A chef, a lawyer, a pilot: What job would ATP stars have if not tennis?

In the newly-released Hollywood blockbuster "Challengers," Zendaya, in her starring role as ex-tennis prodigy Tashi Duncan, delivers a famous quip that she doesn't want her "only skill in life to be hitting a ball with a racquet."

Did that line of dialogue spark an idea in tennis' content creators? Maybe. Ahead of this week's Internazionali BNL d'Italia, tennis fans got an answer to the similar question of: "What job would ATP stars have if not tennis?"

Though all the players have their sport in common, their off-court interests are diverse and numerous. As it turned out, their answers were anything from an astronaut (Sebastian Korda) or a cinematographer (Stefanos Tsitsipas), to a pilot (Casper Ruud) or a surgeon (Zhang Zhizhen).

Jannik Sinner, for one, says he might've wanted to follow in his father's culinary footsteps.

"I used to make some desserts when I was younger, like cakes and other stuff," Sinner said.

But the Italian's ambitions were curtailed by one problem: "I like to cook, but I don't like to clean!"

Spanish speakers Carlos Alcaraz and Alex de Minaur, meanwhile, not only share a common langauge: They also have an interest in law. Further still, they both got the bug by watching a famous TV show.

"It's probably got a lot to do with watching 'Suits,'" de Minaur said. "I don't know how I would go with all the studying. If I could get away without the studying part, then I'm sure I would choose to be a lawyer."

"After watching it, I was like, 'If I wasn't a tennis player, I'd love to be a lawyer,'" Alcaraz added.

But Ruud and Tsitsipas' aspirations are inspired by some of their real-life interests. Theglobe-trotting nature of professional tennis, and all the flying that comes with it, intrigues the Norwegian, while the Greek says he's interently curious and creative.

"I find meaning in life through visual," he said, "and I want to capture it."

But Djokovic's desire to be involved in history might be the most closely intertwined with his record-setting athletic pursuits.

"I love history, or linguistics, one of the two ... I would just be involved in some shape or form in history, or even architecture," he said.