12-05-2025
The best films about tennis, ranked
Tennis is psychological warfare in a sport, a suave but ruthless game that fosters big personalities and lots of drama. No wonder writers and directors have taken it as the basis for many a work.
Here are some of the finest films about tennis, but which ones do you think we have missed out? Let us know in the comments.
Netflix, Apple TV+, Prime VideoAs Wimbledon approaches, it's hard not to bring to mind the Williams sisters Venus and Serena. Two girls from Compton, California, who went from playing on broken courts to smashing records, all the while batting away race and class prejudice — their trajectory was a movie waiting to happen. And so it did, in Reinaldo Marcus Green's biopic, with a
