Carlos Alcaraz's Netflix documentary release date is confirmed
Carlos Alcaraz's Netflix docuseries, 'Carlos Alcaraz: My Way', will be released April 23.
The production, which follows Alcaraz's 2024 season — in which the 21-year-old Spaniard won the French Open, Wimbledon and an Olympic silver medal — confirmed the release through Netflix, but Alcaraz had already done it via a very different medium.
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Per expectation, Alcaraz's new tattoo debuted at Indian Wells, Calif. put the release date for the documentary in plain sight. He uses tattoos to commemorate his titles, with a date (September 11 2022), the Eiffel Tower and a strawberry to designate the U.S. Open, the French Open and Wimbledon respectively. Netflix has now added marketing to his ink, with 23.4.25 joining the roster on a temporary basis.
The Alcaraz series is Netflix's first serious foray into tennis media since 'Break Point,' which it canceled in 2024, after two seasons. It has staged a match, the so-called Netflix Slam between Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal, but 'Break Point' was a limited success in comparison to its siblings, 'Drive to Survive' (Formula One) and 'Full Swing' (golf).
Since its release, Roger Federer, Naomi Osaka and Ons Jabeur have released documentaries, while Novak Djokovic has one in the works. Netflix will also produce a docuseries on Nadal, following the events of his retirement season in 2024.
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Documentaries like these are becoming the best that fans can hope to expect as top athletes tighten their control over their intellectual property and their identities. Why risk something that could damage their reputation by handing over control to a journalist or film maker? Much better to retain control by doing it themselves. Even 'Break Point', which contained little in the way of bombshell revelations, was off-putting for some players because of their editorial control they gave up.
Player-run media is only growing, with Jannik Sinner and Elena Rybakina announcing YouTube channels in recent weeks. Sinner's first episode, an Australian Open diary of his journey to a second title in Melbourne, featured such revelations: He's friendly to his drivers; he likes to drive golf carts kind of fast around Melbourne Park's service roads; Grand Slam final days are very special to him and still feel rare.
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Perhaps fans will be pleasantly surprised by this series from Alcaraz, one of the more candid players on tour, but realistically any program in which the subject has final sign-off is likely to be an extremely polished and airbrushed version of reality. Tennis documentaries can often border on hagiography, and why wouldn't they when the whole purpose is to make the subject look good.
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This isn't to say that they can't be interesting, with behind-the-scenes views of athletes who live their lives on a stage one of the only routes to understanding what goes on away from it. At Wimbledon last year, it was fun to watch BBC footage of Alcaraz darting around between interviews trying to catch a glimpse of Spain's Euro 2024 matches, whether on his phone or on television screens in the media centre.
Still, the best sporting documentaries are the ones where the subject matter is not in control of the content. Think 'Sunderland 'Til I Die', or proper sporting documentaries from years past like ESPN's '30 for 30' series.
This Alcaraz series, by contrast, is part of a growing trend in which top athletes take more and more production control into their own hands. Sorry if this all sounds like a gloomy prediction of the show's merits, but I'm still scarred by having to watch French footballer Paul Pogba's 'Pogmentary': A show that 14,000 IMDB users gave an average rating of 1.1/10.
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