Tennis great Björn Borg is living with what doctors describe as an “extremely aggressive” form of prostate cancer.
The former World No. 1 revealed his diagnosis in the final chapter of his autobiography ‘HeartBeats: A Memoir’, which was co-written with his wife Patricia**.**
Borg, 69, shared that the disease was ‘at its most advanced stage’ but he would “fight every day like it’s a Wimbledon final”.
“I spoke to the doctor and he said this is really, really bad,” Borg, an 11-time Grand Slam champion, told BBC Breakfast.
“He said you have these sleeping cancer cells [and] it’s going to be a fight in the future.
“Every six months I go and test myself. I did my last test two weeks ago. It’s a thing I have to live with.”
“I hope that I’m going to be OK. I take it day by day, year by year, hopefully.”
In the revealing memoir, the Swedish tennis legend confessed to losing control of his life after retiring from tennis at 25.
“I didn’t have a plan. Nowadays, people have a guide. I was lost in the world. There were drugs, there were pills, there was alcohol, to escape reality,” wrote the retired tennis star who said he has now been drug-free for 25 years.