hey guys in today's video I want to review the Netflix series about tennis called breakpoint
and for you that don't know about it I'm going to give you a quick summary so it's a part one
of this series that follows certain players around during tournaments and there's going
to be a part two it's going to be released in the middle of the year most likely during
Wimbledon it's five episodes the first episode is with Krygios and Kokkinakis the second episode
is with Berretini and Tomljanovic the third episode is with Taylor Fritz and Maria Sakkari
the fourth episode is Badosa and Ons Jabeur and the fifth episode is with Auger-Aliassime and Ruud
so I'm going to make a prediction that the vast majority of my audience is not going to like this
series that much and I'm going to tell you why because this series was based on another series
that Netflix has made about the Formula One which was hugely successful and it got a lot of people
especially in the United States interested in the sport or formula one so this series is designed to
draw people into tennis that don't know much about tennis they even explain how the scoring system
works so it's not really meant for tennis fans that know all the players and know exactly what
happened in the tournaments but it's more meant to attract a new audience for the sport of tennis
guys I have to change locations because this is one of the coldest days of the year in Florida
and my cameraman AKA my mom is bailing out she can't handle the cold weather so we have
to continue this video in the car and since my mom is here with me this is a good opportunity
to use someone who kind of lost touch with tennis who really doesn't know the players
all too well she used to follow tennis a lot back in the day my mom and I were the biggest
Monica Seles fans when Monica Seles was beating Steffi Graf we remembered those days very fondly
but in any case she has not watched a lot of tennis doesn't know a lot of the players that
were featured in the series so what did you think of the Netflix series break point you
watched all five episodes did you like it you can answer in Croatian and I'll put subtitles video
so you can see there my mom enjoyed the series and this is a great thing for tennis because
this series can draw new fans into the sport but I'm going to tell you why I didn't like it I'm
going to start by telling you that the journeyman is by far the best tennis documentary I've ever
seen this is a old movie about two tour players called Geoff Grant and Mark Keil or Keil and this
was so long ago that I don't think you can find this on Netflix you might be able to find some
clips of it on YouTube you probably have to find it on VHS somewhere but this is my favorite tennis
documentary of all time because it shows these players who were ranked lower playing the Grand
Slam tournaments and it shows the real hard life that is professional tennis if you're not amongst
the top and what I love the most about journeyman that it was real and I'm going to transition into
why I personally didn't like like breakpoint that much because it was the opposite of the
journeyman it wasn't real there was a lot of fake stuff in this series so you just heard my mom
talk about Fritz how he was hurt and he ended up beating Rafa and the Indian Wells final and they
showed Fritz getting hurt in practice and then going out like the hero and then winning that
match but anyone that follows tennis everybody knows that Rafa had a broken rib and Fritz is
not going to be Rafa in an Indian Wells Final on a windy day if Rafa is healthy everybody
that follows tennis knows that to be true but the Netflix producers decided to create a storyline
that it was Fritz who was injured beating the Superstar Rafael Nadal in the final and making
out to be the hero that's what I didn't like that part of the show was a little bit disingenuous
and now let me tell you what I liked about the series I really enjoyed seeing the backstory of
the players getting to know the players a little bit more and especially in the case of ons jabuer
it was really inspirational to watch and it was a really nice to see the struggles she had to
overcome to become the player that she is today so that part I really enjoyed I want to mention the
absolute star of the show in my opinion was Andy Roddick Andy Roddick did such a phenomenal job
talking about curios or talking about other things in general it was so fun to hear from him in my
opinion he's the last great American player former number one grand slam Champion well won all the
big tournaments in the United States and to hear what he has to say about the current players is
something that was super interesting I also really enjoyed listening to Maria Sharapova who hasn't
done a lot of interviews since she retired and it was really interesting to hear her perspective
on the current players as well I started off this video by saying that you guys my audience who are
knowledgeable tennis fans are not going to like this series very much let me explain why because
the outcome is certain we already know what happened it is showing for example in the Kyrgios
episode what happened at the Australian Open we already know what happened so for somebody that
doesn't know anything about tennis is going to be super exciting it's going to be drama for them but
for us we already know exactly what happened last year and also tennis moves at an incredible Fast
Pace last year Rafa was on the top of the world winning the Australian Open and the French Open
and this year he is super close to retirement so that's another reason that this show might be a
little bit boring for us knowledgeable tennis fans because we know exactly what's going to happen
but overall I do think the series is great for tennis I'm seeing a lot of Buzz about it online
and hopefully it's gonna result in something that's super important guys because the tennis
fan is aging the same fans that watch Connor's McEnroe Sampras Agassi or the big three they're
still the same fans who are watching tennis today so generally the age of a tennis fan is older so
hopefully this series can attract a newer but also a younger audience to the game of tennis