As the last day of 1977 began, 23-year-old Vitas Gerulaitis was eager to close out the finest tennis year of his life with an exclamation point. Twelve months earlier, Vitas Gerulaitis was ranked No.

Vitas Gerulaitis was a fine player who had the misfortune, in terms of tennis achievements, to play in a golden age dominated by Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors. Nobody, however, ...

On 12 January 1980, Vitas Gerulaitis delivered what is now one of the most famous lines in tennis history. After downing Jimmy Connors in the semifinals of the Masters year-end championship, the ...

This will come into play when the score has reached 6-6 and will offer victory to the first player to score 10 points and to be leading by at least two points. The Australian Open is thus now on the ...

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Vitas Gerulaitis once held up Martina Navratilova as an example to express his firm opposition to women receiving equal prize money as men. During the 1984 US Open, Gerulaitis controversially claimed ...

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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 ...

Vitas Gerulaitis was once the golden boy of tennis. It began with his hair, a golden mane that fell to and over his shoulders. It included the yellow Rolls Royce he drove to wherever his fast-lane ...

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 ...