Legends Of Wimbledon - Bjorn Borg
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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5037115107138
Label : ITV DVD
Manufacturer : ITV DVD
Publisher : ITV DVD
Release date : 2004-05-24
Title : Legends Of Wimbledon - Bjorn Borg
Actor : Bjorn Borg
Audience rating : Exempt
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Region code : 2
Running time : 62
Studio : ITV DVD
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review by: davidjdurham date: 2004-10-30 rating:Very disappointing
As a huge Borg fan I couldn't wait to get my hands on this DVD, alas it turned out to be very disappointing.
It skims over each of Borg's Wimbledon visits as a player with interviews from people such as Roger Taylor, Virginia Wade, John Barrett, Boris Becker and for some reason Annabel Croft and Tim Henman. There are interviews with Borg, his coach Lennart Bergelin and John McEnroe which provide a little more insight into the times but generally this could have been a lot better. The tennis footage itself was very limited and the quality reminded me of Vietnam war coverage, it had clearly been degraded. The extras comprised a few more very brief interviews from some of the above, some pages telling you all Borg's Wimbledon results and a few stills! Very poor.
I had expected a definitive Bjorn Borg Wimbledon story that I could one day show to my children and they would be able to feel the greatness of the player, the aura, a sense of history and the excitement of the times, something that I feel when when I watch old Beatles or Stones footage even though I wasn't there. Instead, this is a pretty sterile account of a period and a man that created previously unheard of interest and excitement on a tennis court and changed the face of tennis.
Borg brought mass appeal to the game and caused a tennis revolution in Sweden, the effects of which are still in evidence to this day. For many of us he was our Beatles and this DVD just doesn't do the subject justice. On the other hand it is cheap enough to put in your collection and not feel ripped off.
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