• Director(s)

    n/a

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary, Sport

  • Cast

    Sharon Washington, Arthur Ashe, Johnnie Ashe, Sue Barker, Dick Cavett, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Jimmy Connors, Donald Dell, Richard Evans, Chris Evert, Simon Draper, Rebecca Chapman, Mat Davidson, Louis Dodd, Mark North, Duncan Stingemore, Jane Greenwood, Robbie Pettigrew

TV Show

Gods Of Tennis

GODS OF TENNIS is a BBC sporting documentary series; in this episode, the trailblazing successes of Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe are explored, both on and off court.…

GODS OF TENNIS is a BBC sporting documentary series; in this episode, the trailblazing successes of Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe are explored, both on and off court.

  • Director(s)

    n/a

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary, Sport

  • Cast

    Sharon Washington, Arthur Ashe, Johnnie Ashe, Sue Barker, Dick Cavett, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Jimmy Connors, Donald Dell, Richard Evans, Chris Evert, Simon Draper, Rebecca Chapman, Mat Davidson, Louis Dodd, Mark North, Duncan Stingemore, Jane Greenwood, Robbie Pettigrew

infrequent strong language
Classified Date:
04/08/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('Christ', 'God' and 'hell').
additional issues
Some segments of the episode contextualise tennis within the wider cultural changes of the 1970s, such as fights by certain individuals in the sport against racism and sexism. These sequences include visual and verbal references to apartheid and segregation, including use of the term 'coloured'. There are also brief references to a tennis player's 'sex appeal'.
infrequent strong language
Classified Date:
14/12/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
Infrequent strong language occurs ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'shit', 'crap', 'dick', 'God' and 'damn'.
additional issues
Mild sex references occur, including discussion of Bjorn Borg being a sex symbol. A woman holds up a placard at a protest advocating for safer conditions for sex workers. Archive footage depicts a tennis player's emotional outbursts on the court. Infrequent visual references are made to historical racial segregation in South Africa.
infrequent strong language
Classified Date:
14/12/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('damn').
additional issues
There are segments of the episode which touch on historical racism and discrimination, namely the homophobia levelled at Martina Navratilova as her career began to ascend. There is also use of the racist term 'coloureds'. Some black and white archive footage captures tanks and guns engaging enemies during conflicts in post-WWII Czechoslovakia. There are also various references to the 'sex appeal' of certain tennis players.
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  • Classified date

    04/08/2023

  • Distributor

    BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

  • Language

    English