Overview

• Borg’s autobiography, Hjärtslag (Heartbeats), was released on 18 September as he gave rare interviews to SVT, the BBC and Dagens Nyheter.
• He says a doctor warned his prostate cancer looked “very, very bad,” and he reports ongoing monitoring, with his most recent check two weeks ago.
• The book and interviews recount years of cocaine, pills and alcohol abuse after his early retirement, including a 1989 overdose in Milan requiring emergency care.
• He describes collapsing in the Netherlands in the 1990s before a show match after using cocaine, calling it profoundly shameful as his father witnessed it.
• Borg asserts doping existed in tennis, cites the Jannik Sinner case as puzzling, and says he did not dope, crediting his wife Patricia, a co-author, as a crucial support.