7 Unrealistic Movie Tennis Matches
Fault! We pick holes in some famous ball-bashings…
BY Jul 1st 2009 9:09AMFILED UNDER: Features
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Wimbledon (2004)
Players: Peter Colt, the underdog British sensation ranked 119th in the world (Paul Bettany) takes on cocky American player Jake Hammond (Austin Nichols) for the championship.
Who wins? Against all the odds (and logic, since it’s a movie), Colt takes it with an amazing dive to return a seemingly impossible shot.
Fault! It’s littered with ‘em, from Hammond’s 144 mph serve (really? They needed it to be that impressive?) to the fact that the Brit actually wins.
Not to sound unpatriotic or anything, but this is why the film’s a fantasy.
Oh, and montages were banned at Wimbledon in 1975.
Random racquet trivia: This is the only movie to have actually been shot at Wimbledon while it was happening, during the 2003 tournament.
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1: Rasputin says
Good stuff, but can't believe you missed Strangers On A Train. Farley Granger's tennis pro must win in double-quick time so he can leave to prove he's innocent of murdering his wife.
Or he could just lose equally quickly, which he dismisses, saying "it would look suspicious" - but when he starts losing anyway, he ups his game to win, thereby making the match take even longer.
Anyway, a tennis pro rushing through a tournament match to go to a fairground to catch a murderer and prove his own innocence? Really? Can't see Tim Henman being embroiled in anything so sordid
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2: Desperation says
NO man dressed as a woman has ever won? What about Mauresmo?
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