Paul Rouget, media365: published on Friday 05 September 2025 at 1:20 p.m.
Legend of tennis, the Swedish Björn Bjorg (69) revealed to suffer from prostate cancer “extremely aggressive”, but that he “feels good”.
While washing Cup will take place this year from September 19 to 21 at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Yannick Noah succeeded the head of the European team in Björn Borg, who was the team of the Team Europe since the creation of this event in 2017, at the initiative of Roger Federer and which is modeled on the model of the Ryder Cup, with the only difference that it is a team United States, which defies the old continent.
At 69, Borg therefore took a step back. Maybe for a good reason. Because we learned Thursday that the Swedish tennis legend was fighting against cancer. In an interview with the AP news agency, he explained that he had undergone surgery last year due to “extremely aggressive” prostate cancer, but that the situation is now under control. Cancer discovered in September 2023 for the former King of Roland-Garros, a sexuple winner Porte d’Auteuil and the five-time winner of Wimbledon.
“It happens like that”
“I have nothing at the moment, but every six months, I’m going to take a health check. It is not a pleasure. But I’m fine. I feel good, he says again. I have been doing tests for many years. The thing is that we don’t feel anything, we feel good, and then it happens like that. »»
In his autobiography entitled “Heartbeats” and which will be released on September 18, Borg also confides in his illness, as reported by the Swedish agency TT News. “I now have a new opponent, cancer, which I cannot control. But I’m going to defeat him. I don’t give up. I fight every day as if it was a Wimbledon final. And in general, it’s going pretty well, right? “, He writes like this.
