Before autumn's arrival on Saturday, we'll relive one of tennis' most memorable summers. The 1977 season was one of the most colorful and enduringly significant in the game's history. Over three days ...

NEW YORK—Did you happen to know that Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe were rivals once upon a time? You may have heard something about it this year. I wrote a book about it, Matt Cronin wrote a book about ...

Writing about his reaction to Bjorn Borg's retirement in his book You Cannot be Serious, John McEnroe said that the Swede told him and Vitas Gerulaitis about his decision to end his career before ...

Vitas Gerulaitis was a proud American citizen who was born and raised in the United States, lived and partied in New York and never visited his parents’ homeland of Lithuania. To this day, ...

Once in a while a tennis match will reach its climax with both players convinced they are going to win until the last stroke of the last rally. Such was the case in one of the matches that is the ...

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 ...

Those of us who lived through the final hours of the Borg vs. McEnroe tennis rivalry in the early 1980s continue to embellish the mystique surrounding those epic matches relying upon imperfect memory ...

Reilly Opelka has deemed the trio of John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Vitas Gerulaitis to be the golden era of men's tennis. Opelka has had an eight-month-long layoff from the ATP Tour due to injury ...

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 ...

An allegiance to Björn Borg in the 1980 Wimbledon men's singles final came about in circuitous fashion. He wasn't the primary object of my childhood affections when it came to tennis. That honour fell ...

Björn Borg's memoir "Heartbeats" explores the significant personal costs associated with fame and celebrity. The book details Borg's decision to retire from tennis at the peak of his career due to a ...