“Cinema has brought us love triangles in the world of professional tennis before”, perhaps most memorably in Woody Allen’s “Match Point”, said Robbie Collin in The Daily Telegraph. “But the sheer racket-twanging steaminess of Luca Guadagnino’s new entry in the canon makes its forerunners look like games of back-garden Swingball.”
Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist star as Patrick and Art, tennis players caught up in a love triangle with Tashi (Zendaya), a former “goddess of the American youth circuit” whose prospects were felled by a knee injury. The film opens at the final of a mid-tier challenger tournament, at which Patrick and Art – who were best friends and doubles partners in their teens – are facing one another for the first time in years, while Tashi, now Art’s coach and wife, looks on from the crowd.
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