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Björn Rune Borg ist ein ehemaliger schwedischer Tennisspieler. Im Laufe seiner relativ kurzen Karriere gewann Borg 66 Einzeltitel, darunter 11 Grand-Slam-Titel. In den Jahren 19gewann er fünfmal in Folge in Wimbledon, zwischen und. Björn Rune Borg (Audio-Datei / Hörbeispiel Anhören; * 6. Juni in Stockholm) ist ein ehemaliger schwedischer Tennisspieler. Im Laufe seiner relativ kurzen. Vor 40 Jahren hat Björn Borg in Wimbledon dominiert. Annäherung an den Mythos Borg, der immer noch über der Anlage schwebt. Loreana Bertè, Ex-Ehefrau von Tennis-Legende Björn Borg, hat eine Biografie geschrieben. Der Schwede kommt dabei nicht gut weg. Voller Einsatz: Björn Borg ist bis heute ein Tennis-Idol. ©Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Von Schweden in die ganze Welt: Das Heimatland von. Die ersten Tennisbälle schlug Leo Borg bei der Grossmutter, an das Garagentor, vor dem schon der Vater Björn Borg geübt hatte. Drogen, Steroide und Konkurs: Die Tennis-Asse Björn Borg und John McEnroe sind nicht nur auf dem grünen Rasen grundverschieden.
Victoire H. Victoire C. Victoire J. Victoire A. Victoire B. Victoire V. Tadeusz Nowicki Wojtek Fibak. Paolo Bertolucci Adriano Panatta. Karl Meiler Hans-Jürgen Pohmann.
Alex Metreveli Anatoli Volkov. Patricio Cornejo Jaime Fillol. Arthur Ashe Vitas Gerulaitis. Rolf Gehring Klaus Eberhard. Brian Gottfried. Patrice Dominguez.
Belus Prajoux. Eddie Dibbs. Corrado Barazzutti. Gene Mayer. Marty Riessen. Peter Fleming. Bob Hewitt. Antonio Zugarelli. Mark Edmondson.
Wojtek Fibak. Trey Waltke. John James. Onny Parun. Harold Solomon. Jan Norback. Birger Andersson. Jaime Fillol.
Rafael Ruiz. Jose A. Howard Schoenfield. Charlie Pasarell. Heinz Günthardt. Erik van Dillen. John Lloyd.
Kjell Johansson. Rolf Gehring. Billy Martin. John Feaver. Andrew Pattison. Raymond Moore. Eric Friedler. Sherwood Stewart.
Tom Gullikson. Michael Hickey. Sean Sorensen. Rod Laver. Tony Roche. Cliff Drysdale. Stan Smith. Louk Sanders. Ricardo Ycaza. Eric Dibbs. Rick Fagel.
Paolo Bertolucci. Zoltan Ilin. Victor Amaya. Peter McNamara. Geoff Masters. Sandy Mayer. Tom Okker. Tony Giammalva.
Robert Carmichael. Chris Lewis. Bernard Mitton. Mark Cox. Gianni Ocleppo. Eliot Teltscher. Gilles Moretton. Hans Gildemeister.
Tom Gorman. Hank Pfister. Brian Teacher. Dimitru Haradau. Christophe Freyss. Bruce Manson. Yannick Noah.
Borg subsequently lost to Arthur Ashe in the final. Borg retained his French Open title in , beating Guillermo Vilas in the final in straight sets.
Borg did not lose another match at Wimbledon until Borg won two singles and one doubles rubber in the Davis Cup final, as Sweden beat Czechoslovakia 3—2.
With these singles wins, Borg had won 19 consecutive Davis Cup singles rubbers since That was already a record at the time.
However, Borg never lost another Davis Cup singles rubber, and, by the end of his career, he had stretched that winning streak to Panatta did it twice: in the fourth round in , and in the quarterfinals.
Borg became the youngest male Wimbledon champion of the modern era at 20 years and 1 month a record subsequently broken by Boris Becker , who won Wimbledon aged 17 in It would be the last time Borg played Wimbledon as an underdog.
Open, which was then being played on clay courts. Borg lost in four sets to world no. Borg skipped the French Open in because he was under contract with WTT , but he repeated his Wimbledon triumph, although this time he was pushed much harder.
He defeated his good friend Vitas Gerulaitis in a semifinal in five sets. This injury ultimately forced him to retire from the Open during a Round of 16 match vs Dick Stockton.
Borg was at the height of his career from through , completing the French Open-Wimbledon double all three years. In , Borg won the French Open with a win over Vilas in the final.
Borg defeated Connors in straight sets in the Wimbledon final. Borg was suffering from a bad blister on his thumb that required pre-match injections.
Borg was considered the No. Borg established himself firmly in the top spot with his fourth French Open singles title and fourth straight Wimbledon singles title, defeating Connors in a straight-set semifinal at the latter tournament.
At the French Open, Borg defeated big-serving Victor Pecci in a four-set final, and in the Wimbledon final Borg came from behind to overcome an even bigger server, Roscoe Tanner.
Borg was upset by Tanner at the US Open, in a four-set quarterfinal played under the lights. At the season-ending Masters tournament in January , Borg survived a close semifinal against McEnroe.
He then beat Gerulaitis in straight sets, winning his first Masters and first title in New York. Borg finished the year at No. In June he overcame Gerulaitis, again in straight sets, for his fifth French Open title.
Again, he did not drop a set. Borg won his fifth consecutive Wimbledon singles title, the Wimbledon Men's Singles final , by defeating McEnroe in a five-set match, often cited as the best Wimbledon final ever played — the only comparable match being the Federer — Nadal final.
However, McEnroe averted disaster and went on to level the match in Wimbledon's most memorable point tiebreaker, which he won 18— In the fourth-set tiebreak, McEnroe saved five match points, and Borg six set points, before McEnroe won the set.
Borg then won 19 straight points on serve in the deciding set and prevailed after 3 hours, 53 minutes. In September, Borg reached the final of the U.
Open for the third time, losing to John McEnroe in five sets in a match that cemented what had become the greatest contemporary rivalry, albeit short-lived, in men's tennis.
He defeated McEnroe in the final of the Stockholm Open, and faced him one more time that year, in the round-robin portion of the year-end Masters, actually played in January With 19, fans in attendance, Borg won a deciding third-set tie-break for the second year in a row.
Borg then defeated Ivan Lendl for his second Masters title. In reaching the Wimbledon final in , Borg stretched his winning streak at the All England Club to a record 41 matches.
In a semifinal, Borg was down to Connors by two sets to love, before coming back to win the match.
However, Borg's streak was brought to an end by McEnroe, who defeated him in four sets. Years afterward, Borg remarked "And when I lost what shocked me was I wasn't even upset.
That was not me: losing a Wimbledon final and not upset. I hate to lose. After that defeat, Borg walked off the court and out of the stadium before the ceremonies and press conference had begun, and headed straight for the airport.
In later years, Borg apologized to McEnroe. Major tournaments and tour organizers were enforcing a new rule; by , that players had to play at least 10 official tournaments per year.
However, Borg wanted to curtail his schedule after many years of winning so often. Although he felt in good condition physically, he recognized that the relentless drive to win and defy tour organizers had begun to fade.
Borg failed to win the US Open in nine tries, losing four finals, the surface was clay that year and to Jimmy Connors , and and to John McEnroe.
The surface was hard court from onward and Borg reached the final there on hard court on three occasions, in , and He led 3—2 in the fifth set of the final, before losing.
That match followed Borg's classic encounter with McEnroe at the Wimbledon. In , and , Borg was halfway to a Grand Slam after victories at the French and Wimbledon the Australian Open being the last Grand Slam tournament of each year at the time only to falter at Flushing Meadows, lefty Tanner his conqueror in Nevertheless, Borg's announcement in January that he was retiring from the game at the age of 26 was a shock to the tennis world.
McEnroe tried unsuccessfully to persuade Borg to continue. He did, however, play Monte Carlo again in March , reaching the second round, and Stuttgart in July Upon retirement, Borg had three residences: a penthouse in Monte Carlo, not far from his pro shop ; a mansion on Long Island, New York and a small island off the Swedish coast.
Borg later bounced back as the owner of the Björn Borg fashion label. In Sweden, his label has become very successful, second only to Calvin Klein.
In —, Borg attempted a comeback on the men's professional tennis tour, coached by Welsh karate expert Ron Thatcher. Before his return, Borg grew his hair out as it had been during his previous professional tennis career and he returned to using a wooden racket; he had kept his hair cut and used modern graphite rackets in exhibitions he played during the late s.
Borg, however, failed to win a single match. He faced Jordi Arrese in his first match back, again at Monte Carlo but without practicing or playing any exhibition matches, and fell in two sets.
In his first nine matches, played in and , Borg failed to win a single set. He fared slightly better in , taking a set off his opponent in each of the three matches he played.
He came closest to getting a win in what turned out to be his final tour match, falling to Alexander Volkov.
Borg later joined the Champions tour, returning to shorter hair and using modern rackets. Borg had one of the most distinctive playing styles in the Open Era.
His highly unorthodox backhand involved taking his racket back with both hands but actually generating his power with his dominant right hand, letting go of the grip with his left hand around point of contact, and following through with his swing as a one-hander.
Borg was one of the first top players to use heavy topspin on his shots consistently. Complementing his consistent ground-strokes was his fitness.
Both of these factors allowed Borg to be dominant at the French Open. One of the factors that made Borg unique was his dominance on the grass courts of Wimbledon, where, since World War II, baseliners did not usually succeed.
Some experts attributed his dominance on this surface to his consistency, an underrated serve, equally underrated volleys, and his adaptation to grass courts.
Against the best players, he almost always served-and-volleyed on his first serves, while he naturally played from the baseline after his second serves.
Another trait usually associated with Borg was his grace under pressure. His calm court demeanor earned him the nickname of the "Ice Man" or "Ice-Borg.
Borg's physical conditioning was unrivalled by contemporaries. He could outlast most of his opponents under the most grueling conditions.
Contrary to popular belief, however, this was not due to his exceptionally low resting heart rate, often reported to be near 35 beats per minute.
In his introduction to Borg's autobiography My Life and Game , Eugene Scott relates that this rumor arose from a medical exam the year-old Borg once took for military service, where his pulse was recorded as Scott goes on to reveal Borg's true pulse rate as "about 50 when he wakes up and around 60 in the afternoon.
He couldn't stand losing. Borg and Romanian tennis pro Mariana Simionescu began their relationship in [43] and married in Bucharest on 24 July He fathered a child, Robin, in , by the Swedish model Jannike Björling , his son Robin had a daughter in Together they have a son, Leo, born in He narrowly avoided personal bankruptcy when business ventures failed.
In , Borg vs McEnroe , a biographical film focusing on the rivalry between Borg and McEnroe and the Wimbledon final, was released.
In March , Bonhams Auction House in London announced that it would auction Borg's Wimbledon trophies and two of his winning rackets on 21 June Have you gone mad?
The French Open—Wimbledon double he achieved three times consecutively was called by Wimbledon officials "the most difficult double in tennis" [54] and "a feat considered impossible among today's players.
Borg is widely considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. And in , Bud Collins chose Borg as one of his top-five male players of all time.
In , ESPN. Borg was the only player mentioned in four categories: defense, footwork, intangibles, and mental toughness—with his mental game and footwork singled out as the best in open era history.
Borg famously never won the US Open , losing in the final four times. Borg also never won the Australian Open, although he only played in the event once, in as a year-old.
Even though it was then played on grass, a surface where he enjoyed much success, Borg chose to play the Australian Open only once, in , where he lost in the third round.
Phil Dent , a contemporary of Borg, has pointed out that skipping Grand Slam tournaments—especially the Australian Open—was not unusual then, before counting Grand Slam titles became the norm.
I think he could have won the Grand Slam, but by the time he left, the historical challenge didn't mean anything.
He was bigger than the game. He was like Elvis or Liz Taylor or somebody. Europe won the contest 15 points to 9, with Roger Federer achieving a narrow vital victory over Nick Kyrgios in the last match played.
Borg returned as the coach of Team Europe for the second edition in Chicago , Illinois from 21 to 23 September McEnroe also returned as the coach for Team World.
Borg again lead Europe to victory as Alexander Zverev defeated Kevin Anderson to secure the title 13—8, after trailing Anderson in the match tiebreak until the last few points.
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Borg v McEnroe - 1980 Wimbledon Final Highlights (50FPS) Borg returned as the coach of Team Europe for the second edition in ChicagoIllinois from 21 to 23 Violetta Kino June 11, Rotterdam Welche Filme Streamt Netflix, Netherlands. By the spring ofwhen he finally lost at Wimbledon to John McEnroeBorg had won 41 singles matches and 5 championships in Nicholas Nickleby row, a record never previously set. Bruce Manson. Borg's physical conditioning was unrivalled by contemporaries.Borg Tennis Borg holt für Schweden den Davis Cup
Die Rivalen von früher vereint als Experten vor der Kamera. Er schmiss Schläger, bepöbelte Gegner und Schiedsrichter. Vereinigte Staaten Roscoe Tanner. Seit dem 8. Das früher lange blonde Haar ist kurz geschnitten und schimmert silbern, die Haut ist sanft gebräunt. Ob Künstler, Sportler oder Schriftsteller, in Standesamt Deggendorf Reihenfolge möchten wir dir einige dieser faszinierenden Menschen vorstellen. Kanada Catherine Zeta Jones. Benachrichtigung per E-Mail. WüTEND 0. Borg hatte vier längere Beziehungen, davon drei Ehen. Vereinigte Staaten Birmingham. Borg erweist sich als Naturtalent und wird von seinem späteren Trainer Percy Rosberg entdeckt, der Stockholm auf der Suche nach jungen Talenten besucht. In den Jahren Film Life steht Borg für insgesamt fast Wochen an der Spitze der Tennisweltrangliste. Er scheiterte in Stuttgart in der ersten Turnierrunde, ebenso in Monte Carlo, bei insgesamt acht Turnieren und bei weiteren drei Turnieren. Leo spielte nämlich nicht im All England Club, sondern in Roehampton, wo die Qualifikationsturniere stattfinden. Selbst Medien wurden zu Borg-Jüngern. Tour Finals. SF Auckland Tennis Championships , Auckland. Onny Parun. Rothmans International London , Londra.
Mark Cox. Arthur Ashe. Internazionali d'Italia , Roma 1. Roland Garros , Parigi 1. Manuel Orantes. Adriano Panatta. Pro Tennis Championships , Boston 1.
Tom Okker. South Australian Open , Adelaide. Richmond WCT , Richmond 1. Bologna Indoor , Bologna. Roland Garros , Parigi 2.
Guillermo Vilas. Pro Tennis Championships , Boston 2. Toronto Indoor , Toronto. Vitas Gerulaitis. WCT Finals , Dallas.
Düsseldorf Grand Prix , Düsseldorf. Torneo di Wimbledon , Londra 1. Harold Solomon. Indoor National Championships , Memphis.
Brian Gottfried. ATP Nizza , Nizza 1. Monte Carlo Masters , Monte Carlo 1. Corrado Barazzutti. Denver Open , Denver. Torneo di Wimbledon , Londra 2.
Jimmy Connors. Pepsi Grand Slam , Boca Raton 1. Madrid Tennis Grand Prix , Madrid. Jaime Fillol. Swiss Indoors , Basilea.
John Lloyd. Cologne Grand Prix , Colonia. Wojciech Fibak. Wembley Championship , Londra. ATP Birmingham , Birmingham. Dick Stockton.
Pepsi Grand Slam , Boca Raton 2. Milano Indoor , Milano. Internazionali d'Italia , Roma 2. Roland Garros , Parigi 3. Torneo di Wimbledon , Londra 3.
Tokyo Indoor , Tokyo 1. Brian Teacher. Richmond WCT , Richmond 2. Pepsi Grand Slam , Boca Raton 3. ATP Rotterdam , Rotterdam. John McEnroe. Monte Carlo Masters , Monte Carlo 2.
Roland Garros , Parigi 4. Torneo di Wimbledon , Londra 4. Roscoe Tanner. Canada Masters , Toronto. Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia , Palermo.
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Masters Grand Prix , New York 2. Ivan Lendl. Roland Garros , Parigi 6. Stuttgart Outdoor , Stoccarda. Geneva Open , Ginevra.
Jacek Niedzwiedzki. Guadalajara , Jalisco Round Robin. Vienna Velo Cup Tennis Tournament — 4-men invitational. Il Cairo Four Master Championships 4-men invitational.
Monte Carlo. Alex Metreveli. Roy Emerson. Tom Gorman. A teenage sensation at the start of his career, Borg's unprecedented stardom and consistent success helped propel the rising popularity of tennis during the s.
He also made millions in endorsements throughout his career. However, the constant attention and pressure eventually caused burnout and his retirement at the age of As a child, Borg became fascinated with a golden tennis racket that his father won at a table-tennis tournament.
His father gave him the racket, beginning his tennis career. A player of great athleticism and endurance, he had a distinctive style and appearance— bowlegged and very fast.
His muscularity allowed him to put heavy topspin on both his forehand and two-handed backhand. He followed Jimmy Connors in using the two-handed backhand.
By the time he was 13 he was beating the best of Sweden's under players, and Davis Cup captain Lennart Bergelin who served as Borg's primary coach throughout his professional career cautioned against anyone trying to change Borg's rough-looking, jerky strokes.
At the age of 15 Borg represented Sweden in the Davis Cup and won his debut singles rubber in five sets against veteran Onny Parun of New Zealand.
Later that year, he won the Wimbledon junior singles title, recovering from a 5—2 deficit in the final set to overcome Britain's Buster Mottram.
Then in December he won the Orange Bowl Junior Championship for boys 18 and under after a straight-sets victory in the final over Vitas Gerulaitis.
Borg was seeded sixth at his first Wimbledon Championships , in large part due to a boycott by the ATP , and reached the quarterfinal where he was defeated in a five-set match by Roger Taylor.
Borg made his only appearance at the Australian Open, at the age of 17, and reached the third round where he lost in straight sets to eventual finalist Phil Dent.
Barely 18, Borg was the youngest-ever male French Open champion up to that point. Borg subsequently lost to Arthur Ashe in the final. Borg retained his French Open title in , beating Guillermo Vilas in the final in straight sets.
Borg did not lose another match at Wimbledon until Borg won two singles and one doubles rubber in the Davis Cup final, as Sweden beat Czechoslovakia 3—2.
With these singles wins, Borg had won 19 consecutive Davis Cup singles rubbers since That was already a record at the time. However, Borg never lost another Davis Cup singles rubber, and, by the end of his career, he had stretched that winning streak to Panatta did it twice: in the fourth round in , and in the quarterfinals.
Borg became the youngest male Wimbledon champion of the modern era at 20 years and 1 month a record subsequently broken by Boris Becker , who won Wimbledon aged 17 in It would be the last time Borg played Wimbledon as an underdog.
Open, which was then being played on clay courts. Borg lost in four sets to world no. Borg skipped the French Open in because he was under contract with WTT , but he repeated his Wimbledon triumph, although this time he was pushed much harder.
He defeated his good friend Vitas Gerulaitis in a semifinal in five sets. This injury ultimately forced him to retire from the Open during a Round of 16 match vs Dick Stockton.
Borg was at the height of his career from through , completing the French Open-Wimbledon double all three years. In , Borg won the French Open with a win over Vilas in the final.
Borg defeated Connors in straight sets in the Wimbledon final. Borg was suffering from a bad blister on his thumb that required pre-match injections.
Borg was considered the No. Borg established himself firmly in the top spot with his fourth French Open singles title and fourth straight Wimbledon singles title, defeating Connors in a straight-set semifinal at the latter tournament.
At the French Open, Borg defeated big-serving Victor Pecci in a four-set final, and in the Wimbledon final Borg came from behind to overcome an even bigger server, Roscoe Tanner.
Borg was upset by Tanner at the US Open, in a four-set quarterfinal played under the lights. At the season-ending Masters tournament in January , Borg survived a close semifinal against McEnroe.
He then beat Gerulaitis in straight sets, winning his first Masters and first title in New York. Borg finished the year at No. In June he overcame Gerulaitis, again in straight sets, for his fifth French Open title.
Again, he did not drop a set. Borg won his fifth consecutive Wimbledon singles title, the Wimbledon Men's Singles final , by defeating McEnroe in a five-set match, often cited as the best Wimbledon final ever played — the only comparable match being the Federer — Nadal final.
However, McEnroe averted disaster and went on to level the match in Wimbledon's most memorable point tiebreaker, which he won 18— In the fourth-set tiebreak, McEnroe saved five match points, and Borg six set points, before McEnroe won the set.
Borg then won 19 straight points on serve in the deciding set and prevailed after 3 hours, 53 minutes. In September, Borg reached the final of the U.
Open for the third time, losing to John McEnroe in five sets in a match that cemented what had become the greatest contemporary rivalry, albeit short-lived, in men's tennis.
He defeated McEnroe in the final of the Stockholm Open, and faced him one more time that year, in the round-robin portion of the year-end Masters, actually played in January With 19, fans in attendance, Borg won a deciding third-set tie-break for the second year in a row.
Borg then defeated Ivan Lendl for his second Masters title. In reaching the Wimbledon final in , Borg stretched his winning streak at the All England Club to a record 41 matches.
In a semifinal, Borg was down to Connors by two sets to love, before coming back to win the match. However, Borg's streak was brought to an end by McEnroe, who defeated him in four sets.
Years afterward, Borg remarked "And when I lost what shocked me was I wasn't even upset. That was not me: losing a Wimbledon final and not upset.
I hate to lose. After that defeat, Borg walked off the court and out of the stadium before the ceremonies and press conference had begun, and headed straight for the airport.
In later years, Borg apologized to McEnroe. Major tournaments and tour organizers were enforcing a new rule; by , that players had to play at least 10 official tournaments per year.
However, Borg wanted to curtail his schedule after many years of winning so often. Although he felt in good condition physically, he recognized that the relentless drive to win and defy tour organizers had begun to fade.
Borg failed to win the US Open in nine tries, losing four finals, the surface was clay that year and to Jimmy Connors , and and to John McEnroe.
The surface was hard court from onward and Borg reached the final there on hard court on three occasions, in , and He led 3—2 in the fifth set of the final, before losing.
That match followed Borg's classic encounter with McEnroe at the Wimbledon. In , and , Borg was halfway to a Grand Slam after victories at the French and Wimbledon the Australian Open being the last Grand Slam tournament of each year at the time only to falter at Flushing Meadows, lefty Tanner his conqueror in Nevertheless, Borg's announcement in January that he was retiring from the game at the age of 26 was a shock to the tennis world.
McEnroe tried unsuccessfully to persuade Borg to continue. He did, however, play Monte Carlo again in March , reaching the second round, and Stuttgart in July Upon retirement, Borg had three residences: a penthouse in Monte Carlo, not far from his pro shop ; a mansion on Long Island, New York and a small island off the Swedish coast.
Borg later bounced back as the owner of the Björn Borg fashion label. In Sweden, his label has become very successful, second only to Calvin Klein.
In —, Borg attempted a comeback on the men's professional tennis tour, coached by Welsh karate expert Ron Thatcher.
Before his return, Borg grew his hair out as it had been during his previous professional tennis career and he returned to using a wooden racket; he had kept his hair cut and used modern graphite rackets in exhibitions he played during the late s.
Borg, however, failed to win a single match. He faced Jordi Arrese in his first match back, again at Monte Carlo but without practicing or playing any exhibition matches, and fell in two sets.
In his first nine matches, played in and , Borg failed to win a single set. He fared slightly better in , taking a set off his opponent in each of the three matches he played.
He came closest to getting a win in what turned out to be his final tour match, falling to Alexander Volkov.
Borg later joined the Champions tour, returning to shorter hair and using modern rackets. Borg had one of the most distinctive playing styles in the Open Era.
His highly unorthodox backhand involved taking his racket back with both hands but actually generating his power with his dominant right hand, letting go of the grip with his left hand around point of contact, and following through with his swing as a one-hander.
Borg was one of the first top players to use heavy topspin on his shots consistently. Complementing his consistent ground-strokes was his fitness.
Both of these factors allowed Borg to be dominant at the French Open. One of the factors that made Borg unique was his dominance on the grass courts of Wimbledon, where, since World War II, baseliners did not usually succeed.
Some experts attributed his dominance on this surface to his consistency, an underrated serve, equally underrated volleys, and his adaptation to grass courts.
Against the best players, he almost always served-and-volleyed on his first serves, while he naturally played from the baseline after his second serves.
Another trait usually associated with Borg was his grace under pressure. His calm court demeanor earned him the nickname of the "Ice Man" or "Ice-Borg.
Borg's physical conditioning was unrivalled by contemporaries. He could outlast most of his opponents under the most grueling conditions.
Contrary to popular belief, however, this was not due to his exceptionally low resting heart rate, often reported to be near 35 beats per minute.
In his introduction to Borg's autobiography My Life and Game , Eugene Scott relates that this rumor arose from a medical exam the year-old Borg once took for military service, where his pulse was recorded as Scott goes on to reveal Borg's true pulse rate as "about 50 when he wakes up and around 60 in the afternoon.
He couldn't stand losing. Borg and Romanian tennis pro Mariana Simionescu began their relationship in [43] and married in Bucharest on 24 July He fathered a child, Robin, in , by the Swedish model Jannike Björling , his son Robin had a daughter in Together they have a son, Leo, born in He narrowly avoided personal bankruptcy when business ventures failed.
In , Borg vs McEnroe , a biographical film focusing on the rivalry between Borg and McEnroe and the Wimbledon final, was released.
In March , Bonhams Auction House in London announced that it would auction Borg's Wimbledon trophies and two of his winning rackets on 21 June Have you gone mad?
The French Open—Wimbledon double he achieved three times consecutively was called by Wimbledon officials "the most difficult double in tennis" [54] and "a feat considered impossible among today's players.
Borg is widely considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. And in , Bud Collins chose Borg as one of his top-five male players of all time.
In , ESPN. Borg was the only player mentioned in four categories: defense, footwork, intangibles, and mental toughness—with his mental game and footwork singled out as the best in open era history.
Borg famously never won the US Open , losing in the final four times. Borg also never won the Australian Open, although he only played in the event once, in as a year-old.
Even though it was then played on grass, a surface where he enjoyed much success, Borg chose to play the Australian Open only once, in , where he lost in the third round.
Phil Dent , a contemporary of Borg, has pointed out that skipping Grand Slam tournaments—especially the Australian Open—was not unusual then, before counting Grand Slam titles became the norm.
I think he could have won the Grand Slam, but by the time he left, the historical challenge didn't mean anything.
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