Synopsis
Twenty top-seeded professional women tennis stars make an appearance in Konami's WTA Tour Tennis for the Game Boy Advance. Gameplay modes include Exhibition and WTA Tour action, with multiplayer competition for up to four players via link cable. Singles and doubles matches are available in each mode from a dozen venues featuring grass, clay, and hard courts. Exhibition mode offers a single match, with customizable options for the number of games, stadium, and match rules. In WTA Tour mode, players strive to win four tournaments and the WTA Championship.
The full roster of international stars includes five U.S.A. players: Serena Williams, Jennifer Capriati, Lindsay Davenport, Monica Seles, and Alexandra Stevenson. Other tennis stars include Martina Hingis (Switzerland), Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin (Belgium), Jelena Dokic (Yugoslavia), Amanda Coetzer (South Africa), Elena Dementieva and Lina Krasnoroutskaya (Russia), Sandrine Testud (France), Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (Spain), Anke Huber (Germany), Ai Sugiyama and Shinobu Asagoe (Japan), Cara Black (Zimbabwe), Mirjana Lucic (Croatia), and Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia).
Each player is individually rated in power, volley, speed, lob, serve, and stroke abilities, and a short bio with date of birth, height, weight, right or left hand preference, nationality, and playing style is provided as well. Match scores are announced verbally as well as displayed on the screen. The licensed Sanex WTA Tour was founded in the early-'70s heydays of Billie Jean King and Margaret Smith Court, when the grievous disparity of purse money and media attention between men's and women's sports was first openly challenged.
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Features
- Play as any one of twenty world-ranked WTA professional international women tennis stars
- Stars are rated individually in power, volley, speed, lob, serve, and stroke ability
- Play in Exhibition or WTA Tour modes
- Singles and doubles matches
- Up to four can compete via link cable
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Extra Credits
The licensed Sanex WTA Tour was founded in the early-'70s heydays of Billie Jean King and Margaret Smith Court, when the grievous disparity of purse money and media attention between men's and women's sports was first openly challenged. WTA Tour Tennis focuses on 20 professional women tennis stars of the WTA.
Also Available On
| Platform | Publisher | Developer | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo GameCube | Konami of America, Inc. | Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka (KCEO) | 2002 |
| PlayStation 2 | Konami of America, Inc. | Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka (KCEO) | 2002 |
| Xbox | Konami of America, Inc. | Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka (KCEO) | 2002 |
