Tennis

A full indoor tennis club, built to the book and rendered in real PBR.

THE COURT IS THE REAL THING

Regulation dimensions to the centimetre, from the baselines to the centre marks, painted on an acrylic hard court under a gabled steel roof. Afternoon sun rakes through the clerestory and across the blue. Look right and you are looking into the players’ gallery through a full-height glass wall.

THE BALL MACHINE PLAYS PROPERLY

It stands on the far baseline and feeds down the court, moving the ball side to side so you have to move to it. Every feed is a real ballistic solution onto a bounce point, so the ball dips into the court and kicks up on the rise, right where a groundstroke is taken. Turn the pace up and it feeds heavier topspin, exactly like the real thing.

FOUR FEEDS, FOUR DRILLS, FOUR LEVELS

Groundstroke, volley, lob and serve. Rally to warm up, Set for twenty feeds, Targets to land the ball in lit discs, or Climb, where the machine adds a mile an hour every time you return one. Social to Tour, 36 to 67 mph.

THE RACKET IS YOUR HAND

Step behind the baseline and it is there. Swing across the ball and the strings aim the shot. Tap B for slow motion to meet a fast one; contact snaps you back to full speed so you can watch it go.

Scoreboard with returns, shot speed, streak and your best. Return one at 80 mph for a winner.

Single player. Standing or roomscale.