John McEnroe was one of the most dominant tennis players of his era, but he faced no shortage of stiff competition during his ...

John McEnroe had many memorable run-ins with Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors over his decorated tennis career, but the ...

But in 1981, the attacking McEnroe ended Borg's Wimbledon reign at five consecutive championships and 41 straight winning matches when he beat him in the finals in four sets, including two tie ...

No. 9: John McEnroe, 1981 In his early years, McEnroe had been tennis’ temperamental teenage artist, a magician with a racquet who was one bad call away from self-destruction.

John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg locked horns on 14 occasions, with their head-to-head tied at 7-7. The first encounter between the two took place in the semifinals of the 1978 Stockholm Open, with ...

McEnroe and Borg played each other 16 times in one of the sport's biggest rivalries, including in the finals of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 1980 and 1981.

It probably was the most thrilling tiebreaker ever played here. Borg had more match points at 6-5, 7-6, 10-9, 11-10 and 12-11. McEnroe saved all of them in brilliant aggressive style.

McEnroe” with a huge spoiler alert. The final score of the 1980 Wimbledon men’s final between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, which takes up the climactic last third of the movie, was 1-6, 7-5, 6 ...

Borg was cold, a machine, a base player. He was like an automaton and was briefed to concentrate on "one point at a time", whereas McEnroe was an unpredictable, aggressive strategist who fought ...

Nope. On the 30th anniversary of their classic 1981 Wimbledon final, John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg announced they are joining forces to release a limited-edition range of box briefs for a good cause.