Wimbledon - The Classic Match - Borg vs McEnroe 1980

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review by: jaguar00 date: 2002-08-04 rating:
quite remarkable
The greatest match of tennis ever played, at Wimbledon between contrasting styles and temperaments after all these years is it still as good as people say?.........the answer is YES!

What a match! I knew the result but it didn't seem to matter, the moments were McEnroe's father willed him on, the coolness of Borg, the tension, the boo's, the cheering......a must buy for any self respecting sports fan.

The only slightly surprising thing was the commentary, one of the most respected commentators ever to pick up a microphone showed his best and worst traits, he described beautifully in a typically understated english way the match...however was more than a little patronising to a man I'm not sure how much he cared for in McEnroe.

V.good.


review by: date: 2000-08-25 rating:
The greatest match of all-time
Watching this brought the memories flooding back, to the time when one of the greatest rivalries in tennis, between two of its finest exponents of all time, existed. You have probably seen re-runs of the amazing tie-break in the fourth set, but there's so much else here to enjoy, not least Dan Maskell's wonderfully old-fashioned commentary. Also, were haircuts really that bad in 1980?

A match that will surely never be bettered.

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