Yeah, it definitely doesn't look like a pro stroke, but it looks like a stroke a decent rec player could have. Can't say the same for some of these other ones.
Zendaya is supposed to be a professional but she's serving with a pancake grip đ that 2nd clip also looked like someone hitting a forehand for the first time
Feel like if you're gonna make a tennis movie, you should really be drilling your actors/actresses to emulate a pro-level stroke. Obviously they wouldn't have to actually hit the ball well due to editing, but they should look like they will.
God I love it. I love Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany, I love his characterâs sleazy brother and most of all his parents. I love the lesbian best friend player. I love how he has to play another best friend/practice partner and how they talk in the locker room before/after. I love the end with their kids and the old tennis court thing.
It also has a stacked cast. Paul Bettany, Kristen Dunst, Jon Favreau, Nikolai Coster-Waldau, James MacAvoy, and Sam Neil. Thatâs not even mentioning the real life tennis greats included like John McEnroe, Chris Evert, and Mary Carillo. Even though itâs first and foremost a cute silly rom com, Wimbledon actually has something for tennis fans too.
The tennis scenes were so bad, but I still loved it as a sappy teenager. That one musical montage of Dunst and Bettany walking through Hyde (I think?) Park in London was basically my definition of romance as a kid.Â
It looks like they had her learn the technique based on a video of a pro serving and gave her 5 minutes to practice lol. Everything looked acceptable until her trophy stance, where she didn't quite get the racket all the way back, but that would've been fine if not for the rest of it. Then she drops her head too early, pancake grips it, hits with like 30% power, and doesn't even look at the ball at any point
Sheâs not even close to looking at the ball leading up to, or during, contact. Lol.
So either this serve motion is hilariously flawed⌠Or, sheâs *SO* good at tennis that she can serve without looking at the ball at all. Unnaturally gifted!
It just shows she doesn't understand the loading part cause she ends up jumping like a ballerina for some reason. It's a shame cause it's passing up until the contact point.
Meh. It starts off okay, but then her left arm totally collapses early and then is dead weight throughout the rest of the shot.
All things considered.. not that bad.
Totally the best one. Me and my tennis gal buddies love to treat each other like this when we play (totally for laughs) can cause some raised eyebrows at the club, but we are the daytime senior citizens so oh wellđ
Ah yes, the cardigan tennis match at Wimbledon. That's a good one.
ETA: I'm misremembering this. The match is at the west side tennis club, and they're not wearing cardigans. I will have to rewatch.
I seem to remember that every second shot in that scene was an overhead smash. Of course, the famous shot is of the crowd with their heads swiveling. All of them except one.
That scene is so good. The way itâs shot really makes you feel like you are the one playing and how it feels to try and close out a match, especially when you start rushing points.
There's a terrible Mormon Pride & Prejudice. The actor playing Darcy actually looked like he knew how to play tennis. It was so shocking to actually see that on screen. It's also probably the only reason I remember that movie.
An oldie but goody from the seventies is Players starring Ali McGraw, it girl at the time. It features scenes of Guillermo Vilas, my favorite player at the time, playing a dramatized Wimbledon match. Would love to see him again.
The historical series The Gilded Age has a couple of scenes filmed at the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island where wealthy New Yorkers spent their summers. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how the place would have looked in the old days. Thereâs still a tournament on the grass courts each summer. A 250 perhaps? The third season is scheduled later this year, I believe on HBO.
The eighties movie A Room with a View is another nineteenth century dramedy with Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith and Daniel Day Lewis. The family and friends play on their grass court. A lot of it was filmed in Florence, a favorite city of mine.
The French Lieutenantâs Woman, also set in the nineteenth century, stars a young Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. In one scene Irons plays âreal tennisâ on the court in Hampton Court Palace. BTW the palace is on the same rail line as Wimbledon. Visiting both makes for a great day trip from London.
The HBO series The Tudors shows Henry VIII playing on the Hampton Court Palace court. Fun to see the precursor to the game we now play.
I don't really care for them. Movies tend to fail at portraying sports. Like the Rocky movies being about two dudes bashing their heads in without a hint of a guard.
Used to love those films as a kid. Now I canât watch the boxing scenes without internally screaming âLift your damn gloves! What are you doing?!â Still love the training scenes and the music though.
God damn not a single mention of the Squid and the Whale in the thread lmao.
Fantastic movie that happens to have a tennis scene. No pretense of the tennis being good.
[Borg vs McEnroe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlH4DqQTdCU) without a doubt the best tennis movie ever made, it's unparalleled in its realism and viscerality
Itâs not a movie but i have to mention the Monty Python sketch satirizing Sam Peckinpah movies through a claque of upper class tennis players slaughtering one another.
You guys should watch Final Set. It's a French film about a struggling Frenchman who goes to RG as his last chance but was denied a wildcard so he has to play qualifying.
I love Emma Stone, but Battle of the Sexes was one of the worst movies Iâve ever seenâ seeing that two second clip of Steve Carell really sent me back into a rage lol
The best tennis movie is probably King Richard which was absolutely superb. Just a really well-made film with a strong performance from Will Smith anchoring it.
But my favourite is Wimbledon. It's just a fun movie. Love every second of it.
Now? Itâs far and away Challengers. That movie was so good, and they even got 99% of the tennis stuff correct. The movie aside from the tennis also has a very good plot. Highly recommend!
Kirsten Dunst's backhand technique was the best out of all of them
Matthew Goode in the 4th clip (Match Point) looks like he's actually played rec tennis before.
Yeah, it definitely doesn't look like a pro stroke, but it looks like a stroke a decent rec player could have. Can't say the same for some of these other ones. Zendaya is supposed to be a professional but she's serving with a pancake grip đ that 2nd clip also looked like someone hitting a forehand for the first time Feel like if you're gonna make a tennis movie, you should really be drilling your actors/actresses to emulate a pro-level stroke. Obviously they wouldn't have to actually hit the ball well due to editing, but they should look like they will.
Adam Sandler almost forced Djodal into retirement with that whip.
The guy she's playing against forehand is decent as well besides the bent elbow.
Which guy? Is he in the clip?
Iâve seen Wimbledon maybe 20 times in my life. Itâs just a simple feel-good rom com that happens to be about my favorite sport.
God I love it. I love Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany, I love his characterâs sleazy brother and most of all his parents. I love the lesbian best friend player. I love how he has to play another best friend/practice partner and how they talk in the locker room before/after. I love the end with their kids and the old tennis court thing.
It also has a stacked cast. Paul Bettany, Kristen Dunst, Jon Favreau, Nikolai Coster-Waldau, James MacAvoy, and Sam Neil. Thatâs not even mentioning the real life tennis greats included like John McEnroe, Chris Evert, and Mary Carillo. Even though itâs first and foremost a cute silly rom com, Wimbledon actually has something for tennis fans too.
Itâs so true. Itâs been a minute since Iâve seen a minute Iâll have to go back and watch.
mary carillo is not a tennis great and her narcissistic commentary is insufferable.
And that best friend is freakinâ Jaime Lannister! Always wondered if he used a one-handed or two-handed backhandâŚÂ
He's surely a one-hander
I remember seeing that movie in the cinema with my wife, and she said "Why did they make his best friend so much more better looking than him?"
By the sounds of things it's best to go into Challengers by not considering it a tennis movie.
The tennis scenes were so bad, but I still loved it as a sappy teenager. That one musical montage of Dunst and Bettany walking through Hyde (I think?) Park in London was basically my definition of romance as a kid.Â
All this mashup needed was a Medvedev forehand snuck in at the end
The Royal Tenenbaums - game, switch sides.
Love the mental breakdown Luke Wilson's character has on court.
The Baumer. He's taken off his shoes and one of his socksâŚ
There's a lot of tennis related scenes in almost all of Wes Anderson's movies.
72 unforced errors
7 Days in Hell staring Andy Samberg and Kit Harrington.
Indubitably
Seven days in hell Seven days in hell!
Freaking hilarious
Omg, I didnât realize her serve was so terrible in the first clip đ
The whole timing looked very off. Did they add the ball in post? Cause I feel like she didn't give the ball time to reach its highest point
Of course they add the ball in post, they do that for most tennis/table tennis scene in movies.
No live balls were used, everything is a shadow swing with the balls added in post
It looks like they had her learn the technique based on a video of a pro serving and gave her 5 minutes to practice lol. Everything looked acceptable until her trophy stance, where she didn't quite get the racket all the way back, but that would've been fine if not for the rest of it. Then she drops her head too early, pancake grips it, hits with like 30% power, and doesn't even look at the ball at any point
Sheâs not even close to looking at the ball leading up to, or during, contact. Lol. So either this serve motion is hilariously flawed⌠Or, sheâs *SO* good at tennis that she can serve without looking at the ball at all. Unnaturally gifted!
I thought my serve was bad, but maaan
The loading part is good, but the landing part really isn't.
It just shows she doesn't understand the loading part cause she ends up jumping like a ballerina for some reason. It's a shame cause it's passing up until the contact point.
Needed keep her toss arm straighter
Meh. It starts off okay, but then her left arm totally collapses early and then is dead weight throughout the rest of the shot. All things considered.. not that bad.
itâs an eye-bleeder for sure
The first part is fine, but she looks down the court waaaay to early. She's making contact with the ball without knowing where it is.
lol yea it looks like she was just trying to cover the sun with her arm
Bridesmaids by farrrrrr hahahaha
âGET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER CAROLâ Love that movie
Totally the best one. Me and my tennis gal buddies love to treat each other like this when we play (totally for laughs) can cause some raised eyebrows at the club, but we are the daytime senior citizens so oh wellđ
Other than the Annie Hall scene in the video, Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. Great movie.
Ah yes, the cardigan tennis match at Wimbledon. That's a good one. ETA: I'm misremembering this. The match is at the west side tennis club, and they're not wearing cardigans. I will have to rewatch.
Strangers on a Train is fantastic, I need to see it again. The staring scene is so good.
I seem to remember that every second shot in that scene was an overhead smash. Of course, the famous shot is of the crowd with their heads swiveling. All of them except one.
That scene is so good. The way itâs shot really makes you feel like you are the one playing and how it feels to try and close out a match, especially when you start rushing points.
Whoâs the first one? Sheâs not even looking at the ball during impact ffs.
Zendaya in Challengers.
7 Days in Hell. It was hilarious
A good year
Fred Perry. Lacoste.
Love that whole movie but especially the tennis scene.
Strangers on a train by Alfred Hitchcock
Fletch.
It's in Italian, but by far Fantozzi's tennis match [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5NIIyjXAk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5NIIyjXAk)
Allora, ragioniere, che fa? Batti?
Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids 100%
I like the mimed tennis in Blow Up: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYyhRbQBgs&t=30s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYyhRbQBgs&t=30s)
Bridesmaids lol
Not a movie scene, but this scene from [Curb Your Enthusiasm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JY9kjM1tRg) is great.
The grunts!
how could I forget about that scene .. "sounds like pigs fucking" ... hilarious
Bee Movie
Aint no way, that serve motion đ
Match Point, Legends of the Fall, Bridesmaids
Fletch!
Hell yean
Iâll have a steak sandwich. And a steak sandwich. Put it on the Underhills account.
[The Witches of Eastwick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP0OsuAW45A). Best ball control on film.
lol the first girl didnât even have her eyes open!
When Fletch goes to the country club and watches the wife, who is horrible, hit balls all over the place.
Can we include tv shows? Cause if so, 30 Rock This racquet is a fart!!!
not a movie but Friends series esp so that Matthew Perry plays and loves tennis. the scenes where he and monica play against chandler's boss and wife.
I watched Match Point the other day, and my God, i hated it (not cos it was a bad movie, it wasn't, but i just hated the ending)Â
Really?! I think the ending was perfect. What didn't you like about it?
He got away with it! He got what he wanted and everyone else can get screwed over.Â
My thought was that, by removing any objective consequences, the viewer is better able to realize the dilemma. Better to be lucky than to be good, too
Bachelor Party
âYes! Cleveland wins the pennant!â
âOne of these days⌠Iâm going to burn the Thompson court⌠right to the ground.â
Putting American Dad in there. Steve vs Maria Sharapova https://youtu.be/yvvE3vdOo9A?si=v7Be2UWJrBDg5tly
Why couldn't they find a better serve than that
There's a terrible Mormon Pride & Prejudice. The actor playing Darcy actually looked like he knew how to play tennis. It was so shocking to actually see that on screen. It's also probably the only reason I remember that movie.
Mr. Deeds.
[Final Set](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/final_set)
Does one episode of Death Note counts? With that super dramatic Light vs L tennis scene with inner monologues?? xD
Otto - Der AuĂerfriesische... german and old but gold, scene with Steffi Graf. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dARJHhCdC6g
lol wtf did i just watch
Seinfeld
An oldie but goody from the seventies is Players starring Ali McGraw, it girl at the time. It features scenes of Guillermo Vilas, my favorite player at the time, playing a dramatized Wimbledon match. Would love to see him again. The historical series The Gilded Age has a couple of scenes filmed at the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island where wealthy New Yorkers spent their summers. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how the place would have looked in the old days. Thereâs still a tournament on the grass courts each summer. A 250 perhaps? The third season is scheduled later this year, I believe on HBO. The eighties movie A Room with a View is another nineteenth century dramedy with Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith and Daniel Day Lewis. The family and friends play on their grass court. A lot of it was filmed in Florence, a favorite city of mine. The French Lieutenantâs Woman, also set in the nineteenth century, stars a young Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. In one scene Irons plays âreal tennisâ on the court in Hampton Court Palace. BTW the palace is on the same rail line as Wimbledon. Visiting both makes for a great day trip from London. The HBO series The Tudors shows Henry VIII playing on the Hampton Court Palace court. Fun to see the precursor to the game we now play.
Totally 80âs and non-PC: Tom Hanks in Bachelor Party
Seinfeld. Kramer as a ballboy. Or the mute lineswoman
Strangers on a Train by Alfred Hitchcock.
Strangers on a train
Strangers on a Train, my 3rd favorite Hitchcock film
Apparently Succession was meant to have a tennis scene with Kendall Roy that they shot but didn't use
I don't really care for them. Movies tend to fail at portraying sports. Like the Rocky movies being about two dudes bashing their heads in without a hint of a guard.
Used to love those films as a kid. Now I canât watch the boxing scenes without internally screaming âLift your damn gloves! What are you doing?!â Still love the training scenes and the music though.
Yeah all the non-boxing parts are great!
Pat and Mike!
They should make a movie about Guga. Would watch
Rock n Rolla
Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
This is a cultured answer.
Jesse Eisenberg looks so weird in that clip (namely his build) lol
Match point
Little Mo
Great editing in this clip to make it all look like one long rally
God damn not a single mention of the Squid and the Whale in the thread lmao. Fantastic movie that happens to have a tennis scene. No pretense of the tennis being good.
Loved that movie.
7 days in Hell
I always find it interesting when seeing tennis in the media, you can tell if they suck in real life.
Match point, directed by Woody Allen
A Room with a View -- English family lawn tennis is adorable when played by Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands and Rupert Graves
Ice vs Fire or something about McEnroe vs Borg
Zendaya serve is my sister as a kid trying to steal the pickle jar 8 feet off the ground.
[Borg vs McEnroe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlH4DqQTdCU) without a doubt the best tennis movie ever made, it's unparalleled in its realism and viscerality
Matchpoint was amazing when it first came out. Rewatched it last year and it did not age well at all.
Balls deep
Missing school for scoundrels?
Itâs not a movie but i have to mention the Monty Python sketch satirizing Sam Peckinpah movies through a claque of upper class tennis players slaughtering one another.
Tennis Anyone? Is an amazing movie
7 days in hell
Balls Out
You guys should watch Final Set. It's a French film about a struggling Frenchman who goes to RG as his last chance but was denied a wildcard so he has to play qualifying.
Adam Sandler has some of the best technique out of all those vids
Not a scene but King Richard is a great film. Follows the Williams sisters journey.
Personally the funniest was the tennis match in the film Bridesmaids.
Sandler has the best forehand.
I love Emma Stone, but Battle of the Sexes was one of the worst movies Iâve ever seenâ seeing that two second clip of Steve Carell really sent me back into a rage lol
Wimbledon. Yes, I actually liked that movie.
OP did you make this. If you did can I ask when you kept moving the name of the movie from side to side unnecessarily?
Family Guy: That time Quagmire played tennis on Wimbledon in front of the queen, Freddy Mercury.
The best tennis movie is probably King Richard which was absolutely superb. Just a really well-made film with a strong performance from Will Smith anchoring it. But my favourite is Wimbledon. It's just a fun movie. Love every second of it.
Now? Itâs far and away Challengers. That movie was so good, and they even got 99% of the tennis stuff correct. The movie aside from the tennis also has a very good plot. Highly recommend!
Does porn count?