Let be a Banach space, let be an infinite set, let be an infinite cardinal and let ∈ [1, ∞). In contrast to a classical 0 result due independently to Cembranos andFreniche, we prove that if the cofinality of is greater than the cardinality of , then the injective tensor product ( )⊗ contains a complemented copy of 0 ( ) if and only if does. This result is optimal for every regular cardinal . On the other hand, we provide a generalization of a 0 result of Oja by proving that if is an infinite cardinal, then the projective tensor product ( )⊗ contains a complemented copy of 0 ( ) if and only if does. These results are obtained via useful descriptions of tensor products as convenient generalized sequence spaces. K E Y W O R D S 0 (Γ) spaces, complemented subspaces, injective tensor product, ( ) spaces, projective tensor product M S C ( 2 0 1 0 ) Primary: 46B03, 46B15; Secondary: 46E30, 46E40 ∈ ‖ ‖ < ∞ } ,