It is. The Australian Open on YouTube, due to rights issues, are getting around them by replacing real players with Nintendo Wii Sports Tennis characters. I think I love this. Like many sporting ...

The characters used to depict some of tennis' biggest stars have an uncanny resemblance to those from the classic Wii Sports video game, a connection made by many online. Each country typically ...

But there's a good reason why the players, crowd, balls, and everything else are digital animations, making the whole thing look like a Wii Sports game. The first professional tennis tournament of ...

The two tennis stars were depicted as cartoons – larger and rounder than in real life – looking similar to the characters on the video game Wii Sports. ‘The Australian Open don’t own all ...