The elastic scattering of vector and tensor polarized deuterons near 20 MeV has been analyzed in terms of the phenomenological optical potential including a complex tensor term of TR-type. In comparison with folding potentials we find a strong reduction of the real part of the TR-potential with increasing mass number, the contribution of coupling to vibrational excitations is discussed.Nuclear Reactions: 4He, 160, a6Ar, 4~ 6SCu, 144Sm, 2~ T21(0), optical potential analysis, deduced: TR tensor potentials.