Tennis legend Bjorn Borg is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Some even argue that, if he hadn’t retired at only 25 years of age, he would have been the best ever. However, to the Swedish former world No. 1 the greatest player is one of the members of the Big 3: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
For context, some of Borg’s impressive achievements include: becoming the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slams titles, dominating the French Open (six) and Wimbledon (five, consecutive), doing so between 1971 and 1981. He is also the only man to achieve the Channel Slam three times.
He was the first man since 1886 to contest six consecutive Wimbledon finals, a record surpassed by Federer‘s seven consecutive finals (2003–09). In total, he won 77 top-level titles. Apart from that, he is often credited with being one of the first tennis players to achieve stardom in the 1970s, helping raise the popularity of the sport.
Recently, Borg served as the coach of Team Europe in the Laver Cup from 2017 to 2024. Precisely, last year, he gave a rare interview to El Español in which he declared Novak Djokovic as the greatest player in history, but with an important clarification.
“The best in history is Djokovic due to his numbers of Grand Slams, his titles, but the two players that have meant the most to this sport, in my opinion, are Nadal and Federer,” he told the outlet.