Making It on Broadway
NEW YORK—Did you happen to know that Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe were rivals once upon a time? You may have heard something about it this year. I wrote a book about it, Matt Cronin wrote a book about it, HBO did a documentary on it, and there’s even been a strange advertising campaign(AKA gay live sex) for underwear centering on the two old-timers—can we look for the same thing from Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in 30 years?
Anyway, my version of the Borg-Mac story(live private cam), “High Strung,” is really the story of the 1981 U.S. Open, and the cast of characters, led by Superbrat and Ice Borg, from that tournament and that era. It was a turning point in the sport’s history, and not just because it was the last Grand Slam that Borg would play. The game itself was changing (live jasmine), and that transformation—from wood racquets to graphite, from the net to the baseline—was summed up in the epic, five-set, fourth-round match on the Grandstand that year between an old-schooler, Vitas Gerulaitis, and the leader of the new school, Ivan Lendl. Two chapters of “High Strung” are devoted to their clash and the personalities behind it at joyourself. Here’s a condensed version. Hopefully, if you’re on the east coast somewhere, it will be good for a hurricane-ravaged free sex chat day before this U.S. Open kicks off.