1980, Wimbledon Tennis tournament. The rainiest summer of the last decade. Everyone is waiting with bated breath for Björn Borg, the world's number one tennis player, to win his 5th Wimbledon title. But few are aware of the secret story behind success; Borg, 24, is near the end, near exhaustion, expired, and struggles with anxiety. Meanwhile, his fierce rival, John McEnroe, is 20 years old and determined to take the Wimbledon throne from Borg.
Borg McEnroe is a story about success and its cost. It tells the story of two of the best tennis players in the world who are doomed to their careers in their early twenties. Two caricatures commercialized by the tennis community: “Buz Borg” and “Super-brat”; Ice and Fire, reduced to being perpetual opposites of each other. During the 1980 Wimbledon tournament, two rivals realize that the only person who can understand what they are going through is the other, their greatest rival.
