Borg tennis farewell
NZPA-AFP Singapore The five-time Wimbledon champion, Bjorn Borg, said yesterday he will make his farewell appearance in “any form of tennis event” in four exhibition matches in Asia this week. Borg, in Singapore for the first match with another tennis great, John McEnroe, of the United States, told reporters: “There will be no more tennis for me— tournaments or exhibitions. My future involvement in tennis will be strictly in coaching the youth and I will be glad to do it in any part of the world.” Dismissing suggestions that he was unfit for competitive tennis, Borg said: "I still play two hours of tennis every day and I intend to continue that way. But competitive or exhibition tennis will be out — after the exhibition matches.”
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Press, 13 April 1989, Page 31
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