According to Expressn, the former tennis player would have spoken of his health conditions in the book “Hjartslag”, forthcoming and written together with the third wife Patricia
A terrible opponent, the worst I’ve ever met. Bjorn Borg, the Swedish legend of tennis would have a tumor, it seems to the prostate. This is what the media of his country report after learning the traumatic news from the same autobiography of the sample, whose release is scheduled for September 18. According to reports from the Swedish newspaper Expressn, Borg, today 69 years old, would have spoken of the disease in his book ‘Hjartslag’ (“Battiti”), written together with the third wife Patricia, married in 2002: the will was to maintain the due confidentiality on the matter, but some copies sold in advance on Amazon would have led to the dramatic discovery. The launch of the book, which will also be sold in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Latin America, Holland and Italy, as well as in Sweden, is surrounded by the utmost confidentiality and Borg himself and his family did not want to comment on the news, despite the fact that it has produced an inevitable clamor. It will be the same champion to talk about it in a few days when presenting, for what must be considered one of the most anticipated autobiographies ever: hopefully it can deny or clarify whether it is an ongoing disease or behind.
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Borg, nicknamed the bear or the ice man for his imperturbability in the topical moments, marked the 80s of tennis, occupying the stage mainly thanks to the iconic rivalry with John Mcenroe. The Swedish immediately became an atypical character, both for the innovative style made of rotations and the then rare child backhand, and for the casual extra field life that did not prevent him from collecting enormous successes. Professional already at the age of 17, Bjorn between 1974 and 1981 won 11 titles of the Grand Slam, including 5 consecutive Wimbledon (from 1976 to 1980) and 6 Roland Garros, occupying the top of the ATP ranking for 109 weeks and bringing a lot of notoriety to tennis thanks to its charisma. His withdrawal at just 26 years of age surprised everyone (“When I realized that tennis no longer liked me, I understood that I no longer had the desire to continue”, he said): now it is to be hoped that, after this escape of news, he can amaze us again. For the better.