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For the informal viewer, the brand new Zendaya movie Challengers is an electrical and attractive romp about sports activities, competitors, and naturally, a love triangle. However for Kathryn “Kara” Corridor, the movie rang true—and bittersweet.
Corridor, 28, had spent most of her childhood and younger maturity devoting her total life to tennis, first as a junior participant after which as a school athlete on the College of Michigan. Realizing she wasn’t going to go professional, Corridor hung up her racket after commencement and centered on constructing the following chapter of her life with out the game that had to this point outlined it. She bought a standard company job in Chicago, bought married, and centered on stability.
“I kind of pushed tennis away, and I was like, I'm not this tennis player anymore. It took up too much of my life when I was younger,” she tells me.
That's till 2022, when out of the blue she was contacted by producers for the movie, Challengers. They have been on the lookout for a tennis participant who bodily resembled Zendaya, and Corridor match the invoice. It was such an sudden incidence that Corridor at first wasn’t positive if it was legit, however immediately, she was on a movie set, serving to the star prepare for her position as Tashi Duncan and showing as her “tennis double” within the movie.
Corridor, in fact, loved the wonderful expertise of being on a Hollywood manufacturing—and all of the glitz and glam that got here with it—however the very best half was rediscovering her ardour for the game.
“It helped me appreciate a new love for the game of coming back and being proud of the skills I still have even if I'm not competing on the pro tour,” she says.
Corridor caught up with Glamour to speak about how she helped create Tashi’s fierce recreation, the particular person she was most excited to see on the Challengers premiere, and who of the movie’s core trio she’s probably to root for.
Glamour: Inform us about your tennis profession.
Kara Corridor: I grew up in an enormous sports activities household. I've three youthful sisters, and my dad performed numerous sports activities in school. So after we have been rising up, he bought us all into sports activities. As I bought older, I made a decision that I wished to take tennis so far as I might. So I centered on tennis at a younger age, went right down to a tennis academy in Florida and educated by means of the week and traveled throughout the nation to play tournaments in hopes of enjoying in school. Then I used to be fortunate sufficient to have the ability to pursue my school profession at College of Michigan, and I completely loved that have. Tennis was my complete life; it has all the time been part of me, and I absolutely liked coaching and dealing in the direction of a purpose, whether or not it was a match or a match with the group. It was like a full-time job. I've all the time been an aggressive baseline participant with an enormous forehand, [like Tashi in the movie], which is a enjoyable facet.
