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I have fond memories of Virtua Tennis. Hazy memories due to the tequila but fond memories nevertheless. I used to regularly play a guy at work at Virtua Tennis but he could never beat me. He would resort to dirty tactics and turn up at my flat armed with a bottle of said tequila. And it would have worked if he never drank just as much as me. But drink he did and I remain undefeated.
Despite thoroughly enjoying the game, I never bought another Virtua Tennis game until the 2009 version (and even then I didn't buy it till 2010). Sega hasn’t taken the EA approach and released an ‘update’ each year which is possibly just as well as not much at all has changed in the several years between the 2 games.
Virtua Tennis takes the arcade approach to tennis. It plays a fine game without getting too realistic or complex for its own good. it doesn’t bog you down with a multitude of shots, techniques and tactics. Your only areas of consideration are the positioning of your player and choosing to one of 3 shot types, top spin, slice or a lob. It is all simple stuff and it is incredibly easy to get the hang of.
The 2009 version comes complete with a new camera view, the ‘shoulder-cam’. With this camera selected you view proceeding just above and behind your player’s shoulder. It’s not quite a player’s eye view but it is more immersive than the traditional camera.
For the offline gamer there are 2 modes, Exhibition Match and World Tour. The Exhibition mode allows you to play a friend or against the AI using one of the selected professionals. There are a few options for some fine tuning but it’s relatively thin on the ground and there is a good chance you will spend little time in this mode as a single player other than to pick up some achievements/trophies. You might also want to bump the skill level up if you want any sort of a challenge from the AI otherwise you will be blowing Federer off the court without having dropped a point. There are a selection of some big names from the world of tennis but it’s far from a full roster. On court you can see that Sega has not spent a great deal of time on the player likeness, they are recognisable enough but it is far from the efforts the football games make with the big names.
The real meat and bones of Virtua Tennis is in the World Tour. In this mode you are tasked with rising from the amateur league to the professional league and becoming world number 1. The first step on your path to world domination is the player creation. It falls way short of EA’s offerings in their sports titles and you will do well to create a player who looks semi-human. Still, not all players can be graced with looks as well as skills.
Tim Henman is on board to help you with your training but this sounds more in depth than what it really is. There are a variety of challenges that Tim wants you to complete and if you pass he will reward you with a bronze, silver or gold medal. There is nothing on the way of guidance if you fail and sometimes his return shots do little to help you complete the challenge. The main purpose of the challenges is to build up your stats but it is quite a shallow part of the game as you have little indication as to what level your stats are at and you’ll do well to spot any benefit.
The other way to boost your stats is by playing the mini games. This is where Virtua Tennis goes for the fun and silly approach. The mini games will see you doing bizarre things like avoiding tennis balls as you collect food items, firing balls back to hit crocodiles or pirate boats and playing a tennis version of Breakout. There are many of these mini games and they are all a fun distraction which also serve as a means to boost your stats. I’m sure all tennis professionals train like that.
The World Tour works off a calendar of sorts. It’s not based on actual dates but instead deals with week numbers. As the weeks progress various events will be available to enter. Participation in the events depends on your ranking and the higher your ranking is the more events become available. The events also show the arcade approach, each one starts in the quarter finals which makes for quick progress. The game offsets the quick progress by the sheer number of events. There is little challenge in the amateur league, so much so that the first time you drop a point it will come as a real shock to the system but it will require a considerable investment in time to progress to the top of the rankings.
Along the way you will also be invited to one-off practice matches against other amateurs or a one off match against a real tennis professional but the professionals aren’t going to be interested while you are in the amateur league. When you play one of the fictional tennis players, that player then becomes available to you as a doubles partner. They are a sorry looking bunch, each one of them fits the stereotypical description on an IT employee but then, the player you created doesn’t look any more convincing as a tennis player.
Each event allows you to participate in the singles and doubles tournaments. Choose either or choose both for maximum ranking increase. In doubles you are the one wearing the metaphorical trousers. You are in control of where your partner plays, at the net, at the baseline or neither. Playing doubles takes some used to and you will probably find yourself being selfish and trying to deal with every return yourself whether your partner is best placed to do so or not. It takes some discipline but your partner can generally be relied upon.
Every action in the World Tour, be it a tournament, a practice match, a mini game or a challenge has an impact on your stamina. It’s similar to the stats, an attempt to add some depth to the mode which has little value. You will be surprised to see the hit your stamina bar takes as you romp through a tournament without dropping a point. There are 3 options to deal with your stamina, the energy drink, a week at home or a holiday. The energy drink gives a good boost, certainly way beyond anything I’ve ever felt from an energy drink, it must be good stuff. The week’s rest gives a better boost and a holiday completely restores the bar. One can only presume the holiday isn’t some sort of booze up in Ibiza partying away till the small hours. It all seems a little pointless and surely there is something missing between taking an energy drink and a week off, why not a day off? Taking time off means you will miss tournaments but if you let your stamina vanish you are forced into time off anyway.
The difficulty level may be an issue for some. I’ve made it through the amateur league without dropping a point in any match until I was in the top 10. It gradually gets more difficult but you are still blowing away players close to your rank. When you do get promoted to the professional league then things start to hot up a little but again gradually. There are a lot of matches to play to rank up and you will lose ranking points when you don’t play in a tournament. It takes a fair bit of time for the challenge to become more interesting and I’m sure some will have lost interest before then which is a shame as it is generally a good mode.
On the visuals front, the graphics do their job but this is not a game that is going to wow you by any means. There is a bit of an HD shine but there is no huge graphical difference from the original. With the look of the fictional players you can see that there has not been a great deal of investment into the visuals.
There is a multiplayer mode but nobody was online when I was on so I’ve been unable to try it out. It looks like the traditional 2 players on the same console is the only multiplayer action you will see.
On the whole, Virtua Tennis it is as good today as it was back on the Dreamcast but there seems to be little progress made with the game. You could pick up a Dreamcast and a copy of the original for the same price as this version retailed at when it was released and all you would be missing out on is achievements and online capabilities, not that there is anyone online. It plays the same as the original and has the same niggles. Aces are few and far between even if you hit MAX power, lobs are almost useless against competent players and drop shots and surprisingly awkward to pull off.
The World Tour mode will keep you out of trouble for a great deal of time if you go all the way to the top but it could benefit from a quicker difficult progress and the stats and stamina seem an unnecessary extra. If you like a spot of tennis but don’t like your sports games to be too serious then this is a worthy purchase, especially for the price you can get it for now.
7/10
Despite thoroughly enjoying the game, I never bought another Virtua Tennis game until the 2009 version (and even then I didn't buy it till 2010). Sega hasn’t taken the EA approach and released an ‘update’ each year which is possibly just as well as not much at all has changed in the several years between the 2 games.
Virtua Tennis takes the arcade approach to tennis. It plays a fine game without getting too realistic or complex for its own good. it doesn’t bog you down with a multitude of shots, techniques and tactics. Your only areas of consideration are the positioning of your player and choosing to one of 3 shot types, top spin, slice or a lob. It is all simple stuff and it is incredibly easy to get the hang of.
The 2009 version comes complete with a new camera view, the ‘shoulder-cam’. With this camera selected you view proceeding just above and behind your player’s shoulder. It’s not quite a player’s eye view but it is more immersive than the traditional camera.
For the offline gamer there are 2 modes, Exhibition Match and World Tour. The Exhibition mode allows you to play a friend or against the AI using one of the selected professionals. There are a few options for some fine tuning but it’s relatively thin on the ground and there is a good chance you will spend little time in this mode as a single player other than to pick up some achievements/trophies. You might also want to bump the skill level up if you want any sort of a challenge from the AI otherwise you will be blowing Federer off the court without having dropped a point. There are a selection of some big names from the world of tennis but it’s far from a full roster. On court you can see that Sega has not spent a great deal of time on the player likeness, they are recognisable enough but it is far from the efforts the football games make with the big names.
The real meat and bones of Virtua Tennis is in the World Tour. In this mode you are tasked with rising from the amateur league to the professional league and becoming world number 1. The first step on your path to world domination is the player creation. It falls way short of EA’s offerings in their sports titles and you will do well to create a player who looks semi-human. Still, not all players can be graced with looks as well as skills.
Tim Henman is on board to help you with your training but this sounds more in depth than what it really is. There are a variety of challenges that Tim wants you to complete and if you pass he will reward you with a bronze, silver or gold medal. There is nothing on the way of guidance if you fail and sometimes his return shots do little to help you complete the challenge. The main purpose of the challenges is to build up your stats but it is quite a shallow part of the game as you have little indication as to what level your stats are at and you’ll do well to spot any benefit.
The other way to boost your stats is by playing the mini games. This is where Virtua Tennis goes for the fun and silly approach. The mini games will see you doing bizarre things like avoiding tennis balls as you collect food items, firing balls back to hit crocodiles or pirate boats and playing a tennis version of Breakout. There are many of these mini games and they are all a fun distraction which also serve as a means to boost your stats. I’m sure all tennis professionals train like that.
The World Tour works off a calendar of sorts. It’s not based on actual dates but instead deals with week numbers. As the weeks progress various events will be available to enter. Participation in the events depends on your ranking and the higher your ranking is the more events become available. The events also show the arcade approach, each one starts in the quarter finals which makes for quick progress. The game offsets the quick progress by the sheer number of events. There is little challenge in the amateur league, so much so that the first time you drop a point it will come as a real shock to the system but it will require a considerable investment in time to progress to the top of the rankings.
Along the way you will also be invited to one-off practice matches against other amateurs or a one off match against a real tennis professional but the professionals aren’t going to be interested while you are in the amateur league. When you play one of the fictional tennis players, that player then becomes available to you as a doubles partner. They are a sorry looking bunch, each one of them fits the stereotypical description on an IT employee but then, the player you created doesn’t look any more convincing as a tennis player.
Each event allows you to participate in the singles and doubles tournaments. Choose either or choose both for maximum ranking increase. In doubles you are the one wearing the metaphorical trousers. You are in control of where your partner plays, at the net, at the baseline or neither. Playing doubles takes some used to and you will probably find yourself being selfish and trying to deal with every return yourself whether your partner is best placed to do so or not. It takes some discipline but your partner can generally be relied upon.
Every action in the World Tour, be it a tournament, a practice match, a mini game or a challenge has an impact on your stamina. It’s similar to the stats, an attempt to add some depth to the mode which has little value. You will be surprised to see the hit your stamina bar takes as you romp through a tournament without dropping a point. There are 3 options to deal with your stamina, the energy drink, a week at home or a holiday. The energy drink gives a good boost, certainly way beyond anything I’ve ever felt from an energy drink, it must be good stuff. The week’s rest gives a better boost and a holiday completely restores the bar. One can only presume the holiday isn’t some sort of booze up in Ibiza partying away till the small hours. It all seems a little pointless and surely there is something missing between taking an energy drink and a week off, why not a day off? Taking time off means you will miss tournaments but if you let your stamina vanish you are forced into time off anyway.
The difficulty level may be an issue for some. I’ve made it through the amateur league without dropping a point in any match until I was in the top 10. It gradually gets more difficult but you are still blowing away players close to your rank. When you do get promoted to the professional league then things start to hot up a little but again gradually. There are a lot of matches to play to rank up and you will lose ranking points when you don’t play in a tournament. It takes a fair bit of time for the challenge to become more interesting and I’m sure some will have lost interest before then which is a shame as it is generally a good mode.
On the visuals front, the graphics do their job but this is not a game that is going to wow you by any means. There is a bit of an HD shine but there is no huge graphical difference from the original. With the look of the fictional players you can see that there has not been a great deal of investment into the visuals.
There is a multiplayer mode but nobody was online when I was on so I’ve been unable to try it out. It looks like the traditional 2 players on the same console is the only multiplayer action you will see.
On the whole, Virtua Tennis it is as good today as it was back on the Dreamcast but there seems to be little progress made with the game. You could pick up a Dreamcast and a copy of the original for the same price as this version retailed at when it was released and all you would be missing out on is achievements and online capabilities, not that there is anyone online. It plays the same as the original and has the same niggles. Aces are few and far between even if you hit MAX power, lobs are almost useless against competent players and drop shots and surprisingly awkward to pull off.
The World Tour mode will keep you out of trouble for a great deal of time if you go all the way to the top but it could benefit from a quicker difficult progress and the stats and stamina seem an unnecessary extra. If you like a spot of tennis but don’t like your sports games to be too serious then this is a worthy purchase, especially for the price you can get it for now.
7/10
I find Virtua Tennis to be extremely easy. Really put me off the game. You can't tell the difference between the rookies and the pros. Needs to be more challenging. And they need to bring in more animations.
I have fond memories of Virtua Tennis. Hazy memories due to the tequila but fond memories nevertheless. I used to regularly play a guy at work at Virtua Tennis but he could never beat me. He would resort to dirty tactics and turn up at my flat armed with a bottle of said tequila. And it would have worked if he never drank just as much as me. But drink he did and I remain undefeated.
Despite thoroughly enjoying the game, I never bought another Virtua Tennis game until the 2009 version (and even then I didn't buy it till 2010). Sega hasn’t taken the EA approach and released an ‘update’ each year which is possibly just as well as not much at all has changed in the several years between the 2 games.
Virtua Tennis takes the arcade approach to tennis. It plays a fine game without getting too realistic or complex for its own good. it doesn’t bog you down with a multitude of shots, techniques and tactics. Your only areas of consideration are the positioning of your player and choosing to one of 3 shot types, top spin, slice or a lob. It is all simple stuff and it is incredibly easy to get the hang of.
The 2009 version comes complete with a new camera view, the ‘shoulder-cam’. With this camera selected you view proceeding just above and behind your player’s shoulder. It’s not quite a player’s eye view but it is more immersive than the traditional camera.
For the offline gamer there are 2 modes, Exhibition Match and World Tour. The Exhibition mode allows you to play a friend or against the AI using one of the selected professionals. There are a few options for some fine tuning but it’s relatively thin on the ground and there is a good chance you will spend little time in this mode as a single player other than to pick up some achievements/trophies. You might also want to bump the skill level up if you want any sort of a challenge from the AI otherwise you will be blowing Federer off the court without having dropped a point. There are a selection of some big names from the world of tennis but it’s far from a full roster. On court you can see that Sega has not spent a great deal of time on the player likeness, they are recognisable enough but it is far from the efforts the football games make with the big names.
The real meat and bones of Virtua Tennis is in the World Tour. In this mode you are tasked with rising from the amateur league to the professional league and becoming world number 1. The first step on your path to world domination is the player creation. It falls way short of EA’s offerings in their sports titles and you will do well to create a player who looks semi-human. Still, not all players can be graced with looks as well as skills.
Tim Henman is on board to help you with your training but this sounds more in depth than what it really is. There are a variety of challenges that Tim wants you to complete and if you pass he will reward you with a bronze, silver or gold medal. There is nothing on the way of guidance if you fail and sometimes his return shots do little to help you complete the challenge. The main purpose of the challenges is to build up your stats but it is quite a shallow part of the game as you have little indication as to what level your stats are at and you’ll do well to spot any benefit.
The other way to boost your stats is by playing the mini games. This is where Virtua Tennis goes for the fun and silly approach. The mini games will see you doing bizarre things like avoiding tennis balls as you collect food items, firing balls back to hit crocodiles or pirate boats and playing a tennis version of Breakout. There are many of these mini games and they are all a fun distraction which also serve as a means to boost your stats. I’m sure all tennis professionals train like that.
The World Tour works off a calendar of sorts. It’s not based on actual dates but instead deals with week numbers. As the weeks progress various events will be available to enter. Participation in the events depends on your ranking and the higher your ranking is the more events become available. The events also show the arcade approach, each one starts in the quarter finals which makes for quick progress. The game offsets the quick progress by the sheer number of events. There is little challenge in the amateur league, so much so that the first time you drop a point it will come as a real shock to the system but it will require a considerable investment in time to progress to the top of the rankings.
Along the way you will also be invited to one-off practice matches against other amateurs or a one off match against a real tennis professional but the professionals aren’t going to be interested while you are in the amateur league. When you play one of the fictional tennis players, that player then becomes available to you as a doubles partner. They are a sorry looking bunch, each one of them fits the stereotypical description on an IT employee but then, the player you created doesn’t look any more convincing as a tennis player.
Each event allows you to participate in the singles and doubles tournaments. Choose either or choose both for maximum ranking increase. In doubles you are the one wearing the metaphorical trousers. You are in control of where your partner plays, at the net, at the baseline or neither. Playing doubles takes some used to and you will probably find yourself being selfish and trying to deal with every return yourself whether your partner is best placed to do so or not. It takes some discipline but your partner can generally be relied upon.
Every action in the World Tour, be it a tournament, a practice match, a mini game or a challenge has an impact on your stamina. It’s similar to the stats, an attempt to add some depth to the mode which has little value. You will be surprised to see the hit your stamina bar takes as you romp through a tournament without dropping a point. There are 3 options to deal with your stamina, the energy drink, a week at home or a holiday. The energy drink gives a good boost, certainly way beyond anything I’ve ever felt from an energy drink, it must be good stuff. The week’s rest gives a better boost and a holiday completely restores the bar. One can only presume the holiday isn’t some sort of booze up in Ibiza partying away till the small hours. It all seems a little pointless and surely there is something missing between taking an energy drink and a week off, why not a day off? Taking time off means you will miss tournaments but if you let your stamina vanish you are forced into time off anyway.
The difficulty level may be an issue for some. I’ve made it through the amateur league without dropping a point in any match until I was in the top 10. It gradually gets more difficult but you are still blowing away players close to your rank. When you do get promoted to the professional league then things start to hot up a little but again gradually. There are a lot of matches to play to rank up and you will lose ranking points when you don’t play in a tournament. It takes a fair bit of time for the challenge to become more interesting and I’m sure some will have lost interest before then which is a shame as it is generally a good mode.
On the visuals front, the graphics do their job but this is not a game that is going to wow you by any means. There is a bit of an HD shine but there is no huge graphical difference from the original. With the look of the fictional players you can see that there has not been a great deal of investment into the visuals.
There is a multiplayer mode but nobody was online when I was on so I’ve been unable to try it out. It looks like the traditional 2 players on the same console is the only multiplayer action you will see.
On the whole, Virtua Tennis it is as good today as it was back on the Dreamcast but there seems to be little progress made with the game. You could pick up a Dreamcast and a copy of the original for the same price as this version retailed at when it was released and all you would be missing out on is achievements and online capabilities, not that there is anyone online. It plays the same as the original and has the same niggles. Aces are few and far between even if you hit MAX power, lobs are almost useless against competent players and drop shots and surprisingly awkward to pull off.
The World Tour mode will keep you out of trouble for a great deal of time if you go all the way to the top but it could benefit from a quicker difficult progress and the stats and stamina seem an unnecessary extra. If you like a spot of tennis but don’t like your sports games to be too serious then this is a worthy purchase, especially for the price you can get it for now.
7/10
Despite thoroughly enjoying the game, I never bought another Virtua Tennis game until the 2009 version (and even then I didn't buy it till 2010). Sega hasn’t taken the EA approach and released an ‘update’ each year which is possibly just as well as not much at all has changed in the several years between the 2 games.
Virtua Tennis takes the arcade approach to tennis. It plays a fine game without getting too realistic or complex for its own good. it doesn’t bog you down with a multitude of shots, techniques and tactics. Your only areas of consideration are the positioning of your player and choosing to one of 3 shot types, top spin, slice or a lob. It is all simple stuff and it is incredibly easy to get the hang of.
The 2009 version comes complete with a new camera view, the ‘shoulder-cam’. With this camera selected you view proceeding just above and behind your player’s shoulder. It’s not quite a player’s eye view but it is more immersive than the traditional camera.
For the offline gamer there are 2 modes, Exhibition Match and World Tour. The Exhibition mode allows you to play a friend or against the AI using one of the selected professionals. There are a few options for some fine tuning but it’s relatively thin on the ground and there is a good chance you will spend little time in this mode as a single player other than to pick up some achievements/trophies. You might also want to bump the skill level up if you want any sort of a challenge from the AI otherwise you will be blowing Federer off the court without having dropped a point. There are a selection of some big names from the world of tennis but it’s far from a full roster. On court you can see that Sega has not spent a great deal of time on the player likeness, they are recognisable enough but it is far from the efforts the football games make with the big names.
The real meat and bones of Virtua Tennis is in the World Tour. In this mode you are tasked with rising from the amateur league to the professional league and becoming world number 1. The first step on your path to world domination is the player creation. It falls way short of EA’s offerings in their sports titles and you will do well to create a player who looks semi-human. Still, not all players can be graced with looks as well as skills.
Tim Henman is on board to help you with your training but this sounds more in depth than what it really is. There are a variety of challenges that Tim wants you to complete and if you pass he will reward you with a bronze, silver or gold medal. There is nothing on the way of guidance if you fail and sometimes his return shots do little to help you complete the challenge. The main purpose of the challenges is to build up your stats but it is quite a shallow part of the game as you have little indication as to what level your stats are at and you’ll do well to spot any benefit.
The other way to boost your stats is by playing the mini games. This is where Virtua Tennis goes for the fun and silly approach. The mini games will see you doing bizarre things like avoiding tennis balls as you collect food items, firing balls back to hit crocodiles or pirate boats and playing a tennis version of Breakout. There are many of these mini games and they are all a fun distraction which also serve as a means to boost your stats. I’m sure all tennis professionals train like that.
The World Tour works off a calendar of sorts. It’s not based on actual dates but instead deals with week numbers. As the weeks progress various events will be available to enter. Participation in the events depends on your ranking and the higher your ranking is the more events become available. The events also show the arcade approach, each one starts in the quarter finals which makes for quick progress. The game offsets the quick progress by the sheer number of events. There is little challenge in the amateur league, so much so that the first time you drop a point it will come as a real shock to the system but it will require a considerable investment in time to progress to the top of the rankings.
Along the way you will also be invited to one-off practice matches against other amateurs or a one off match against a real tennis professional but the professionals aren’t going to be interested while you are in the amateur league. When you play one of the fictional tennis players, that player then becomes available to you as a doubles partner. They are a sorry looking bunch, each one of them fits the stereotypical description on an IT employee but then, the player you created doesn’t look any more convincing as a tennis player.
Each event allows you to participate in the singles and doubles tournaments. Choose either or choose both for maximum ranking increase. In doubles you are the one wearing the metaphorical trousers. You are in control of where your partner plays, at the net, at the baseline or neither. Playing doubles takes some used to and you will probably find yourself being selfish and trying to deal with every return yourself whether your partner is best placed to do so or not. It takes some discipline but your partner can generally be relied upon.
Every action in the World Tour, be it a tournament, a practice match, a mini game or a challenge has an impact on your stamina. It’s similar to the stats, an attempt to add some depth to the mode which has little value. You will be surprised to see the hit your stamina bar takes as you romp through a tournament without dropping a point. There are 3 options to deal with your stamina, the energy drink, a week at home or a holiday. The energy drink gives a good boost, certainly way beyond anything I’ve ever felt from an energy drink, it must be good stuff. The week’s rest gives a better boost and a holiday completely restores the bar. One can only presume the holiday isn’t some sort of booze up in Ibiza partying away till the small hours. It all seems a little pointless and surely there is something missing between taking an energy drink and a week off, why not a day off? Taking time off means you will miss tournaments but if you let your stamina vanish you are forced into time off anyway.
The difficulty level may be an issue for some. I’ve made it through the amateur league without dropping a point in any match until I was in the top 10. It gradually gets more difficult but you are still blowing away players close to your rank. When you do get promoted to the professional league then things start to hot up a little but again gradually. There are a lot of matches to play to rank up and you will lose ranking points when you don’t play in a tournament. It takes a fair bit of time for the challenge to become more interesting and I’m sure some will have lost interest before then which is a shame as it is generally a good mode.
On the visuals front, the graphics do their job but this is not a game that is going to wow you by any means. There is a bit of an HD shine but there is no huge graphical difference from the original. With the look of the fictional players you can see that there has not been a great deal of investment into the visuals.
There is a multiplayer mode but nobody was online when I was on so I’ve been unable to try it out. It looks like the traditional 2 players on the same console is the only multiplayer action you will see.
On the whole, Virtua Tennis it is as good today as it was back on the Dreamcast but there seems to be little progress made with the game. You could pick up a Dreamcast and a copy of the original for the same price as this version retailed at when it was released and all you would be missing out on is achievements and online capabilities, not that there is anyone online. It plays the same as the original and has the same niggles. Aces are few and far between even if you hit MAX power, lobs are almost useless against competent players and drop shots and surprisingly awkward to pull off.
The World Tour mode will keep you out of trouble for a great deal of time if you go all the way to the top but it could benefit from a quicker difficult progress and the stats and stamina seem an unnecessary extra. If you like a spot of tennis but don’t like your sports games to be too serious then this is a worthy purchase, especially for the price you can get it for now.
7/10