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High strung : Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the untold story of tennis's fiercest rivalry
- Title
- High strung : Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the untold story of tennis's fiercest rivalry / Stephen Tignor.
- Author
- Tignor, Stephen.
- Publication
- New York : Harper, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- 238 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Contents
- The angel and the brat -- Barbarians on the lawns -- The next victim -- Lingering death -- The Dark Prince of Queens -- Exile on Park Avenue -- The Valley of Ashes -- Tearing the cover off the game -- Taking love on the rise -- Mr. Nasty -- The Lord of Discipline -- Fallen angel -- Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis -- Ivan the Powerful -- Heroes and villains -- Super Saturday -- Requiem for an assassin.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-2083
- ISBN
- 9780062009845 (hardback)
- 0062009842 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011013011
- OCLC
- 722859700
- Author
- Tignor, Stephen.
- Title
- High strung : Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the untold story of tennis's fiercest rivalry / Stephen Tignor.
- Imprint
- New York : Harper, c2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-2083