Before Federer versus Nadal, before Borg versus McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductively handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm.
This deciding 1937 Davis Cup match, played on the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon, was a battle of titans: the world's number one tennis player against the number two; America against Germany; democracy against fascism.
For five superhuman sets, the duo's brilliant shotmaking kept the Centre Court crowd-and the w.
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Broadway Books A terrible splendor: three extraordinary men, a world poised for war, and the greatest tennis match ever played, paperback/marshall jon fisher
