FILE - Sweden's Björn Borg falls to his knees in front of the scoreboard on the Centre Court at Wimbledon in London, July 5, 1980, after defeating John McEnroe, of the United States, to take the men's ...

Casting Shia LaBeouf as tennis bad boy John McEnroe is something of a self-reflexive gesture: Here are two men whose erratic, volatile public personae have eclipsed their respective talents, and whose ...

In the late 1970s, professional tennis held a firm grip on the United States, and no two players better personified the sport's growth than cool-as-ice Swede Borg and brash New Yorker McEnroe. In his ...