of her boyfriend, American tennis star Francis Tiafoe.And no, before you say it, Broomfield is not the real-life Tashi Duncan (aka ) from .
But watching the film, given its similarities to her life, was a little strange.“I was sitting there and I texted Francis when I was watching it,” she tells me. “I'm like, ‘this is weird.
I feel like this is us.’”While Broomfield didn’t play a part in inspiring Challengers, she did have her own Hollywood moment: as the tennis double for the character of in the 2021 film King Richard.“That was another highlight of my life because it was full circle,” she says.
I grew up having them as my idols, trying to emulate them and then to be able to play her in a movie about their lives was incredible.”Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Ayan Broomfield fell in love with the sport from an early age and moved as a teenager to Florida to focus on her tennis career.
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