NEW YORK – Tennis Great Björn Borg reveals in the last chapter of his upcoming memoirs, “Heartbeats”, which he was diagnosed with an “extremely aggressive” prostate cancer, and he told the associated press that it is in remission after an operation in 2024.
“I have nothing now. But every six months I have to check myself. The whole process, it’s not fun,” said Borg, 69, in a recent video interview with the AP from his house in Stockholm. “But it’s going well. It’s going well. And I feel very good. “
Borg won 11 Grand Slam Singles – Titels – Six on the French Open from 1974 to 1981, and five in a row in Wimbledon from 1976 to 1980 – before he walked away from tennis at the age of 26, although he later made a short return. The astonishingly early retirement is one of the many topics, including his drug use and his relationships with women and his parents and children, who are deeply discussed in the book, which will be released in Great Britain on September 18 and in the US on September 23.
The famous private deposit said he wrote it with his wife, Patricia, in about 2½ years.
“I have experienced some difficult times, but [it’s] A relief for me to do this book, “said Borg.” I feel so much better. “
He said that he had tested himself “for many, many years” on prostate cancer, because, he added: “The thing is that you don’t feel anything – you feel good, and then it just happened.”
There was a result that his doctors found disturbing in September 2023, so they wanted to do follow-ups, he said.
That was just before Borg would fly to Canada to serve as a captain of Team Europe in the Laver Cup, and the doctors said he shouldn’t go.
“Of course I went to Vancouver. I didn’t listen,” he said.
After the event, he returned to Sweden and went to the hospital the next day for further tests that confirmed the diagnosis of cancer. Surgery was planned for February 2024, a waiting time that deposit to the AP as “psychological … very difficult, because who knows what will happen?”
Borg said that his most recent tests came back in August.
In the book he writes: “Now I have a new opponent in cancer – one that I can’t control. But I’m going to defeat it. I don’t give up. I fight like every day a Wimbledon is a final. And they usually go pretty well, right?”
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