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Story of a Pro (プロの話 Puro no Hanashi) is the 267th chapter of manga, Baby Steps.

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Coach Aoi invites Eiichiro to his house to watch his match when he was still a pro. They also have a heart-to-heart conversation in which they share their own frustrations regarding on their tennis career.

Synopsis[]

Coach Aoi showed Ei-chan the match where Aoi injured himself and another match that took place after his injury. Ei-chan thought the injury was the reason for the deterioration in Aoi's performance in the later match. Aoi said that wasn't the case. The faltering in his tennis was because he'd started to doubt himself and was lying to himself. In interviews, he'd claimed he'd come to terms with the risk of injury and had taken it in stride, but inside he was afraid of getting injured again. It was that lie that led to his decision to retire. He showed Ei-chan the over 20 pages of notes Ei-chan had written after the semifinal match with Kanda. All that points to Ei-chan being focused on the next match and is proof Ei-chan hasn't given up on his dream to become a pro. Ei-chan demands if what Coach Aoi is saying is "Become a pro." Aoi says that's not it because he knows how difficult it is to be a pro, just that whatever Ei-chan does, he mustn't lie to himself; otherwise Ei-chan would make a lie of everything he's done in his 2+ years of tennis.


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