Men's Tennis: 4 great Grand Slam champions  who never the US Open

#4 Bjorn Borg

Bjorn Borg with great rival John McEnroe

One of the game's greatest, Swedish tennis legend Bjorn Borg is one player who undoubtedly deserved the US Open more than any of those who missed out.

When the tournament was played in clay back in 1975, a surface well suited to Borg's liking, he missed a golden opportunity to win the title. At the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Connors beat him in the semi-finals. The following year, the tournament was played for the final time on clay and Borg made the finals only to lose out to Jimmy Connors again in 4 sets. In 1979, Borg was the top-seed but lost in the quarterfinals to big serving Roscoe Tanner.

Come 1980. Borg had won 3 consecutive French Open and Wimbledon titles and was poised to break his US Open jinx. He had even publicly proclaimed that he felt that it was going to be his time at New York. In an epic clash against John McEnroe in the final, Borg was trailing two sets to down and it looked like the jinx would continue. Then he found a new found rhythm as he levelled the match at 2 sets a piece only to uncharacteristically lose the plot in the 5th set. Borg was up a break and had the match in control and ended up surrendering 3 of the last 4 games to hand the American the set 6-4 and the title. Borg again faced off against his great rival McEnroe in the final next year to finish runner-up again. That was his last Grand Slam as he never played professional tennis again.