Among the great champions of the 1970s, Vitas Gerulaitis was also one of the most beloved. However, his life was tragically cut short when he was only 40 years old.

Vitas Gerulaitis was one of those people who appeared ... only three all-time greats—Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe—were better. Gerulaitis’s game was fueled by the kind of moxie ...

The only problem for Vitas was that it wasn’t true. Going by the statistics as they were kept at the time, Gerulaitis had lost all 20 of his matches to Bjorn Borg. (Today Vitas’s head-to-head ...