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Swedish fashion brand Björn Borg, mostly known for its sporty and colorful underwear, extends its portfolio by a sports collection for spring/summer 2012. The new range includes a women’s line (“Sport Candy”) as well as a men’s line (“Fast Forward”), both of which are further divided into the themes of tennis, running, workout, basic sport and sport lifestyle.
Tennis legend Bjorn Borg‘s signature model, the Diadora Borg Elite 81 is set to receive a limited release exclusive to London based Foot Patrol.
Handmade in Italy using full grain kangaroo leather for the upper, in white with either gold or silver detailing.
Released exclusively at Foot Patrol on the 4th November – £99.99
Borg and I split the first two sets, and he was ahead 4-2 in the third. He had broken me twice, and was serving to go up 5-2, but I hit two great topspin-lob winners over his head in that game, and after the second one I could have sworn I saw the air go out of him.
From there on in, it looked as if Bjorn was doing something I had never seen from him before: throwing in the towel. After having been down 2-4 in the third, I wound up winning that set 6-4 and cruising through the fourth, 6-2. In the last set, it looked to me as though he was barely trying.
“There are times – usually in exhibitions, but sometimes even in big tournaments – when you feel so bad physically or mentally that you’re simply not able to go all-out. It’s a tricky situation. You don’t want to lose by just missing every ball, so you hit a shot and leave a part of the court open.
At that point, your body language clearly says “I’m not going to cover that – just hit it there, it’ll be a winner, and the people will think, “Look, he was too good”. That’s what happened with Sampras when he played Lleyton Hewitt in the final of the 2001 Open: Pete had just run out of gas – he looked as if he had glue on his feet.
And that’s what happened with Borg in 81 – except that it did’t look physical to me.” Read the rest of this entry →
I’ve had the chance to win 2 entry tickets for the Optima Open, the belgian stop of the ATP Champions Tour, so I spent a nice day last Friday in Knokke-Heist, Belgium.
Situated in the heart of the country’s Flemish-speaking Flanders region, Knokke-Heist is considered to be one of Belgium’s most exclusive and affluent seaside resorts.
