The granddaughter of [Sumire Ryuuzaki](https://anilist.co/character/9489/Sumire-Ryuuzaki) _(the Seishun Academy tennis coach and math teacher)_. 

Sakuno is a kind, nice and quiet girl who almost always seems to worry about [Ryoma](https://anilist.co/character/324/Ryoma-Echizen) and the others. She started playing tennis after she saw Ryoma playing, and her progress differs in the anime from the manga; in the anime her lack of skill is a recurring gag, while in the manga she's good enough to be seen as a promising player and even a future regular. She even received a Certificate of Commendation for ranking 3rd Place in the Women's Division, as stated in Pair Puri. 

In both the anime and manga, Sakuno's crush on Ryoma is clear, she hasn't had a chance to really tell him due to her own shy nature, some degree of bad luck and the meddling of other people _(especially Nanjiro Echizen and Takeshi Momoshiro, and occasionally Eiji Kikumaru)_. 

Echizen Ryoma is a young tennis prodigy who has won 4 consecutive tennis championships but who constantly lies in the shadow of his father, a former pro tennis player. He joins the Seishun Gakuen junior highschool, one of the best tennis schools in Japan, and there along with his teamates he learns to find his own type of tennis in an attempt to defeat his biggest obstacle of all: his father as well as himself.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

__Agency:__ I'm Enterprise

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Mikako Takahashi is a Japanese voice actress and J-Pop singer.  As the Excel Saga character Mikako Hyatt, she forms one half of the voice acting duo The Excel Girls (the other half being Yumiko Kobayashi). She is employed by I'm Enterprise. She is also the best knowing dubbing roles of Korean drama and films, like for Park Shin-hye, Shin So-yul and others. On January 2017, she wrote in her private blog that she has been married since the last day of 2016.

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Cindy Robinson is an American voice actress who voices in animations and video games. Some of her major roles are Makoto Nanaya and Gii from the Blazblue series, Betty Boop in commercials, Queen Beryl in Sailor Moon, Chitose Nanbu in Ah My Buddha, Kukaku Shiba, Miyako Shiba, Jinta Hanakari (kid) and Kiyone Kotetsu in Bleach, Zola in the Blue Dragon series, Minerva and Hinoka in Fire Emblem, and Megan Lewis, the actress who voiced the Purge Emergency Broadcast System in The Purge series.

Robinson is best known for her role as Amy Rose in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise from 2010 to 2020.

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Flora Paulita Martins, better known only as Flora Paulita, is a Brazilian actress, voice actress and dubbing director. She is also the younger sister of the voice actress [Agatha Paulita](https://anilist.co/staff/116185/).

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Ariana Grande, Sofia Carson and Lana Condor  (Most of the productions)
- Neeko (League of Legends; where she also does the original voice of the character)
- Amity Blight (The Owl House)
- Pacifica Northwest (Gravity Falls; 2nd voice)
- Brigitte (Overwatch 1&2)
- Pony Head (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
- Holy Serenity (Grand Chase: Dimensional Chaser)
- Kara (Detroit: Become Human)
- J (Murder Drones)
- Maddy Cho (Marvel's Avengers)
- Anabella (Doki)
- Tassia (Dragon Age: Absolution)
!~

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Xanthe Huynh is an American voice-actress of Vietnamese descent. Huynh's path to acting began during a course in theatre acting during an elective course while in middle school. She fell in love with acting and continued on the acting path throughout high school and her passion eventually led to her graduating with a degree in Dramatic Arts at the University of Irvine in California. 

Huynh also enjoyed anime as a hobby and confided in her friends if there was any way to combine her two loves. Her friends were supportive of the idea and pushed her to try out for Anime Expo's voice acting competition called AX Idol. She would eventually make it as a finalist and was invited to audition for, and eventually signed with Bang Zoom! Entertainment and is still currently working for them since 2008, and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. 

Since signing, Huynh has gone on to voice minor and major character roles in anime and video games in major productions. Besides voice acting, Huynh also enjoys cosplaying, which is proudly displayed on her Instagram. 

__Non-Anime Roles:__

- Pela - Honkai: Star Rail (VG)

Ryoma Echizen just joined the Seishun Academy's tennis team, which is known for being one of the most competitive teams in Japan. Its members are incredibly talented, gifted, and athletic. With rigorous and extremely intense practices, the upperclassmen of the team expect the very best from themselves and they expect even more from the new members of the team. While most of the freshmen are on pins and needles hoping they won't get cut from the team, Ryoma Echizen is confident, cool, and collected. Some might even say he's cocky, but at least he's got the skills to back up his attitude. With his virtually unreturnable "twist serve," Ryoma is sure to make the starting team. Join Ryoma and the other first years, as they train hard, make friends, and try to find a place for themselves on the team. And meet Ryoma's cute but chronically shy classmate Sakuno Ryuzaki. She's got a big crush on Ryoma, but will he ever notice her? Ryoma Echizen is the Prince of Tennis. He may be ready for the Seishun Academy tennis team, but are THEY ready for HIM?
 
(Source: Viz Media)
 
Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Middle school students fought fiercely against one another in a national tournament. Now, 50 chosen representatives return to fight again as high school students! 
The stage is the U-17 (Under Seventeen) Japanese Representative Training Camp. Middle school students have been invited for the first time to a camp known to produce the best Japanese tennis players. National champions from Seigaku, Hyotei, Rikkai, Shitenhoji... With all the rivals from the national tournament attending, everyone eagerly awaits their reunion. 
At first, the middle schoolers do not expect much from their high school opponents. However, the training camp is not so easy! Athletes with skills incomparable to those they previously faced and their mysterious coach appear before them. Faced with numerous demanding challenges, can the middle schoolers survive in this meritocratic training camp? 
(Source: Crunchyroll)

Sequel to Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama OVA vs. Genius 10. 
Middle school students fought fiercely against one another in a national tournament. Now, 50 chosen representatives return to fight again as high school students! 

The stage is the U-17 (Under Seventeen) Japanese Representative Training Camp. Middle school students have been invited for the first time to a camp known to produce the best Japanese tennis players. National champions from Seigaku, Hyotei, Rikkai, Shitenhoji... With all the rivals from the national tournament attending, everyone eagerly awaits their reunion. 

 At first, the middle schoolers do not expect much from their high school opponents. However, the training camp is not so easy! Athletes with skills incomparable to those they previously faced and their mysterious coach appear before them. Faced with numerous demanding challenges, can the middle schoolers survive in this meritocratic training camp? The new chapter of "Prince of Tennis" begins here! The curtain rises on a new stage-- 
(Source: Crunchyroll)

The story of the OVA series tells the continuation of the 13-episode TV anime in 2012, setting in the Japanese U-17 (under 17) High School Representatives Selection Camp.

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Ana Carolina Balthazar is a Brazilian actress and voice actress. She is married to the voice actor [Luciano Monteiro](https://anilist.co/staff/244185/).

The movie features an original story that takes place during the three months between the first manga and its currently running sequel.
 
Inspired by his tennis champion father, Ryoma is determined to take his game to the next level and train in the US. But in the middle of an intense tennis battle to save his classmate Sakuno from dangerous villains, they somehow find themselves transported back to the past, just as Ryoma’s father is about to undertake his final championship match at the US Open – when he was mysteriously forced to retire. Sing, Dance, and Play along with the innovative 3D digital animation that brings the magnificent and colorful world of The Prince of Tennis to life on the big screen. 

(Sources: Natalie, Crunchyroll, edited)

This New Year special episode is a recap of the first episodes 1 to 12. However, there is a curious tournament with the regular players too.

A Prince of Tennis tribute in the form of comic strips.

Sakuno Ryuuzaki