Tennis Elbow 4

Tennis Elbow 4 succeeds Mana Games' Tennis Elbow 2013, which built a long-standing reputation as one of the most rigorous tennis sims on PC. The fourth game rebuilds ball, strike and player physics from scratch, putting more weight on positioning, anticipation and risk management than reflex timing.

The World Tour mode is the centerpiece: over 3500 players competing in more than 400 tournaments per year, from junior qualifications to Grand Slam finals, in singles and doubles. The timeline runs from 1973 for men and 1983 for women all the way to 2042, with full ranking systems. Darren Kilfara, voice of Tennis TV, provides commentary.

Nine court surfaces (clay, green clay, grass, hard, blue-green hard, classic synthetic, NewLine synthetic, indoor hard, indoor synthetic) each have specific rebound profiles. Twenty-one stadiums, six difficulty tiers split into ten sublevels each, seven camera modes and split-screen round it out. Online is peer-to-peer, so CGNAT users may not be able to host.