Borg wins tournament
NZPA Tokyo Sweden’s, five-time Wimbledon champion, Bjorn Borg, outduelled Argentina’s Guillermo Vilas 6-1, 6-2, to win the $250,000 four-man exhibition Suntory Cup Tournament in Tokyo yesterday. The 26-year-old Swede, who disappointed world tennis fans last Friday by announcing he would not compete in the Wimbledon tournament this year.
outclassed Vilas with his accuracy and passing shots. It took him 59 minutes to defeat the Argentinian, who was fresh from his victory in the Monte Carlo Open, where Borg, in his first tournament in five months, was ousted m the quar-ter-finals. In a play-off for third place Vince van Patten, of the United States, beat his fellow American. John McEnroe. 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.
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