Even if Tennis World Tour ends up as the redemption of Top Spin, the disappointment that Top Spin is gone still lingers.
Tennis World Tour will step in as the first full-featured, simulation quality sports video game for tennis on the current console generation, when it launches.
Tennis World Tour won’t have ATP or WTA licensing and its venues and championships will all be fictitious, but against that roster of real-world all-stars, André and four other Top Spin alumni hope to deliver what they would have if they got the chance to do Top Spin 5.
“We’re approaching World Tour like we would have with Top Spin 5,” André told me by phone during E3 2017, “in that the game will be very close to what we had in mind for Top Spin, with the shot control and the movement of the player models.