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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has both brown eyes and hair.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has brown eyes and hair.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has brown eyes and brown hair.

* {{Bokukko}}: She uses the “Boku” pronoun when talking in first person, which adds to the confusion on her gender.

Echizen Nanjirou is the father of the series' protagonist Echizen Ryoma. Nanjirou is very outspoken, eccentric, a shameless flirt, brash, perverted, and almost childish at times. He is known as "Samurai Nanjirou" for his mighty tennis skills during his earlier years as a professional tennis player. Aside from Ryoma, he is the only other player to have attained the "Pinnacle of Perfection". He was trained by Ryuuzaki during middle school and eventually became a touring professional after leaving Japan. He remains undefeated and was only one win away from earning a Grand Slam title before he unexpectedly decided to retire in order to raise his son Ryoma and teach him tennis.

* SenpaiKohai: To Shiba.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: He rarely is seen with shoes on, and even in his flashbacks he is shown to train barefoot.

* PaperThinDisguise: Hilariously averted. When Oishi is late for the match against Hyotei, the team tries to disguise him as Oishi by painting his head and bangs with a black marker. It doesn't work and only makes the others laugh at the result.

%%* TheChewToy
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Especially in the anime.

* ThoseTwoGuys: With Katsuo.

* ThoseTwoGuys: With Kachiro.

%%* HotBlooded

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Arguably the best non-regular player and fairly hardworking, but he's still far outclassed.

* IFeelAngry: She's softspoken and polite, but not incapable of anger.

* NoSenseOfDirection: Her first appearance has her giving Ryoma the wrong way to a tournament.

* BelligerentSexualTension: With Horio.
* BullyHunter: Never EVER fucking mess with Sakuno, Ryoma, or the Seigaku team!

* FortuneTeller: She likes reading the Tarot, and also she wrote the Horoscope book that Sengoku has.
* MsFanservice
* StacysMom: Or in this case "Stacy's Sister", after Mizuki also develops a crush on her.

* {{Fangirl}}: Although she is always taking photos of the middle school tennis clubs, she pays more attention to Seigaku.

* TheBusCameBack: Briefly. She tries to flirt with Atobe with an obento, but he blew her off on the spot.

* {{Fangirl}}: It's actually an act.

* OneShotCharacter: She is only a one-shot character, whose only purpose on the story is to showcase how well Sakuno knows Ryoma.

* ButtMonkey: Poor little girl has a pretty lousy luck, though not as bad as Horio's.

* CuteClumsyGirl: She is very prone to accidents and mistakes, like falling randomly, bumping into bullies or giving bad directions.

* IFeelAngry: She's softpoken and polite, but not incapable of anger.
* LongHairIsFeminine: She sports long twin braids that reach her hips, matching her innocent qand cute personality. One of the criticisms Ryoma gives her to improve her tennis is to cut her hair a bit, since her braids are too long.
* MoralityPet: One of the few people that Ryoma shows his kinder side to.

* BullyHunter: Never EVER fucking mess with Sakuno, Ryoma or the Seigaku team!

* {{Fangirl}}: Of Ryoma, to the point she founded a Ryoma Fanclub.

* {{Shorttank}}: Her usual dress style outfit out of school.

[[folder:Karupin]]
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Karupin is Echizen Ryoma's Himalayan cat.

-->Voiced by: Akira Nakagawa (JP)

* CuteKitten: A very playful Himalayan cat.
* MoralityPet:
** He is the only living thing Ryoma is consistently loving to. The only time Ryoma looks worried, afraid and sad is when he learns that his cat escaped from the house.
** Also with Kaidoh. He has a slight happy vibe after playing with Karupin.

[[folder:Rinko Echizen (née Takeuchi)]]

Ryoma's mother.

-->Voiced by: Yuki Nakao (episode 5), Creator/JunkoMinagawa (episode 129) (JP), Melanie Enríquez (LA SP)

* ACupAngst: She is not amused when Nanjirou mentions her lack of size. It doesn't help that he's got quite the HandsOnApproach.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: She was the first girl who didn't take Nanjirou's crap. Of course, they ended up married.
%%* PluckyGirl
* SheCleansUpNicely: The first proof of her growing feelings for Nanjirou is how she switches from a T-Shirt and baggy pants into a cute tennis dress. He keeps teasing her, though.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: We barely get to see her face in the modern time stories.
* SlapSlapKiss: She started off [[BelligerentSexualTension bickering a lot with Nanjirou]].
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B. She's normally sweet and soft-spoken, but used to be rather violent to Nanjirou before they got together, and now she's hinted to be the main breadwinner.

[[folder:Nanjirou Echizen]]
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Echizen Nanjirou is the father of the series' protagonist Echizen Ryoma. Nanjirou is very outspoken, eccentric, a shameless flirt, brash, perverted, and almost childish at times. He is known as "Samurai Nanjirou" for his mighty tennis skills during his earlier years as a professional tennis player. Aside from Ryoma, he is the only other player to have attained the "Pinnacle of Perfection". He was trained by Ryuuzaki during middle school and eventually became a touring professional after leaving Japan. He remains undefeated and was only one win away from earning a Grand Slam title before he unexpectedly decided to retire in order to raise his son Ryoma and teach him tennis.

-->Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama (JP), Creator/LiamOBrien (EN), Juan Guzmán (LA SP)

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Poor Ryoma.
* AlmightyJanitor: He was one match away from winning a Grand Slam title before suddenly retiring. Within the series proper, people have yet to challenge his skill (Ryoma even remarked that he loses to him every day).
* BerserkButton: In the anime, the mere ''mention'' of Banji can send him into screaming fits.
* BigDamnHeroes: LikeFatherLikeSon.
* BumblingDad: By his personality, it's easy to assume all the discipline in the household comes from his wife and niece. In the live-action chinese series, Nanjiroh ''forgot to pick up Ryoma at the airport'' and mistook his cellphone for the remote controller of the TV.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Nobody believes the old, bum-looking monk used to be one of the best professional tennis players of Japan.
* DirtyOldMan: Now spends time looking at porn magazines.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: He rarely is seen with shoes on, and even in his flashbacks he is shown to train barefoot.
* GoalInLife: He wanted to become the best player in the world. Once his new dream in life became raising Ryoma and teaching him tennis, he retired from the professional circuit.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: He reveals [[spoiler:that the Pinnacle of Perfection (Teni Muhou no Kiwami) lies within every player, and that everyone is already in this state when they first start playing tennis. The Pinnacle of Perfection starts to fade away as a player starts to get more competitive and becomes too preoccupied with winning or losing, and can only be regained when the player forsakes the outcome of the match and plays simply for the fun of enjoying tennis.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LovableSexManiac: He is constantly flirting with women and looking at gravure idol magazines, but no less funny.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: He falls for Rinko, the only girl to reject him.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: His tennis abilities haven't diminished, but he loves acting like a moron until he's got to comment on tennis or play.
* PermaStubble: Another thing that leads people to think he’s a perverted bum.
* RetiredBadass: He retired once Ryoma was born.
* TricksterMentor: His usual method to train Ryoma is provoking him.
* WorldsBestWarrior: Very likely the best tennis player in the series, if not the world.

[[folder:Echizen Rinko (née Takeuchi)]]

[[folder:Echizen Nanjirou]]

[[folder:Meino Nanako]]

Meino Nanako is Ryoma's cousin; she is a student at a local Tokyo college, who currently lives with her relatives, the Echizen family. She plays the role of an elder sibling figure to Ryoma, who is an only child and helps him and the other Echizens with their daily lives. She is sweet-tempered, very polite, loyal, and devoted.

[[folder:Horio Satoshi]]

Horio Satoshi is a first year student, who claims to know everything about tennis. He constantly brags about his "two years of tennis experience", but he is, in fact, a less than average player. He often explains or tries to explain to his first year friends key words, rules, and techniques. He has an older cousin named Junpei, who has "two years of biking experience" and helps Kintarou Tooyama from Shitenhouji reach Tokyo.

[[folder:Kato Kachirou]]

Kato Kachirou hangs around a lot with Horio Satoshi and Mizuno Katsuo. Although he is not very good at tennis, he thoroughly supports the team. He has a father who coaches at an expensive tennis club. Though he is normally polite and meek, Kachirou believes strongly in justice and fights to the end to defend his beliefs. As such, he has proven to be brave and stubborn when a situation calls for it.

[[folder:Mizuno Katsuo]]

Mizuno Katsuo is the third of the "Freshman Three". He is a kind and soft-spoken person, but lacks confidence. Often when he does something good he would just consider it to be good luck or a coincidence. He respects his senior club members a lot and would never lose hope in them. Therefore when something is amiss within the club Katsuo would often get very worried, despite the fact that it does not concern him.

[[folder:Arai Masashi]]

Arai Masashi is a second year student and the best reserve player on the team, who is the closest to becoming a regular, almost getting a shot to play in Kanto Tournament finals in the anime when Momoshiro and Kaidou were nowhere to be seen. He is known for his hotheadedness and hazing of weaker players. He is as hard on himself as he is on the others during training. Although he had a very bitter relationship with Ryoma at first, he cheered him on during his match with Akutsu.

[[folder:Ikeda Masaya]]

[[folder:Hayashi Daisuke]]

[[folder:Ryuuzaki Sakuno]]

Ryuuzaki Sakuno is the granddaughter of Ryuuzaki Sumire. She is a kind, nice, and quiet girl with very long hair kept in twin braids, and often worries about Ryoma and the others. She starts playing tennis after watching Ryoma helps support the Seigaku team. Sakuno is attracted towards Ryoma and has feelings for him, she has not had a chance to tell him due to her own shy nature, a degree of bad luck, and the meddling of other people. In the manga, she is shown to be more intuitive, mature and a good tennis player. Out of all the girls in the story, she is the only one whom Ryoma shows his kind personality.

* CuteClumsyGirl: She is very prone to accidents and mistakes, like falling randomly or giving bad directions.

[[folder:Osakada Tomoka]]

Osakada Tomoka is Sakuno's best friend and classmate. Unlike her best friend, Tomoka is very outgoing and assertive. She is the self-proclaimed and very enthusiastic president of the Echizen Ryoma fanclub. She supports Ryoma along with Sakuno at the team's matches. She and Sakuno cheer together and are very good friends. Tomoka is attached to Ryoma, and she shows this more than Sakuno. Although her obvious crush on the boy, she stated that the only one she considers her love rival is Sakuno. She also can be seen arguing with Horio at times.

[[folder:Tachibana An]]

Tachibana An the cute younger sister of Kippei. She is a member of the girls tennis club, and often supports her brother's team. An cares very much for her brother and her friends from both the Seigaku and Fudomine teams and tries to help them as much as possible. On the other hand, she has a rather explosive and even downright vicious temper that leads her to either get in trouble for the sake of others (as proved by Sakuno and Atobe) or become physically violent (as proved by [[spoiler: Kirihara]]).

* CuteSportsClubManager

* PassionateSportsGirl
* PluckyGirl

* TheTease: The most fashion-conscious of the girls.

[[folder:Urayama Shiita]]

Urayama Shiita is a freshman from the Rikkaidai Middle School tennis club and aspires to be a regular the following year. He goes with Horio Satoshi and Dan Taichi to the U-17 Camp to visit his senpais.

[[folder:Chitose Miyuki]]

Chitose Miyuki is the younger sister of Shitenhouji's Chitose Senri. She plays tennis as well and interestingly, is a lefty just like her brother.

[[folder:Akutsu Yuki]]

[[folder:Fuji Yumiko]]

[[folder:Inoue Mamoru]]

Inoue Mamoru is a journalist for the ''Monthly Tennis Pro'' magazine. Inoue takes a special interest in the progress of Seigaku. He is also an amateur tennis player, as well as being a big fan of Echizen Nanjirou.

* HypocriticalHumor: Lightly scolds Shiba for not taking work seriously, then goes all blushy when he meets Nanako. Shiiba immediately lampshades the trope.

[[folder:Shiba Saori]]

Shiba Saori is the new photographer for the ''Monthly Tennis Pro'' magazine. Along with Inoue, she takes a special interest in Seigaku.

* CuteKitten

** He is the only living thing Ryoma is consistently loving to.
** Also with Kaidoh.

* PluckyGirl

* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen She Who Must Not Be Seen]]: We barely get to see her face in the modern time stories.

* BunnyEarsLawyer

* LovableSexManiac
* LoveAtFirstPunch

* PermaStubble

* TricksterMentor

* CoolBigSis

* NiceGirl

* BigOlUnibrow

* NiceGuy

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the last chapter of the series, Mizuno let his hair grow when they passed to 2nd year.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* CuteClumsyGirl

* ClingyJealousGirl

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* {{Fangirl}}: Of Ryoma.

* GenkiGirl
* GirlishPigtails
* HotBlooded

* {{Shorttank}}
* SupremeChef
* TokenMiniMoe

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: His favorite ice cream flavors are chocolate, coffee and chestnut... [[PunnyName Make of it whatever you want...]]

* {{Bokukko}}

* PluckyGirl
* TokenMiniMoe

* CombatCommentator

* IntrepidReporter

* NiceGuy

* ButtMonkey

* NaiveNewcomer
* UnlimitedWardrobe

* CuteSportsClubManager: from the Tsubakikawa Gakuen tennis team.

* StalkerWithACrush: Or at least it looks like it.

* SempaiKohai: To Shiba.

* HachiMaki
* HotBlooded

* BikerBabe: In her youth.

* CryCute: After one of the Golden Pair's losses, she cries in Sakuno's arms.

-->Voiced by: Creator/MikakoTakahashi (JP), Creator/CindyRobinson (EN, Viz Media), Creator/XantheHyunh (EN, Funimation), Yaraiví Alcedo (LA SP, Episodes 1-52), Marycel González (LA SP, Episodes 53-97)

-->Voiced by: Creator/MikakoTakahashi (JP), Creator/CindyRobinson (EN), Yaraiví Alcedo (LA SP, Episodes 1-52), Marycel González (LA SP, Episodes 53-97)

* GirlishPigtails: Hidden under a... NiceHat.