That backhand! It’s such an ... kick-started by a trio of double-fisted contemporaries at a critical moment in tennis history. Bjorn Borg, Chris Evert, and Jimmy Connors were not the first ...

During Bjorn ... version of Borg’s semi-nemesis Roscoe Tanner. McEnroe has the lefty serve, but he places it much more consistently and runs it away from Borg’s two-handed backhand.