The channel’s “AO Animated” coverage looks more like a Wii Sports tennis match than a real one, with players’ physical ... Impress were viewed more than 4 billion times in the US alone ...

Tennis Australia has followed the lead of a number of other sports ... players in a video game-esque format. In this case, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff et al look like characters ...

Throughout the tournament, the Australian Open YouTube account has been streaming several matches in full, with the players displayed as Nintendo Wii-like cartoon avatars mimicking their every move.

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Tennis Australia has transformed the world's best tennis players into animated versions of themselves in an ingenious effort to bypass broadcasting restrictions at this year's ...

Jake Michaels is a Melbourne-based sports writer ... has been streaming several matches in full, with the players displayed as Nintendo Wii-like cartoon avatars mimicking their every move.

I had to triple check this was real. 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 ...

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Screengrab of Australian Open TV stream showing the players as Wii Tennis characters. If you have stumbled upon the live streaming of Australian Open matches on YouTube, you may have noticed that ...

2024 was a massive year for innovation in tennis (it is the sex, after all), and 2025 is proving no different. It’s unclear if they were inspired by the NFL’s Simpsons game or that one video ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The animated players follow all the same movements as their real-life counterparts as they travel across a cartoon-ish court, while the “whap ...