Top Spin 2

Top Spin 2 is a 2006 tennis video game developed by Indie Built and originally published by 2K Sports. It is the sequel to Top Spin and is followed by Top Spin 3.

Players

Top Spin 2 includes 24 playable professional tennis players including today's superstars, and retired.

Venues

Below is the list of the 19 courts that are included in the game, with 5 of them that are licensed. The GBA and DS versions, due to their limited capacity, only feature 8 courts from the list (the Grand Slams, Indian Wells, Miami, Rome and Chicago) plus 2 new ones that are exclusive for both consoles, in order to respond as generic venues for the Career Mode, completing the list to 21.

Grand Slam

Wimbledon - London - Grass

Australian Open - Melbourne - Hard

U.S. Open - New York - Hard

French Open - Paris - Clay

Masters

Nasdaq-100 Open - Miami - Hard

Osterreich Stadium (Erste Bank Open) - Vienna - Hard

Pacific Life Open - Indian Wells - Hard

Stade International de Paris (BNP Paribas Masters) - Paris - Indoor

Topspin

In ball sports, topspin is a property of a ball that rotates forwards as it is moving. Topspin on a ball propelled through the air imparts a downward force that causes the ball to drop, due to its interaction with the air (see Magnus effect). Topspin is the opposite of backspin.

Baseball

In baseball, the curveball, a type of pitch which usually has downward movement, is thrown in such a way as to put topspin on the ball. Its close relatives are the slider and the slurve. The "curve" of the ball varies from pitcher to pitcher.

Cue sports

In snooker, pocket billiards and billiards, players use topspin to keep the cue ball moving, including after it hits other balls. They get top spin by hitting the cue against the top of the ball.

Cricket

In cricket, a top-spinner is a type of delivery bowled by a cricketer bowling either wrist spin or finger spin. In either case, the bowler imparts the ball with top spin by twisting it with his or her fingers prior to delivery. In both cases, the topspinner is the halfway house between the stock delivery and the wrong'un - in the wrist spinner's case his googly, and in the finger spinner's case his doosra.

Top Spin (ride)

The Top Spin is a thrill ride developed by HUSS Park Attractions, and is the generic name for a series of rides from other manufacturers that follow the same principle. The ride consists of a passenger platform suspended between two counterweighted arms. The arms are turned by motors, while the platform generally only has brakes that are engaged and disengaged at various points of the ride cycle. A typical top spin program runs the main arm motors while engaging and disengaging the platform brakes so that it will rotate in exciting ways. The minimum rider height requirement is 54 inches; maximum is 80 inches due to the seat and restraint design. The ride was debuted in 1990 with it proving an instant success with European fairgoers.

Ride experience

Huss has designed the ride so that park and carnival operators may choose one of 8 preset ride "programs." Most last no more than 2 minutes and consist of several moderate-speed loops, flips, and face-down gondola "hangtime" before unlocking the gondola hydraulics and swinging the riders back and forth. Some Top Spin rides have the added feature of water fountains which are mainly used at the end of the ride sequence soaking the riders as they are slowly lowered face first into the un-escapable water jets. Cycles can be customized to include more intense repetitive flips and also be under manual operator control. Cycles may tend to be longer at carnivals. A world record was set with over 100 gondola flips during a cycle with a theme park model in Germany.

Topspin (disambiguation)

In sports, topspin is a property of a shot where the ball rotates as if rolling in the same direction as it is moving.

Topspin or Top Spin may also refer to:

See also