The streaming giant Netflix published the first five parts of the series last week, and of the ten tennis players of the emerging generation that it primarily focused on, only one remained in the singles at the Australian Open: Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime, who will be Jiří Lehečka’s opponent in Sunday’s round of 16.
“It’s strange how it works sometimes,” Auger-Aliassime said after Friday’s four-set win over Argentina’s Francisco Cerúndol. “Maybe the players who dropped out think it’s somehow related. But I think they don’t think so, so I certainly don’t either,” the twenty-two-year-old native of Montreal refused to take the “netflix curse” seriously.
Coincidentally, however, he was the last of the documentary stars left at the Australian Open. As the AP agency reminds, the fates of the heroes of individual episodes were as follows in Melbourne:
| Part 1: Nick Kyrgios withdrew due to knee surgery before the start of the tournament and Thanasi Kokkinakis was knocked out in the 2nd round by 35-year-old Andy Murray. |
| Part 2: Matteo Berrettini lost to Murray in the 1st round and Ajla Tomljanovic pulled out of the tournament with a knee injury. |
| Part 3: Maria Sakkariová was eliminated in the 3rd round against the 87th player in the world Chu Lin, and Taylor Fritz was not enough in the 2nd round against the 113th ranked tennis player Alexei Popyrin. |
| Part 4: Uns Džábirová was eliminated by Markéta Vondroušová in the 2nd round, and Paula Badosa was sidelined by a thigh injury before the tournament. |
| Part 5: Casper Ruud was eliminated in the 2nd round with Jenson Brooksby and Auger-Aliassime is waiting for Leheček. |
