In the semifinals Borg eliminated American Brian Gottfried 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 and McEnroe battled the three seed and 1974 champion Jimmy Connors to a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 win to set up the final at ...

Casting Shia LaBeouf as tennis bad boy John McEnroe is something of a self-reflexive gesture: Here are two men whose erratic, volatile public personae have eclipsed their respective talents, and whose ...

In the late 1970s, professional tennis held a firm grip on the United States, and no two players better personified the sport's growth than cool-as-ice Swede Borg and brash New Yorker McEnroe. In his ...