Borg McEnroe: film on TV tonight, plot, cast, true story and curiosities

Last week the Italians were passionate about Jannik Sinner’s adventure at the ATP Tennis Finals. And in the week of Davis Cup Rai 2 continues in the wake of this sport by proposing this evening, Thursday 23 November 2023, the film Borg McEnroe of 2017.

Sverrir Gudnason and Shia LaBeouf they play the two protagonists in the film which reconstructs the challenge at the 1980 Wimbledon tournament between the two champions. Directed by Janus Metz Pedersen, Borg McEnroe it lasts about 100 minutes and takes us into the lives of the two tennis players on and off the court.

​”Two guys fighting to prove they’re the best” is how the director of the film described them, which focuses on the epic 1980 Wimbledon final awaited by spectators all over the world. “It wasn’t just about two men playing tennis but about the clash between two continents”, Borg’s Europe and Sweden and McEnroe’s United States.

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