Konami serves up a dud in their latest tennis outing - WTA Tour Tennis. The title is officially licensed by the WTA Tour and hits up 20 popular tennis stars like Martina Hingis, Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport, and the highly anticipated Anna Kournikova. It's too bad the gameplay falls flat on its face.

WTA Tour Tennis has three modes - Tour, Exhibition, and Tournament Mode. In Tour players will face four major tournaments to try to take the WTA Championship Trophy home. In Exhibition, players can choose particular play options - games, stadium, and match rules. In Tournament, players pick a tennis star and assign participants to a tournament layout to play.

Players have access to the standard issue shots - flat, topspin, slice, and lob, in addition to flat serve, spin serve, and slice serve. The problem is every shot feels the same. Whether you try hit the ball flat, slice it, or pull a topspin, the ball always floats slowly and never has a swift impact. When playing the AI, the ball will simply float between each player in a race to cross the boredom threshold. Occasionally, the player will lob the ball back to the player no matter which button you press, and the ball always bounces to high for its own good.

Another major problem is that even if you press left or right, the ball will not always move in that direction. Instead of trying to use strategy to control the ball, most of the time the ball will bounce high and right into the player's racquet. If both players are at the net and the ball bounces back and forth; it'll never go anywhere but to each player's racquet. Whoever doesn't push the button to hit the ball back, wins.

The problems don't end there. In single play the game runs at an inconsistent 60fps. In doubles mode, the frame rate is locked at 30 and makes the ball move even slower. It just makes it difficult to play, not to mention it's not as fast or fun. It would have been nice if the players looked like their real life counterparts, but they don't.

The BGM is standard fare. The music provides upbeat tennis ambience and the announcer is adequate. The menu design is also clean and easy to navigate through. The stadiums look authentic and surface textures are nice.

WTA Tour Tennis is not a grand slam. The gameplay is tediously inadequate and will either frustrate or bore players to death. The selection of tennis players and the license is adequate. But the gameplay is as fuzzy as a beat-up tennis ball.