Epic Wimbledon finals, including Bjorn Borg–John McEnroe and Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal, air on NBCSN in primetime next week. The “NBC Sports From the Vault” series continues with Wimbledon and French ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - The heated rivalry between Swede Bjorn Borg and American John McEnroe is the centerpiece of a new film on the famous battles between the tennis greats both on and off the court.

One of the biggest surprises of the 2025 film awards season was seeing the way Challengers (2024)—a film starring Zendaya set on the lowest rungs of the professional tennis tour—was completely panned ...

Carlos Alcaraz’s thrilling fifth-set victory against Jannik Sinner at the French Open brought back memories for an emotional John McEnroe. After an interview with Alcaraz, McEnroe compared the match ...

When the first Laver Cup was staged in 2017, the iconic figures of rivals-turned-friends Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe were one of the most eye-catching aspects of the brand-new team competition. “To be ...

Bjorn Borg was once slammed over the phone by John McEnroe after auctioning off his five Wimbledon trophies in 2006. The Swedish tennis legend won at SW19 on five occasions but decided to sell his ...

It is not so unusual for superstars to quit their sport, though they are normally drawn back in soon enough. Michael Jordan left the NBA at the peak of his powers and returned two years later after an ...

It was the peak of the Fire and Ice rivalry. Tennis legend Björn Borg was chasing a sixth straight Wimbledon title in 1981. Facing his American rival John McEnroe in a repeat of the 1980 final, Borg ...

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 ...