NEW YORK: 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 with The Associated Press from his home in Stockholm, “to have a good beginning and a good ending.” In between, the 292-page book, which will be released in the US by Diversion Books on Sept.

NEW YORK: 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…

The Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg has opened up about his ‘really, really bad’ prostate cancer diagnosis and his struggles with drugs and alcohol post retirement

Borg, a private individual who found the afterglow of tennis fame hard to bear, has opened up about his life after the sport.

Le memorie nel libro "Battiti", dove ha parlato senza filtri delle dipendenze, della depressione e degli eccessi vissuti tra gli anni '80 e '90

The sporting superstar walked away from success and adulation at 26 – much to everyone’s bemusement. He opens up about his secret life and the depression, cocaine, overdoses and…