John McEnroe called it the greatest match he’s ever seen. I can only assume that he used the word “seen” to separate it from the epic battle between himself and Bjorn Borg in 1980.
Very similar circumstances back then with the 21 year old McEnroe playing the role of Nadal to Borg’s Federer, the stoic veteran with four Wimbledon championships already.
After an 18-16 tiebreaker win in the fourth set, McEnroe was unable to hang on and eventually lost the fifth set 6-8.
Twenty-eight years later, we were able to witness an updated version of the same match.
Now compare it with the recent US Open in men’s golf.
The obvious difference was that the tennis match gave us No. 1 vs. No. 2 while the golf tournament brought us No. 1 vs. Rocco “Peace Belt” Mediate.
The other distinction being that at least one of the Open contenders was Tiger Woods, enough to rope in America's most staunch "Golf is boring" sports fans.
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