Lauren Kline \u201913 thought her days of significant tennis matches were likely over after she completed her All-Southern Conference career at Furman.\u00a0 But she recently found herself on the court with actor and comedian Steve Carell in the upcoming movie, \u201cBattle of the Sexes,\u201d which chronicles the famous tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King.<\/p>\n
In the film, Kline used her tennis skills to serve as body double for actress Jessica McNamee, who plays the role of Margaret Court in the film.\u00a0 She said she spent 15-20 days over a six-week period shooting the scenes.\u00a0 Kline, a Kentucky native who graduated from Furman in 2013 with a degree in business administration, earned All-Southern Conference honors in singles. \u00a0USA Today<\/strong><\/em><\/a> wrote about Kline’s involvement in the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lauren Kline \u201913 thought her days of significant tennis matches were likely over after she completed her All-Southern Conference career at Furman.\u00a0 But she recently found herself on the court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-business-and-accounting","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}