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Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament for PlayStation 2
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament for PlayStation 2 lets you play tennis with eight well-known professionals, including Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Martina Hingis and Monica Seles. You choose a player and try to unbalance your opponent through the direction and timing of your shots. Your stance when making contact with the ball also matters. Arriving late gives you fewer options than a well-prepared shot. The different surfaces call for attention to the bounce of the ball and your position behind the baseline.
Arcade takes you through four tournaments, including Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open. There is also a fictional tournament in Paris. Pro Tournament turns those matches into a longer route with multiple rounds and objectives that can earn extra points. In the Trophy Room, you exchange earned points for unlockable extras. Challenge lets you practise individual techniques, while Time Attack focuses on completing the tournaments quickly. You can therefore follow a full series or improve one particular part of your game.
In Exhibition, you choose the match settings yourself and play singles or doubles. Up to four people can be on court simultaneously locally. Three or four participants need a PS2 Multitap and their own controller each. With two controllers, you can play against each other without an expansion or challenge the computer as a doubles pair. Cooperation mainly requires agreeing on who covers the net and who stays at the back.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament appeared for the European PlayStation 2 in 2002. Namco developed the game and continued the Smash Court name within a more recognisable professional tennis framework. The eight licensed players represented different playing styles from tennis at the time. That determined which names appeared on screen and gave the choice of player significance during a rally. The positioning and timing of a shot were part of Namco's attempt to develop a more detailed representation of tennis.
The tournaments linked those players to familiar venues. Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open had their own names and courts; the Paris section was a fictional event. The game therefore did not fully reproduce every official Grand Slam tournament. The succession of four events nevertheless gave Arcade and Pro Tournament a clear structure. The longer route also rewarded objectives within matches, allowing the completion of an additional goal to matter alongside the ordinary result.
Challenge and Time Attack approached the same sport from another angle: learning individual techniques or improving the time taken for a series of matches. The Trophy Room linked achievements to unlockable content. The 2004 sequel would add a more extensive personal career with a custom tennis player, but this first PS2 instalment centres on choosing from established professionals. Together with local doubles, this edition preserves the structure of Namco's first Pro Tournament on PlayStation 2.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2 for PS2 shares real tennis professionals, recognisable tournaments and local doubles with the first game. The longer solo progression differs mainly through Pro Tour: in the sequel, you create your own tennis player and work on their ranking. The first Pro Tournament lets you choose an established professional for its tournament series and challenges. Both reward good matches, but personal development takes a different form in the sequel.
Top Spin for PS2 shares real players, different court surfaces and the importance of carefully placed shots with Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament. Top Spin also gives a custom amateur a career involving coaches, sponsors and tournaments. Smash Court selects an established professional for its longer tournament series and links additional objectives to points for unlocking content. The similarity lies in professional tennis; the difference is most apparent between matches, as you develop your own player or guide a chosen professional onwards.
SEGA Superstars Tennis for PS2 uses the same foundations of rallying, positioning and well-timed shots. Doubles in both games also calls for coordination around the net. Where Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament presents real professionals and recognisable tennis stadiums, SEGA draws its participants and courts from games. Temporary Superstar powers and mini-games change the objectives and events during a match. Smash Court keeps the focus more firmly on ordinary tennis shots, constructing points and following a tournament series.
Everybody's Tennis for PS2 lets you play rallies directly and take part in doubles together, just like Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament. The presentation makes a clear difference: Sony uses its own colourful, exaggerated tennis characters, while Namco features familiar names such as Sampras and Hingis. In Everybody's Tennis, you unlock new characters and courts among other things. Smash Court links its rewards to a professional tournament series and objectives within matches. The same sport therefore has different main characters and a different framework.
Virtua Tennis 2 for PS2 shares real tennis professionals, singles matches and doubles with Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament. In both, you try to open up the court through your choice and direction of shot. Virtua Tennis 2 also offers World Tour, where you create and train players and enter them in events. Smash Court uses an established professional for its longer tournament series and rewards match objectives. The main difference in progression concerns whom you develop or guide between matches.
