Bjorn Borg Nickname (s) ICEBORG
Country Sweden
Monaco Housing
DoB. June 6, 1956 (54 years)
Place of birth. Sodertalje, Sweden
Height 1.80 m
Weight 73 kg
Professionalization 1973
Abandonment 1983 (failed attempt back in 1991 and 1993)
Right Hand
Prize Money U.S. $ 3,655,751 Source
Simple
Career record: 608-127
100 titles (64 for ATP)
Highest ranking: 1 (August 23, 1977)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open third round (1974)
French Open V (1974,75,78,79,80,81)
Wimbledon V (1976,77,78,79,80)
U. S. Open F (1976,78,80,81)
Major tournaments
Tour Finals V (1979.1980)
Doubles
Career record: 87-82
4 Titles
Highest ranking: 890 ° (March 22, 1993)
Last Updated: February 16, 2010.

? Björn Rune Borg (Stockholm, June 6, 1956) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.

Björn Borg was born in Stockholm and grew up in the city of Södertälje, Sweden. Gained during ten years (1973-1983), 56 tournaments, totaling around 100 million dollars in prize money and endorsements.

He won five times Wimbledon (1976/77/78/79/80), six times the Tournament of Roland Garros (1974/75/78/79/80/81). In 1979 and 1980, he finished the season as the No. 1 ranking. He left the blocks prematurely at age 26, and is considered one of the best players of all time.

In 1974, only seventeen, Borg won the Tournament of Roland Garros, becoming the world's youngest to win a Grand Slam. It was also marked by his great physique.

The coolness that marked each game earned him the nickname "ICEBORG. Two broken marriages (with Romanian tennis player Mariana Simionescu and Swedish supermodel Jannike Bjoerling) and a shortfall of $ 30 million in business led Borg to a suicide attempt in February 1989 in the city of Milan He took twenty capsules Roipnol hypnotic.

In 1992, Borg was also ordered to pay a pension of $ 20,000 per month to his ex-wife, the Italian singer Loredana Berté. The two were married four years, at which time she attempted suicide twice. In the process, Loredana Borg accused of destroying his career.

Borg entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.


[Edit] Quotes third French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's famous interview with ABC, citing his relationship with tennis amateur and talk about Borg, saying the sport's popularity was due to changes by the style of Swedish tennis player. For the philosopher, there were two types of champions: the creators and non-breeders. If non-breeders are those that use existing styles in a competent, developers would build different styles, owning followers (they're stylists, the definition of Deleuze).

Deleuze says the emergence of the style of Borg saying he believed the popular sport in the invention of a new game, even after already being laid. This style, for the philosopher, was "a style of background area, full retreat, and proximity liftage network." "Any executive or less proletarian can understand this game," which would be a great achievement for tennis.