Pat Reightley and family are the focus of the reality show ‘Me vs. Me’ on FLC.

Pat and Kerrie Reightley met six years ago over their love of tennis – sort of.

“We met on an airplane,” Kerrie said. “He told me he was a tennis player. That’s the only reason I gave him my phone number.

“We were seated together for six hours and I didn’t really talk to him,” she said, until Pat mentioned that he knew a tennis pro at the Bainbridge Athletic Club who was a friend his as well as of Kerrie’s – or so they thought.

“It was a miscommunication,” Pat said.

Five years later and now married, they still play, but Pat, unlike Kerrie who grew up in a family of tennis players, isn’t what one would call a pro at tennis.

So, Kerrie told his story to some TV producers, and now he’s the subject of a reality television show called “Me vs. Me.”

Kerrie didn’t tell her husband about it until after he’d been chosen.

“Needless to say, I wasn’t happy at the time,” Pat said with a laugh. “I was like, ‘what are you doing?’”

And it took him some time to get warmed up to the whole idea after that.

“Part of the allure (for the producers) was that he didn’t really want to do it so he was being very standoffish,” Kerrie said.

The show airs on the Fine Living Channel and is hosted by trainer Chris Carmichael, the former coach to numerous elite athletes including Lance Armstrong.

It’s a show where “weekend warriors” who struggle in a favorite sport get instruction from professionals to improve their game.

Previous episodes have featured a man learning how to water ski and a woman learning how to shoot sports photos.

Pat, a corporate pilot, got to travel to Washington D.C in August and received four days of training from three-time Wimbledon mixed-doubles champ Zina Garrison in 95 degree heat.

“It was basically like a boot camp,” Pat said. “I got my (butt) kicked by some eight-year-olds and some 10-year-olds.”

He also received instruction in how to keep score, how to hold the racket and even some etiquette lessons as well.

“It was very informative,” he said.

The TV crew also came to their home to film them, their son Tanner, 4, and Kerrie’s two children from a previous marriage, Chloe and Reed Dolese, ages 13 and 10.

The family was filmed at a mock cocktail party and at Wing Point Country Club for several hours.

Upon completion of the training, Pat received all-new tennis clothing and gear, including a brand new racket.

“At least he looked the part,” Kerrie joked.

In the culmination of the episode, Pat and Kerrie play another couple on the island to see if he improved from the instruction he received.

“He did hold his own out there,” Kerrie said.

Kerrie, a homemaker and freelance writer, also wrote a satirical piece about the whole experience for Seattle Metropolitan Magazine.

Entitled “Mixed-Up Doubles: When TV and Tennis Meet Marriage and Memory, Reality Gets Rearranged,” it will appear in the November issue.

“I had to go over and over my tennis schedule for the week,” she said of one scene that was shot. “They sort of set it up like that’s all I do.”

While the experience won’t be a springboard to anything bigger or an appearance on the tennis circuit – “I won’t be quitting my day job,” Pat said – he did learn a little bit about himself through the whole experience.

“I did get an appreciation for the game,” he said. “All I ever claimed it was like was (hitting) an overgrown ping-pong ball.”

The show airs Friday night at 10 p.m. Check local listings or cable provider for the channel’s availability.