The tennis icon tells itself in an autobiographical book in which he retraces even the darkest phases of his life: “My retirement at 26 was an escape. Sinner? Is serious, determined and ferocious, he will win other Slam”
Without filters. Björn Borg, the first rock star of tennis capable of winning 11 Slam, of which you are Roland Garros and five consecutive Wimbledon, in the autobiographical book “Battiti” (Rizzoli) tells the successes but also the darkest moments of his life. Like when the 1989, in Milan, had sunk in a vortex of drugs, drugs and wrong relationships: “To save me was Loredana Bertè”, reveals in an interview with La Repubblica, “I owe her life. She found me unconscious, called the ambulance, at the hospital they made me a gastric lavender”. The decline began in New York clubs: “At Studio 54 I met Andy Warhol, he gave me a Campbell’s soup with dedication. Then they arrived cocaine, alcohol, the medicines. I stunned with parties and parties, I was depressed, I had panic attacks”. “I was afraid of being alone, I overlapped the relationships. I met Loredana in Ibiza, I moved to Milan, but for me that city was a disaster. She wanted a son, I came to deposit a sperm champion for the insemination. But to save myself I had to escape from her and from that environment”.
retirement
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While on his retirement from tennis at 26 he says: “It was an escape. After the defeat with Mcenroe in 1981, he closed me at home, I crossed the garden with a chest of beers and decisive that was over. I no longer experienced joy on the field, but I was nobody outside”.
Sinner
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Borg adds that he would like to train the American Shelton and the English Draper. “Sinner? He already has an excellent team a solid family – he continues – is serious, determined, fierce, he will win other slams, I see no dangers if not the misfortune of having some injury. But you have – adds Borg- also the magnificent reverse of muzzles, the depths of Cobolli: the Italian tennis offers so much”.
his wife Patricia
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In the book, written with his wife Patricia, Borg also faces his errors, losses, the disease (he was operated on for prostate cancer) and existential reignation. “We do not pass unscathed from the great all to the great nothing,” he concludes.
La Gazzetta dello Sport
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