Writing about his reaction to Bjorn Borg's retirement in his book You Cannot be Serious, John McEnroe said that the Swede told him and Vitas Gerulaitis about his decision to end his career before ...

Once in a while a tennis match will reach its climax with both players convinced they are going to win until the last stroke of the last rally. Such was the case in one of the matches that is the ...

All of a sudden it was as if Jimmy Connors decided, OK, let’s get this thing over with now. The 42-year-old legs, playing a “Legends” match against Bjorn Borg, put away a couple of overheads, then ...

Reilly Opelka has deemed the trio of John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Vitas Gerulaitis to be the golden era of men's tennis. Opelka has had an eight-month-long layoff from the ATP Tour due to injury ...

Those of us who lived through the final hours of the Borg vs. McEnroe tennis rivalry in the early 1980s continue to embellish the mystique surrounding those epic matches relying upon imperfect memory ...

Australian Open officials must have been relieved when Vitas Gerulaitis committed to their end-of-season tournament in 1977. The two best players in the world, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors, were going ...

NEW YORK—Did you happen to know that Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe were rivals once upon a time? You may have heard something about it this year. I wrote a book about it, Matt Cronin wrote a book about ...

Four more years have gone by and Borg has only become more dominant. It's June 1980, he’s in the middle of a 20-week run at No. 1, and he’s going after his fifth French Open against Vitas Gerulaitis, ...

An allegiance to Björn Borg in the 1980 Wimbledon men's singles final came about in circuitous fashion. He wasn't the primary object of my childhood affections when it came to tennis. That honour fell ...

VITAS GERULAITIS was a successful player in more ways than one. And he had even more joy off the tennis court than he did on it thanks to his good looks, flowing long hair and effervescent personality ...