High Strung

by Tignor, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780062009852
• ISBN10: 0062009850
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-26
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

The golden age of tennis came crashing down suddenly at the 1981 U.S. Open when the stoical Swede, BjÖrn Borg, lost to his brash young rival, John McEnroe, in the final at Flushing Meadows. Through the lens of that era's final tournament, and the play of the other semifinalists, Jimmy Connors and Vitas Gerulaitis, High Strungchronicles the lives and careers of the men who made those Wild West days of tennis so memorable: "Ice Borg," who secretly harbored an inner madman; McEnroe, the tortured, bratty genius; Connors, the game's beloved blue-collar anti-hero; Ilie Nastase, the Romanian clown; Gerulaitis, the New York charmer; and Ivan Lendl, who became a harbinger of tennis's high-powered future. The struggles these men shared were as compelling off the court as they were on.

Author Biography

Stephen Tignor is the executive editor of Tennis magazine. He writes a daily blog on Tennis.Com, where he has written about the sport for the past twelve years.

Table of Contents

The Angel and the Brat	p. 1
Barbarians on the Lawns	p. 16
The Next Victim	p. 29
Lingering Death	p. 40
The Dark Prince of Queens	p. 49
Exile on Park Avenue	p. 67
The Valley of Ashes	p. 83
Tearing the Cover Off the Game	p. 96
Taking Love on the Rise	p. 107
Mr. Nasty	p. 119
The Lord of Discipline	p. 135
Fallen Angel	p. 145
Nobody Beats Vitas Garulaitis…	p. 156
Ivan the Powerful	p. 166
Heroes and Villains	p. 175
Super Saturday	p. 187
Requiem for an Assassin	p. 200
Epilogue	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 237
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