January 1978 marked the start of a new era for the season-ending men’s Masters Championships. Over the course of this event’s first seven years, it had changed locations annually. If the good news was ...

Let's get right down to business. Yesterday, a very cordial reader, Jimbo Fan dropped a comment that read, in part: The book (my first book, Inside Tennis: A Season on the Pro Tour, published in 1979) ...

Great final. Much skill and athleticism. For me it ranks as the second best, behind the Connors-Borg final of 1977. Main difference is that my favourite won this time whereas that fiendish Borg pulled ...

I remember as a wee lad watching the 1981 Borg-McEnroe Wimbledon final on NBC's slightly tape-delayed "Breakfast at Wimbledon," and it eating me up that the match was actually further along than what ...

Bjorn Borg kissing the trophy after winning his fifth Wimbledon title in July, 1980. Athletes have been playing tennis in some form since the Middle Ages, but it wasn’t until 1968, when both amateurs ...

He won Wimbledon over the favored Jimmy Connors, who was not only suing the ATP, but also Ashe himself. By Cindy Shmerler It was Newcombe’s home tournament, and for him, the No. 1-ranked Connors was ...