Netflix will produce a documentary sequence primarily based on 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafeal Nadal’s 2024 season, his final earlier than retiring from tennis on the Davis Cup.
It’s set to be the newest sequence in a clutch of post-retirement tennis media promising “unprecedented entry” to elite athletes — on the implied foundation that they’re at the very least considerably in command of what that entry reveals.
Even Carlos Alcaraz is ready to be the topic of a documentary by the streaming platform.
Netflix executives say Nadal’s sequence, as but untitled and and not using a proposed air date, will supply “an intimate glimpse into his (Nadal’s) journey to cement his legacy.”
Nadal’s ultimate yr on tour ended with defeat to Botic Van de Zandschulp on the Davis Cup, and included a ultimate match in opposition to Novak Djokovic on the 2024 Paris Olympics, which Nadal additionally misplaced.
Nadal struggled with accidents all through his profession and it prevented his repeated makes an attempt at comebacks, although he managed to say emotional farewells to the Barcelona Open, Italian Open in Rome, Madrid Open and French Open. His loss. That defeat to Alexander Zverev at Roland Garros in Paris was solely his fourth in 116 matches on the Grand Slam event, which introduced 14 of his 22 main titles.
The Spaniard mentioned in a press release that the documentary can even “present how my life and my tennis profession developed by means of the years.”
As tennis media approaches a crossroads with so lots of its former stars calling it quits, Netflix will now hope that Nadal and Alcaraz — whose personal sequence, “My Method,” is slated for 2025, can flip issues round.
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