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High strung : Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the untold story of tennis's fiercest rivalry / Stephen Tignor.

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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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
  • Borg, Björn, 1956-
  • McEnroe, John, 1959-
  • U.S. Open (Tennis tournament) (1981)
  • 1900-talet
  • SPORTS & RECREATION / History
  • Tennis players > United States > Biography
  • Tennis players > Sweden > Biography
  • Sports rivalries
  • Tennis players > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780062009845 (hardback)
  • 0062009842 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2011013011
OCLC
  • 722859700
  • SCSB-12571871
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library