Las Vegas, 1979: at 22 years of age the Swedish is already a legend, and you take a photo with a child with a helmet and the graphite racket. He asked him the father of the little one, a cumbersome father, who would then have “obliged” his son Andre Agassi to become champion
In the photo Björn Borg seems much older: in reality he is only twenty -two years old, but he is a legend. Roland Garros has won three times and three times Wimbledon, and has just returned to number one in the standings. Thousands of boys all over the world dress the vertical lines with faded colors of the row, bring long hair and regulate them with a striped band. The child who poses next to him outside the Caesars Palace of Las Vegas seems bigger than he is: he will turn nine years at the end of that week, and smiles because it does not happen to everyone to end up in the same photo with his own idol. It was Mike, his father, who wanted that shot. “Come on, put up, one next to the other, so”. It was Mike who wanted his son to play tennis. Also he finds him a place from the gruesome at the King Tennis Classic, the tournament that disputes at the end of April on the concrete fields of the Caesars. It was Mike who wanted everything, the child did not want anything. He will tell it many years later in the book that changed the history of sports biographies, Openfrom which the photo is taken. “My father raised the enemy of fifteen centimeters compared to the regulatory height, to make him even more difficult to avoid. If I can climb over my father’s high network, he thinks that I will have no problems to overcome it one day in Wimbledon. That I don’t want Playing Wimbledon does not matter. Dragon – But I don’t want to be Borg “.