Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Sweden's Björn Borg falls to his knees in front of the scoreboard on the Centre Court at Wimbledon in London, July 5, 1980, ...

All these years later, Bjorn Borg is getting another chance to make a proper exit. It didn’t go great the last time around. For those not familiar with one of the more notorious tennis walk-offs, ...

No player left a bigger impression in the emerging Open era than Sweden's Bjorn Borg, who won 11 majors from 1974 to 1981 and was to tennis what the Beatles were to rock 'n' roll. For the third year ...

Borg won 11 Grand Slam singles titles — six at the French Open from 1974 to 1981, and five in a row at Wimbledon from 1976-80 — before walking away from tennis at age 26, although he made a brief ...

It was like being evicted from your neighborhood playground where you practiced ball all of your life, where you reigned as King of the Mountain, swatting down the little kids who scrabbled toward you ...

Fila, which was founded in Italy in 1911, had become an iconic brand in the late 1970s and early 1980s thanks to Bjorn Borg's success both on and off the court. Armed with a killer forehand and superb ...

Björn Borg starts his new memoir, “Heartbeats,” with a story about being rushed to a Dutch hospital in the 1990s after overdosing on “alcohol, drugs, pills — my preferred ways of self-medication,” and ...