High strung
Subtitle: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the untold story of tennis's fiercest rivalry
By: Stephen Tignor
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780062009845
Subjects: Biography; Tennis players; Sports rivalries; U.S. Open (Tennis tournament) (1981)
Description: "Using as its primary lens the fabled 1981 U.S. Open match between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, as well as the watershed tournament at large, High Strung orbits around the four greatest, enigmatic talents of that age and argues that with their collective, athletic dňouements came the end of the golden era of tennis"--
Table of contents: title: The angel and the brat; title: Barbarians on the lawns; title: The next victim; title: Lingering death; title: The Dark Prince of Queens; title: Exile on Park Avenue; title: The Valley of Ashes; title: Tearing the cover off the game; title: Taking love on the rise; title: Mr. Nasty; title: The Lord of Discipline; title: Fallen angel; title: Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis; title: Ivan the Powerful; title: Heroes and villains; title: Super Saturday; title: Requiem for an assassin.