Break Point producers must not have believed their luck when witnessing the results and storylines of the players they chose to shadow with their cameras in 2023.
The Netflix tennis docuseries returns for a second season, with six episodes available to watch on the streaming service from 10 January 2024.
The series tracks a compelling group of players from the Australian Open through to the US Open in 2023.
Returning from Season 1 are Aryna Sabalenka, Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe, Maria Sakkari and Nick Kyrgios, and they’re joined by series debutants Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff, Holger Rune and Ben Shelton – four of the game’s brightest new stars.
Also appearing in Break Point for the first time are Daniil Medvedev, Jessica Pegula, Alexander Zverev and Tommy Paul, another quartet enjoying notable highs in 2023.
The Season 2 trailer hints at many of these milestones.
“I just want to feel it, to be world No.1,” says Sabalenka, who went on to reach the summit in September.
“I’m 28 years old. I need to win a tournament,” implores Sakkari, who would go on to record an emotional triumph at the WTA 1000 event in Guadalajara.
“Being consistent is great, but you do want to win the trophy in the end,” says Pegula, who ultimately beat world No.1 Iga Swiatek en route to a memorable triumph in Montreal.
We hear Jim Courier explain that “tennis has a new crop of players, fresh and ready and hungry” – and we see exactly that as Alcaraz stuns Novak Djokovic to win Wimbledon before Gauff breaks through for her first major title at the US Open.
But although “there’s a changing of the guard that’s going on”, Break Point does not avoid the fact this change is slow – especially on the men’s side.
“I love it. They want to win, but it ain’t happening,” says 36-year-old Novak Djokovic, who won three of the four majors in 2023 and returned to world No.1.
And that’s just the on-court drama.
Season 2 again takes us behind the curtain, into parts of the players’ lives rarely seen by fans.
We follow Medvedev in a private jet, Fritz in a helicopter, and go inside the locker rooms, back corridors of tournaments and player hotels in what is unrivalled access.
We also hear from the partners, families and teams of the players, painting a more complete picture of who they are both as athletes, and people.