The Australian Open's animated tennis livestreams are making a splash. U.S. leagues have used similar technology to put ...

The Australian Open, the first big professional tennis tournament of 2025, is happening right now in Melbourne. But depending ...

Replacing players with virtual avatars was partly a necessity due to exclusive media rights deals. But beyond that, it ...

The first professional tennis tournament of 2025 is using a clever way to ensure more people can watch the matches. As ...

Tennis fans hitting YouTube to see live matches from the Australian Open could be forgiven for thinking they've accidentally clicked on a channel recreating the tournament in Wii Sports ...

According to tennis reporter Bastien Fachan, that’s why matches of the Australian Open are currently being streamed online in what looks like Wii Sports Tennis. (It’s not actually Wii Sports ...

They look like they're straight out of a video game, like Wii Tennis. The players' bodies and faces have been replaced with Miis, basically. What gives? Per reporter Bastien Fachan, there's a good ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first major professional tennis tournament of the year ... broadcast that makes players look like something out of Wii Sports. The Australian Open organizers rolled out what they are calling ...