The quick-twitch action of tennis is hard to re-create on mobile devices, which lack analog control of any kind. Most games compensate by, to various degrees, automating shot selection and execution.

All of that applied to the four previous Top Spin games, but TopSpin 2K25 takes more steps to make the game approachable. A TopSpin Academy mode narrated by John McEnroe includes thorough tutorials ...

Over the years, I’ve wasted more time than I care to admit serving, slicing and (very occasionally) slamming virtual yellow balls. Many tennis games are forgettable, some are horrible and a very few ...

Whipping his racquet through the air like a cesta in jai alai, Rafael Nadal produces such tremendous topspin that the ball sometimes seems to catapult off the court, creating a shot as challenging to ...

Thinking about it for a second, tennis games have a weird tendency to be at the forefront of revolution in the videogames industry. The first proper commercial videogame was a tennis game. Virtua ...

Pierre André still carries around the feeling from six years ago. I asked him about it last week and he responded like it had all happened the day before. "Oh, it felt like crap," the video game ...

If you play Tennis World Tour’s career mode, be prepared to suffer from jet lag. Career modes across every type of sport represented in a video game have all featured rest (MLB The Show, for pitchers) ...

This story is one segment of a four-part series on SI Tennis that will look back in history and chronicle the changes and progression of fundamental aspects of the game, from sneakers to rackets and ...

BREAK POINT: Nadal wants to project a more mature image and develop interests beyond tennis. "It's only a game," he says. "It's not work. It's hobby work."Photograph for TIME by Lea Crespi After ...