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Borg reveals most cancers battle: ‘I take day-to-day, yr by yr’
Former World No. 1 makes revelation in upcoming memoir
September 18, 2025
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Bjorn Borg reached No. 1 within the PIF ATP Rankings.
By ATP Employees
Bjorn Borg, the previous No. 1 participant within the PIF ATP Rankings, reveals in his upcoming e-book, Heartbeats: A Memoir, that he was recognized with prostate most cancers.
The Swedish has mirrored on the prognosis forward of the e-book’s launch subsequent week, telling the BBC that he has “all the time been checking” himself.
“[In] 2023, checked myself once more, and the physician mentioned, ’It does not look too good. Now we have to make an operation’,” Borg advised the BBC. “‘Okay. Is that mandatory?’ I advised them. ‘Sure’. It was tough psychologically, for me. [Did] it unfold throughout? I do not know.”
The physician advised Borg that the scenario was “actually, actually dangerous”. Final yr, he underwent an operation and is in remission.
“[The doctor] mentioned, ‘However you may have these sleeping most cancers cells in your physique’. It is going to be a battle sooner or later, and I hope I will be okay,” Borg mentioned. “I is likely to be okay, I won’t be okay. So each six months, I am going and check myself. And proper now, I did my final check two weeks in the past, so I am okay. I take day-to-day, yr by yr, hopefully. It is a factor you need to dwell with.”
Borg has returned to the tennis highlight lately, serving as Workforce Europe’s Laver Cup captain from 2017-2024. This yr he attended Wimbledon, the place he gained 5 consecutive titles from 1976-1980.
In his BBC interview, Borg left the viewers with a message relating to his prognosis.
“So many individuals die yearly, prostate most cancers,” Borg mentioned. “Take a look at your self if you happen to can.”
