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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Nobody’s Perfect (1989)
Players: Stephen (Chad Lowe), disguised as “Stephanie” (he likes a girl, you see, and this is the only way to be near her) plays Coach Harrison (Mariann Aalda, who, frankly, looks even more butch than Lowe ever could as a bloke).
Who wins? It’s more of a practice knockabout, and they’re not really keeping score. But Stephen definitely loses his dignity as one of his false breasts falls out during the game.
And Lowe dressed as a girl? Everyone loses!
Fault! No man has ever won Wimbledon pretending to be a woman.
Keep your Martina Navratilova jokes to yourself.
Random racquet trivia: Real-life Tennis Champ Vytautas Kevin Gerulaitis (he was from the US, despite that name) appears as himself.
He probably regrets it, but since he tragically died in 1995, so we’ll never know for sure.
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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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