6 Epic Sporting Stories That Deserve The Last Dance Treatment

Tennis is the most popular non-team sport on the planet and over the course of the last seventeen years, the crowds at major events have been spoiled by the fact that the three greatest male players to ever pick up a racket all came to prominence around the same time – Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

Winning a Grand Slam tournament is considered the greatest achievement in tennis. Only four are held each year and since 2004 there have only been 10 instances (out of 65) where one of the three did not emerge victorious, with 6 of those victories belonging to Andy Murray or Stan Wawrinka.

Some might argue that this has made the sport boring and predictable, as every big tournament is almost a foregone conclusion – Nadal is unbeatable on clay, Federer was the undisputed King of Wimbledon for so long and so on and so forth – but the bar is continuously raised by the three to stay ahead of the rest of the pack, baying for their blood, to produce breath-taking displays on the court time after time.

The three are global megastars for sure, but compared to other sporting icons, comparatively little insight has ever been offered into their routes into the game and how they continue to stay on top of it after more than a decade and a half of dominance. As their careers inevitably wind down, what better way to immortalise them than through the power of a documentary?