NEW YORK (AP) Bjorn Borg will face longtime rival John McEnroe in a World Team Tennis match, replacing injured Jimmy Connors. Borg's Philadelphia Freedoms will play McEnroe's New York Sportimes on ...
The scientific journal PLoS ONE releases a study that claims Jimmy Connors is the best player of ... 1 Rafael Nadal only 21. Bjorn Borg, who won 11 Grand Slams, also scores low, but he had a ...
Rivalries. Borg had McEnroe and Connors, the baddest of the bad boys. They were the anti-heroes and everyone else got to wear the white headband. Lendl, the Al Gore of tennis, got the same break.
While tennis fans enjoyed Connors' gritty style and his never-say ... Three times he lost in the finals, to Arthur Ashe in 1975 and to Bjorn Borg in 1977 and 1978. The 1977 defeat to Borg was ...
Favourite all-time tennis match? This would have to be up there. The ice-cool Swedish champion Bjorn Borg against the brash John McEnroe who was snapping at his heels for the crown of the world's best ...