Björn Borg Interview - Numbers are just numbers without love

What is winning 11 Grand Slams without a style that changes the game?
#DoMoreOfWhatYouLove #FILAGlobal #50YearsOfSport #BjornBorg

[@brucekilby9957]

Bjorn Borg is so Modest. A Champion of the Old school,just play and keep the mouth shut and let the tennis do the talking. One of the true Greats.🎾🇸🇪🎾

[@normadesmond6017]

my hero. saw him play live twice. He will always be the best.

[@firenze5555]

My older sister had a poster of him on her wall during Bjorn's heyday. He was the rock star of tennis.

[@normadesmond6017]

@@firenze5555 Same here! And I had the good fortune to see him play twice. Once even against McEnroe! And I have the autographs to proof it. He made tennis really, really popular.

[@firenze5555]

@@normadesmond6017Wow, you are so lucky. I loved watching McEnroe, too. Watching pro tennis was never boring back then.

[@decafmocha211]

Bjorn Borg is in a class by himself. His strokes seemed effortless and so loose. His style was so unique and not like today's players who seem to copy each other. It was a pleasure to watch him and I had the privilege of meeting him back in the 1970's. A gentleman on and off the court.

[@adrianwilliams5557]

His strokes were simple and efficient with minimal energy wastage. He was for the most part a counter-puncher, just bringing the ball back all the time. He might be accused of being a bit of a perfectionist. In the early 90s he tried to make a comeback. Mid 1993 he retired after losing to Alexander Volkov in the Kremlin Cup. Considering Volkov was ranked 17 in the world and that Borg had had a match point, I would have thought that amounted to a successful comeback. I wonder if Rafael Nadal could have won a single French Open with a wooden racket?

[@angelatanurdzic7508]

Legend of tennis ❤

[@GiuseppeCivitella-go5ih]

Bjorn is one of the greatest 👍

[@carlosmagnus717]

It was the coolest, the most premium, of the Italian tennis sports fashion brands. Today it is not even the shadow of what this brand was, then there were Sergio Tacchini, Ellesse or Autralian, all of them revived with greater or lesser success. Today it is nothing more than a shadow of what it was. A Fila Bj tracksuit from that time for a child like me at that time was a dream. The rackets where at that time the wood was beginning to give way to graphite and had the leather grip tape and the strings with a very characteristic smell that I still remember today. Those duels with McEnroe and Connors. What times those were! A lot of homesickness.

[@skyjuke2006]

My HERO when I was teen! 🏆❤️ From Italy 🇮🇹

[@stss2442]

The GOAT

[@carolmcclelland4229]

My all-time favorite 🎾 player…until Roger Federer came along years later, and now I still love them both. It’s funny how anyone would come up to him and remember him as “that Fila guy” rather than the player that won FIVE Wimbledon championships IN A ROW!! 👑 After begging my mom, she checked me out of school so we could drive 3 hours away to see Bjorn play an exhibition match with Roscoe Tanner. I was so excited when the car he was in nearly drove over my foot as I tried to get his autograph. 🤣. (Borg won of course.)

[@20e_arhundradets_rav]

Yes, he definitely is the Fila Guy 👍✌👌

[@therealbs2000]

Half a century later this man still has that borg charisma

[@jm7804]

Yes. He still looks great, but he was just ridiculously handsome in his 20s.

[@giseleigoa4941]

Actually Borg and Vilas were the players on the ATP that drove the Fila tennis wear to the top of the tennis fashion world.

[@jeremyd1021]

`Borg was a global superstar. Vilas was not much in comparison.

[@bobcolbert1449]

@@jeremyd1021 Vilas was a rock star exactly like Borg (even if Borg was better)

[@jeremyd1021]

@@bobcolbert1449 Rubbish. Vilas bombed every year at Wimbledon, managed to win the French the one year Borg was not eligible to play, won the Australian a couple of times when only one man and his dog turned up to play Australia in those days and somehow beat Jimmy Connors in the US Open final. He has a massive ego, referring to himself in the 3rd person and is convinced he was cheated out of being world number 1 at some point that none but he and some Argentinian sycophants can remember by the ATP computer. Borg was completely different, he had that very rare quality of being, like Elvis or Alain Delon

[@jeremyd1021]

someone you could literally not take your eyes off. Vilas never had groupies sleeping outside his hotel bedroom. Borg had hundreds of them, every night. He got tired of the circus and as such, quit.

[@schianomario68]

nessun tennista ad oggi è stato così famoso... così incredibilmente rivoluzionario sia nel gioco che nel modo in cui ha interpretato il personaggio del tennista... ice man è stato e sarà per sempre il simbolo del tennis... cosi come Maradona per il calcio e Muhammad Ali per la boxe... Stenmark per lo sci oppure Valentino Rossi per il motomondiale.... naturalmente questa è soltanto la mia semplice opinione

[@hd-xc2lz]

For me Bjorn was the Diadora guy. Just loved those shoes, best tennis sneaks.

[@joehiatt1992]

A great,was in the biz & met many of them

[@ensemblekammerklang5066]

Bjørn Borg & Ingemar Stenmark. 2 Kings in Sport:)

[@vincenteluard3427]

Ce bon vieux Bjorn 😊

[@Jimboken1]

Kerching. He was an impressive young man.

[@hangarby10]

You can have Djoker, Rafa, and Fed. I’ll take Borg as my Tennis GOAT. Retired at 26; didn’t even bother with playing the AO.

[@davidgivins4203]

Serena Williams is the best ❤

[@gokulvrindavan1858]

​@@davidgivins4203yes she would have won sldm at 40 if you allowed her take weed.

[@gooddognigel9992]

@@davidgivins4203hahaha She would have counted her lucky stars to win a single point against the top male tennis players

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

Actually 1990s Pro Tennis was very much better than 1980s Tennis. Mr Borg was actually totally capable of grand slam victories.

[@blucat4]

Nice add, short and beautiful. The bass was too high I think, no worries though. :-)

[@baladinbaladin2549]

Mon préférer vive Borg

[@DavidJohnson-yq4nz]

Himself and Roger ❤

[@plynch8787]

Bjorn Borg and Fila ❤

[@smurfette1509]

Perfect match, great player and always looked stylish.👍

[@theoparfin2219]

The real GOAT JESUS of Tennis

[@riccardoc1711]

❤

[@tytuskonarzewski4169]

Why Swedes are so successful in individual sports, example Borg,Stenmark, Stenson…now young Aberg ? What is a key?

[@michelez715]

Loved Borg, but the revelations that came out about him were quite a shock. The worst, to me, was his treatment of Lennart Bergelin, who gave up his life for Borg's career, and was discarded by him later, completely. He also treated his first wife pretty badly too, by all accounts, though she has never criticised him, as far as I know. I think Borg's famous cool demeanour was probably a shield to keep him insulated from the pressures of the tennis circuit, and when he retired and got bored, he let go his discipline and inhibitions, and ran wild for a few years.

[@KeyofDavid5778]

What would one of his pinstripe shirts be worth today if it was an original?

[@zcomme]

Björn was and still is the GOAT

[@davidgivins4203]

Serena Williams is the best player ever ❤

[@jpnduc]

Djoko the best... Numbers don't lie😂

[@davidgivins4203]

@@jpnduc but you lie🫢😂 he’s number 4 behind Serena Williams who’s 123🥰🎾

[@arindambanerjee3326]

Neither Djokovic not Serena comes closer to Borg in terms of greatness.Number of GS is not the measurement.Maradona was not the highest goal scorer but Diego means football and greatest of all time.

[@paoloborasi536]

Time moves on!😢I liked the 80's tennis much more than this Robocop tennis!once we had a soul, a heart, now we haven't anything at all.😢

[@paoloborasi536]

Still I was and am a mc Enroe fan.I hated Borg but it was a fair match!now it is not this.Remembering Borg,he he was a great player and a a such man.I can't love robots like Sinner,even he's a Montecarlo citizen since 15 yo.thanks for the italian tax-payers watching a robot. I can't feel anything for a foreigne robot sponsored by italian mainstream. When the golden german boy will pay taxes 65% we can talk about this . There aren't natural skills

[@radiusnorth1675]

I don't think tennis filled Boris Becker with love or a better life.

[@natalipaola9388]

Famoso per aver sposato Loredana Bertè 😂

[@steffanhoffmann]

Hasn't aged well. Looks ludicrous in that clothing. Wouldn't have possibly, when he was twenty years younger; at a push.

[@jm7804]

He looks great at 67. Senior citizens can't be fashionable and look good? That is not a young man's outfit at all. It's age appropriate.

[@martinhacke5004]

Schöner Kommentar Du Schmalzlocke; kannst Du Dich eigentlich selbst ertragen Du Lauch 😂😂😂

[@oscarmillavega]

You were the Fila guy, now you are not. You were my superhero but now you are not, you used Vitas powders and quit playing! ...and then came back with wood racquets??!! You should be making money advertising budlight

[@capricornmagic63]

It's his life he's free to live it in any way he chooses and I don't think he'll be knocking on your door any time soon for a cup of sugar.

[@jm7804]

So he's supposed to live his life according to how you see it? No one cares what you think.

[@Hugo_Furst-x]

Budlight? Is that some kind of offensive homophobic slur? Judging other people? Really? Throwing stones? Do unto others, you empty headed knuckle dragger.

[@bjornborgfanforever]

SHAME ON YOU