Editing Björn Borg (section)

==Recognition==
[[File:Björn Borg 2013-11-06 001 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|upright|Borg in 2013]]
With 11 Grand Slam titles, Borg ranks sixth in the list of male tennis players who have won the most Grand Slam singles titles behind [[Novak Djokovic]] (24), [[Rafael Nadal]] (22), [[Roger Federer]] (20), [[Pete Sampras]] (14) and [[Roy Emerson]] (12). The French Open—Wimbledon double he achieved three times consecutively was described by Wimbledon officials as "the most difficult double in tennis".<ref name=Wimbledonrecords /><ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/13/SPGGPL4KST1.DTL "Strokes for Agassi: He belongs among the 10 greatest ever"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809092211/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/13/SPGGPL4KST1.DTL |date=9 August 2007 }}, Bruce Jenkins, ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', 13 September 2006</ref> Only Nadal (in 2008 and 2010), Federer (in 2009), Djokovic (in 2021) and Alcaraz (in 2024) have managed to achieve this double since, and Agassi, Nadal, Federer, Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz are the only male players since Borg to have won the French Open and Wimbledon men's singles titles over their career. [[Ilie Năstase]] once said about Borg, "We're playing tennis, and he's playing something else".
Borg is widely considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.<ref>''Tennis'' magazine ranked Borg the [[Tennis (magazine)#"The 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS Era" (2005)|second best male player]] of the period 1965–2005.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Bjorn Borg – Top 10 Men's Tennis Players of All Time |magazine=Sports Illustrated |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1009/top.ten.tennis/content.6.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918225840/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1009/top.ten.tennis/content.6.html |archive-date=18 September 2010 |access-date=10 June 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=pears>{{cite news |author=Pears, Tim |title=When he was king |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2005/jun/05/tennis.features1 |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=5 June 2005 |access-date=14 December 2016 |archive-date=22 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622021836/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2005/jun/05/tennis.features1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In his 1979 autobiography, [[Jack Kramer (tennis)|Jack Kramer]], the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, had already included Borg in his list of the 21 greatest players of all time. And in 2003, [[Bud Collins]] chose Borg as one of his top-five male players of all time.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070309144832/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14489546/ "Top Stars of Tennis"], [[Bud Collins]], [[MSNBC]]</ref> In 1983 [[Fred Perry]] listed his greatest male players of all time and listed them in two categories, before World War 2 and after. Perry's modern best behind Laver: "Borg, McEnroe, Connors, Hoad, Jack Kramer, John Newcombe, Ken Rosewall, Manuel Santana".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • Page 166|work=The Miami Herald|date=25 April 1983|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/624261568|via=newspapers.com|access-date=10 March 2022|archive-date=10 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310114627/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/624261568/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1988, a panel consisting of [[Bud Collins]], [[Cliff Drysdale]], and [[Butch Buchholz]] ranked their top five male tennis players of all time. Buchholz and Drysdale both listed Borg number two on their lists, behind Rod Laver. Collins listed Borg number five behind Laver, McEnroe, Rosewall and Gonzales.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Miami News from Miami, Florida • Page 11|work=The Miami News|date=10 March 1988|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/298214058|via=newspapers.com|access-date=12 March 2022|archive-date=10 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310124816/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/298214058/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2008, [[ESPN.com]] asked tennis analysts, writers, and former players to build the perfect open-era player. Borg was the only player mentioned in four categories: defense, footwork, intangibles, and mental toughness—with his mental game and footwork singled out as the best in open-era history.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/flash/perfect |title=ESPN – Tennis – The Perfect Player |publisher=ESPN |access-date=20 April 2012 |archive-date=2 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102145002/http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/flash/perfect |url-status=live }}</ref>

Borg never won the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]], losing in the final four times. Borg also did not win the Australian Open, which he only played once in 1974 as a 17-year-old. The only players to defeat Borg in a Grand Slam final were fellow World No. 1 tennis players John McEnroe and [[Jimmy Connors]]. Even though it was then played on grass, a surface where he enjoyed much success, Borg chose to play the Australian Open only once, in 1974, where he lost in the third round. Phil Dent, a contemporary of Borg, has pointed out that skipping Grand Slam tournaments—especially the Australian Open—was not unusual then, before counting Grand Slam titles became the norm.<ref>{{cite web |author=Bonnie DeSimoneArchive |url=https://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/french07/columns/story?columnist=desimone_bonnie&id=2882705 |title=Chris Evert owned Roland Garros like no other |publisher=ESPN |date=26 May 2007 |access-date=20 April 2012 |archive-date=23 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023015601/http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/french07/columns/story?columnist=desimone_bonnie&id=2882705 |url-status=live }}</ref> Additionally, another contemporary [[Arthur Ashe]] told ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', "I think Bjorn could have won the US Open. I think he could have won the Grand Slam, but by the time he left, the historical challenge didn't mean anything. He was bigger than the game. He was like [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]] or [[Liz Taylor]] or somebody."<ref>{{cite web |author=Curry Kirkpatrick |url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140719/index.htm |title=Unbjorn |publisher=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=6 May 1991 |access-date=20 April 2012 |archive-date=1 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401215715/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140719/index.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>