Combination of the instruction from Yokotarotaro and Leonius

• Installed the Title
• Downloaded Protontricks from Discover
• Select Virtua Tennis 4 within protontricks
• Install the gfw and physx dll/windows components using protontricks
• Run winecfg via protontricks
• Under libraries add the library gameux (if its not already there)
• Edit - Disable the gameux library
• Paste the xlive DLL from ( https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2248-virtua-tennis-4-xliveless/ ) into the installation folder of the game
• Launch the game via steam into the config tool
• Set preferred resolution and 2.0 shader setting
• Make sure that at least player 1 has xbox 360 set as their controller and vibration enabled (Set the other players to controller if you want to be able to play multiplayer)
• Launch the game (from here forwards you should be able to directly boot into the game and avoid the config tool)

protontricks (install gfw + physx) winecfg (disable gameux library) custom xlive dll to disable games for windows live. bit of faff but it does work in the end