Tennis anyone? Toronto gets ball rolling with McEnroe drama

TORONTO (AP) — Though seldom a smash on the big screen, tennis movies has taken center court at the Toronto International Film Festival, where "Borg/McEnroe" is set to open the annual festival Thursday.

The film, starring Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason as Bjorn Borg, is the opening volley in the ten-day Canadian festival, a premiere launching pad for the fall's most anticipated films. This year, tennis is getting perhaps its most serious film treatment yet at the festival, where the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs showdown "Battle of the Sexes" is also to premiere, as is the documentary "Love Means Zero," about tennis coach Nick Bollettieri.

The movies arrive conveniently as the U.S.