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 Five years have passed and Clap Hanz and Sony the developers of Hot Shots Golf bring us Tennis.

The previous game is also known as Minna no Golf or Everybody's Golf in Japan. Clap Hanz, developed Hot Shots Golf series and it has been a casual sports standard for Sony from the days of the original PlayStation.

The Sony Computer Entertainment senior producer Daisaku Ikejiri and Clap Hanz CEO Takashi Muramori gave an inteview to the Weekly Famitsu magazine, in which they were talked about the project.

"The game's plan was finished in 2001. However, we had to make Minna no Golf Online, so we didn't have the manpower to do it...We decided to wait until we could get some good people for the project...", said Muramori.

Called Minna no Tennis is designed with casual sports fans in mind, exactly like the Minna no Golf franchise. The game won't use real-life tennis stars. Also the developers are trying to avoid making it look like a simulation-minded game. Muramori and Ikejiri explain that such things risk scaring off users who aren't already fans of the sport.

"Without depth, the players will get bored," Muramori said. "We had to see how deep we could make the game and how many complex elements we could hide inside of it. We had some experienced tennis players try the game, and they said it's 'close to actual tennis'...We were very particular about preserving the sequence of rally, tempo change, and kill that is inherent to tennis."

The game will be available for PlayStation 2, but the developers hope that it will be available for PlayStation 3. Minna no Tennis is scheduled for a September 14 release, but this in Japan.