'Break Point,” a new Netflix documentary series about the pro tennis tour, gives us plenty to talk about with the Australian Open starting this week.
but will turn 37 in June and is just 4-7 since pulling out of last year’s Wimbledon semifinals with an injury.
From a larger institutional standpoint, tennis has dreaded the day when its most bankable, beloved stars would no longer be able to carry the sport to television audiences and ticket buyers around the world. “I’ve trained my whole life for this moment,” American Taylor Fritz says as he’s weighing whether to take the court against Nadal in last year’s Indian Wells final even though doctors have told him he could be risking long-term injury to his foot and his coaches are imploring him not to play. “If I pulled out, I’d be thinking about this forever.”
Even the debut episode, which is built around tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios and his career-long struggle to handle massive expectations, does not address the numerous on- and off-court run-ins he’s had with competitors over the years.
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