‘Challengers’ review: Tennis, everyone? Zendaya keeps a juicy romantic triangle spinning

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‘Challengers’ review: Tennis, everyone? Zendaya keeps a juicy romantic triangle spinning

A little delirious and a lot of serious, witty, stylish fun, “Challengers” plays a beautiful game of Canadian doubles with its three main characters, on and off the court. It’s a purely enjoyable romantic drama, and the one thing people seem to agree on is its deft sidestepping of easy labels. Is it a screwball dramedy, as one writer put it? A sports movie dripping with competitive juices? Or simply that extremely rare thing in 2024 movies: an R…