Word: borges
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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...
...lustrous is Borg's Wimbledon record that it somewhat obscures the other achievements of a remarkable champion...
...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...
...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
That is what it is like to be Bjorn Borg. To have taught himself to play a game, then to grow within that game, to change it, to refine it. On rare occasions, the game within takes on a life of its own, so that fleetingly, the control of its possibilities is absolute...