Zendaya’s Instant-Classic New Tennis Movie Is Stylish, Pulse-Pounding, and Horny as Hell

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Zendaya’s Instant-Classic New Tennis Movie Is Stylish, Pulse-Pounding, and Horny as Hell
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In Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, the star plays doubles with two exceptionally driven horndogs.

) at first strikes the viewer as implausibly high-stakes for a match at a shabby New Rochelle, New York, tournament called the Phil’s Tire Town Challenger.

The woman in the stands, Tashi Duncan , is a former tennis prodigy forced into retirement by an injury during a college match. She now serves as both coach and manager to her husband, Art Donaldson , a star player currently struggling to emerge from a midcareer slump.

Guadagnino’s weaving of eroticism into the everyday physicality of high-level athletic training brings to mind earlier cinematic depictions of the way romance and sports can combine, films like Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 2000 directorial debutmay not be this director’s most psychologically insightful movie—the characters can at times feel like chess-piece contrivances rather than fully rounded individuals—but it’s almost certainly his most entertaining and fastest-paced.

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