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Through a roundabout way of events, the Simpsons end up installing a tennis court in their backyard. Homer and Marge use it as a means of social status, inviting people all over town to play against them. However, Homer is flat out terrible at tennis, and that's when he's not purposefully making a fool of himself on the court. Marge becomes embarrassed, especially when she overhears people mocking her at the store. She implores Homer to improve his tennis game, and Homer agrees to.
Homer then enters him and Marge into a local tournament far before he's ready. After a pants mishap, Homer has to go inside, and Bart takes his place for practice. Bart turns out to be good, or at least competent, and so the next day - the day of the tournament - Marge replaces Homer with Bart for the tournament, a move that hurts Homer deeply. Marge and Bart win the local tournament and are invited to play in the upcoming Krusty Kharity Klassic tournament. Wanting revenge against the two, Homer decides to enter as well, enlisting Lisa as his partner. This sets up a feud amongst the family.
The day of that tournament comes, and Homer dumps Lisa for her 'loser talk'. Homer learns that the tournament is being watched in person by both Venus AND Serena Williams, and learning of how unbeatable they are, Homer goes to replace Lisa with one of them, taking Venus because she was slightly less offended by Homer's ploy. Marge finds it unfair that Homer gets to have a Williams sister, so she's allowed to replace Bart with the other sister, Serena. Serena doesn't like Marge's less than-pro ability, though, and so Marge is dumped in favor of Pete Sampras, who was sitting nearby. Homer is enjoying it all until he, too, is replaced by Andre Agassi. The Simpsons are benched, but they've stopped feuding with one another and are enjoying well played tennis.
Quick Review
This episode ended up being fine. It got off to a slow start and the ending was sort of weird, but for the most part the jokes worked. The appearances of all the tennis stars near the end was mostly fine - one would expect tennis players to guest star in a tennis-themed episode - and the plot held up okay even with the somewhat odd way it ended.
Final Score: 7.7
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