The Prince of Tennis is a tV series anime that premiered in fall 2001, produced by Production I.G.

About the production: the story comes from a manga, there are 178 episodes of about 22 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are action, comedy and sports, with themes such as Tennis, Male Protagonist, Primarily Male Cast and School Club.

On AniList, The Prince of Tennis has an average score of 75%, a very good score, and appears on 36,869 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Tennis no Ouji-sama: Zenkoku Taikai-hen.

Echizen Ryoma is a young tennis prodigy who has won 4 consecutive tennis championships but who constantly lies in the shadow of his father, a former pro tennis player. He joins the Seishun Gakuen junior highschool, one of the best tennis schools in Japan, and there along with his teamates he learns to find his own type of tennis in an attempt to defeat his biggest obstacle of all: his father as well as himself. (Source: Anime News Network)

Official synopsis from AniList.