Break Point Part 2: All the small print about Netflix’s tennis sequence as trailer launched
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etflix has launched a trailer for Break Point: Part 2, a documentary sequence into the lives {of professional} gamers coping with the highs and lows of the tour.
Ons Jabeur, Iga Świątek, and Nick Kyrgios are among the many gamers to be featured within the second season of the present.
Maria Sakkari and Ajla Tomljanović additionally gave over their lives to the cameras for the access-all-areas format from the Drive to Survive producers.
With the French Open having wrapped up on Sunday, and gamers now getting ready for Wimbledon, it’s the excellent time to rise up to hurry.
Maria Sakkari is featured in Break Point
/ Darrian Traynor / Getty ImagesWhen is Break Point: Part 2 on and the place can I watch it?
All episodes of Break Point: Part 2 will likely be streamed on Netflix from June 21.
What occurred in sequence one?
The 5 episodes of sequence one have been launched on Netflix on January 13 and charted the lives of 10 gamers.
It was billed very a lot as the primary half and centered on the Australian Open, Indian Wells Masters, Madrid Open, and French Open from 2022.
Each episode focuses on one participant and was credited for selecting up on high gamers who’re but to grow to be family names. Like Drive to Survive did for Formula One, the sequence confirmed the stresses and strains behind the scenes in addition to the on-court glory. It was met with broadly optimistic critiques.
Series two was commissioned similtaneously golf documentary Full Swing.
“These shows quickly appealed to core fans of golf and tennis, and also recruited brand new fans from all around the world,” stated Brandon Riegg of Netflix on the time.
“Like so much of our growing sports slate, the compelling characters, competitive stakes, and vibrant storytelling reveal sides of the game you’ve never seen before, and we’re excited to follow the unpredictable turns of the year ahead.”
Drive to Survive’s success has led to extra sports activities getting concerned
/ Mark Thompson / Getty ImagesWhat gamers are featured in sequence two?
Series two picks up with the identical gamers who have been in sequence one.
On the boys’s ATP tour are Félix Auger-Aliassime, Matteo Berrettini, Taylor Fritz, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Nick Kyrgios, and Casper Ruud. And on the ladies’s WTA tour are Paula Badosa, Ons Jabeur, Maria Sakkari, and Ajla Tomljanović.
But different gamers are additionally set to characteristic, even when simply in passing, because the tour showcases the game as a complete with contextual evaluation.
The narrative picks up in what was Serena Williams’s closing 12 months, whereas Break Point 2 additionally charts Iga Świątek’s ascent to superstardom.
Naomi Osaka has beforehand featured in a standalone documentary
/ Steven Paston / PA WireWhat different sports activities documentaries are on Netflix?
After the success of Drive to Survive, which returned for a fifth season in February, Netflix has a loaded summer time of sports activities documentaries lined up.
Full Swing, Netflix says, follows lots of the world’s high skilled golfers each at residence and in any respect 4 of the game’s main championships. It dropped in February and has been recommissioned for a second sequence.
For American soccer followers, the streaming large has additionally promised Quarterback, a first-of-its-kind partnership with the NFL, which is able to enable followers an intimate have a look at skilled quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota.
An announcement added: “Then there’s a handful of untitled series on the horizon, including one featuring [football] legend David Beckham, another one focused on the 2022 Tour de France, and another on the 2022 Fifa World Cup, as well as a docu-series on [an] international rugby tournament.”
Already streaming are basketball documentary The Last Dance, and soccer expose Sunderland ‘Till I Die, in addition to close-ups on Naomi Osaka and Pele.
There has not but been a documentary for athletics, regardless of studies that the British governing physique was prepared to make use of the format as a possible choice to develop the game.