On this day in 1988, Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker played the final of the Masters—now known as the World Tour Finals—at Madison Square Garden in New York.

The sunlight ran out at 9:23 p.m. Tuesday at this ivy-covered Wrigley Field of a tennis stadium with John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl locked in a brilliant duel that would make the Three Musketeers proud.

Players is running out of players. Ivan Lendl and Henri Leconte became the latest casualties of the Lipton International Players Championships Wednesday. Lendl, the No. 1 player in the world and th… ...