“Until the last challenge, the most important, which is not yet finished, against cancer”. In a few words in the description of a book, the Amazon Italy site panicked tennis fans, especially specialists from the 1980s. While the autobiography of Björn Borg, legend of the discipline, will be released on September 18, the Swedish prostate cancer, according to information from the Local expressian media.
« Beating (The title of the book, the beating in French, editor’s note) – like those of a heart, like those of a bullet that awaits to be launched on the other side of the net – is an intimate and warm story, in which Borg makes no concession to anyone. Not even to himself, ”continues the description of the book, co-written by the five-time winner of Wimbledon and his wife Patricia.
According to Expressen, a person close to the book editor confirmed that Björn Borg was reached by prostate cancer, a subject he therefore talks about. But he also tackled his successes, including his six titles at Roland-Garros and his five coronations at the All England Club, but also his rivalry with John McEnroe who marked a generation.
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