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

The Australian Open is getting in on the newest trend in the sports world by re-creating tennis matches in video-game form ...

The Australian Open don’t own all of their broadcasting rights (fairly common), so they’re live-streaming a Wii Tennis-like ...

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

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 ...

Players are represented by characters that look like something out of a Wii game — not exactly perfect ... and I think I want to watch myself, too.” Tennis Australia created its own “skins ...

Fan spotted the bizarre - but hilarious - detail, showing the players portrayed as cartoons similar to the hit Wii Tennis game, due to YouTube copyright restrictions. Users flocked to social ...

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, but no ...

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 ...

(It’s not actually Wii Sports ... sure to read the comments in which random tennis fans arrive to watch a match and discover this bizarre video game simulation instead.