The Prince of Tennis

Series Similar to The Prince of Tennis

If you enjoyed The Prince of Tennis, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Pitch

   2016 · Drama, Sports · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile.

   Pitch is the dramatic and inspirational story of a young pitcher who becomes the first woman to play Major League Baseball. A beautiful, tough and gifted athlete, GINNY BAKER is vaulted into instant fame when she's called up by the San Diego Padres to make her Major League debut.Like any rookie, Ginny must prove herself to her teammates. Foremost among them is MIKE LAWSON, the team's ruggedly handsome star catcher. There's instant chemistry between them, although neither dares admit it. After all, Mike is captain of the team and a few of his players don't even want Ginny on the field. One of the players watching Ginny's back is center fielder BLIP SANDERS, an old friend from the minor leagues and his wife EVELYN.Guiding her is her agent/confidante, AMELIA SLATER. Amelia saw Ginny's star potential early on and left her previous job as a Hollywood publicist to concentrate on the young phenom, bringing along her young assistant ELIOT.Although groomed for this moment by her demanding father, BILL BAKER, the end of Ginny's improbable journey is the beginning of an almost impossible one: representing her gender as she embarks on a successful baseball career under the glare of the white-hot media spotlight.The team's manager, AL LUONGO, and general manager, OSCAR ARGUELLA, bicker over whether Ginny's presence on the field is in the team's best interests.Playing in the major leagues is a goal hard enough for anyone to achieve - except this player is also a woman, who happens to be the most important historical figure in sports since Jackie Robinson. This season, Ginny Baker will be the other woman trying to break into one of the oldest, most exclusive men's clubs in the country.

2. 21 Thunder

   2017 · Drama, Sports · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile.

   In the cutthroat world of pro soccer, a club lives and dies by the stars on its under-21 team. They are the future and lifeblood of any franchise, but most will never make it. 21 Thunder is the story of the Montreal Thunder U21 team, following the team's star players on and off the field. A story of love, crime, race, sex and athletic glory, at its core the series is about how a group of players and coaches unite as family in the whirlwind of life, one step away from the pros.

3. Friday Night Lights

   2006 · Drama, Sports · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile, highly rated (8.1).

   In the town of Dillon, Texas, football is life, and no one knows that better than new head Coach Eric Taylor. Pressure mounts as the Dillon Panthers led by star quarterback Jason Street, enter pre-season surrounded by a swirl of press, recruiters and State Championship sized expectations. Backup quarterback Matt Saracen prepares to ride the bench in the shadow of Jason Street, as running back Tim Riggins struggles with a serious vice. As the season opener grows near, the town of Dillon is focused on what they believe to be most important, winning.

4. Barracuda

   2016 · Drama, Sports · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile, hidden gem.

   Based on the provocative novel by acclaimed writer, Christos Tsiolkas, and re-uniting key creatives who brought us "The Slap", Barracuda is an unflinching look at Australia's national obsession with sporting heroes. It's a brutal clash of cultures, dreams and expectations and the relentless demands we place on our young athletes, their families, schools, friends and coaches.

5. The English Game

   2020 · Drama, Sports · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile.

   The English Game is about the invention of football and how those involved in its creation reached across the class divide to establish the game as the world's most popular sport.

6. Heels

   2021 · Drama, Sports · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile.

   Heels is a story about the men and women who chase their dreams in the world of small town pro wrestling. Set in a close-knit Georgia community, it follows a family-owned wrestling promotion as two brothers and rivals, Jack Spade and Ace Spade, war over their late father's legacy. In the ring, somebody must play the good guy and somebody must play their nemesis, the heel. But in the real world, those characters can be hard to live up to — or hard to leave behind.

7. Nitiman The Series

   2021 · Drama, Romance, Sports · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile, hidden gem.

   Jinake Saman is the university moon in the engineering faculty, known across the whole campus as the hottest moon. There was the saying among the campus "Nothing and no one was hotter than Mr. Jin!" One day when his girlfriend broke up with him, he fell apart in despair. He later discovered that the girl who broke his heart was the cousin of law student Bom. Jin misunderstands that Bom and his cousin were flirting when actually he likes Jin. Bom has liked him since he was a freshman one year ago after Jin exchanged Bom's lunchbox (because he couldn't eat anything spicy) with his own food and rice. As feelings grow between them, can Jin understand Bom's true intentions and come to see Bom as more than just a junior?

8. Slam Dance the Series

   2017 · Drama, Romance, Sports · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile, hidden gem.

   Every match has winners and losers. Rules are important for the game on the field. But what about the game outside the field? Meet the wonderful stories of the athletes in a college. Striking in and out of the field at this college, sports dance and wrestling collide. Members for both teams are required to compete for medals together. But instead, everyone will unite to overcome the challenges of the opposite sport. There are some people who take this opportunity to destroy their fellow members just because they are competitors on the field.

9. Project S The Series: Side by Side

   2017 · Drama, Family, Sports · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile, hidden gem.

   Gym, an autistic teenager who was often bullied by his peers decides to join the badminton team with Dong, who is his childhood friend. However, Gym plays better than Dong, as Gym is able to control the dynamics of the game, leading to Dong displeasure. With the help of Dong's and Gym's widowed mom. Can the two able to conquer all their fears and weaknesses to be the top in the badminton field. And what will Gym and Dong's future be?

10. Mother

    2018 · Drama · ended87% match

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

    This is the story of a woman becoming a mother. Soo Jin is a teacher at an elementary school. She plans to go abroad to study and teaching is just a temporary job. However, she notices that one of her student, Hye Na, is being abused by her mother and uncle at home. Soo Jin or the police cannot do anything because Hye Na doesn't know that she is being abused and says it's all good to people. As Soo Jin meets Ja Young and Seol Ak, the mother and uncle, she decides to save her from those horrible people. She makes an impulsive but sincere decision to become Hye Na's mother. Their story begins unexpectedly, but as Soo Jin and Hye Na start to believe and depend on each other, they become a real mother and daughter.