Meanwhile, I (despite never playing tennis in my life outside of 1 day in gym class in high school [although I've played a lot of ping-pong]) have done very well against the computer in tennis. I haven't lost a 5-set game yet, although I came close (down 2 games to 1, down 40-15 in the 4th set) before rallying back. The computer started putting spin in the ball last night (ball would jump left/right after hitting the ground) now that I've got a 600+ skill score, so I'm guessing it's going to get a little tougher. Anybody know if you get anything special if you go over 1000 skill points in tennis?
I found that you could get easy wins by having your guy/girl up front do most/all of the returns early in your Wii Tennis "career", but after a couple wins that strategy stopped working. From there, going cross-court worked like a charm, as the opponent computer player in the back had problems getting across the court, but then after a couple more wins the computer was better positioned to return those.