Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Players is really two pictures. The final match goes five sets, with tie breakers, and it is wonderful, the most believable sports footage one can recall in a fictional feature. (Actually, Wimbledon was shot by a second-unit sports specialist, Rimas Vainorius.) The flashback material is so bad that you...
The question this picture poses is whether enough tennis fans will put up with the romantic nonsense and whether enough romantics will sit through the tennis sequences to form a profitable audience for Players. It may be that the movie's commercial fate rests with those perverse souls who...
Richmond's victory made her the first Radcliffe state singles champion ever, and her emergence the next week as New England's number one collegiate female tennis player marked another distinction in Harvard tennis history.
May 10, 1979--Navy torpedoes the Harvard men's tennis team, 5-4, all but shattering the Crimson's shot at the Eastern League title.
Number one man Don Pompan, who lost only one match in League play, will return next year. But for captain Kevin Shaw, Scott Walker, Dick Arnos and Andy Chaikovsky--who played brilliantly this year despite a shoulder injury--four years of Harvard tennis came to a disappointing end.