Ending 2024 at world No. 15 with two titles to his name, the lefty is solidifying himself as a contender on the ATP tour.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...