Tennis

If you're looking for the training modes, go to Tennis (training).

Tennis is the first of five games featured on Wii Sports and Wii Sports Club, as well as one of the eight games featured in Nintendo Switch Sports. The game's objective is to hit the ball over the net and make it bounce twice on the opposing team's side. The main gameplay involves using the Wii Remote like a racket and swinging it as the ball comes toward the player. The player(s) can choose to play a single game, a two-out-of-three match (Best of 3), or a three-out-of-five match (Best of 5). They can also choose whether to play against a real-life opponent or a CPU Mii. Overall, most of its rules are similar to real-life tennis.

Tips:[]

Depending on the swing's timing, the ball will move in a different direction.
The bounce's height can be changed when the Wii Remote is swung from a lower or higher angle.
To swing a fastball, watch the ball when it reaches the user's peak throw it up, and then hit it. If the player did it successfully, the ball will go very fast and produce a white trail.
Holding 2 when the screen turns black after the warning screen will let the player play on a blue court.
Using your front line for Tennis is the best and fastest way for beating opponents, especially Masters [PRO★].
Anyone can hit the Tennis ball, so it is best to have quick-thinking and fast reflexes.
The player can play with teammates, but playing with teammates makes them lose some skill points when they reach skill level 2000+.
Play "Best of 5" Games to achieve the most skill points (up to about 250 skill points).
Hit the ball at its highest point at the start of the game to spike the ball.

Opponents in order by Skill Levels:[]

The Miis that can appear on the player's team that are never opponents unless they lose the first match is Hiroshi, Shouta, Chris, Ren, and Abby.

There are 60 Tennis players in total.

#	Name	Level	Notes
Non-Pros
1	Hiroshi	0 to 3	SKILL LEVEL BEGINNER
2	Shouta	4 to 11
3	Chris	12 to 22
4	Ren	23 to 34
5	Abby	35 to 47
6	Matt	48 to 59	1ST OPPONENT BEGINNER
7	Miyu	63 to 78	1ST OPPONENT BEGINNER
8	Oscar	82 to 96
9	Shinnosuke	98 to 110
10	Lucía	120 to 130
11	Martin	140 to 160
12	Alex	150 to 180
13	Fumiko	180 to 200
14	Jake	200 to 230
15	Julie	230 to 250
16	Emma	250 to 270
17	Rin	280 to 300
18	Nick	300 to 330
19	Yoshi	330 to 360
20	Haru	360 to 380
21	Marco	390 to 410
22	Naomi	420 to 440
23	Emily	450 to 470
24	Akira	480 to 510
25	Luca	510 to 530
26	Ryan	540 to 570
27	James	570 to 600
28	Misaki	610 to 640
29	Steve	640 to 670
30	Kentaro	670 to 700
31	Silke	710 to 740
32	Jessie	740 to 780
33	Jackie	780 to 810
34	Pierre	820 to 850
35	David	860 to 890
36	Rachel	890 to 930
37	Sakura	930 to 970
Sometimes Pro
38	Ashley	970 to 1000
Pros
39	Anna	1000
40	Ai	1000 or 1100
41	Mike	1100
42	Yoko	1100 or 1200
43	Keiko	1200
44	Andy	1200 or 1300
45	Steph	1300
46	Helen	1300
47	Michael	1300 or 1400
48	Kathrin	1400
49	Víctor	1400 or 1500
50	Takumi	1500
51	Hayley	1500 or 1600
52	Daisuke	1600
53	Theo	1600 or 1700
54	Saburo	1700
55	Tyrone	1700 or 1800
56	Eva	1800
57	Maria	1800 or rarely 1900
58	Tatsuaki	1900
59	Sarah	1900
60	Elisa	2000	Champion

Left or Right Handed Racket:[]

Left-handed:

Shouta, Abby, Matt, Fumiko, Emma, Rin, Nick, Haru, Emily, Akira, Luca, Ryan, James, Kentaro, Jackie, Pierre, David, Rachel, Anna, Ai, Yoko, Andy, Michael, Kathrin, Daisuke, Theo, Saburo, Eva, Maria, Sarah

Right-handed:

Hiroshi, Chris, Ren, Miyu, Oscar, Shinnosuke, Lucía, Martin, Alex, Jake, Julie, Yoshi, Marco, Naomi, Misaki, Steve, Silke, Jessie, Sakura, Ashley, Mike, Keiko, Steph, Helen, Víctor, Takumi, Hayley, Tyrone, Tatsuaki, Elisa

Wii Sports Club[]

The game reappears as one of the current games in Wii Sports Club. Unlike in Wii Sports, shots like smash hits have been added, and the ability to swing and hit the ball in any desired direction was also added. The ability to have CPU-only matches has also been removed.

The first CPUs faced are Olga and Pit at Grade 1, while the Champions are Alice and Barbara faced at Grade ★5. When the player beats the Champions, they use a frying pan as a racket by holding down the 1 button with the Mii select screen displayed and pressing A.

Grades:[]

For every odd-numbered grade, there are three CPUs, and every even-numbered grade has two. The exceptions are Level ★3 with two, Level ★5 with two, Level ★10 with 17 and Level 1 with seven if you include the following. People never faced in person and are partners are Araceli, Marie, Rui, and Chris.

Don't appear:[]

These Miis only appear as spectators in Tennis. Note that all of the Miis listed are coaches in Boxing or Baseball teammates in Baseball, as well as spectators.

There are 67 Tennis players in total.

Starters:[]

Level 1:

Araceli (Partner only)
Marie (Partner only)
Rui (Partner only)
Chris (Partner only)
Pit
Olga
Hee-joon

Level 2:

Mitsu
Carlo

Level 3:

Level 4:

Joana
Jesús

Level 5:

Level 6:

Maria
John

Level 7:

Level 8:

Level 9:

Level 10:

Stars:[]

Level ★1:

Level ★2:

Jin-ah
Frank

Level ★3

Xixi
Dylan

Level ★4

Anne
Gerald

Level ★5 (These CPUs are faced at Level ★4, but when the player gets to Level ★5, they have to face the champions)

Susie
Zi-Kai

Level ★6:

Akira
Marit

Level ★7:

Level ★8:

Level ★9:

Level ★10:

Barbara (Champion)
Alice (Champion)
Na-rae
Elena
Xiaojian
Matt
Léonie
Joost
Barry
Pedro
Maximilian
Mizuho
Polly
Mark
Massimo
Bernardo
Xue-Ren

Nintendo Switch Sports[]

In the 1.2.0 update, if you hold the L and ZL or R and ZR buttons on your Joycons while choosing a CPU strength in Match Settings, Elisa and Tommy will appear as your opponents. Their titles are Legend.

Trivia:[]

This is one of two sports in Wii Sports where the audience members are randomly generated Miis, the other one being Boxing.
Miis in your parade can also appear as audience members, similar to Bowling and Boxing.
Pressing 2 before the screen where the player selects their players will make them play on a blue Tennis court (from Training Mode) and not the default grass court.
Tennis is the only sport in Wii Sports in which the player does not face random opponents after defeating the Champion.
- It is also the only sport where the player can't go against some opponents (Hiroshi, Shouta, Chris, Ren, and Abby) unless they lose the first match against Miyu and Matt.
  
  In this CPU-only single match, Alex and Steph beat champion Sarah and Chris.
In Wii Sports, the player can watch a computer-generated game by setting all of their players to CPU. However, this no longer works in Wii Sports Club.
- The opponent with the lower skill level that the player would've faced next will always be a part of the initially severing front team, while the other CPUs will be random CPU Miis in the computer-generated game.
- After each computer-generated game, the player won't have their skill level dropped or rised.
The player can play in a Tennis match all by themselves by setting all four players to their Mii. However, they don't gain (or lose) any skill points.
The player only gains skill points if they face a team of solely CPUs. That means that they can have a real-life teammate, and both of them still earn skill points (unless one or both of your skills are too high).
If the player is playing with a real-life teammate, their opponents will be a CPU at your level and a CPU at your teammates' level. For instance, Elisa could partner with Hiroshi.
In Wii Sports, the maximum confirmed skill level the player can achieve without hacks is 2399.
In Wii Sports Club Tennis, the player can end up hitting a ball soft, causing it to go a bit slower than usual, unlike in Wii Sports. The game tells the player if it was a hit like this when an exclamation mark appears on top of the character that hits the ball, as well as the crowd making noise in unison. It gives the other team a chance to slam the ball back full force, making it hard for the team that caused this to return it. This is similar to Table Tennis in Wii Sports Resort, where the Miis end up hitting the ball real soft, causing it to go slowly to the other player, giving the other player a chance to slam it full force.
- There's also a reward for the player defeating the Wii Sports Club Tennis Champions. they get a frying pan by holding 1 until the warning screen displays. In the original Wii Sports, they get nothing.
- The court in Wii Sports Club also looks completely different, as it has more extensive stands for the crowd to sit on and watch the game. It also has the tennis court's appearance that's PART of a building, with a vending machine, stairs, panels covering the stands from sunlight, etc. The Tennis Court in Wii Sports only shows a green, open plain of grass and trees NEAR buildings.
Tennis is one of the 3 sports in Wii Sports that use Mii Parade Miis, the other 2 sports being Bowling and Boxing. In this case, they are shown to replace the random generated Miis in the Tennis audience.
This is one of two sports in Wii Sports where there's no tutorial when playing the sport at 0 skill level, the other sport is Bowling.
- This is also one of three sports in Nintendo Switch Sports where there's no tutorial when playing the sport for the first time, the other sports are Badminton and Bowling.

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