By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, September 18, 2025
Photo Credit: Deviation Books
The dance ball is a metaphor for the raised heartbeat New heartbeat of memories of Bjorn Borg.
So what happens when the ball is no longer limited and the heart stops beating?
Eleven times the champion of Grand Slam Bjorn Borg, one of the most prominent tennis and attractive immersion of the curtain in his extraordinary career and life shocked outside the court this interesting new memory.
Heartbeat, co-written by Borg’s wife, Patricia Borg, is published by Deviation booksIt’s out today. Hardcover 294 retail memory for $ 19.99 in Amazon.
Tennis It will publish a book review and a video report on the book next week.
Nicknamed “Ice Man” and “Ice Borg” for his supreme cooling in court, Bjorn Borg combined charisma of a rock star with explosive athlete of an Olympic.
Bjorn Borg won six championships Roland Garros and five consecutive wreaths Wimbledon. An 18-year-old Borg gathered by two groups to defeat Manuel Orantes in the 1974 French Open final, becoming the newest men in the history of Roland Garros-a record later broken by America Michael Chang.
Borg remembers that passionate Parisian return as one of his biggest matches. The man who held world ranking number 1 for 109 weeks also quotes the rival of the John Mcenroe duel in the famous Wimbledon finale “Fire and Ice” to capture his fifth consecutive Wimbledon crown as one of his most memorable matches. To date, that epic meeting is considered one of the biggest matches in tennis history.
In the book, Borg discovers after MCCEE saved seven championship points in the fourth set, dominating in the famous fourth Tiebreaker, 18-16, he went to his place from the court, believing he had lost the match.
“We were both playing the best tennis of our lives, and that Tiebreak has come down as one of the biggest moments in the history of sports,” Borg writes. “All those who looked have their own memory of that fourth group.
“I went back to my chair with heavy steps. During the break before the fifth and last set, I had already lost the game in my mind. I sat there asking myself what had gone wrong.”
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Of course, Borg withdrew from the shadows of self-dedication and prevailed in the stunning of 1-6, 7-5 6-3, 6-7 (16), 8-6 in an absolute classic.
Memory goes much deeper than victories and losses and cheers and tears.
Borg, who was shocking from the sport near the peak of his powers at the age of 26 (except for a brief return a few years later), reveals his battle for years with drug abuse. He started at the famous New York City 54 club club where Borg, who owned a house in Long Island, tried cocaine for the first time.
Borg writes “the first time I tried cocaine, got the same kind of rush I received from tennis. It made me feel too much energy. I was fixed immediately. I didn’t understand how dangerous it was.”
Indeed, later in memory, Borg remembers some scary incidents of overdose, including one when his heart stopped beating while his father was traveling with him for a high tournament in the Netherlands.
This incident inspired the heart title heartbeat.
“I didn’t even ask the doctors how close I would die,” Borg writes. Ironically, returning to tennis training, partially, helped Borg hit his drug habit.
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Another stunning discovery from Heartbeat: Borg was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent life rescue surgery.
“Doctors said I would have died if I had not had the surgery,” Borg writes. “It’s a little ironic, really, how powerless I was done. I would always use my body as my main tool, I always knew exactly what to do to improve my fitness and performance. Now, I could do nothing.”
For years, opponents, fans and writers speculated about the man behind the legend.
In his own account of Borg-wild, not filtered and unforgettable-he opens for his triumphs and tragedies, failed rivalries, friendships and marriages, his brilliance and bankruptcy, his dark background, and like his wife’s love, Patricia, and his return to Tennis.
The memory is moving, confession and sincere ending with Borg, who now spends most of his time with his wife Patricia in their home on the island, expressing grace and gratitude.
“Parts of me are a little tired,” writes Borg, who shares that he has no knee cartilage and undergoes exams every six months after doctors intend to find out if his cancer has returned. “But if there is one thing we all agree, it’s this: it was worth it …
“I’m very grateful.”
