Bored Bjorn Borg "I was not prepared for life" after retiring from tennis
ATPSunday, 17 September 2023 at 09:30
Former world number one Bjorn Borg has stated that he was
mentally not prepared to retire from the sport.
The 67-year-old is rated as one of the all-time greats in
the history of men’s singles tennis in the Open era, having won as many as 11
Grand Slam titles in his illustrious career which lasted for nearly two
decades.
Borg, in a recent interview with The Globe and Mail, stated
that he enjoyed the first few years post-retirement but soon realised that he
was not mentally prepared to quit tennis.
“After I retired, the first couple of years were great
because I didn’t have a schedule,” he said. “I was not motivated to play
tennis, and I wanted to do other things, so I was a very happy person because I
could do whatever I felt like doing.
“With tennis for so many years I had my schedule, and I knew
exactly what I would do every day. But then after those two, three years off
tennis, I started to get bored because I didn’t have the schedule and I was not
prepared for life.
“I think today when people step away from sports, they are
prepared. I was not. I was trying to jump to different areas of business and
different things, but I didn’t have one particular thing I wanted to do. But it
turned out well for me anyway.”
The six-time French Open winner further went on to state
that tennis as a sport has changed a lot from the time he played on the court.
“I think tennis has changed,” said Borg. “It’s a different
tennis today than when we played. There are more players today, the competition
is so much tougher, there’s so many more countries today playing tennis than
when we played. They hit the ball so much harder today than we did.”
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