{"id":6135,"date":"2008-08-20T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/host-your-own-olympics-tennis\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:28:17","slug":"host-your-own-olympics-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/host-your-own-olympics-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Host your own Olympics &#8211; tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/08\/tennis.gif\" alt=\"Tennis Elbow proved to be very easy\" align=\"right\" \/>Spurred on by my silver medal in the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/host-your-own-olympics-cycling\/\">cycling<\/a> last week, I was full of confidence going into today&#8217;s tennis event in my PC-based version of the Olympics. The event, which I invented myself, was a knock-out tournament consisting of one-set matches against the computer. I installed three tennis games on my PC and needed to beat the computer at each in order to progress to the next.<\/p>\n<p>The first round saw me take to the court in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.managames.com\/tennis\/info_en.html\">Tennis Elbow<\/a>. The game lets you compete on a number of different surfaces and also includes a World tour mode where you can compete with up to 300 players in 125 tournaments. For now though it was just to be one set, which I won by a convincing 6-2 margin. I really enjoyed this one, not just because I won, but due to the realistic graphics and ball physics, which makes it a very natural feeling tennis sim.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarrely, my semi-final saw me paired against a raccoon called Rubin, in <a href=\"http:\/\/games.skunkstudios.com\/games\/tennistitans\">Tennis Titans<\/a>. The control method here is rather simplistic and just involves moving the mouse and using the cursor keys to direct the shot. Once I&#8217;d got my head around the game controls (and come to terms with the fact that I was a possum) I managed to dispatch my furry opponent by one set to love.<\/p>\n<p>After these two relatively easy opening rounds, I felt sure that I would at last pick up a gold medal in the Virtual Olympics. However, I didn&#8217;t reckon on coming up against such a tough challenge as the one presented in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bimboosoft.com\/DMTOL\/\">Dream Match Tennis<\/a>. At first I was in awe of the polished graphics and excellent game presentation, but my hopes exploded when I realized how difficult it was to play. I found serving almost impossible and the game ran very slowly on my PC which put me off my stride somewhat. I lost 6-0 and had to settle for the <strong>silver medal<\/strong> &#8211; my second of the Games. Time may be running out for me to claim gold, but I&#8217;m determined to get one before the week is out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred on by my silver medal in the cycling last week, I was full of confidence going into today&#8217;s tennis event in my PC-based version of the Olympics. The event, which I invented myself, was a knock-out tournament consisting of one-set matches against the computer. I installed three tennis games on my PC and needed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/host-your-own-olympics-tennis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Host your own Olympics &#8211; tennis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335918,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions\/335918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}