Zwembroek heren bjorn borg biography tennis player

The Viking from Sweden was both beauty and beast personified on the tennis court. An unstoppable force at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, he captured eleven majors before the age of 26, becoming one of the most recognisable figures in the history of the sport and winning 66 singles titles overall. Coached by Lennart Bergelin, a Swedish tennis legend of the s and 50s, Borg developed a unique two-handed backhand and quickly rose through the junior ranks.

Borg was just 15 years old when he made his Davis Cup debut and joined the tour, and by , aged 18, he won his first grand slam title at the French Open, the youngest ever male at that particular time. As a teenage prodigy, he burst onto the international stage and announced himself as a force to be reckoned with.

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The following year saw Borg retaining the French Open title and reaching the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, where he lost to the eventual winner Arthur Ashe. Borg, however, never lost another match at Wimbledon until While Borg excelled in all areas, it was Wimbledon where he truly shone. He won five consecutive Wimbledon titles from to , establishing an unprecedented record for the Open Era.

By he became virtually unstoppable as a player on grass courts - somewhat surprising as in the modern era, bassline players struggled. He's playing something else. Aside from his Wimbledon triumph, Borg secured six French Open titles between and Borg also created history with Sweden in the Davis Cup, where he won his singles matches.

It was the first time in the year history of the Davis Cup that a country other than Britain, France, Australia, or the United States had won the cup. This took him to 19 consecutive singles wins, and he extended this record to 33 by the end of his career, never losing a singles game. In , Borg had already done battle with Jimmy Connors beating him at Wimbledon but losing in the US Open , and whilst this rivalry slowly burned, his fiercest albeit briefest was about to spark; enter John McEnroe.