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:
“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)
“I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it’s hard to think of doing something else where you know you’ll never be the best. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you’re the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it’s not all there is to life and I’m ready to explore the alternatives.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“[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)