the index intro lucky sengoku vitals fanbook translations notable matches play style persona & insight appearance name theory quotes relationships junior senbatsu radiobox tenimyu info parallels the english dub zodiac info lucky, lucky? media stuff linkage and exits details + love the disclaimers 8th princess   the boxing tennis all-rounder "i took up boxing to improve my tennis." Sengoku is designated as an all-rounder player, meaning he embodies the abilities of all the styles of tennis: serve and volley, aggressive baseliner, ect. The few things we know about his skill tennis (before improvement, and as shown through the manga) is that he's excellent at tracking movement, and his deadliest signature move is the Kohou. It's not noted officially, but in my personal view, I believe Sengoku to be one of the more observant players of the series, one of the few who make reckless plays. The Kohou, Tiger Cannon KOHOU (Tiger Cannon) - The most powerful weapon in Sengoku's arsenal. The Kohou is a powerful serve in which Sengoku throws the ball up extremely high, and ends up jumping towards it and serving the ball in mid air. The ball moves so powerful and quick, that it's virtually a difficult task to return. MANGA PLOTHOLE In the manga, after Sengoku suffers loss from both Kamio and Momo, he ends up telling Banjii that he's going to change his style of tennis in order to win. And that's the end of it. We don't really get any idea of what Sengoku's reformed tennis is like, but the message was that his new style took Yamabuki all the way up to Nationals. Despite that, not even the ace player could hold on to Yamabuki's seat in the Nationals tournament; thus, Yamabuki ended up losing (it was also in part because of Akutsu's absence). ANIME FILLS THE PLOTHOLE So, the famous "boxing tennis" is introduced in the anime during the Jr. Senbatsu. This sort of filled in the plothole for his style of tennis, though it's not technically canon since Konomi didn't write it in the manga; but it still is official material that should be covered. After all, this is the Sengoku who promised to step up his game in order to win. That being said, it was mentioned in the anime (episode 139) that Sengoku took a little hiatus off tennis to begin boxing, in order to somehow apply those skills to tennis. Eventually, he got so good at it that in returning to tennis, he could finish matches within a duration of 3 minutes a game (the time it typically takes for a boxing match). All of Sengoku's new movements and swings are all in thanks to his practice in boxing; he can hit compact, heavy swings and move around court easy enough to not lose too much stamina. Still, this style is introduced as flawed in his match with Bobby Max from America. The match ended in a draw, so... the anime sort of makes that as an incentive that his boxing tennis is very brilliant, but it seems like it's still not enough. Boxing tennis, emphasized on eyes for motion vision Does his style represent his personality? Maybe so, since most of the characters' styles reflect who they are. Though Sengoku seems fairly passionate and confident about tennis, he works hard, but doesn't drive himself as much as characters like Atobe or Tezuka, maybe even Sanada.