Overview

• The 69-year-old discloses in Heartbeats that his prostate cancer was described as at its most advanced stage and vows to fight it as if it were a Wimbledon final.
• Borg underwent surgery in 2024, remains in remission, and says doctors warned of “sleeping” cancer cells that require tests every six months, with his latest check two weeks ago.
• Heartbeats, co-written with his wife Patricia Östfeld, is out this week in the UK and will be published in the United States by Diversion Books on September 23.
• He recounts drug use beginning in 1982 and multiple overdoses, including a 1990s hospitalization in the Netherlands, and clarifies a 1989 Milan overdose was accidental rather than a suicide attempt.
• Borg reflects on quitting elite tennis at 25 after 1981 losses to John McEnroe, an unsuccessful 1991–93 comeback without a match win, and urges men to get regular prostate checks.