Open Era Tennis 🇺🇸

About the channel

Open Era Tennis is a forensic documentary channel covering professional tennis from 1968 to 1990 — the first 22 years of the Open Era. The rivalries that built the modern game: Borg vs McEnroe, Connors vs McEnroe, Lendl vs McEnroe, Evert vs Navratilova, Becker vs Edberg. The players whose stories got buried: Vitas Gerulaitis, Andrea Jaeger, Roscoe Tanner, Hana Mandlikova. The matches and moments most channels skip past: the 1973 Wimbledon boycott, the spaghetti string ban, the 1980 final, the Renée Richards lawsuit. Every episode is built from primary sources — court transcripts, contemporaneous reporting, archival broadcasts, biographical record. No clipshows. No greatest-hits compilations. Documentary depth on the era that turned tennis into a global professional sport. New episodes weekly. For research tips, corrections, or topic suggestions: [contact email]