Ayan Broomfield Is Doing WAG Life Her Way [Video]

After a decades-long tennis career during which she played professionally on the WTA Tour and for the UCLA Bruins, Ayan Broomfield hung up her racket to support the career of her boyfriend, American tennis star Frances Tiafoe.

And no, before you say it, Broomfield is not the real-life Tashi Duncan (a.k.a. Zendaya) from Challengers. But watching the film, given its similarities to her life, was a little strange.

“I was sitting there and I texted Frances when I was watching it,” she tells me. “I’m like, ‘This is weird. I feel like this is us.’”

While Broomfield didn’t play a part in inspiring Challengers, she did have her own Hollywood moment: as the tennis double for the character of Venus Williams in the 2021 film King Richard.

“That was another highlight of my life because it was full circle,” she says. “I grew up having them as my idols, trying to emulate them, and then to be able to play …