At the training camp in the mountains, the middle schoolers are given rackets filled with lead and are forced to hit balls with the rackets. Meanwhile, in the U-17 camp, Court 5 have team shuffle matches with Court 3.
The winning middle school team start the next stage of their hard training right away. The losers face the biggest challenge of their lifetime given to them by the mental coach, Saitō.
Tezuka plays Kaidō and Atobe plays Hiyoshi. Both captains have a plan from the start to teach their juniors a lesson before defeating them. Meanwhile, Ryoma and Kintarō are playing matches with Tokugawa and Oni.
Seigaku and other middle school students (with a total of 50 middle school students) are invited to the U-17 selection camp. Ryoma also comes back from America to participate. The high school students there dislike the middle school students.