2nd Serve (2012)

A rom-com sports movie that tries to be different, but ends up really not connecting the shots. While the movie for the most part has a slightly different and uplifting tone and script, it is tremendously let down by the poor tennis that is supposedly the primary backdrop of this movie.

Amongst the litany of sports films out there that focus on what happens when to athletes as they find themselves past their prime, a number of all-time great films jump to mind: The Natural, The Westler, Bull Durham, even Rocky (1976) has those overtones, and certainly Rocky Balboa (2006) -- not to mention Chuck (2016), a great film but one that few people have heard of. 2nd Serve falls squarely in this category, and much like Chuck, it has been basically overlooked outside of the tennis community.