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Challengers review: Zendaya leads a thrilling, intoxicating and extravagantly sexy tennis psychodrama

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is an extravagantly sexy take on Chaucer’s , kitted up for the modern era. Here, the men don’t duel with swords, but with rackets. The object of their desire isn’t a gentle maiden, but a tennis superstar forced into early retirement by an injury, embittered by her fate and by the knowledge she could easily best them both if given the chance. And the audience cares far less about which of

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