In a world awash with different sporting gaming offerings, tennis as a sport has always managed to hold its own.
Primitive games such as Virtua Tennis and Actual Tennis dominated the markets in the 1990’s and 2000’s, whilst the advent of tennis gaming on the Nintendo Wii took the popularity of tennis gaming to a new level in the early 2010’s.
However, this has yet to have been fully captured upon and whilst the likes of Roger Federer and Serena Williams have moved the game to a whole new level on the court, the gaming sphere for a long time couldn’t manage to stay in touch.
However, recent tennis developments in the gaming world such the Matchpoint Tennis Championships and Tennis Manager, have given tennis gaming fans access to a whole new world of options within the world of tennis gameplay, the offers.bet, odds and bonuses aggregator reported.
Button bashing tennis games have very much become a thing of the past with these two latest innovations to hit the market.
Matchpoint Tennis Championships has had a hold on the tennis gaming sphere, both on mobile devices and consoles, with realistic gameplay being very much the USP. All of the expected features of a sports game are available, from career mode to tournament play – making it a real feast for tennis fans.
For those who prefer to think about tennis more strategically, Tennis Manager has been released. In essence, the game structure is very similar to that of a football manager, where coaching and nurturing a player to maximise their potential is integral to a player’s success.
Regardless of which game punters opt for, there is a burgeoning sense of excitement centring around the tennis gaming world currently – particularly with the 2022 US Open on the horizon at Flushing Meadows in New York.
With a full complement of players in the field once more in New York following the COVID 19 fall out in 2021, anticipation is building once more around the most lucrative Grand Slam tournament in world tennis.
Russian Daniil Medvedev will be doing all he can to defend the title he won last year, his only career Grand Slam title he has managed to win to date and after being outlawed from Wimbledon for political reasons, he should be raring to go in 2022.
Key runners and riders align in the form of Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz and Nick Kyrgios in what promises to be another fascinating tournament.
Emma Raducanu made history in winning the 2021 US Open as a qualifier last year and whilst her career hasn’t developed too much since, she remains one of the biggest names in the game.
She will be keeping an eye on the likes of Iga Swiatek, Simona Halep and Naomi Osaka as she defends her title, and it is all shaping up to be a US Open to remember.