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 volleyball player; Keisuke, an athletic hare that is part of the tennis club coming from an affluent family with a sometimes overly serious nature; Jun, a chubby tiger that is a new transfer student with a gift for music who deeply loves the piano and all things relating to videogames; and finally Haruki, the newest addition to the cast of dateable characters, a wolf in Shoichi's volleyball club, being rough, aggressive and sometimes unfriendly, but with a potential softer side kept locked and hidden away.