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The Netflix Slam

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Perfect Serve: Tennis Shows and Movies to Stream Now

Work on your topspin and volleys, and ace your next match by watching tennis shows and movies such as The Netflix Slam, with the legendary Rafael Nadal as he takes on the tennis wunderkind Carlos Alcaraz. In Break Point, see the profiles in courage as the unforgiving, exciting joy and agony of the game motivate the players. Go deeper into the complex and brilliant mindset of Naomi Osaka in the biographical movie about what it means to be a player like her on and off the court.

May 16, 2024

Transcript

[rock music plays]

[TITLE CARD] THE NETFLIX SLAM

Announcer: Today, this is the center of the tennis world. Rafael Nadal, he gets set to take on the sport’s youngest superstar, there he is, 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz, in the first-ever Netflix Slam.

Commentator: Oh, come on. Come on, man!

Commentator: No way! [crowd cheering and applauding]

Man 1: Tennis has a new crop of players fresh and ready and hungry.

Man 2: We want to destroy each other.

[TITLE CARD] BREAK POINT

Woman: Tennis is a brutal sport.

Man 1: Can’t be friends, man.

Woman: Last year changed everything. Literally overnight.

[TITLE CARD] NAOMI OSAKA

[crowd cheering] Naomi Osaka: No one really knows all the sacrifices that you make …

[crowd cheering] Naomi Osaka: … just to be good. For so long, I’ve tied winning to, like, my worth as a person. So, like, what am I if I’m not a good tennis player?

[TITLE CARD] UNTOLD: BREAKING POINT

Man 1: This match could change my life forever. I’m about to play the greatest player of all time.

Man 2: Being the No. 1 American, there’s a lot of pressure around it.

Man 1: I trained for my entire life, and my heart is just racing. And then, all of a sudden, I think I’m dying.

[TITLE CARD] GUILLERMO VILAS: SETTLING THE SCORE

Man 1: The power and the dedication was the best thing I ever saw in my life.

Man 2: I remember that he was claiming to be the number-one player in the world.

Guillermo Vilas [in Spanish]: I asked many times to see the records, but my request was always denied.

Man 2: And the ATP, they said, no, he was No. 2.

[TITLE CARD] THE PLAYBOOK: A COACH’S RULES FOR LIFE

Man 1: When the doubt comes, it can affect the way she thinks. So it’s very important …

Crowd: Great job. …

Man 1: … to make sure that the mind works the right way. From that day, I got all her respect because I was not scared of her, and I was not scared to lose my job.

[TITLE CARD] THE PRINCE OF TENNIS ~ MATCH! TENNIS JUNIORS ~

[in Mandarin with subtitles]

Woman 1: Lu Xia.

Woman 1: So he’s the talented teenager who won the International Teenager Tennis Tour Championship for four consecutive years?

Woman 2: Yes.

[intense rock music plays]

[music fades]

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