ABSTRACT
Leonor is a sixteen-year-old girl, the third of seven siblings. The mother strongly encourages Leonor to dedicate herself to tennis, thus fulfilling one of her own long-time dreams. She takes Leonor to games, watches her train, and does everything possible to help her daughter continue along that career path. She can play to have fun, to let loose her tension, to socialise with friends, but the competition scenario and having to score points and win confronts her with a paradox: winning satisfies her mother's expectations in a relationship that resembles a trap. Moving on to the second aspect of competition or the agonistic game, which is the struggle with rivalry, the first rival is the father, who prohibits incest and prevents the satisfaction of the child's sexual desires with the mother. Winning would imply obtaining supremacy over others to satisfy sexual desire.
