Challenger 2024 Plot Summary. The woman in the stands, tashi duncan (zendaya), is a former tennis prodigy forced into retirement by an injury during a college match. Challengers serves up a grand slam of psychosexual passion and tension.

Challengers ends with a climactic final tennis match which has a deeper meaning for tashi, patrick and art. The story begins in 2019, with former best friends art (faist, riff in west side story) and patrick (o’connor, charles as a young man in the crown) now professional.