Top Spin Tennis makes great strides in the simulation of shot selection, but its automation of player movement negates this progress. The quick-twitch action of tennis is hard to re-create on mobile ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just as a little spin, properly placed, can alter the course of a political campaign, so too does it affect the path of the ball in so many sports. In tennis, spin allows players to hit harder and ...

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) ...

After studying the exotic wildlife of the Galápagos Islands, Charles Darwin surmised that animals can develop unique traits when they evolve in isolation. In the tennis world, Rafael Nadal is such an ...