Following in the mold of older, classic Japanese visual novels, Tennis Ace features a larger, slower-paced prologue with twelve in-game days before the player is allowed to choose what route they want to take part in. TA follows the protagonist, Yuuichi, as an 18-year-old aspiring tennis professional in his last year of schooling before finally going pro.

The VN has four possible dateable characters: Shoichi, a diligent and affectionate husky that is the MC's childhood friend as well as a volle