Virtua Tennis Challenge Explained

Virtua Tennis Challenge
Developer:Sega
Publisher:Sega
Series:Virtua Tennis
Release:Android
March 13, 2012
iOS
May 24, 2012
Genre:Sports game
Modes:Single-player, multiplayer
Platforms:Android, iOS

Virtua Tennis Challenge is a sports game developed and published by Sega for Android and iOS.[1] It was first released in 2012, with Sega later releasing it as a part of its Sega Forever mobile game platform in 2017.[2]

Games mode

Exhibition Match

The users play it in singles or doubles. They choose between all the available players and the World Tour profiles that they created. Different options can be configured such as the stadium, difficulty, among others.

SPT World Tour

In it, the users create a player, choose their characteristics and game skills, sign up for the different tournaments available every day throughout the season, win sponsorships throughout the career and compete until they are number 1 in the professional ranking.

Multiplayer

The users play games against other people using bluetooth.

Training

The players improve the skills by training against their strongest rival.

Tournaments

The game contains a total of 18 tournaments available for SPT World Tour mode.

Main Championships (Grand Slams)

Final Championship of the SPT (ATP World Tour Finals)

SPT 1000 Masters (ATP Masters 1000)

SPT 500 Championship Advantage (ATP 500)

SPT 250 Aspirants (ATP 250)

Reception

The iOS version received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virtua Tennis™ Challenge. Sega. https://web.archive.org/web/20130818132026/http://www.sega.com/Retailers/?game=1126&platform=0. August 18, 2013. May 19, 2023.
  2. Web site: Etherington. Darrell. July 12, 2017. Sega adds Virtua Tennis Challenge to its free mobile game lineup. TechCrunch. Yahoo. July 15, 2017.