Done. No patch is going to fix the AI in this game. Rookie level allows to you play without hitting a ball out of the court and you do not have to line up your shot with any accuracy as you cannot aim OUTSIDE the court. A very good starter difficulty for those new to the game. However, this mode teaches bad habits.

Once you move the difficulty up one notch to Amateur, you have to time your shots as well as aim and you can aim outside the court. This will take a bit of practice to get good. The bad habits of rookie will show once you have to actually aim INSIDE the court to try and keep the ball in.

However, the AI, even when ranked fuck-all will run down and return almost any shot you play unless you cheap the AI by for instance hitting deep, baseline power-shots to the forehand court and then the backhand court and then back to the forehand court and the backhand etc etc to run the player out of the court far enough for you to then.... hit a drop-shot to the opposite side of the court the AI player is on in the hopes that he/she won't get there. This works most times if done right. You'd expect maybe players in the top-50 or so to be amazingly good at returning your shots, not a player ranked fuck-all on the amateur circuit.

2/5 (4/10) as the career mode would have been great without the super-human AI.