Challengers tells a story about three friends through approximately 14 years. Art and Patrick are high school seniors and best friends, who above all love tennis. While Patrick is naturally talented bad boy who plays for joy, for Art, less talented, but more disciplined hard worker, tennis is life. One day they met Tashi, a tennis prodigy, for who tennis is also life.
The three quickly become friends and both Art and Patrick become infatuated with Tashi. Tashi, for whom tennis is everything, eventually starts relationship with Patrick, who she considers more talented, but Patricks bad boy attitude and lack of discipline and will to commit makes her reconsider her choice. As Arts hard work and discpline pays off as he gradually becomes better and better, he approaches Tashi and invites her to his team. Tashi, who eventually has started working as a tennis trainer, accepts his offer. Their union becomes very successful, both in tennis court and in their private life.
Tashi and her choices are the centre of Challengers. Once considered one of the best young female tennis players, she later settles down as tennis coach and with and through Art, she tries be as succesful as possible. Through next 10 years, her union with Art becomes very successfull, but in the same, her heart belongs to Patric. Like it always has.
For me, Challengers is about two most important choice in our life: the choice of husband and the choice of profession and how to live with our choices. Tashi, for whom success and winning is everything, chooses with her mind and wit, ignoring her heart, but you never can entirely ignore your heart.