--- ---  # See Digitally Manipulated Olympic Tennis Games in Outer Space and Under the Sea  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 18, 2016 6:32 PM UTC  RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 14: Silver medalist Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina, gold medalist Andy Murray of Great Britain and bronze medalist Kei Nishikori of Japan pose during the medal ceremony for the men's singles on Day 9 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Tennis Centre on August 14, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 14: Silver medalist Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina, gold medalist Andy Murray of Great Britain and bronze medalist Kei Nishikori of Japan pose during the medal ceremony for the men's singles on Day 9 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Tennis Centre on August 14, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)Julian Finney—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 18, 2016 6:32 PM UTC Green has been a popular color at this year’s Rio Olympics. First there was the abundance of vegetation playing a [central, explosive role](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/05/488732992/rio-throws-a-party-for-the-world-kicking-off-the-2016-olympics) at the [Opening Ceremony](http://time.com/4441866/rio-2016-olympics-opening-ceremony-nbc/?iid=sr-link1). Then, there was the mystery of the [emerald-hued diving pool](http://time.com/4451484/why-rio-olympic-pools-turned-green-hydrogen-peroxide/?iid=sr-link1). And now we have the bright lime tennis court arena — which, internet users have noted, is just the right shade to serve as an ideal green screen to superimpose alternate backgrounds for the games. Great Britain’s Andy Murray and Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro may have played a [historic four-hour match](http://time.com/4452125/andy-murray-john-inverdale-olympics/?iid=sr-link4) on Sunday resulting in Murray’s second consecutive gold-medal win, but there was another winner that day: an [Imgur user and GIF-maker](https://imgur.com/gallery/JgMNE) who pulled together a set of trippy clips that have garnered more than 500,000 views. Whether the two athletes are swimming with the fishes, surviving in outer space, or playing atop a field of hot flowing magma, the digitally-manipulated settings definitely heat things up — and bring a whole new perspective to the importance of hitting inside the lines. Click through for an adventure in green screen creativity. Rio 2016 Olympics: Tennis Court Games in Space and Sea ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4457804/rio-2016-olympics-tennis-court-green-screen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4457804/rio-2016-olympics-tennis-court-green-screen/"},"headline":"See Digitally Manipulated Olympic Tennis Games in Outer Space and Under the Sea","datePublished":"2016-08-18T18:32:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:39.481Z","description":"This is tennis on a whole new level","url":"https://time.com/4457804/rio-2016-olympics-tennis-court-green-screen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Summer Olympics","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics","Rio 2016 Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52c82a3ce63ba992/6988a2d797cdff65646ad7d1/andy-murray-wins-tennis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52c82a3ce63ba992/6988a2d797cdff65646ad7d1/andy-murray-wins-tennis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tennis - Olympics: Day 9","caption":"Tennis - Olympics: Day 9","creditText":"Julian Finney—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4457804/rio-2016-olympics-tennis-court-green-screen/","name":"See Digitally Manipulated Olympic Tennis Games in Outer Space and Under the Sea"}}]}] ```