I write about sports for a living, but there’s no one specific beat I stick to instead, I’ve got to be aware of everything, from football and baseball to NASCAR and golf, depending on what the day’s biggest stories are. If you’re not immediately convinced by such effusive platitudes, or if you think sports - especially tennis, of all bourgeois pursuits - are a waste of time, let me do a little bit of backtracking to show how I came to this conclusion. Why, you ask, should a year-and-a-half old sports game be the prize get of your shopping list? Because it’s amazingly fun, and offers a window into enjoying tennis, which may be one of the most viscerally pleasurable sports to follow. The more ambitious shopper will make a gift of Top Spin 4. Rather than sticking with the same old critically acclaimed list of possibilities, he or she will dare the recipient to take a new interest in something that might be a little trickier to get into at first, but will eventually pay off in spades. It’s tempting to draw inspiration from a best of Metacritic chart, and leave it there the more ambitious shopper, however, will scoff at such carefully weighted averages. You casually strike up a conversation about what games they’ve played on the year, and get them something they haven’t. Going Christmas shopping for a gamer on the list should be a pretty easy task.
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