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Vitas in Brooklyn ( and later in Long Island) and Mac in Queens.Both flashy style players, but Broadway Vitas was the empathic newyorker liked by everybody while Mac was, well, the brash and egocentric hated newyorker.
The great thing of this Big Apple rivalry is that IT TOOK PLACE in the 5 district city.Remember this: Mac beat Vitas twice at Flusihing ( one easy final and one hard fought semi , in 79 and 81) and Vitas equalled the Big Apple derby with two more New York wins ( a hard fought Masters semi at MSG in 79 and an easy WCT Forest Hills final in 80)
Mac won at the brash venues and Vitas at the classy ones.It couldn´t be otherwise.
Well, they met some other times in official matches ( and many in exos).Mac beat Vitas at the Canadian Open in 1979 and he also beat him at the Milan Open that year.
But , no better place than their home city for this torrid rivalry...between two prototypichal newyrokers who happened to be very good mates.Both joined forces to win the 79 DC for the USA¡¡
Which kind of new Yorkers supported Mac? and which supported Gerulaitis? was it a Geographic preference? or a social?
The great thing of this Big Apple rivalry is that IT TOOK PLACE in the 5 district city.Remember this: Mac beat Vitas twice at Flusihing ( one easy final and one hard fought semi , in 79 and 81) and Vitas equalled the Big Apple derby with two more New York wins ( a hard fought Masters semi at MSG in 79 and an easy WCT Forest Hills final in 80)
Mac won at the brash venues and Vitas at the classy ones.It couldn´t be otherwise.
Well, they met some other times in official matches ( and many in exos).Mac beat Vitas at the Canadian Open in 1979 and he also beat him at the Milan Open that year.
But , no better place than their home city for this torrid rivalry...between two prototypichal newyrokers who happened to be very good mates.Both joined forces to win the 79 DC for the USA¡¡
Which kind of new Yorkers supported Mac? and which supported Gerulaitis? was it a Geographic preference? or a social?
