Tennis Manager 2026 Reviews

The game is fun and addictive. It reels you in & was clearly created by someone who understands tennis...BUT...once you get to around a 500 ranking, you are stalled for a long time without making a significant money investment or waiting weeks to progress. THIS IS SOMETHING I AM NOT WILLING TO DO WITH A GAME SATURATED WITH SMALL AD OPTIONS TOO. Also, it is very glitchy for iPhone. The screen freezes often and you have to exit and reboot. I have no problem with watching ads to continue fun progressive gameplay.

I realize that developers need to make money. However, there are more ways to get money with an app than making me buy gold. It’s a great idea and concept but the game gets old quick. My only advice to the developers would be:
1) fix the glitches.
2) add females.
3) tone down the need to pay Money early in the game.
4)More larger prize ad options.
5) Money earned for winning tourney matches should be more “hitting partners” matches or staff should be cheaper to hire.
6)People may be more apt to spend money when they hit the top 50 not top 600.

Just some advice. Good game otherwise.

take me at my worst: i have invested about $250 into this game + it still changes nothing of the trajectory so the idea that it’s pay for play isn’t even honest. this is a ponzi scheme.

you can spend hours, diamonds, dollars + gold bars + your player will still only improved incrementally in ways that do not impact the match.

you would think with the way momentum ebbs + flows, you see more rewards for being rated higher than your opponent but more often than not, you’re actually punished for rating 7-10 points ahead of your opponent + you can almost bet you’re going to three sets even when your ranking + rating are markedly different.

none of these games are made with games in mind. the companies are greedy + prey on uber competitive people like me who work their behinds off to make extra money to spend on a game every six months or so only for it to go to waste when you realize it makes absolutely zero tangible difference. somebody said they didn’t start getting reasonable results until season 17. that should be enough for a rico case.

cool game idea + interface - HOWEVER,
the game simulation is one of the worst I’ve ever seen, it’s almost as if each match result is predetermined. A guy 5 levels lower than you will almost always have a close match against you, yet you never have a chance against a guy 5 levels above you. Tactics also really don’t matter, because even if you use a tactic and are maybe 15 levels higher, it has almost no
effect. However, if your opponent uses a tactic that makes them maybe 1 level higher, all of the
sudden they are able to easily beat you. The game also always shows a notification in the shop yet when you click on it half the time the game crashes and in the other half the notification remains - it’s only there to remind you to pay the game. I have no idea how this game has such strong reviews - it’s way too frustrating and unenjoyable. Don’t play it.

In the description, this game says to help “guide” your player to becoming #1. Well, that’s just it. You’re ONLY “guiding” them by making them do training (which is just clicking a button and waiting. There’s nothing on the court to see), and when you “battle” all you’re doing is waiting 5 seconds for the entire match to speed by and it tells you who won. You don’t even see the players on the court! It’s just the ball you see going back and fourth. Also, the only character you can have is a boy... C’mon now, what year is this?
I came here excited and hoping to play some tennis strategies on my phone to maybe help my real life strategies on the court, but I got the exact opposite and more.
Very disappointed. Would rate zero stars if able to.

The game has great ideas but it fails miserably in the money management.
Once you get to certain point everything is exponentially expensive like coaches, doctors, trainings while it gives you little money per match, training session and winning achievements are not so often.
Also you need to win matches quickly cause if you don’t have enough money in a couple of weeks you could lose your entire team.
The only solution is pay-to-win and buy gold packs which is a shame cause TennisManager2026 has optional ads too.
The pace of the game progression could still be slow without annoying the player with the money.

It looks like a lot of work went into creating this game, but I don’t know why they bothered. You don’t actually get to play any tennis. The match happens in the background. I guess you can lay down a card that makes your player hit the ball hard. But you don’t actually see your player play. You just watch the score change. Maybe this is fun for some people, I don’t understand why.

This game has a lot of great aspects to it that I love, but the match system is absolutely garbage. It’s as if the game chooses when you’re allowed to win or lose and makes the ranking such that it’s exponentially harder to beat an opponent that is ranked slightly higher than you than it is for a much worse player to beat you. Consistently, I can be 10-20 points higher than my opponent and the opponent will get 2-3 breaks in a row on me, yet if I’m simply 1.8 points less than my opponent, I can get swept 6-0. I’ve lost matches where the entire match my player is ranked higher than the other by vast measures. It’s ridiculous, unrealistic, and infuriating. Almost impossible to win some tournaments if your ranking isn’t vastly greater than everyone else. Also, the “slow” speed of play speeds up as the game goes on, which makes it difficult to counter important points later on, which should be of utmost importance. If you are at a break point and use a strategy, it should have an effect on that point, not 2 games down the road. This shouldn’t be that hard.

So I love this game. I come back to it all the time to play it but when I say come back I mean that. It frustrates me and I leave it constantly and never end up playing it for too long. The game play is phenomenal. BUT THE GLITCHES THE FORCE CLOSING THE BUGS ARE ASTRONOMICAL. I can not stress this enough if you are looking for a game to play. This one requires patience just to simply operate. And it only gets more annoying that there are consistent updates and nothing ever fixes itself. For instance. There’s been a bug since the game started that everyone reports. Every few days when you are playing if you try to open the shop for anything TennisManager2026 will force close automatically leaving you unable to purchase tactics bags or extra cash for training using the gold that you earned playing tournaments and waiting out the long periods it often takes to train at high levels. Fix the simple bugs for the people that love your game please! Stop listening to everyone else about all the other non sense.

I’ve played this game a lot and i feel like i can put it best for anyone who’s looking to play. the game is built well and is fun but there a few things that need work:
1. It takes a very long time to get good. You can play multiple careers but one after another carrying on your cash. for me it took 4 careers to really be top 10 and then from there the rankings are wacky and you won’t get #1 unless you win everything.
2. MY BIGGEST CRITICISM of the game is it’s awful match system. the system predetermined who wins and favors your opponent. they may be way worse than you and can still beat you but when you play better players you will get smoked. tactics also don’t really help so don’t waste your money.

Fun game to rank up. It’s very expensive to buy any extras. I would pay money but not $50 for a few bonus, its ridiculous pricing. I would pay $5 for 2000 Gold , something reasonable.

The tour points system is not accurate with the ATP tour, someone doesn’t lose points the next year if they do not finish the tournament the same. It’s totally inaccurate and ATP 1000, 500, 250 are named that because they receive 100,500,250 points for winning the events. Not in this game, it’s all off and ruins it. I’ve won all majors in the past year and I’m still not #1, makes it not worth it.

As someone who has played tennis my whole life i love the idea and most of the execution of this game. Im not a big fan of the in app purchases, but i can deal with it since it doesnt really shove it down you’re throat. But what i cant seem to understand is the card system in match’s, in my opinion is completely stupid. First off the tactics should be an unlimited use, it doesnt make any sense that i cant use my forehand missile even though its my characters main offensive weapon. Second match’s dont seem balanced right, in a game where i have a tennis lvl of 58 and my opponent has a tennis lvl of 42 there should be no reason for my player to lose that matchup. Third the ranking system is rough, I respect the devs for making such an accurate ranking system to the real life version. However i feel like this system has a habit of kicking me while im down. Heres an example after going on losing streak of losing first round in two 3 star tournaments i make it into the top 4 of the last tournament in the season and lose in a final set tiebreaker and drop another 15 points. Im sorry but the real pro scene is that not rough, overall the game is fun but these problems really hold the game back in my opinion. I still enjoy the game since to me this is one of the better tennis ios games to play but i would like to see a change to these problems.

I’ve had quite a lot of fun playing this game but I question the ranking system. I’m number 3 in the rankings, my previous season I won the French major and the next season I did the same. How did the person I beat in the finals move ahead of me in ranking? It seems like because I won the tournament last year and again the next year I didn’t receive the points I should have gotten for winning the tournament and I’m sure that’s not how the rankings work. Please correct or explain this. Aside from that a very fun experience.

I love this game. Have been playing since it first launched. I would love to see some more features added to the game AND the point system match the real ATP tour when it comes to wins and losses. Seeding seems to be generic at the majors as well. But on a more positive note, I would love to see this game add an Olympic feature every 4 years for the gameplay and add a little more depth to it. Other than that this game is such a guilty pleasure of mine. Can’t wait to see the game continue to evolve.

When I need tactics I go to the shop but this only worked smoothly for the first season. After the first season the second season began and I was in need of some tactics. So I went to the shop but TennisManager2026 just froze. Every other app on my phone worked but top seed didn’t. No matter how many times I go back and refresh TennisManager2026 , it’s still stuck.

Love this game - well though out and really fun to play. Skill level seems quite arbitrary, though. I often lose to players ranked 5-10 points lower than me, despite employing tactics efficiently. This is especially apparent in tiebreakers (my skill level can be up more than 10 points and I still lose). Very frustrating as this tends to happen arbitrarily.

With all the online tennis games out there, it’s hard to find a relaxing one that still produces lots of fun. If you like all the behind the scenes work of a professional tennis player, this game is PERFECT for you.

Won't take you too much time, just open it several times during the day and before sleep. The way to get money for training is to play training matches (especially those intensive ones, check it out after every round of tournament).
Getting to top 10 is not hard, hardest part is to be #1. The ranking system for you is similar to the real world ATP, but for everyone else in the list, it's not. They won't lose point if they don't do as well as the past year, only way to be #1 is to win every single tournament during the year. The maximum rating you get from training is about 90, you then need to hire bunch of staffs to boost your rating to compete against Nurray and Bolovic (LOL).
My 17th season, finally made it...

Pretty cool game. Tried it after seeing it many times In ads. Not expensive for the buy ins and it keeps my attention. I try a lot of these free to play games and this one has exceeded my expectations. I’ll be playing this one for at least the next 6 months.

Games today you have to put in time and effort to rise and do well at the game but this one doesn’t require that. You can play 1 day and then come back 3 months later and not feel like you fell behind. It’s fun and enjoyable.

Bruh this game is very interesting it has many different types of mode my favorite is training partners because I usually pick people who have higher tennis score the me to see how much I need to train!