It’s easy to pick up and get acclimated, yet it’s also very deep. After that, all you do is aim your shot in any direction with the left stick and hope your opponent can’t hit it back. Every time you swing the racquet in Virtua Tennis 4, you have the option of hitting the ball with top spin, or back spin, (you can also hit deep or shallow lobs to foil those the rush the net or hang back behind the baseline, or hit a super powered shot when your “concentration gauge” fills up) and it’s as easy as hitting the correct face-button when you initiate your shot. The first thing I did when I started playing Virtua Tennis 4 was check out what options I had for applying spin to the ball. A tennis court is small enough that without that spin, every match would boil down to a war of attrition. One of the few weapons a tennis player has is the spin they can apply to the ball when they hit it. Freed from the clash of bodies in a soccer match, or the archaic rules of baseball and golf, tennis boils down to human versus physics versus another human versus physics. However, no sport distills such elegance down into its basic components better than tennis. When I think back to the coolest things I’ve ever seen in sporting events, it almost always involves bending, curving, or spinning the ball in some way whether it’s a seemingly over-hit golf shot that is deftly back-spun into the hole, or a perfect strike on goal that bends away from the diving goal-keeper, I love those moment and it’s a big reason why I enjoy those sports. There is just something inherently beautiful and elegant in the way the ball moves in such sports. It’s not just tennis, in fact, but soccer, baseball, golf, billiards, and table tennis all draw me in for the same reason. I’m drawn to sports like tennis specifically, it’s the angles and spin that can be applied to the ball.
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