A great game for tennis fans but lacks in some areas.
First off I'm going to get into the sound. This received a 7 from me because the soundtrack and music can get very repetitive and annoy you after hearing it for the 30th time. There is no voice acting whatsoever either. I'm sure it would have been hard to track down pros and get their voices and it probably wouldn't have been so great getting fake actors for the pros so I will give this the benefit of the doubt. The cool thing about the sound, however, is that the grunts and screams the pros do are very accurate to the specific pro (tennis fans will know what I mean when I say that Sharapova's scream is unique).
Graphics are very solid and show off the PS3's power well. Some of the models look exactly like the pros when some of the others are lacking. Lighting is great and matches will look best in the afternoon and evening.
Gameplay is great because it is nice and simple to the point. You will not get overwhelmed with punching a bunch of different buttons to do a simple shot. You simply use the right side buttons ( Square, Triangle, Circle, and Cross) for your shot type and control your character and shot direction with either the analog stick or D-pad. The main game objective is to become rank number one within a 20 year period after starting out at rank 300. The difficulty seems somewhat flawed. I played on normal difficulty from rank 300-200 and lost no matches or games at all, in fact I barely lost a point ever. Then all of a sudden I hit rank 200 and started losing matches all of a sudden. The mini games are fun but can get old fast.
Some other cons include no online multiplayer, lacking in some pros, and character customization is not amazing.
Overall this is a fun game playing either the world tour mode or some exhibition matches with friends and family. Definitely recommend this to tennis fans as it motivates me to go out and play the real game.