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Tennis Champs Returns – Simulation Game Review
Tennis Champs Returns is a Simulation/Sports game from Uprising Games Ltd., first launched in 17th February 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,445+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tennis Champs Returns Stand Out
"One of the greatest mobile games released EVER" – Jared Nelson, TouchArcade 24/8/2018.
The world's best Tennis game is back!
- Deep Career mode, with 200 opponents
- Touch Tennis mini game
- Retro or Touch controls. (+Control Pad Support)
- GameCenter 2 player
20 years after the original Tennis Champs and Super Tennis Champs hit the Amiga, this is the "King of Tennis Games" brought up to date.
Remade completely for iOS by the original Amiga version programmer, using the original characters and retouched animation, combined with all new physics, AI, new controls, Daily Challenges, and a great new Career mode.
Daily Challenge serves up a mixture of modes, tennis games, opponents and mini games each day, with completion yielding rewards to help you in your career.
Career mode pits you against a field of 200 Tennis Pros on a full world tour packed with Events. Can you climb the rankings, win the major titles and be declared the True Tennis Champ?
- Included in TouchArcade's "10 Best Games of 2016" Lists! *
GAME OF THE WEEK : TouchArcade 20th Feb 2016
"Tennis Champs Returns is my favorite game of 2016 so far…" – Jared Nelson of Touch Arcade
"Best tennis game I have ever played " – Mr Charley – TouchArcade Forum
"This had to be one of the very best sports' games on iOS ever made! " – DJStout – TA Forum
"Winning my first major.. Has to be one of the most satisfying moments in my sports gaming history!" – Mikiesque – TA Forum
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tennis Champs Returns is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th January 2024
Recent improvements include:
Advert SDK Updates
Download & Availability
Tennis Champs Returns is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Tennis Champs Returns on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We think this is the first actually good tennis game. Bravo.
Im an avid player of the tennis champs game on the AppStore for many years and believe it to be the best game Ive ever played on mobile. We believe it still has great potential.we would really love it if you guys could make it so that us players could edit the speeds of the tournaments to keep things interesting.Sounds like to us a small update for making loyal fans happy. You could also make it a premium subscription thing only to get some profit. It would really mean a lot. Adding custom court speeds to match todays tournaments would make the game 10 times more fun please consider this.
This game is great if u want a challenge and its really fun we think it would be more fun and challenging if they added more different type of volleys and serves and serves and volleys that you could buy in like a shop maybe.
This is the tennis game to play when you want career/carecter building/ tournament/quality play fun. No other tennis like it Super fun with good strong touch of realism.
Game is great but it drains battery and lights our phone on fire. Also needs a much more difficult mode.
We love this game. But the cpu on our iphone gets very hot and battery gets drained quick when playing it.
We've been playing this game for quite a bit and we have gotten so good to the point that it's been months since we've dropped the set. And yes, we have been on the hard mode instead of the novice mode the entire time. Please make a harder mode so we (we) can get a better challenge out of it.
This game is absolutely amazing and addicting. But we reach a point where Im maxed out and able to beat every single player with ease. Need higher difficulty aswell as more customization options and different color racquet designs. Besides that the game is amazing and you should definitely play it.
At a certain point, once your character is maxed out, it becomes impossible to lose. Jeff is the second best player in the game after our character, and its no longer a close game ever. Could you guys please install some new and more difficult characters.
The gameplay is great but whenever you start a match or training an ad will play (which is fine). The only problem is that the training or the game also continue during the ad so you will lose points or lose the training.
We love this game and its offline mode. However, the online multiplayer could use some fixes. Im not sure if its just our connection but every time we try to play with our friend, it take extremely long. Even when it does load, the game glitches and we end up on the same side of the court. Nevertheless, great game.
We absolutely love the game. We have won everything on the mens circuit and am now working through the womens circuit. However, we cant play the game for more than five minutes then our phone is over heating and has dropped by 30 percent. Overall the game is intriguing and very fun, but the overheating makes it impossible to play for long periods of time.
Love the game! Can't figure out how to change shirts.
Great game but one problem. When an ad plays when you start a match your opponent might have 1st serve and they will still play during the ad.
Plays adds in the start of matches when opponent is serving. Will lose the first few point.
The game needs an update, every time we try and play multiplayer with a friend, it kicks us out the game. Overall the game is still awesome! But needs an update immediately.
The game is good, but sometimes when ads play the game doesn't pause. This causes us to start a game down 0-1 or 0-30 at times. Please fix this to make the game fair.
When will season 5 come out? This game is so good besides a few things 1. The drops shot is terrible, it floats in the air way too much and gives the opponent way too much time to get to it and put it away. 2. We know you are supposed to work your way up in the rankings for the career mode but you start off pretty bad, even for a professional player. All in all this is a great game and cant wait for new updates.
Its challenging and fun to play. We have spent many hours playing and we still have to work really hard to win some matches. Most sports games get boring after awhile because they become easy to win. This game still challenges us even though we do win the vast majority of our games.
We would love to see you guys work on something like this for the switch itll be a instant pickup for us even if we have to pay.
Okay so this game is actually really cool. We love how you can strategize and make your player better at tennis and that have a career and stuff. Its epic. You can play on grass and clay as well as the hard court, and the graphics are pretty good. There arent very many ads and theres a lot of things to do. The one problem Ive noticed is very rare, and it has only happened to us twice. Ive been playing against the cpu, who aims for the edges of the court, and then they hit the ball out and the game calls it out, so you cant run to it or anything, and the point is over. Then, the game shows an up close version of the ball landing out, but it lands every so slightly on the line, gets called in, and gives the point to the other player. Its really very annoying because you cant do anything about it. Other than that, the game is great. We really recommend it if you have some time to kill.
This is a really simple, fun, and addictive tennis simulator. However, Id love to see the addition of an option to adjust the size of the joystick. We have big fingers and find ourselves constantly missing the joystick when trying to move. An option to adjust the size would save us a lot of matches lol. Otherwise, love the game and thanks to the devs.
We love this game. The physics and controls are great. The art and gameplay is great. Even the balance is great. We just have a few issues. First, when you have max stats, sometimes the serving glitches and the serve ends up a little to the right of where you aim (just like when your character is low level). Also, the line calling is terrible. We understand that you should be able to challenge, but not as much as you have to in-game. Sometimes you hit a ball out and when you challenge the call, the text says the ball is in and you win the point. Lastly, ads can play when the opponent is going to serve and you cannot control the player so you end up losing points. Dont get us wrong we love this game, the developer(s) just has to look into these bugs.
Good game, but whenever we do training an ad pops up at the beginning and when we finally close it the training is over and we lost.
It is so hard to win it is impossible please make it easier.
This game is really good if your into tennis. Its a great in the ranking system plus the tournaments and its really enjoyable with barely any ads. The leveling up is easy to comprehend and you can make your own character. Some minor things, we havent played doubles very much but its really easy for the net player to hit an easy winner making most double games very short, and some of the calls are absolutely bizarre. On one or two occasions, the opponent (AI) hit the ball just outside the line and when he challenged it, the ball was called good even though it was clearly not on the line (this happened to us once when we called it and we ended up winning the point even though our serve was out). There is also a feature in the game where you hit the top of the net on a serve and the ball lands in making it a let but the line judges call it out. If you challenge it, you win the point automatically instead of redoing the server. There was also one time where our opponent was hitting it down the line and hit the net. It was originally our point but the AI challenged it and even though the ball hit his side of the net, he still somehow won the point. These calls are of rare occurrence and dont happen every match so we wouldnt necessarily make it a game changer. We would like to see better doubles improvement in the exhibition and lower coins to purchase a better doubles partner as all of them are very expensive.
We love the gameplay of this game and the fact that it actually takes skill and its not super easy. One big complaint though is when we go into a new week in career mode and get an ad it starts the game while Im watching the ad and this gives the opponent such a big advantage. Its very annoying and we hope you guys see this.
Add difficulty modes because the game gets really easy after a certain point.
We like this game. As a tennis player, playing fun tennis games is always, well fun. But with this one, although we enjoyed, there are a couple things that annoy us. The controls are good, but there are problems. The aiming feature is a little finicky, but we like it. The bar on your player as well is too small, Id make it a bit bigger. All these things are amplified though, when the view switches and you change sides. It makes the game harder, and because of the 2-D art, the ball is hard to time. Get rid of the view, or change it somehow.
There used to be two control options you could choose from, the joycon controls and then there were swipe controls (we dont remember the exact name) that were much more user friendly. We dont know why they were removed because they made the game so much more fun. The joycon controls are very difficult to use. Its such a same because this game is really fun and now we feel like we cant play it anymore.
The kick serve is rigged. The only way to hit the targets is by not using kick serve or luck.
Ive been having this consistent problem. Every time we finish a game, it shows an advertisement and it causes us to lose a game against our opponent.
Entertaining game, but frustrating flaws with the game not tallying ranking points properly and sometimes not logging major wins. How do we beat a CPU player, gain more ranking points from the win, but still fall further behind that same player in the standings.
Good concept but pretty obviously rigged in the AIs favor. Even low level tournaments leery much impossible to win even with 4-5 star characters. You never get the 1 seed and whoever the one seed is always seems to make impossible shots and get rigged challenges to win. Also ads run during games causing you to lose points, and your character will sometimes stop completely for no reason.
This game is fun and realistic, but gets 2 stars because you have to pay a fee with in game money to play tournaments. We were addicted to the game when we realized you need coins to play in tournaments in career mode. We quit playing, and eventually deleted the app.
Concept is good. Reminds us of mario tennis. Back the controls as bad, almost unplayable. Download the game and youll be stuck in the tutorials. Dont download.
This game is horrible Everytime we try to enter the game the screen goes black fix it bruh.
Really want to love this game but as we got better, our player started double faulting 5-6 times per match making it impossible to play. Ive tried increasing our skill, practicing serves, and changing technique. It doesnt matter. Please please please update this game.
This is a well made tennis game but unfortunately the devs decided to inject ads in the middle of the game which greatly impacted gaming experience, so shortsighted.
Game is crap and insanely cheated, gimme back our money NOW.
Eats through more battery then if you decide to bluetooth stream the entire star wars series from a 10th party Vietnamese website also whats the point of ads in a game thats trash like anyone wants to advertise on this burning dumpster fire.
Ill keep this short and sweet, we have never in our life played a game with worse controls than this one. Really cool concept, love the pixel art style, but holy cow these controls are horrendous. We cant for the life of us understand how this game could possibly have good reviews, it feels legitimately broken, was this ever tested whatsoever.
The controls barely register half the time and your character will freeze while moving for no good reason while the computer has perfectly fluid movement patterns barely slipping up. It feels like playing with your arms tied behind your back.
Just dont get this game it is so frustrating we almost slammed our phone against our wall.
We remember playing back on the old control scheme. The new one is insanely difficult to play with. Also the ads play and do not pause the game. We lost a game just because of an ad playing edit: Im ok with watching for ads for a reward but when we do, there is no way to close the ad. The video plays and once it ends there is no x to close it. So your forced to close out and reopen the game, then you dont even get the REWARD! We used to play back in season 2 and loved it, but it seems like this game has gotten massively buggy.
We dont like this game because we always lose.
Theres a serious glitch in this game. When you are forced to view an ad prior to a match or training the game continues to play in the background, so you end up losing several points or failing a challenge while the ad runs. Never seen this before in any game Ive ever played. Poor.
Touch tennis is the worst thong ever created.
3 things: 1: when can we unlock different shirts???? 2: why have doubles in the game if the computer is completely incompetent. It ruins the daily challenge completely. The net computer player running back to baseline for no reason and never switching makes it unplayable. Take doubles out or fix it. 3. This is a new one – the match is going on while ads are playing. We get through the ad and Im down 40-0 or 1-0 completely.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.65
- Size: 37.22 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Uprising Games Ltd.
Last updated: 5th January 2024 | Genre: Simulation, Sports | Developer: Uprising Games Ltd.