The camera work leaves a little to be desired.
I agree this match set a new standard for tennis. Prior to the Nadal Federer matches I always regarded this the best tennis match ever.
Borg is like the father of the modern game and interestingly enough he played the way he did because he refused to listen to instructions of how tennis "should" be played and just played the way that suited him the best. People throughout his career always told him to change things. His backhand was "wrong", he used too much wrist on forehand and so on but he was very stubborn and refused to change and stuck to what he felt was right for him. I read this book now, "Bjorn Borg, My Life and Game" and it is really interesting stuff about his views on his game and tennis in general. One very interesting thing is that he claims that up until 1976 he used his western forehand grip for forehand volleys too and thus his volley was terrible. He changed to a continental grip too improve his volleying but that is the only stroke he tried to imitate others and only because he realised it was more effective to play volleys that way.
Okay, I’ll take you at your word, literally.
I have read somewhere that the quality of grass courts at Forest Hills were the absolute worse of all three majors for low and bad bounces. Kooyung had the natural advantages of a dryer climate and a higher bounce, and Wimbledon just poured a ton of love and work into upkeep both all year long and during the tournament.
I cannot but agree.
That is my very favorite answer. Would that my former wife had employed the same four word reply just once in the course of our decade long experiment.... She always changed it to a three word reply. Every friggin time for 10 years.
I am sorry to hear of your decade of punity.
I agree. The tension in the match is unbelievable.
You would.
“questiong”? I am not even certain what this word was trying to be, possibly “questioning.”
Here, you used the word “factual” to describe facts. It seems uselessly redundant to refer to facts as factual.
Thanks treblings.
Roscoe Tanner 6–4, 7–5).
Thank you for the info, KGThanks treblings.
It's un tournament 1977 not 1978.
Borg won the title on Tanner (27 Sep–30 Hilton Head World Invitational Tennis Classic Clay
NYTIMES Archives | 1977
Ramirez Beats Gottfried in Final on Coast
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES SEPT. 28, 1977
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 (AP)—Raul Ramirez of Mexico broke service in the 10th game of the third grueling set last night and went on to defeat topseeded Brian Gottfried and win the $100.000 Southern California open tennis charnnionshin 7‐5. 3‐6. 6‐4.
Ramirez, seeded third, earned $14,000. Gottfried, from Lauderhill, Fla., won $7,000.
In the third set of the nearly threehour match, Gottfried broke service in the first game, but Ramirez broke back in the next, and in the fourth game. Gottfried rifled off 13 straight points, breaking Ramirez in the seventh game and holding his serve in the sixth.
But, with the score at 5‐4 for Ramircz, he broke Gottfried's service in the 10th at 0‐40.
Frew McMillan of South Africa and Sandy Mayer of Wayne, N.J., beat Tom Leonard and Mike Machette, both of California, in the doubles final, 6‐2, 6‐2.
Borg Defeats Newcombe
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C., Sept. 27 (AP)—Bjorn Borg, showing no signs of his recent shoulder injury, defeated John Newcombe of Australia, 6‐2, 6‐4, today in the opening match of the World Invitational Tennis Classic.
In another men's singles match, Roscoe Tanner beat Vitas Gerulaitis, 6‐7, 6‐4, 7‐6. In women's doubles, Evonne Goolagong and Kerry Melville Reid beat Virginia Wade and Dianne Fromholz, 5‐7, 6‐1, 6‐4.
It was Borg's first appearance since he withdrew from the quarterfinals in the United States Open at Forest Hills three weeks ago with a painful shoulder injury.
