The Ice-Borg

Bjorn Borg falls to his knees in front of the scoreboard on the centre court at Wimbledon in London, July 5, 1980, after defeating John McEnroe to take the men’s singles title for the fifth straight year. — AP

BJORN 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 the Swedish tennis great closes it by revealing that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

“It’s good,” Borg, 69, said in a recent video interview from his home in Stockholm, “to have a good beginning and a good ending.”