When We Were Young II, Video: ATP stars get kid-actor treatment

From the 2011 Stockholm Open, it was the promo video shared around the world on Monday. Indeed, on the heels of a more factual series featured here about WTA stars, some of the best male players of yesterday and today were sent up by a few exceptional child actors. Maybe on-court coaching got them through this, but the results were masterful.

They're (almost) all here: Rafael Nadal. Andre Agassi. Roger Federer. Arthur Ashe. Novak Djokovic. John McEnroe. Bjorn Borg. Boris Becker. Michael Chang. And more. See for yourself:

Now a few notes:

—Curiously missing: Pete Sampras and Jimmy Connors.
—Note that "Nadal" hits the ball righthanded: An unforced error on the ad makers' part?
—What, childlike Marcelo Rios wasn't available?
—Good to see Chang's wheels getting the recognition they deserve. Those were some barrel calves in real life.
—Pity poor "Robin Soderling." He spends the entirety of the clip looking something like the towel version of Cousin It, or at least an "Is she bothered or focused?" Vera Zvonareva.
—The windup on the Johnny Mac serve is perfect. But sorry, ol' boy, the MacCam showed that ball was truly out.

Says here that the most realistic portrayals are those of Djokovic and Becker. Beg to differ? Think a certain player was unceremoniously omitted? Let me have it on Twitter.

To note, this clip was passed around like an online hot potato. Looks like friend-of-the-Spin The Slice was the first to turn it up and trot it out. Kudos on the find.

—Jonathan Scott (@jonscott9)