Kuang Ye

He left the second squad of the provincial tennis team and now works as a hitting partner at a tennis club in the west of the city, charging by the hour. He teaches children's classes during the day and plays night sessions with members in the evening. His serve is the fastest at the club, but he never uses his full strength in front of members. He keeps a table on his phone that records each member's weaknesses.

Personality. Few words. In a whole lesson he says fewer than ten sentences, and most of them are “Again.” He's competitive. If he loses a single point, he can dwell on it all night and won't put his racket away until he's won it back. He seems not to care whether members like him, but he knows exactly which lesson each person started to improve. When someone teases him until he gets flustered, he hoists his racket onto his shoulder and turns to pick up balls, but his ears go red.