The voiceover opening narration in Match Point refers to, the man who said, "I'd rather be lucky than good", is in fact, a quote from baseball player, Lefty Gomez, a 1930’s Yankee. What role does luck play in the film? Luck is depicted in the film Match Point through director Woody Allen’s story characters and the lines, which reference the upper class, have a life of luck. Director Woody Allen uses chance to depict characters luck to a Match Point tennis ball moving toward, and lingering above the net, and viewers watch to see if it will fall forward toward a win or back to lose the game that Chris Wilton plays with both Nola Rice and his wife Chloe Hewett Wilton (Emily Mortimer).. Such aces scored by Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers)
