Virtua Tennis (series)

Virtua Tennis is a series of tennis games published by Sega, Hitmaker and Sumo Digital.

Gameplay
All four games allow players to play as real life tennis pros. The first game only allowed Men's division, but starting from Virtua Tennis 2, the women's division became a staple.

All games allow for single and doubles matches and include a World Tour mode where the player starts off as the 300th seed and must work their way up through the ranks by beating opponents and mini games using the mechanics of the game.

These minigames vary greatly from breaking clay plates, to taking on a tank that shoots tennis balls at you to using soccer balls to score goals against cardboard opponents via serving.

Games

 * Virtua Tennis - 1999/2000. Dreamcast, Arcade, Windows
 * Virtua Tennis 2 - 2001. Dreamcast, Arcade, PlayStation 2.
 * Virtua Tennis 3 - 2006/2007. Arcade, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, PlayStation Portable.
 * Virtua Tennis 4 - 2011/2012. Arcade, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Windows, PlayStation Vita.

Trivia

 * Tommy Haas is the only real life player to have a perfect Virtua Tennis attendance.
 * Venus Williams and Tim Henman appear in three out of four titles, Williams missing out in Virtua Tennis as it was men's division only and Henman being absent from Virtua Tennis 4.
 * Jim Courier is the only player who returned after skipping a title.