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Despite the apparent folly of this quandary, such a scenario is currently being played out in the otherwise quiescent law-abiding game of tennis. The imminent withdrawal of Bjorn Borg and Ivan Lendl--two of the game's reigning troika--from Wimbledon has confounded the complacent tennis establishment, Lendl and Borg's threatened decisions not to play in the game's most prestigious tournament highlight the damage single-minded prima donnas inflict on the sport's reputation. Formerly distinguished by its courtly respect for propriety and unwaivering adherence to time-cherishes customs, tennis now suffers from an image crisis...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: Tennis Served a Double Fault | 3/16/1982 | See Source »

...since Big Bill Tilden turned the trick 56 years ago has a tennis player taken three straight U.S. Open titles. But this month at Flushing Meadow, John McEnroe, 22, demolished Bjorn Borg, 25, in four sets-4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3-to do just that. Looking tired and drawn after the match, and having received threats against his life, Borg announced that he was going to take a respite from tennis. "I'm going to try and do other things to keep my mind off the game. I hope that when I come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 28, 1981 | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

John McEnroe swept confidently past Bjorn Borg in four sets yesterday to take his third straight United States Open championship and establish himself as the undisputed king of men's tennis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McEnroe Defeats Borg in U.S. Open; USSR Topples Canada in Canada Cup | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...decade later, Chris Evert Lloyd is, for the fifth time, defending U.S. Open champion. At Flushing Meadow, she will have a lot of competition for the spotlight, not just from all those teen-age terrors but from the likes of defending Men's Champion John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, who, incredibly, has yet to win the American crown after nine tries. She has long since yielded her claims to the title of "the youngest ..." to the girls in pigtails: Tracy Austin won the finals of the U.S. Open at 16; Kathy Rinaldi played at Wimbledon at 14; Andrea Jaeger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Not Cinderella, Just the Best | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...than routine life, though today the distinction is often blurred. Star-struck by the endless celebrity parade, a growing number of ordinary people stage self-dramatizations in public places. But are the pseudo John Travolta, roller-discoing among the pedestrians, and the orthodontist attending the U.S. Open dressed like Bjorn Borg intentionally ironic or deadly serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man in the Blue Denim Pants | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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