WTA Tour Tennis

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WTA Tour Tennis
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North American PS2 cover art with Jelena Dokic
Developer(s) Konami
Now Production (GBA)
Publisher(s) Konami
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Xbox
Release
September 27, 2001
  • PlayStation 2
    • JP: September 27, 2001
    • NA: March 26, 2002
    • PAL: September 13, 2002
    Game Boy Advance
    • JP: February 14, 2002
    • NA: May 31, 2002
    • PAL: June 21, 2002
    GameCube, Xbox
    • JP: August 29, 2002
    • PAL: September 13, 2002
    • NA: September 24, 2002
Genre(s) Sports

WTA Tour Tennis (WTA ツアーテニス, WTA Tsuā Tenisu), known in Japan as WTA Tour Tennis Pocket (WTA ツアーテニス ポケット, WTA Tsuā Tenisu Poketto) for Game Boy Advance, and WTA Tour Tennis Pro Evolution (WTA ツアーテニス プロ エボリューション, WTA Tsuā Tenisu Puro Eboryūshon) for GameCube and Xbox, and in Europe as Pro Tennis WTA Tour, is a tennis video game published and developed by Konami in 2001-2002.

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Reception

The game received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms except the Xbox version, which received "generally unfavorable reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1] [2] [3] [4] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 26 out of 40 for the Pro Evolution versions, [7] [9] and 25 out of 40 for the original and Pocket versions. [6] [8]

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