It’s rare for a sports game to have more than one cover athlete, but EA Sports is bucking the trend with Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii, which will feature tennis greats Roger Federer, John McEnroe, and Serena Williams on its cover. You can gawk at the box in the gallery below, where you will also find a screenshot of each athlete. (I know they’re distorted to 16:9 from 4:3, but that’s how EA sent them out.)

A press release accompanied the images; you can read through it after the jump. It notes that this is only the North American box art; eight different regional covers will apparently be revealed shortly. Amazingly, Serena Williams is the first woman ever to appear on the cover of an EA Sports sim (I’ll bet her sister Venus is seething with jealousy). The press release also teases the PS3 and 360 versions of Grand Slam Tennis, saying they will offer “innovative control systems and robust online” play; look for them this fall.

EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis will be released in North America on June 15th; in the UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Spain, and Australia on June 12th; and everywhere else in the world on June 26th. Go to the game’s official Web site for more details; also available are gameplay footage and more screens.

EA SPORTS UNVEILS COVER ATHLETES FOR GRAND SLAM TENNIS

John McEnroe, Roger Federer and Serena Williams Featured on North American Packaging

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – April 9, 2009 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that tennis stars John McEnroe, Roger Federer and Serena Williams will be the North American* cover athletes for its new tennis franchise, EA SPORTS™ Grand Slam