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1) Break point
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Price is a reckless man-child on the last leg of his career as a doubles tennis player. When his latest partner drops him, he realizes he's officially burned all of his bridges on the pro circuit. He decides to make one last ditch effort to revive his career, reaching outside of the tennis world and convincing his childhood partner -- his estranged brother Darren, now an apathetic substitute teacher - to team up with him. The mismatched pair,...
2) Wimbledon
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An aging male tennis star has one last shot, and two weeks, to win the greatesst tennis tournament and the heart of an upcoming women's tennis star.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of the greatest sister-act professional tennis has ever seen. With unprecedented access, the film tells the inspiring story of how these two women, against all odds, but with the help of visionary parents, made it to the top.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles.
5) Match point
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly cozy lifestyle, Chris begins to consider a drastic solution....
6) Unmatched
Series
30 for 30 volume no. 21
Publisher
ESPN Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
No individual sports rivalry can boast the intensity and impact of the one between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Fierce competitors, the two lifted each other to heights that each couldn't have reached without the other. On the court, their battles were fought hard. But even more remarkable is what happened off the court, as they formed a strong and lasting friendship, bonding them to this day. Pull up a chair and join an intimate one-on-one...
7) Althea
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Althea Gibson emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper's daughter, her family's migration to Harlem, her mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, her fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring the story into a much broader realm of African American history, transcending sports.
8) Ping pong
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about eight competitors in the World Over-80 Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. They are all in their 80s and 90s; one Australian woman is a centurion. Most of the players have been athletes all their lives, but one woman took the sport up as an octogenarian after suffering a stroke. The advanced masters scene is like those in other sports, with rivalries, egomania and even dirty tricks. Losing doesn't get any less painful...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The wedding date (1 hr., 29 min.): Kat Ellis is determined to attend her younger sister's wedding with a date. In order to show up her ex-fiance, she resorts to the Yellow Pages to find a last minute escort, Nick. His dashing good looks and quick-witted charm may win over the rest of her family, but will they win Kat?
Prime (1 hr., 45 min.): When Rafi, a 37-year-old single woman meets David, a 23-year-old painer, it's love at first sight. But that...
11) Never give up
Author
Publisher
BMG Global
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It's the tennis match of his life, 20-year-old University of Toledo Freshman BRAD MINNS versus 30-year-old JEFF OSBORNE, the reigning world gold medalist. Through the ups and downs of the nearly five-hour match, we follow Brad2s story from when he became deaf at age 3, to attending elementary school as the only non-hearing person, to learning tennis and upsetting the junior tennis world, to winning a walk-on spot on his college squad, and finally...
