Tennis Is Bloody Difficult

...says Wimbledon star Paul Bettany


by Willow Green |
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A few months hard training on the tennis circuit has really impressed upon Wimbledon star Paul Bettany the hard work that tennis players put into becoming No.1. Talking to the BBC's Breakfast news this week Bettany was asked how well he and co-star Kirsten Dunst can play tennis following all that prep work. 'We can't play now!' Bettany laughed. 'Six months of training with a man called Patrick Cash and it's really difficult. 'I went to Monte Carlo to shoot a bit of the movie early and I'd done four months tennis training and I was feeling pretty good about myself. Then you go and you see that they move like dancers and you realise what you've said is "I'd love to play Rudolf Nureyev

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