Match point for love

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Television series
German title Match point for love
Original title 15 / Love
Country of production Canada
original language English
Year (s) 2003-2007
length 25 minutes
Episodes 54 in 3 seasons
German-language
first broadcast		 March 9 , 2006 on KiKa 
occupation

Matchball für die Liebe is a television series for young people that portrays life in the "Cascadia" tennis academy.

The series

In the sports boarding school "Cascadia" young tennis players are encouraged. The training is aimed at the elite class and is geared accordingly. The students are still in puberty and actually have completely different worries - about friendship, envy, forbidden pleasures such as chocolate and first love. And the grades of the normal school subjects also have to be mastered. That's a lot for the few years until growing up; conflicts are inevitable. But despite all the problems, the protagonists also find time to enjoy their lives.

In addition to Canada itself, the series is shown in various countries such as France, Holland, Italy and Germany. The children's channel / KI.KA acquired the broadcasting rights for Germany , but so far only the first 26 episodes have been broadcast. In Austria the series runs on ORF 1 .

production

Match ball for love is produced by “Galafilm Inc.” / Canada in coproduction with “Marathon SA” / France for the Canadian youth broadcaster “YTV”. The studios are located in St. Césaire, Québec / Canada .

The production was overshadowed by a tragic accident.

The accident

Course of events

During the filming of Season 1 on September 8, 2003, the car with the actors Jaclyn Linetsky and Vadim Schneider (both 17 years old) crashed on the way to the film studio. The minivan got out of control and hit the oncoming traffic head-on. Both young actors died instantly.

processing

At the time of the accident, episode 11 was finished. In order to justify the elimination of the characters "Megan" and "Sébastien", both of them go on a fictional tournament trip to Europe in episode 13. The plane crashes and all passengers are killed. The students of "Cascadia" now have to deal with the loss of their classmates. This enables an appropriate mourning for the deceased actors in the series.

Seasons

Season 1: Episode 1 - 26
  shot: 2003
Season 2: Episode 1 - 14
  shot: 2004
Season 3: Episode 1 - 14
  shot: 2005

occupation

actor Role name
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse Sunny Capaduca
Laurence Leboeuf Cody Myers
Jaclyn Linetsky † Megan O'Connor
Meaghan Rath Adena Stiles
Vadim Schneider † Sébastien Dubé
Kyle Switzer Rick Geddes
Max Walker Gary 'Squib' Furlong
As a trainer:
Thierry Ashanti Artie Gunnerson
As President:
Charles Powell Harold Bates
After the deaths of Linetsky and Schneider, two new actors were introduced to the series:
Amanda crew Tanis McTaggart
Nwamiko Madden Cameron White
In season 2, a new actor was introduced to the series:
Tyler Hynes Nate Bates
In Season 3, three new actors were introduced to the series:
Christian Schrapff Jesse Siegel
Jemima West Cassidy Paine
As a new trainer:
Anthony Lemke Daniel Brock

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