Hindustan Times
Watching the thrilling, draining epic of an Australian Open final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal (oh, why did Federer simply fall apart in that final set?), I thought of – no, not the Wimbledon showdown between Federer and Nadal in July last year – but that other epochal face-off that is the touchstone of greatness as far as tennis matches go for an entire generation. If you are of a certain age, you’d have got it by now: yes, Bjorn Borg versus John McEnroe in the 1980 Wimbledon final. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 2, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Federer, Nadal, On Being John McEnroe, tennis
