Tennis Clash

Is Tennis Clash safe for kids?

Tennis Clash is one of the calmer online games for a teenager, with a catch in the shop. It is a one-on-one tennis game against real players, and the way it handles contact with strangers is sound: opponents can send only preset emojis and stickers, and typed chat exists only inside clubs a player chooses to join. The concerns are tracking for ads, random reward bags and a pick-a-card mini-game that asks for gems to keep going.

We score it 56/100, close to Brawl Stars (58) and Stumble Guys (55), and just above its stablemate Sniper 3D (55), which has open global chat and an 18+ rating.

It is a big game for a sports title. It has about 478,000 ratings on the US App Store and more than 100 million downloads on Google Play, and in October 2026 it ranked in the top 100 iPhone sports games in 23 of the 24 countries we checked.

Who can talk to your child in Tennis Clash?

During a match, nobody can type. Wildlife's help centre says players can only send preset emojis and stickers, and one switch in the chat balloon mutes the opponent completely.

Clubs are different. They unlock at Tour 3, and any player can create one or apply to join. Owners can approve each request or let anyone in automatically, and members share a club chat in the Social tab. Wildlife runs an AI moderator that censors messages breaking its code of conduct, with human review of reports. Players can report others for harassment, sexual content, threats to a child or an inappropriate profile picture, and reports are anonymous.

The wider numbers come from Wildlife's EU transparency report for 2025, which covers all its games. It took more than 256,700 enforcement actions, and child safety was the second-largest category of abuse it detected, at 15.7%.

What the game collects

Apple's privacy label lists device ID and advertising data as used to track you across other companies' apps, and lists location, gameplay, email, user ID and diagnostics as collected but not linked to you. Google Play's form adds that the game collects the list of installed apps and shares device IDs with other companies for advertising.

The privacy policy, effective since 3 March 2023 and shared by all Wildlife games, allows interest-based ads "including through cross-device tracking" and names Meta, Google and AppLovin among the ad partners. It says Wildlife does not sell personal data, but shares it for advertising unless you opt out through its web form. If a player links Facebook to save progress, the Facebook profile photo becomes the player's picture in the game.

Accounts are as safe as the login behind them. Progress is saved by linking Facebook, Google Play or Game Center, Google Play says data is encrypted in transit, and we found no two-step option of Wildlife's own, no bug bounty and no reported breach.

Bags, gems and the Lucky Can Machine

The App Store lists loot boxes, simulated gambling and contests among the game's content, and Google Play warns of in-game purchases that include random items. Bags won in matches or sold in offers hold random cards and rewards. In the Lucky Can Machine, a player picks one of four cards per level, and one holds a broken racket that ends the run unless the player spends gems to continue.

Gem packs cost $0.99 to $9.99 on the US App Store, and Premium costs $4.99 a week or $11.99 a month. Wildlife's help centre notes that subscriptions keep renewing after the game is deleted. Wildlife's Roland-Garros in-game event, which offers prizes, is open only to players aged 18 or over, according to its official rules.

How to set up Tennis Clash for a teenager

1. Turn on Ask to Buy on iPhone or purchase approval on Google Play, and decide whether gem packs and Premium are allowed.
2. Talk about the Lucky Can Machine: paying to "save" a run is the same pull as a slot machine.
3. Keep your teen out of clubs, or pick a small club whose owner approves each member, and show how to report players.
4. Save progress with Apple or Google sign-in rather than Facebook if you do not want a real photo shown to other players.
5. Refuse tracking when the iPhone asks, and use Wildlife's privacy form to opt out of ad sharing.

How we scored it

Regulatory record (87) is the strongest factor, with no fines or orders found but no regulator review either. Privacy (46) is the weakest, because the game tracks players by device ID for ads and Google Play lists installed apps among the data collected. Scams and harmful content (56) credits the emoji-only match chat but deducts for random bags, the Lucky Can Machine and a Google Play rating of Everyone for a game whose terms start at 13.