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Borg vs McEnroe (Swedish: Borg, Finnish: Borg/McEnroe) is a 2017 biographical sports drama film, focusing on the famous professional rivalry between tennis players, Björn Borg and John McEnroe at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships, culminating in their encounter in the men's singles final, one of the most dramatic tennis matches of all time. [6]
Borg vs. McEnroe: Directed by Janus Metz. With Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny. The story of the 1980 tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.
- (35K)
- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Janus Metz
- 2018-04-13
The Borg–McEnroe rivalry was a tennis rivalry between Björn Borg and John McEnroe, who met 14 times on the regular tour and 22 times in total between November 1978 and April 1981. Their head-to-head was even at 7–7. [1]
34 points that defined a rivalry.In the fourth set of their 1980 final, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe contested perhaps the greatest tie-break in Wimbledon his...
- 22 min
- 3.7M
- Wimbledon
A powerful and rigorously disciplined player, there is only one obstacle in his pursuit of a record-breaking fifth Wimbledon championship: the highly talented but ferociously abrasive young...
- (147)
- Janus Metz
- R
- Sverrir Gudnason
Jun 20, 2022 · Borg and McEnroe—lefty vs. righty, attacker vs. defender, fire vs. ice, machine vs. mad genius, civilization vs. its discontents—was a rivalry made in tennis heaven. But July 5, 1980,...
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Apr 13, 2018 · 4 min read. A title card at the beginning of “Borg vs. McEnroe” explains how the rivalry between the two legendary tennis players—and, specifically, their grueling showdown at the 1980 Wimbledon championship—changed the sport, and each other, forever.
