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Nanjiro Echizen (越前南次郎, Echizen Nanjirō?) is the father of Ryoma. Nanjiro is very outspoken, eccentric, a shameless flirt, brash, perverted, and almost childish at times. He is known as "Samurai Nanjiro" for his invincible tennis skills during his earlier years as a professional tennis player. Other than Ryoma, he is the only player to have reached the "Pinnacle of Perfection". He is trained by Ryuzaki during middle school and eventually becomes a professional after leaving Japan. He remains undefeated and was only one opponent away to earning a Grand Slam title before he unexpectedly decided to retire in order to teach Ryoma tennis. In the animated movie Tennis no Ōjisama - Futari no Samurai, it was revealed that he had briefly taken in a child named Ryoga Echizen. In addition to being one of the few players to ever achieve the "Pinnacle of Perfection", Nanjiro sports a tennis style that uses the "Nitoryuu" position of playing ambidextrously, and uses Samurai Zone to cause all of his opponents shots to return straight to him.Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama (Japanese), Liam O'Brien (English) He is played by Yukio Ueshima in the first musical, Shinnosuke Motoyama in 2nd season, and Goro Kishitani in the live action film.

Sakuno Ryuzaki (竜崎桜乃, Ryūzaki Sakuno?) is the granddaughter of 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 hasn't 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 intuisive, 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. Voiced by: Mikako Takahashi (Japanese), Cindy Robinson (English)

Tomoka Osakada (小坂田朋香, Osakada Tomoka?) is Sakuno's best friend and classmate, she supports Ryoma along with Sakuno at the teams 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. Voiced by: Fuyuka Oura (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)

Satoshi Horio (堀尾聡史, 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 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 Kintarō Tooyama from Shitenhōji to reach Tokyo. He is portrayed by Yusuke Ishibashi, Masaki Hara, Ryo Yamada, and Shun Maruyama in the musicals.Voiced by: Shigenori Yamazaki (Japanese), Adam Lawson (English)

Kachiro Kato (加藤勝郎, Katō Kachirō?) hangs around a lot with Satoshi Horio and Katsuo Mizuno. 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, Kachiro believes strongly in justice and fights to the end to defend his beliefs. He is portrayed by Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Yuya Mori, Ryou Kawamoto, Tsubasa Itou and Hiroki Hirai in the musicals.Voiced by: Akira Nakagawa (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)

Katsuo Mizuno (水野カツオ, Mizuno Katsuo?) is the third of the "freshman three." He bears a strong resemblance to Oishi, which is used to stall for time while Oishi is not present. He is portrayed by Masaru Hotta, Yuki Okamoto, Kouichi Eguchi, Masashi Watanabe and Rie Takahashi in the musicals.Voiced by: Kei Watanabe (Japanese), Yuri Lowenthal (English)

Masashi Arai (荒井将史, 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 Kantō Tournament finals in the anime when Momoshiro and Kaido 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. He often hangs around Masaya Ikeda (池田雅也, Ikeda Masaya?) and Daisuke Hayashi (林大介, Hayashi Daisuke?). He is portrayed by Jiro Morikawa in the musicals.Voiced by: Norihisa Mori (Japanese), Liam O'Brien (English)

Yūdai Yamato (大和祐大, Yamato Yūdai?) was the captain during Tezuka's freshman year. He talks Tezuka into staying in the tennis club as Seigaku's pillar of support, calming him down when he was on the verge of quitting after being injured. Eccentric, insightful and gentle, Yamato has a unique way of explaining things that even Sumire Ryuzaki has trouble understanding. He continued to help the tennis club after graduation; in the anime, coach Ryuzaki asks him for his guidance when they go to a training camp to prepare for the Kantō conference final against Rikkai.Voiced by: Masanori Ikeda

Mamoru Inoue (井上守, Inoue Mamoru?) is a journalist for the Monthly Tennis 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 Nanjiro Echizen. Voiced by: Hozumi Gōda (Japanese), Jack Bauer (English)

Saori Shiba (芝砂織, Shiba Saori?) is the new photographer for the Monthly Tennis Pro magazine. Along with Inoue, she takes a special interest in Seigaku. Voiced by: Noriko Namiki (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)

Nanako Meino (菜々子, 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. Voiced by: Risa Mizuno (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)

Rinko Echizen is Ryoma's mother and Nanjiro's wife. Her maiden name is Rinko Takeuchi. She is sweet and compliant, but quite strong-willed as well. She works as an attorney, which has been her long-time dream. She mets Nanjiro while playing tennis when she gets hurt from saving a boy from an abusive tennis coach, Nanjiro avenges her by completely humiliating the coach in a match. Voiced by: Yuki Nakao

Sasabe is a local bully, who occasionally encounters Ryoma and his friends. He is first introduced when he boasts about his knowledge of the different types of tennis grip, which is when Ryoma corrects his knowledge. He is also the first person in the series to play a match against Ryoma, whom he loses to. His father, who has an attitude similar to his son, also encounters Ryoma and his friends on a few occasions. He is portrayed by Katsuo in the first musical.Voiced by: Yoshiaki Matsumoto (Japanese), David Lodge (English)

Miyuki Chitose (みゆき千歳, Chitose Miyuki?) is Senri's eight year old little sister and the one who helped Tezuka make it in time for the nationals after he injuries his shoulder after a match with Keigo Atobe in the first round of the Kanto Tournament and has no choice to go to Kyushu for rehabilitation. They meet after Tezuka accidentally started using her racket to practice hitting in his training. Since then, Miyuki started calling him "Racket Thief" or "Mister Thief". She became his little coach and after her Yips, a medical condition where the body's muscles stiffen because nervousness, kicked in during a match, Tezuka told her about the only way to get over it is to train and will build confidence. A tennis team then walked in and told Tezuka about how Seishun won the Kanto Tournament without him. Tezuka then starting playing tennis with one of team members, but lost because he now has a fear of lifting his shoulder. Miyuki then decided to play against the team. Amazingly, she doesn't give up and her Yips doesn't occur. This made Tezuka the reason he can't lift his arm is because of what happened so after Miyuki trips, he hits the ball back and takes her place. Tezuka wins against the team and during the matches Senri checks up on him. Tezuka realizes he can make it back in time. A few days later, Miyuki was able to become champion of a tennis tournament and went to show her new medal to Tezuka, but he is gone, cause he has already left. Miyuki reappears in Another Story Ova 1, after seeing Tezuka in a book store.

Liliadent Krauser (リリアデント・クラウザー（蔵兎座）, Ririadento Kurauzā?) is one of the seven foreign students gathered for the national conventions. He appears only in the OVAs (debut appearance in 'OVA Semifinal Vol. 3-Episode 6', and then in 'The New Prince of Tennis: OVA 4') Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara