Three Sisters was staged site-specifically. Acts 1, 2, and 4 were played on a tennis court. Act 3 was presented as a film, created during the rehearsal period by THE TRIP.
Three Sisters was written by Anton Chekhov in 1900. It is the only one of his four major plays that he called a drama. To our knowledge, Chekhov never played tennis. Certainly not professionally. However, it's interesting to note that there was recently a professional tennis player also named Anton Chekhov. He won a total of $450 in prize money and was ranked as high as 1,061st in the world. It would seem his career was a failure and his dreams of being a champion were unrealized, if those were his dreams at all. He is no longer competing.