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Author:
Tignor, Stephen.
Title:
High strung : Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the untold story of tennis's fiercest rivalry / Stephen Tignor.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Harper,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
238 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Borg, Björn,--1956-
McEnroe, John,--1959-
Tennis players--United States--Biography.
Tennis players--Sweden--Biography.
U.S. Open (Tennis tournament)--(1981)
Sports rivalries.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0062009842 (hardback)
9780062009845 (hardback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)722859700
LCCN:
2011013011
Locations:
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)
XCPB737 -- Lied Public Library-Essex (Essex)

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