The Genius of Borg


Björn Rune Borg is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player between 1974 and 1981.

As I have written about previously, Borg was a genius and foreshadowed the future of current, modern technique.

His game style was also modeled by numerous Spanish players and coaches, including Luis Bruguera, who taught his son Sergi to play like Borg.

Borg refused to listen to the traditional technical coaching advice of his time.

Jimmy Arias has a similar story. His dad refused to let him learn traditional technique.

The irony is that those techniques are still being taught today and sold as the “fundamentals”.

Borg was one of the few in his era to play with whip and spin.

But now the majority of forehands are like that.

Borg anticipated and presaged a major trend and a tidal wave change in forehand technique—not to mention the two handed backhand.

That’s another story but a similar one.

In Borg’s time, most players used one hand on the backhand.

Nowadays the majority of top pros play two handed backhands.

Huge change.


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