As the Wimbledon Championships ... memorable Gentleman's Singles Final. 1980 saw Sweden's Bjorn Borg face the promising 21 year old American, John McEnroe.

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 player. Borg's four-year reign at Wimbledon seemed over when the ...

His 1980 Wimbledon final against four-time champion Bjorn Borg was a classic. Down two sets to one, and trailing 5-4 in the fourth set, McEnroe broke Borg, and soon it was 6-6. In a tiebreaker for ...

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 was after his loss to McEnroe in ...

BOSTON (AP)—John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg were back on the same court Saturday, with McEnroe winning 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) in the Champions Cup semifinals. The 53-year-old Borg, who won five consecutive ...

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have been compared to tennis icons John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg for ... the pair faced off in the legendary 1980 Wimbledon final – which the Swede won in five ...

Here is a look at the life of tennis ace and television analyst John McEnroe. Personal Birth date: February 16, 1959 Birth place: Wiesbaden, West Germany; grew up in Douglaston, New York Birth name: ...