World Tour Mode is pretty much your standard career mode, where you train your very own character to tennis stardom. The right screen above shows you or actual stats, which will definitely need some strengthening if you intend to whack some sense into the world's best racket-wielders.

As with any next-gen sports game, you're going to have the option to customize your look, from facial features, skin tone, to the whites of your eyebrows (Well, you could make them white, I suppose). While we do understand your admiration for Rafael Nadal, making your in-game character look like him is just plain creepy though.

If you want to actually progress through career mode, you're going to have to train. That's what all those strange minigames we showed you before actually do, and Sega reveals that there will be 12 minigames to train with, presumably with each game focusing on a particular stat. That's only one step though. Getting the chance to play against the best means you're going to have to up your reputation amongst tennis players. To do that, you have to go to the game's Tennis Academy and beat rookies to get some attention.

Once your rep's gotten higher, the fun begins. You can join tournaments with varying gameplay and terrain elements that will help increase your rank further. Singles, doubles, and mixed doubles are part of it, and you can expect to play a little differently depending on the ground you're stepping on. Winning tournaments and special matches will also get you new items for your character.