CSI Serves Up Elisabeth Shue's "Dream Episode": Tennis Murder!

When Elisabeth Shue joined CSI last year, she had one request.
"[Producers] asked me if there were any ideas I had or anything I'd like to do that would be fun, and I said, 'We should do a murder at a tennis tournament and we'll get professional players to come on.' I was half-joking, but I did really want to do it and I didn't necessarily think they would do it," Shue, a diehard tennis (and Roger Federer) fan and avid player, tells TVGuide.com. "Cut to the beginning of this season and they say, 'Oh, that tennis episode is really coming along.' 'What?!' I was just shocked, but so, so excited."

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Wednesday's CSI (10/9c, CBS) — which just so happens to air during the Australian Open — will see Shue's "dream episode" become a reality. Finn (Shue) leads the team's investigation of the murder of tennis player Tara Janssen (guest star Susie Abromeit), which occurs shortly after she beats her doubles partner Claudia Weber (guest star Brittany Shaw) for a singles title. Shue called on her pals and former pros-turned-commentators, 18-time Grand Slam champion Chris Evert, three-time Grand Slam winner Lindsay Davenport and two-time mixed doubles Slam champ Justin Gimelstob, to guest-star as themselves. "We were all happy to do it," Evert says. "I've known [Shue] a few years. She plays at my celebrity charity tournament every year and when she told me about possibly going on the show, I thought it would be fun, and it was. The funny thing was, I was worried about my lines and she was worried about hitting with me! I don't know why —she's a very good player. I was like, 'You can have 20 takes!'"Shue, though, never thought she'd get even one. The actress says she made no request to play Evert and was "happily surprised" when she read the scene of her interrogating the former No. 1 during a rally after Finn interrupts Evert's hitting session, as seen in our sneak peek below.