Tennis
| Title | Year | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strangers on a Train | 1950 | Suspense | A pro tries to play in the U.S. Open while being framed for murder. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. |
| Hard, Fast and Beautiful | 1951 | Drama | A young tennis prodigy can't live up to her mother's expectations. |
| The Christian Licorice Store | 1971 | Drama | |
| Players | 1979 | Drama | A love story involving Ali MacGraw and Dean Paul Martin. |
| Second Serve | 1986 | Biographical | television film with Vanessa Redgrave as transgender tennis pro Renee Richards. |
| Nobody's Perfect | 1990 | Comedy | A college freshman (Chad Lowe) hot for a female player masquerades as a woman. |
| The Break | 1995 | Drama | Vincent van Patten as a former player turned coach. |
| When Billie Beat Bobby | 2001 | Biographical | Docudrama of 1973 Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs match, with Holly Hunter and Ron Silver. |
| Wimbledon | 2004 | Drama | Tennis professionals (Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany) pursue a romance during Wimbledon championships. |
| Tennis no Ōjisama - Futari no Samurai | 2005 | Action / Animated | |
| The Prince of Tennis | 2006 | Action | Japanese film about a tennis prodigy. |
| Jelenin Svet | 2008 | Documentary | |
| Somay Ku: A Uganda Tennis Story | 2008 | Documentary | |
| Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach | 2009 | Comedy | Direct-to-video spoof starring Seann William Scott. |
| Unmatched | 2010 | Documentary | Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Focuses on the Chris Evert–Martina Navratilova rivalry, and on the long-term friendship between the two women. |
| Renée | 2011 | Documentary | Made for TV as a follow-up to ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Explores the life of transsexual tennis player Renée Richards and the impact of her entry in the 1977 US Open. |
| Venus and Serena | 2013 | Documentary | A behind-the-scenes look at the Williams sisters. |
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)
“[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to hold the racket.”
—Maria Bueno (b. 1939)