Tennis Elbow 4 Reviews

Having played 2013 version for quite some time now, I decided to upgrade with this one here after waiting for 3 years until there are mods to go with it. There are still some rough edges like still no hawkeyes, no tweeners, and merely nitpick, no stance animation yet (XKT patch specificallly), but overall the experience is a lot better compared to 2013, and 2013 is already a good tennis game by itself. Oh and I can do return winners more regularly now.

Such a great game! Good tennis mechanics and ball striking.

Best tennis simulation you can find on the market. The graphics and animation may be somewhat lacking compared to big names like Tiebreak or Top Spin 2k25, but the gameplay, the soul of tennis, put AAAs titles to shame. It's crazy how a single developer can create such faithful tennis experience while the full studios cannot achieve. Every rally in TE4 is a battle of strategy and skill, and every point won feels rewarding and thrilling. Go to the mod manager in game and install XKT mod. It adds tremendous amount of realism to the game including courts, tournaments, sounds, player database, etc. You have then the full "license" of everything in Tennis pro tour.

The physics are pretty realistic, there's a lot of fun to be had playing in the style of many past greats of the game, and overall the game play is enjoyable. However, the accompanying "commentary" is just terrible, most of the time it completely jars with the action that precedes it, which gets to be real annoying. It's a shame the developers didn't spend more time working on more realistic commentary.