TibiTibi Neuspiel & Geoffery Pugen recreate “The Tie-break”

Posted on 15 January 2012

In the wee dark hours of a brisk October morning, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel could feel his arm throbbing in the chill. Across the net, Geoff Pugen fought a stabbing pain in his rotator cuff and a creeping numbness spreading through his shoulder.

But the show, as they say, must go on, and at last year’s Nuit Blanche, this was the spectacle of spectacles: Neuspiel and Pugen’s The Tie Break, an exacting, shot-by-shot recreation of a tie-breaker in the 1980 Wimbledon final between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe. “We were both in a lot of pain,” Pugen recalls. “But the cliché is true: Once the adrenalin takes over, you can’t feel the cold, and nothing hurts anymore.”

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The Tie-break: Highlights from Nuit Blanche from The Tie-break on Vimeo.

Highlights from the Tie-break. On October 1st 2011, from 7pm – 7am, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel and Geoffrey Pugen performed and re-enacted the legendary fourth set tie-break from the 1980 Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Singles Finals between Björn Borg and John McEnroe.

Cinematography: Istoica
Video Editing: Geoffrey Pugen & Tibi Tibi Neuspiel
Music: Boards of Canada