense.

The Japan team plays with renewed vigor following Atobe’s cunning ruse. Finally figuring out Milman’s Tachyon serve, Fuji moves to break the deadlock.

Discouraged by two straight doubles losses, the Japan team heads into the singles matches. Akutsu goes up against the menacing Swiss captain, Amadeus.

After seeing Akutsu's match against Switzerland, Ryoma seems to have developed some feelings of doubt within him...

Ryoma finally returns to the Japan national team. With Ryoma as a member, the opponent in the quarterfinals will be France, ranked 3rd in the world. Shiraishi, who was selected as a member, was worried about whether his "honor student" tennis would be able to compete against the world.

After Yanagi rebukes Mori for his past attitude toward training, the two must overcome their differences if they want to beat their French opponents.

Ryoma's match with Chardard continues in three singles matches of Japan versus France; the victorious team will advance to play Germany.

Ryoma's match with Chardard continues.