FULL VERSION 1976 - Connors vs Borg - US Open

Thank you for your gracious use of this classic match! ------------------------------------------- PertSnergleman’s Review: ------------------------------------------- By the time Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg finish up their careers, which continued on a dusty patch of clay in the borough of Queens, both should be old enough to require wheelchairs and wise enough to give the game of tennis back to somebody else. This is the only conclusion to be reached following a season in which Connors and Borg divided all the spoils in sight, and inevitably came face to face across the net at the West Side Tennis Club in the finals of the $416,600 U.S. Open. They are magnificently matched adversaries and they thrust and parried each other through four sets of spellbinding tennis. Connors was asked where Borg had improved. “Everywhere,“ he said. “I have to play great to beat him. Every time, we kill each other. Those people saw some of the best tennis
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