Netflix's new tennis docuseries is slickly produced and welcoming to casual fans, but if you're already a diehard, it might not be the program for you, writes jon_wertheim
• We’ll have our 2023 Australian Open seed reports later this week.• Good soldiering: Tennis Channel will have a nightly two-hour Australian Open pregame show. Lindsay Davenport, Steve Weisman and I will be yakking starting at 7 p.m. ET.For weeks, a number of you have asked about the status of the Netflix “with all the details. And here are some thoughts:
The series is, happily, light on technical details and match analysis. The viewer will not come away with an appreciation for extreme grips or the importance of the break-back game. But there is real tennis insight here, mostly about the mental/spiritual demands of the sport. In particular, the filmmakers nail one of modern tennis’s great paradoxes: It’s a ferocious individual sport but has also morphed into a team sport.
This will ultimately benefit tennis. Throughout, I couldn’t help thinking that the folks in tennis’s various marketing divisions could scarcely have scripted it better:“Hear me out: let’s launch a Netflix series that focuses, almost exclusively, on players in their 20s and goes entire episodes without even mentioning these generational stars!”“Hold that thought. I think we have our title.”
But otherwise, through five episodes, everyone likes and respects everyone else. Tennis seems more a genial band of colleagues in a traveling circus than a group of competitors bearing some animus toward the people trying to take their scarce and finite resources .
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