Smash (miniseries)

Smash is a 1990 Swedish comedy TV mini-series with eight episodes written and directed by Måns Herngren and Hannes Holm.

Fifteen years after his retirement, Berg makes a comeback because of financial problems and he teams up with teens Alex, Sigge and Teo, where they travel around the world and play tennis.

Sigurd 'Sigge' Grönqvist (Wahlbeck) and Alexander 'Alex' Carlsson (M. Herngren) are two teenagers who are picked for tennis practice by Wallner (Ljunggren), a manager and Börje (Norström), a trainer.

They are soon joined by a visiting school pupil Teofil 'Teo' Broström (F. Herngren), and former international tennis star, Einar Berg (Grundberg).

This, and the fact that the others are also displeased about different matters, leads him to starting a tennis union, making the quartet and soon every player in Wimbledon go on a strike.

However, with the rest of the world having heavy sanctions on South Africa, due to its apartheid policies, playing tennis there is a no-no for anybody.

The trainer Börje shows the team a diagram of their latest training results, and it turns out that they are all in super shape - saying they are better than Mats Wilander and Boris Becker put together.

When Börje turns up and tells them, that he had misread the diagram and that they are still as bad as always, they lose their self-confidence, and it's back to work again for the boys.

Herngren also explained that the long wait for DVD release was due to a music rights issue that was finally resolved.