There are 43 Trophies that can be earned in this title.
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Overview: Estimated platinum difficulty: 5/10, Vote Pending HERE. Offline Trophies: 39 (30, 6, 3) Online Trophies: 4 (2, 1, 1) Approximate amount of time to : 40+ Hours Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1+ Career, 1 ESPN Grand Slam Classics Mode. Missable Trophies: 24: All Career Trophies can be missable IF you skip the related event and/or you lose against your related opponent OR if you lose some tournament you will need to try again in the following season. Glitched Trophies: None. Does difficulty affect Trophies?: No, you can play in Rookie. Tricks and Cheats: None. Online Pass: Yes, an EA Online Pass Code is needed to get access to the online portion of the game (4 trophies). Controllers: The game allow you to play with a Move Controller but I strongly recommend to play it with a dual shock controller with the Buttons option and NOT with the .
Introduction: After some years of having Virtual Tennis & Top Spin as the only tennis options to play on PS3, arrives now a new title: Grand Slam Tennis 2 (well, new on the PS3 because the first one was only released for the Wii).
The game has great gameplay and a good menu index, as EA does with their titles. The graphics show a great engine behind them which rarely glitches but you may have some issues Online, where by some mysterious way your rival can hit the ball with his racquet from almost at 10ft way from the ball :S.
Anyway the game it's good, very entertaining playing the first two Career's years, but once you start the 3rd the things become bored and a bit hard, just if you are an extreme Platinum trophy hunter or if you like very much the tennis you will be able to finish the entire career.
It has other menus available which will keep you for a while deep into the game, sadly some modes doesn't have any trophies attached and lose a bit of attention.
In general terms being a trophy hunter or not but If you want to play/test another tennis's game, then you should try with this one, practice, play and win to be the new "Virtual-Federer" around here.
Step 1: Customize the sliders & Download/Share a player The first thing to do is to custom the difficult and the duration of the matches, follow this:
Main Menu
My Tennis (Last Option)
Settings
Changes Rules: Sets (1) Games (3) Last Set Tie Break (Yes) Difficulty (Rookie)
Once done it's time to tackle two easy and fast trophies:
Sharer
Popular
Step 2: Complete the Training Lessons I really strongly recommend you to complete the Training Tennis School, which includes 15 Lessons separated into 3 Main Classes:
Ground Strokes (5 Lessons)
Net Play (5 Lessons)
Service (5 Lessons)
Once complete it you should have an entire clue about the specific shots and moves and you will gain the "You School Master" Trophy.
If you are facing troubles with some moves here are the controls:
Arcade - Serve Controls: Movement/Aim Shots Hold , , Or Power Up Release , , Or Toss Ball Flat Serve TopSpin Serve Or Slice Serve
Arcade - Basic Controls: Movement/Aim Shots Flat Shot TopSpin Shot Hold & Release TopSpin With Power Or Slice Shot Hold & Release Or Slice With Power
Arcade - Advanced Controls: Movement/Aim Shots Hold + Flat LOB Hold + TopSpin LOB Hold + Or Slice LOB Hold + Or Drop Shot
Step 3. Complete your first career as Male or Female (10 Seasons) The career mode is located in the Main Menu, you can create a new player OR start with a downloaded player, the stats will be the same.
Once you pick a Female or Male you should work toward the entire 10 seasons playing ALL tournaments and Grand Slam tournaments, in this step you should get a bunch of trophies and your main goal is to get "The Legend" which is reach the No.1 Rank and finish your career as it.
This step is the most time consuming in the game and you will spend like 3-4 hours each season.
Also in this step you need to play the Rivalry Matches which allow you to get the gear needed to gain the "Collector" trophy in this step.
It's important that you pay attention in the Grand Slam brackets because you need to face some specific players in an specific Grand Slam and you must beat him/her, this will come in your natural progression on your 10 years career but this may be missable if you lose. This trophies related are 8:
Beat Federer at Australian Open
Beat Serena at Australian Open
Beat Henin at the French Open
Beat Borg at the French Open
Beat Evert at US Open
Beat McEnroe at US Open
Beat Navratilova at Wimbledon
Beat Sampras at Wimbledon
Step 4: Play your 2nd career as the other side as Male or Female (skipping events) Once you complete your first career you need to start another career but his time with the other side, this means, if you complete your career as male, this time you need to pick a female, this is for the remaining trophies above.
Now the things will become faster because you need to follow the brackets in the Grand Slam and if you see your rival lose against someone, you need to skip the tournament and go straight to the following needed, repeating the steps as you need until finally you get a chance with this player. Once you face him/her, you need to beat her/him for the trophy related.
Step 5: Complete the ESPN Grand Slam® Classics Mode Once you have done with the Career Mode go to the ESPN Grand Slam Classic Mode located in the Main Menu.
This mode is like a Highlights of the greatest moments in Grand Slam Tournaments along the History, you will face you opponent in some place in the real match, mostly at the final part of the match and you need to beat you opponent.
Note that to gain access to another's Moments you should unlock them by gaining points earned with your victories and completing the Bonus Objectives in each match.
In this step you will unlock the following trophies:
Best of All Time
Best of 2000
Best of 1990's
Best of 1980's
History Buff
Step 6: Boost the Online trophies with a partner This step is straight forward and it's strongly recommended boost them with a partner for easiest and faster results. If you need a Partner try HERE.
Your target are this 2 trophies:
Friendly Competition
Streak
Step 7: Mop up This step is for complete the remaining trophies left like:
Rocket
Pair of Aces
Boom Boom
Plus any career trophy left, that you missed, starting another career and skipping all besides the related tournament/rival.
Congratulations for the new you just have earned!
[PS3T Would Like to Thank leptonic for this Road Map]
Missable: In career mode this will be your first official Grand Slam Tournament, if you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie, you should have no trouble beating the 7 rounds in your first season and you will earn this trophy.
Missable:Career mode: As a Male. This trophy is luck based because he is eliminated early in the first season. You need to keep playing the career as a Male and wait for the season when you can face Federer at the Australian Open. Once there beat him and the trophy will be yours.
Missable:Career mode: As a Female. This trophy is luck based because she is eliminated early in the first season. You need to keep playing the career as a Female and wait for the season when you can face Serena at the Australian Open. Once there beat her and the trophy will be yours.
Missable: In career mode this will be your second official Grand Slam Tournament, if you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie, you should have no trouble beating the 7 rounds in your first season and you will earn this trophy.
Missable:Career mode: As a Female. This trophy is luck based because she is eliminated early in the first season. You need to keep playing the career as a Female and wait for the season when you can face Henin at Roland Garros. Once there beat her and the trophy will be yours.
Missable: Career mode: As a Male. This trophy is luck based because he is eliminated early in the first season. You need to keep playing the career as a Male and wait for the season when you can face Borg at Roland Garros. Once there beat him and the trophy will be yours.
Missable: In career mode this will be your last (4th) official Grand Slam Tournament, if you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie, you should have no trouble beating the 7 rounds in your first season and you will earn this trophy.
Missable:Career mode: As a Female. This trophy is luck based because she is eliminated early in the first season. You need to keep playing the career as a Female and wait for the season when you can face Evert at the US Open. Once there, beat her and the trophy will be yours.
Missable:Career mode: As a Male. This trophy is luck based because he is eliminated soon in the first season. You need to keep playing the career as a Male and wait for the season when you can face McEnroe at US Open. Once there, beat him and the trophy will be yours.
Missable: In career mode this will be your 3rd official Grand Slam Tournament. If you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie, you should have no trouble beating the 7 rounds in your first season and you will earn this trophy.
Missable:Career mode: As a Female. This trophy is luck based because she is eliminated soon in the first season. You need to keep playing the career as a Female and wait for the season when you can face Navratilova at Wimbledon. Once there, beat her and the trophy will be yours.
Missable:Career mode: As a Male. This trophy is luck based because he is eliminated soon in the first season. You need to keep playing the career as a Male and wait for the season when you can face Sampras at the US Open. Once there, beat him and the trophy will be yours.
Missable: When playing a Grand Slam or any other tournament you need to win just the final match without losing a single set. If you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie, you should have no trouble with this trophy in your first try.
Missable: When playing a Grand Slam or any other tournament you need to win just the final match being broken your serve. if you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie, you should have no trouble with this trophy with your first try.
Career - Win all four Grand Slam® tournaments consecutively, but not in the same calendar year
Missable: This is a bit misunderstood. For this one you need to win all 4 Grand Slam tournaments in 2 separate seasons, NOT the full 4 in those 2 seasons. If you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie you just need to win the 4 tournaments in your first season and in the second season, win the Australian Open for the second time. After the win the trophy should pop.
Career - Win all four Grand Slam® tournaments consecutively in the same calendar year
Missable: For this one, simply win ALL the Grand Slam tournaments in the SAME season and you will unlock the trophy. The NON-Grand Slam tournaments are NOT needed for this one. If you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie, you should have no trouble with this trophy in your first season.
Missable: As with the “Calendar Year Grand Slam” trophy you should win all 4 Grand Slams in the same year but if you are going to try the above trophy this will come in the same season.
Missable: Once you pass the Quarter Finals at Wimbledon, you will play in this court and the trophy should pop at the end of the match. Winning or losing will unlock it.
Career - Play Court Philippe Chatrier at French Open
Missable: Once you pass Quarter Finals at Roland Garros you will play in this court and the trophy should pop at the end of the match. Winning or losing will unlock it.
Missable: Once you pass Quarter Finals at Australian Open you will play in this court and the trophy should pop at the end of the match. Winning or losing will unlock it.
Missable: Once you pass Quarter Finals at the US Open you will play in this court and the trophy should pop at the end of the match. Winning or losing will unlock it.
Missable: This is the most time consuming trophy in the entire game. You need to finish the 10 seasons seeded as #1 in the Rankings. Once you earn all the gear needed for the "Collector" trophy you should be able to skip the last seasons. You can make a Backup before skipping them just as a precaution.
Your created or downloaded player will start at Rank 100 with a Rating of 35. The rating doesn’t matter at all and you shouldn’t aim to increase his/her stats because are useless for this trophy.
If you win all the tournaments and Rivalry Matches you should be able to reach the #1 Rank between the 4th or 5th season. You need around 36,000 - 40,000 Career Points.
The trophy won't pop until you have finished all 10 seasons, here is a tip from tennisman123 to do it faster:
Get the trophy at end of year 10. I Backed up my data and skipped a few years, I stayed #1 for a few years. I think there is a certain amount of XP needed to stay #1. I reckon once all rackets and shoes are unlocked it may be possible to skip the last 2 - 3 seasons to make things a little quicker .
If you are facing troubles with the Difficulty Jump after the 2nd season here are some other great tips from tennisman123:
Don't serve and volley much, my advice is play from the baseline, take the ball early if you get the chance, only come to the net when you have your opponent on the run or off the court. At the next play, drop shot volley () try and go back behind your opponent or to the open court. Hold the analogue stick left or right to get as much angle as possible . When your opponent drop shots hold or down and the analogue stick left or right to get a winner. Always use for returning serve make sure you hold down for a few seconds to get full power.
If you want to serve and volley it's risky but slice serve with to get the ball out wide as far as you can and come in asap and hold down. In season 4 I think it will be very difficult to serve and volley as the A.I hits better returns, but than again my serve is only 30 lol a great serve may get a ton of aces and help with serve and volley tactics.[/quote]
Also, you can check some others tips in THIS thread.
The career has some modes to pay attention:
Pre-Tournament (includes 6 Rounds)
Training (when you earn player attribute points)
Exhibition (when you earn player attribute points or unlock gear-racquets in Rivalry Matches)
Skip Event
Important: Note that if you select Training you will automatically skip the rest of this options and you may miss some gears in the Rivalry Matches. I recommend to always do the Pre-Tournament, then the Exhibition Game (Rivalry Match) and just then select Training.
Once you finish the training OR skip the event you will be prompted to the Grand Slam Tournament where you need to play and preferable win all 7 stages to conquer your Tournament-Trophy. The Grand Slams are:
Australian Open
Roland Garros (French Open)
Wimbledon
US Open
The rest of the Tournaments NON-Grand Slam are:
EA World Tour Brighton
EA World Tour Dubai
EA World Tour Shanghai
EA World Tour Geneva
Also, in the Career Main Menu if you click you will have access to the following options:
My Performance & Tennis Store.
Here you can check your personal progression of your career such:
Missable: For this one you need to acquire the entire set of racquets and shoes available around the seasons. For this one you need top play Pre-Tournaments (6 Rounds), complete the training lessons in career and play exhibition games, try to do no SKIP any event because you would miss this trophy at the end of your career.
Also, it's important to note that you can unlock this trophy in one Career, you will unlock all gears-racquets playing as Male OR Female.
This means that if you start a career as Male you can have this trophy in his career, no women's career is needed to any gear.
Here are two great reference in this matter provided by tennisman123 and Berny18:
You unlock rackets / shoes / attribute points by winning rivalry and exhibition matches. Winning Grand Slam, tournaments etc gives you the xp points to make the unlocks available to win. It seems every 2,500 I get the chance to unlock something. The rackets and shoes improve your attributes, i'm only rated 54 I don't think attributes make much difference.
Once I have earned everything I will back up my save and skip everything. To get #1 rank you need 38,000 xp points or something like than and to unlock everything should take 75,000 xp points, each time you skip an event you lose 225 points, it might be possible to skip to the next year and unlock things but I always gets messages at exhibition matches saying Federer shoe 1 unlock at 42,500 points, racquet 4 unlocks at a later point.
For collector skipping is not an option: You need 5,000 carrier points to unlock a new racket or new shoes. Right now I am missing a single racket and the last shoes and it seems the last will unlock at 67,500 career points.
If you skip and play only exhibitions you make like 3,500 per season which is not enough to get everything in 10 years.
Playing all exhibitions and all grand slam tournaments (and of course winning those) nets approx. 8,000 points per season, so for collector you need to continue playing every calender week.
Once the match start and you have the serve try to Aim the shot in the peak of the crest (Holding button) and make a Flat Serve () in the middle and you should be able to hit the ball at 209/215 KPH pretty easy, rise and repeat if you fail.
Boostable: You can try this with a second controller or a friend online to do it faster. Simply make a serve with your main controller and put idle the second controller. Do it twice in a row for the trophy.
To break a service means that you need to win the game while your opponent is in his or hers' serve. if you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie, you should have no trouble with this trophy in your very first match.
For this one your opponent needs to break your serve. Do this deliberately by throwing your serve in the middle and when your opponent hits the ball, don't answer it. Do this 4 times and you will lose the game and your opponent will have the break serve. After this you need to break his/her serve and the trophy will pop. If you moved the sliders and changed the difficulty to rookie, you should have no trouble with this trophy in your first try.
As with the "Silver Set" trophy but this time you need to win the full match without being broken, you should be able to unlock it once you win your first match in the first tournament in your career mode.
A tiebreak in tennis is when you have a set tied, in our customized case it will be a 3-3 score in any Set. The tiebreak will be available and the first player who wins 7 points, wins the tiebreak. Basically you need to deliberately let your opponent tie the game and you will reach the tiebreak. Once there just win it and the trophy should pop.
Boostable: You can try this with a second controller or a friend online to do it faster. Simply make a serve with your main controller and idle the second controller. Do it four times in a row for the trophy.
Complete the Training Tennis School (15 Lessons) which is separated into 3 Main Classes:
Ground Strokes (5 Lessons)
Net Play (5 Lessons)
Service (5 Lessons)
Take your time to learn how to hit the ball, every lesson has two mini sets of different moves and 10 tries to complete them, if you fail you need to restart the mini set.
If you have troubles with the buttons, look in the Road Map for all the Controls.