Play Tennis in Your Browser with Google’s Fun New Easter Egg

Google has a habit ofputting easter eggsfor almost everything. The Mountain View giant put anAvengers easter eggwhich gave you the Infinity Gauntlet and the power to bring balance to the search results on Google, it had an easter egg for celebrating the4th of July, it has an easter egg for the ICC Cricket World Cup where you canplay doodle cricket, score runs and get Google Pay (Tez) rewards, and now, it has brought something for all the tennis fans out there.

A new interactive doodle is now available in Google search that lets you play a game of tennis in your browser or on your smartphone.

To play the game,simply search for ‘Wimbledon’ or ‘#wimbledon’ in Google. Then, in the purple card that appears, scroll all the way to the right, and click (or tap!) on the tennis ball icon to start the game.

The controls are extremely simple — you just use yourleft/right arrow keys on desktop, and tap on the left/right side of the court on mobileto move your player on the court. You don’t have to do anything to hit the ball, it’s very much like a game of pong, except your player is the paddle.

Playing against you is a robot that’s just one of many robots that can appear in the game including a cat, and even an Android itself, which is just great. There’s not much to the game itself, but it can get on your nerves because it’s deceptively simple but difficult to keep playing for long without missing shots, and one missed shot equals “game over.”

So what are you waiting for, head over to Google and play some tennis.

Akshay Gangwar

Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.

Working in the tech journalism industry since 2016, I have 7 years of experience covering everything from technology news, to well-researched resource articles. Now the Content Strategist at Beebom, I often pen down op-eds for our website, sharing expert commentary on the latest in technology, AI, and electric cars.

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