Tennis Champions

Tennis Champions Slot Review

Floodlights over a packed night stand, and two players in silhouette with their arms already raised before the first serve. Tennis Champions stages the big moment up front, then hands you a game with almost nothing staged about it: two special symbols, thirty fixed lines and not one bonus round to interrupt the rally. That’s a rarer thing than it sounds, and Spinomenal have committed to it fully.

It runs on a 5×4 grid with 30 fixed paylines and an RTP of 95.72%. Spinomenal’s sports shelf also carries MMA Champions and Boxing Ring Champions, with Champions Circuit covering the racing side. Whatever this game pays out, it pays out on the reels themselves.

Symbols and Paytable

Wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest combination on each line counts. Wins are multiplied by the bet per line, so adjusting your stake is a matter of the plus and minus buttons rather than fiddling with the 30 lines, which are fixed.

With a 5×4 grid and 30 lines, there’s a fair amount of screen for a winning combination to land across. Four rows mean each reel can contribute more than one symbol to the same pattern, so a spin can produce several qualifying lines at once. Every one of those line wins is added together into the round’s total.

The paying symbols run from a golden trophy down through tennis kit to the royals, and the royals stop at Q: there’s no J, 10 or 9 here, which trims the low end and leaves five paying tiers in total. The racket and the bag share a tier, so the list is shorter than it first looks. Their values at three, four and five of a kind:

• Trophy: three pays 30x, four 100x, and a full line is worth 400x the line bet
• Racket / Bag: a complete set of either pays 200x, with four worth 40x and three 20x
• A: climbs from 10x through 30x to 120x the line bet
• K: worth 10x, 20x or 80x depending on how many land
• Q: the lowest tier, at 5x, 10x and 40x

The drop from the trophy to the royals is steep rather than gentle. Five trophies are worth ten times five queens, and the mid-tier kit symbols sit closer to the royals than to the trophy, which concentrates the paytable’s interest on its very top.

That shape affects how the game plays out in practice. The royals and the kit occupy most of the reel space, so they supply most of the line wins, and those wins sit at the modest end of the ladder. The trophy is the symbol that changes a round, and it needs all five positions of a line to reach its 400x.

Wild and Scatter

The Wild

The wild is the tennis player, and it substitutes for every symbol except the scatter. Five of them on a line is also the richest single result in the game, paying 1,000x the line bet, well clear of the trophy’s 400x. The two specials never overlap, so a wild can’t stand in for the ball.

The Scatter

The scatter is the tennis ball, and it’s the only symbol that ignores paylines entirely. It pays on any position, with the award calculated as a multiplier of the total bet rather than the line bet. A scatter award therefore scales with everything you’ve staked on the round, while a line win scales with a single line’s share.

• Three scatters: 2x the total bet
• Four scatters: five times that, at 10x
• Five scatters: the full 250x

The scatter ladder jumps hard at the top. Going from four to five balls multiplies the award twenty-five times over, which makes the fifth scatter the single most valuable drop on the reels after a full wild line. Because the ball doesn’t need to sit on a payline, every position on the 5×4 grid is live for it.

That’s the full feature list. There’s no free spins round here, no pick’em game, no bonus buy. The wild and the scatter carry everything the game does beyond its base line pays, which makes the paytable the whole story rather than a warm-up for something bigger.

Playing the Game

Bets are set per line, and the game multiplies your win by that line stake. Spins go via the spin button or the space bar, and auto play is there for longer runs. During a spin the help and settings buttons lock, and every win in a round is totted up in the win field before it’s paid.

Multiple line wins in one round all add together into the total. Where a line carries more than one winning combination, only the highest is paid, so there’s no double-counting within a line; between lines, everything stacks. On a four-row grid, that stacking is what builds the bigger rounds, since several lines can fill at once.

Stakes are quoted per line across the fixed 30, which keeps the arithmetic legible. The same line bet everywhere, one multiplier per win, one total per round.

Work out your line stake, multiply it by 30, and that’s your cost per spin. Any win you land is a multiple of the first figure, not the second.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6/10

This is one long baseline rally rather than a highlight reel. Line win, line win, occasional scatter, repeat, and the only thing that changes is the size of the number in the win field. The appeal is the honesty of it: every prize is visible on the paytable from the first spin, and nothing sits behind a round you might never reach.

The wild line is the best thing in the game. A 1,000x line-bet five-of-a-kind is a rich prize for something this uncomplicated, and the 250x total-bet scatter gives the reels a second target without loading a second screen. The neon stadium framing is polished rather than pasted on.

The weakness is the ceiling on the drama. No free spins, no pick’em, nothing to build towards, and a long run of royal-tier line wins can read as flat. It suits players who like clean line-pay maths and know it, and anyone who plays for bonus rounds will find nothing here. The floodlights promise a big occasion, and the game plays exactly the match it advertises.

Tennis Champions FAQs

• What is the RTP of Tennis Champions?

  Tennis Champions runs at an RTP of 95.72%.
• How many paylines does Tennis Champions have?

  The game is set to 30 fixed paylines. You can’t adjust the line count; your bet is set per line and wins are multiplied by that line stake.
• What does the wild symbol do in Tennis Champions?

  The wild is the tennis player. It substitutes for all symbols except the scatter, and five wilds on a line pay 1,000x the line bet, the richest single result in the game.
• How does the scatter pay in Tennis Champions?

  The scatter is the tennis ball and it pays on any position, not just on paylines. Three scatters pay 2x the total bet, four pay 10x and five pay 250x the total bet.
• How do wins pay out in Tennis Champions?

  All symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel. Only the highest win on each line is paid, and every qualifying line win in a round is added together to give the total win.
• What is the grid size of Tennis Champions?

  Tennis Champions uses a 5×4 grid: five reels and four rows, across 30 fixed paylines.
• Is there a free spins round in Tennis Champions?

  No. The wild and the scatter are the only special symbols, and neither of them triggers a bonus round. The game’s prizes all come from line wins and scatter pays on the reels.
• Which symbol pays the most in Tennis Champions?

  The tennis player tops the table: five of that symbol on a payline pay 1,000x the line bet. The trophy follows at 400x, with five scatters worth 250x the total bet.
• When is Tennis Champions released?

  Tennis Champions’ release date is 20 June 2022.