Björn Borg Career Statistics
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This is a list of the main career statistics and records of retired Swedish professional tennis player
Björn Borg Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 109 weeks. Borg won 66 singles titles during his caree ...
. His professional career spanned from 1973 until 1984 with a brief comeback between 1991 and 1993.


Grand Slam tournament finals


Singles: 16 finals (11 titles, 5 runner-ups)


Grand Prix year-end championships finals


Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)


WCT year-end championship finals


Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)


Grand Prix Super Series finals


Singles: 20 (15 titles, 5 runner-ups)

*Note: before the ATP took over running the men's professional tour in 1990 the Grand Prix Tour had a series of events that were precursors to the Masters Series known during some years as the
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.


Singles performance timeline


Career finals


Singles titles (66)


Runner-ups (27)


Singles titles – invitational tournaments exhibitions, or special events (35)


Non-ATP, exhibition, invitational, or special events – draw ≥ 8 (9)


Non-ATP, exhibition, invitational, or special events – draw < 8 (26)


Records and statistics


Youngest to win

*In 1972 Borg became the youngest winner of a
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match at age 15. *Borg won his 11th Grand Slam singles title in 1981 aged 25 years and one day, the youngest male to reach that number of titles. By comparison, Roger Federer won his 11th aged 25 years and 324 days; Rafael Nadal was aged 26 years and 8 days; Pete Sampras won his 11th at almost age 27, Novak Djokovic at age 28,
Roy Emerson Roy Stanley Emerson (born 3 November 1936) is an Australian former tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam doubles titles, for a total of 28 Grand Slam titles. All of his singles Grand Slam victories and 14 of his ...
at age 30, and
Rod Laver Rodney George Laver (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former professional tennis player. Laver was ranked as the World number 1 ranked male tennis players, world number 1 professional player indisputably for five years from 1965 to 1969, ...
at age 31.


Statistics

*Borg's 66 official ATP career titles as listed on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) website places him eighth on the Open Era list behind Jimmy Connors (109),
Roger Federer Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 3 ...
(103),
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(94), Rafael Nadal (86), Novak Djokovic (81), John McEnroe (77), Rod Laver (72). *In 1979, Borg became the first tennis player to earn more than one million dollars in prize money in a single season. *On the list of open era winning streaks, Borg is first and second (49 consecutive tour matches in 1978, 48 in 1979–1980). The only other men with winning streaks of at least 40 matches are
Guillermo Vilas Guillermo Vilas (; born 17 August 1952) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He was the world No. 1 of the Grand Prix tennis circuit, Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975 and 1977. He won 62 singles titles and 16 doubles titles during ...
(46),
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(44),
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(43), John McEnroe (42), and Roger Federer (41). *Borg holds third place for most consecutive wins on clay, with 46 victories in 1977–79. Only
Rafael Nadal Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for ...
with 81 and Vilas with 53 have won more consecutive clay court matches. *Borg won 19 consecutive points on serve in the fifth set on two occasions: his 1980 Wimbledon final against McEnroe and his 1980 US Open quarterfinal against
Roscoe Tanner Leonard Roscoe Tanner (born October 15, 1951) is an American former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on July 30, 1979. Tanner won 16 titles throughout his career. Tanner was famous for his big ...
. *Borg retired in 1983 with $3.6 million in career prize money, a record at the time. *According to the match scores listed on the ATP website, Borg bageled his opponents (sets won 6–0) 131 times in his career, compared to Federer's 93 bagels from 1999 through 2019 Basel. *Borg was inducted into the
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in 1987 at 30 years of age. *In 1999, Borg was elected the best Swedish sportsman ever by a jury in his home country. His tennis rivals included a pair of top ranked players: Mats Wilander (who won seven Grand Slam titles) and
Stefan Edberg Jan Stefan Edberg (; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in both men's singles and men's doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), one of two players in the ...
(who won six). *In their only career match-up, Borg defeated Wilander in September 1981 in the first round of a tournament in
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. The score was 6–1, 6–1. Geneva was the last tournament that Borg won during his career. *Borg won the
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in 1974 and 1978, the latter being shared with alpine skier
Ingemar Stenmark Jan Ingemar Stenmark (; born 18 March 1956) is a Swedish former FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer. He is regarded as a legendary skier and one of the most prominent Swedish athletes ever, having won several Oly ...
. They are the only men to have won this honor twice.


Top 10 head-to-head record

Borg's record against players ranked in the ATP's top 10. World No. 1's are in bold.


Junior career finals


Grand Slam finals


Singles: 1 (1–0)


Notes


References

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