Overview
- The documentary premiered on Netflix Friday, May 29, 2026, and is available globally as a four‑episode series that follows Nadal’s final professional season and long recovery history.
- Nadal discloses a diagnosis of Mueller‑Weiss syndrome after a 2005 foot break and shows how a custom, aggressive insole changed his biomechanics and helped him keep competing.
- He admits to heavy use of anaesthetics and anti‑inflammatories to play through pain and links that treatment to later health problems, including small perforations in his intestines.
- Director Zach Heinzerling had unprecedented access to Nadal’s home movies and inner circle, and the film explores Toni Nadal’s coaching methods and the later arrival of Carlos Moyà.
- New interviews with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and John McEnroe frame Nadal’s rivalry and legacy while the series raises ethical questions about medical decisions and athlete welfare.