Multiple of the right-hand buttons of the SNES controller perform different tennis racket moves and the direction of the ball when hit is influenced by the control pad, which also moves the player around their side of the tennis court in anticipation of the ball.

Super Tennis was met with critical acclaim by media in the United Kingdom and North America.

[3] Computer and Video Games' editors said that Super Tennis is "more fun than should be allowed" when a set is played against a friend.

[2] Professional film critics Siskel and Ebert featured the game in a brief segment to end a "Holiday Video Gift Guide" special which was syndicated on television in the United States in December 1991.

[23][24] [25] In a 2000s retrospective, Mean Machines' then-editor Damo stated that the game was still "the best representation of the sport to date" and also the most "fantastically competitive", but also said the single player was "nothing special".