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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter where a ball is hit, it seems to have an invisible cord leading back to Borg's racquet, which is cocked to unleash a blazing passing shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...Borg need only win four early-round matches to eclipse Laver's mark of 31 consecutive match victories in Wimbledon play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...lustrous is Borg's Wimbledon record that it somewhat obscures the other achievements of a remarkable champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...helped Sweden's Davis Cup team to a first-round victory in the European Zone competitions. Borg was then the youngest player ever to take part in Davis Cup competition. > At 17 he won the French Open Tennis Championship, a title he has now captured a record five times. He thus became the youngest man ever to win one of tennis' grand-slam events.-Last month Borg won the French Open with such consummate, straight-set ease that he lost a mere 38 games while winning 126. > At 20 he won his first Wimbledon title in a straight-set trouncing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...less than a month past his 24th birthday, Borg is an incredible tennis machine, an inexorable force that is one part speed, one part top-spin and two parts iron will. With his topspin

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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