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Legends Of Wimbledon - Bjorn Borg
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #27027 in DVD
- Released on: 2004-05-24
- Rating: Exempt
- Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
- Format: PAL
- Original language: English
- Number of discs: 1
- Running time: 62 minutes
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
An action-packed documentary of lithe, long-haired and sweat-banded Swede, world tennis champ Bjorn Borg. Featuring contributions from Boris Becker and Tim Henman, this insight into all of Borg's Wimbledon finals includes his epic 1980 match against John McEnroe, noted for its longest-ever tie-break.
Customer Reviews
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.
