All of a sudden it was as if Jimmy Connors decided, OK, let’s get this thing over with now. The 42-year-old legs, playing a “Legends” match against Bjorn Borg on Friday night at the Rosemont Horizon, ...

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 ...

Four more years have gone by and Borg has only become more dominant. It's June 1980, he’s in the middle of a 20-week run at No. 1, and he’s going after his fifth French Open against Vitas Gerulaitis, ...

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 a successful player in more ways than one. And he had even more joy off the tennis court than he did on it thanks to his good looks, flowing long hair and effervescent personality ...

Swedish tennis player Björn Borg plays at Wimbledon in London in 1974. Borg was a five-time Wimbledon champion. (Evening Standard via Getty Images) Impossibly talented and undeniably handsome, Björn ...

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 ...

DELRAY BEACH — Vitas Gerulaitis hung out his shingle Thursday. The former Top 5 pro announced that he has taken over the tennis operations at the International Tennis Resort, with the promise to ...