Is ‘Netflix Curse’ happening at the Australian Open
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Is ‘Netflix Curse’ happening at the Australian Open?

Jan 22, 2023, 7:12 AM
Nicole Pulido

Nicole Pulido

Writer

With top seeded players crashing out of the Australian Open, fans can’t help but call the recent happenings as the “Netflix Curse,” as players featured in the Netlfix Docuseries “Break Point” has either withdrawn or has been eliminated from the tourney.

The Australian Open is stirring a conspiracy within as fans and players alike are noticing what seems as a series of unfortunate events that include players featured in a Netflix docuseries ‘Break Point.’

Curse or coincidence?

After the 10-part docuseries aired on the eve of the Melbourne Grand Slam, which featured some of tennis’ biggest players in the 2022 season, athletes started experiencing some rough patch at the start of their 2023 playing year.

Even before the Grand Slam opened, three players already pulled out of the tourney due to injuries and at this point of the competition, all but one of the players featured in the first season have either withdrawn from or been knocked out already.

Nick Kyrgios, fellow Aussie Ajla Tomljanovic and Spain's Paula Badosa are the three players who withdrew from the competition prior to the opening weekend earlier this week, reported Insider.

As the Australian Open kicked off and in some surprising turn of events, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Matteo Berrettini, Taylor Fritz, Maria Sakkari, Paula Badosa, Ons Jabeur and Casper Ruud have all been eliminated prior to round 16, each of these players experienced what is now known as the phenomenon ‘Netflix Curse.'

Proving how real, or how convincing and perfectly timed this coincidence really is, the curse is World No. 2 Jabeur crashing out of the tourney just in the second round of play against the unseeded Marketa Vondrousova according to The Daily Mail.

Only Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime remains alive in the bracket who is set to face Jiri Lehecka in the fourth round, and was not fully aware of the said curse until someone pointed it out to him.

“My girlfriend showed me today. I wasn‘t aware,” he said in an interview published by Yahoo Sports Australia.

“I was aware that players were losing, I’d see players were losing, but it didn’t cross my mind until she showed me the thing this morning. I thought it was funny.”

Real or not, Auger-Aliassime is ultimately hoping to debunk this theory all at once and prove that the unfortunate season of the other players were merely coincidences.

Tags: #Tennis, #AustralianOpen, #Netflix


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