This week on Tennis Channel, we're looking back some of the sport's most important players, personalities and moments throughout its colorful history. On Thursday, from 12-3 p.m. ET, Tennis Channel ...

On this final day of 1977, Vitas Gerulaitis was delighted to see his prophecy had come true. That morning in Melbourne, Gerulaitis prepared to play the final of the Australian Open. These were the ...

Before a tennis player’s backhand can dominate the world, it needs development. Before a legend’s footwork is fundamentally sound enough to dash side-to-side on the French Open’s clay, it needs ...

Vitas Gerulaitis was once the golden boy of tennis. It began with his hair, a golden mane that fell to and over his shoulders. It included the yellow Rolls Royce he drove to wherever his fast-lane ...

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Vitas Gerulaitis once held up Martina Navratilova as an example to express his firm opposition to women receiving equal prize money as men. During the 1984 US Open, Gerulaitis controversially claimed ...

Britain's Davis Cup team play this weekend at the Vitas Gerulaitis Memorial Tennis Centre in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, hence my colleague Paul Newman's fascinating feature in these pages ...

Once in a while a tennis match will reach its climax with both players convinced they are going to win until the last stroke of the last rally. Such was the case in one of the matches that is the ...

Half an hour's drive from the baroque buildings and cobbled streets of the old town in Vilnius, you reach the Vitas Gerulaitis Tennis Centre, where Britain face Lithuania in a crucial Davis Cup ...

John McEnroe had a glittering tennis career that saw him win seven Grand Slam singles titles, among other accolades. The American's maiden Major singles title came at the 1979 US Open. Seeded third, ...