Five-time Wimbledon winner Bjorn Borg reveals that he’s been battling cancer in his soon-to-be-released autobiography, according to reports in Sweden and Italy.
The book, titled Heartbeat, will be officially released on September 18 but has been made available early for Amazon users in Italy.
The contents of the autobiography, which Borg, 69, has written along with his wife Patricia, had so far been kept a secret but its early release has revealed his shocking cancer diagnosis.
With the book’s official release now just days away, the Swedish tennis icon is expected to embark on an ‘extremely sparing’ press run soon in which he will likely open up further on his battle against the illness.
The book is set to be released in the USA, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Latin America, the Netherlands and Italy and Sweden.
In a career which spanned just nine years due to his shocking retirement from the game aged 26, Borg cemented himself in the history of tennis as one of its greatest players.
A ‘rock star’ of the sport – as he put it himself –
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