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even the decision to have ep 1 be a focus on his very beginnings, ep 2 on roger, ep 3 on novak, ep 4 on his comeback 2017 onwards- like they had to skip a lot of things that didn’t fit the timeline. in ep 3 when they’re showing how rafa had to reinvent himself after novak started beating him they had to skip over rg where he did beat him LOL

like yeah the doco is only four one hour episodes and his career spanned over twenty years so of course it was not going to include everything, and I could argue that we already know all of that stuff so focussing so much on him off court was the right choice. But it was a bit funny how much they skimmed passed like.. ao17, his 2019 season, ao22 and rg22, the very quick mention of davis cup at the end of last episode.. plus there was never any mention of any of the Olympics lol

also a bit funny how few wimbledons were in it and okay fair enough bc he missed/withdrew/crashed out of a lot of them 🙈 still got that 83% win rate though 🔥🔥

idk idk none of this is really criticism of it im just interested in how they decided what to include. it definitely splits his career into “eras” ie. roger era - novak era - post potentially career ending injury 2015/16 era - 2024 retirement era, all of which were secretly eternal suffering era… now we r in no more suffering era .. peace era .. calm era .. slow and steady era …

the clip where moya is saying being part of Rafa’s team is getting used to bad news .. 🫠🫠 truly he was the only sane one on the team always telling him u do nawt have to be hurting urself so much to keep playing 😭 but unfortunately rafa was brain poisoned by toni from birth … bitchass getting intestinal punctures or whatever it was from how many painkillers he was taking 😃

it just .. it never had to be that way :( i really hope people see how bad this kind of mentality is and how success does not need to be borne of brutality. this is honestly why it’s so nice that carlos is so candid about enjoying life outside of tennis, and that his family support this. we don’t need this narrative of senseless suffering as the price of success.