Season: 1 | Episode: 2 | Length: 60m
Framed through the world-famous Wimbledon tournament, this series revisits a golden age of tennis during the 1970s and '80s that changed the sport forever. The series begins in 1975 as two tennis greats - Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe - aim to win Wimbledon titles but also, in their own ways, to change the world for the better. Back in the late '60s, as the women's liberation movement becomes headline news, King took up the gauntlet for women in sport, spearheading the drive for equal prize money and equal treatment of women
A look at the fierce rivalry between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, and how their sporting prowess brought with it an intense level of media scrutiny as well as celebrity and glamour to Centre Court. While McEnroe's bad-boy antics infuriates the tabloids and the Wimbledon hierarchy, it was the seemingly calm and collected Borg who struggled to cope
