Björn Borg asked: “Where is Basel?”
The twice canceled Swiss Indoors celebrate their missed anniversary with the vernissage of a chronicle that sheds light on their long history. An excerpt.
Provided a new wind in the tennis scene: Björn Borg and Roger Brennwald, who led his Swiss Indoors to success at a young age.
Foto: Archiv Swiss Indoors
The story of Björn Borg and the Swiss Indoors begins with an encounter am Rand des French Open 1974, the Roger Brennwald hToday as a key experience of the Called tournament history. “Borg was 18 at the time and I was 27 when I saw him in the dressing room by Roland Garros and spoke, »he remembers. “He was just tying his shoes, and I said: ‘I’m sorry, when I disturb. But I do a tournament in Basel. ›» Where that because if it were, Borg asked him. “I said: in Switzerland, on Rhine knee. And asked what I did must do so that he can come. ”
