Word: bjorn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every sports season aspires to be endless, but tennis achieves it. So a mid-life crisis at 26 is eminently understandable, though in Bjorn Borg's case, especially regrettable. The shy Swede, born just outside Stockholm, raised just outside the baseline, is a special case. First of all, his departure grants Czechoslovak Ivan Lendl and Americans John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors complete custody of the game, a dismal situation...
Lennart Bergelin, his mentor and masseur since Bjorn was a ninth-grader, never put a clock on the golden career but always knew precisely when it would end. "The day that Bjorn says he is going to take a shortcut and practice only two hours instead of four," said Bergelin some years ago, "then I will know it is finished." Borg's athletic skill has not run down; his ability to concentrate...
Flatly, without any topspin, Bjorn announced last week, "It's finito." Some of the endorsement contracts that have made him perhaps the highest-paid athlete ($25 million since 1974) will have to be renegotiated. So much of Borg's 5-ft. 11-in., 160-lb. form is let for advertising space, on the court he looks almost like an Indy racer. "I won't turn in the racquet al together. I will play when I feel it. It is possible I will play some tournaments just for fun. But I will never play the big ones like...
Tennis star Bjorn Borg yesterday announced his retirement from tournament tennis, saying that the game was no longer...
...goal, pushes himself almost beyond endurance, and then triumphs. Instead of working out in a decrepit Philadelphia gym, Rocky now travels with Creed to work out in a decrepit L.A. gym. Instead of falling to the mat with his dazed opponent (as in Rockey II.) Balboa now assumes a Bjorn Borg-like thanking-the-heavens pose after victory...