I was 11 years old when this was filmed. I loved tennis, but this Bjorn Borg wasn't the one I adored. That came the next year, in 1975, when Bjorn locked down his hair under his fila headband & won everything under the sun from 1975 - 1981. It's hard to chose a favourite player...but Bjorn Borg, Roger, Martina, Carlos & Andy Murray are my top 5 for sure.
Tennis requires 100% motivation and he just lost motivation to keep playing. You get to a point when even winning isn’t enough to satisfy you and when that happens it’s easy to want to find other things to do with your life
I grew up in Sweden in the seventies and of course Björn Borg was a huge idol of mine. I started to play tennis, like thousands of other children, but I never reached any success, though I was born the same year as Stefan Edberg. The longhaired lady interviewed in the clip is Ingrid Bentzer, who was the best female Swedish tennis player at the time. I'm not sure who the blond girl is, but she is talking about Helena Anliot who was Björn's first girlfriend.
I started paying attention to tennis (ie Wimbledon) a couple of years after this when Borg was already well established as the perennial champ, and oddly I don't recall him having heartthrob status. Mind you he did have a beard by then! I do recall that when he retired it seemed to me he had been around forever, and I couldn't believe he was only 26.
He always had beard at Wimbledon, likely because he had it when he won in 76. He was a bit superstitious I think. He was twice selected as the most famous sport person in the world, second to Ali. So he was so followed by fans everywhere. In Wimbledon 74 he had a fake girlfriend to keep the fans away, didnt help though..
A reminder that ABBA weren't the only Swedish sensations that year. It's extremely interesting to see Ilie Năstase featured there as another one of the new long-haired brigade invading the tennis scene at the time as there's an indirectly ABBA-related connection going on between him and Björn Borg - and 'Yours Truly', for good measure! Ilie is one of the more prominent celebrities who share my birthday of 19th July. A rather less prominent personality who does is Isabelle Morizet, who during her singing career first in the 1970s then in the 1980s was known variously as Carene Cheryl, then Karen Cheryl, from autumn 1978 onwards. In her 'Karen' years she released a song dedicated to Björn Borg entitled 'Rock 'n' Roll tennis', that could just as well have been dedicated to her fellow child of 19th July. In her 'Carene' years she did a French-language cover of ABBA's 'Mamma Mia!' as the flip-side to her single 'Samedi, dimanche et fêtes', slightly re-titled to 'Oh! Mam(m)a mia'. If one drops by my channel there's a video presented in my best French celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the ten-year recording contract between Carene Cheryl and her Producer/Manager, «Mémé» Ibach on 25th April 1974, where 'Oh! Mam(m)a mia' is played. I clearly recall my older brother having a 'thing' for Chris Evert and her passing very closely by him when he once went to Wimbledon, which was a bit of a 'wow!' moment for him.
I assumed that he, being Swedish, might have been wearing yellow and blue. Throughout the entire video, he's wearing a lot of orange, which I thought was a Dutch national team colour. "Maybe he just loved wearing the colour orange," you might say. I'm sorry. I was just trying to make small talk.
1974: BJÖRN BORG and his TEENYBOPPER ARMY | Midweek | When They Were Young | BBC Archive 004am 25.6.24 really? maybe it's why i am still undertaking a job search all those years later....but bjorn borg was the best for me. he had his own style, the flair player who played on instinct as opposed to adhering to boring text book play. the last of the players - as opposed to relying on the nowadays virtues (ie: lack of style) of the first serve b.s... the genteel days of wood and cat gut. the ping of the ball upon a taught skein and the pong of the spectator's anticipation. you can't beat it, sir!!!! you really can't. i can't say i would have caused a ruckus in my desire to "touch him" - like those pretty gals... but he was and is a weird silent enigma. probably the tail end of the decent white sportsperson along with james hunt and barry sheen...ahahahaah!!!!! i wonder if the wooden racket will make a come back along with stylish players as opposed to the gormless, muscle bound might is right player????
@@welshlad6427 connors once got angry. in fact he got angry a number of times. as you do when you're a spilt brat or on top form re: your game play and are forced to suffer the indignities of dodgy ref decisions or biased farm hands from ross country town. even borg was liable to get miffed. which was shocking in those days of ice cool calm... no, fav player would be bjorn borg then the mighty becker - probably stitched up by media hacks... the days of individual flair need to be revived. staid roboticism isn't my cup of cha!! p. i only tolerated connors cos he reminded me of dan tanna aka bob ulrich - private dick. he was cool but all the ladies loved him cos he was allegedly good looking... ummmm... being grabbed by the dick, indeed, for petty las vegas misdemeanors... or bad tennis posture. god luck!!!!
@@welshlad6427 Most of all the top players of that era were all great personalities. Today there is no one like Connors, Nastase or Borg. The top players of today seem to have very little personality.
1974: BJÖRN BORG and his TEENYBOPPER ARMY | Midweek | When They Were Young | BBC Archive 25.6.24 0812am Connors paved the way for McEnroe.... which, depending on your purview, was a curse.... or a blessing for a stale and dying game. the lack of style in the game is what gets to me. being a big head and actually doing what you know you can do ie: beat all commers is fine by me.... being cool and liking oneself says it all, really. nowadays i doubt you can get yer head thru the door if you haven't made a list of vile illnesses and mental defektiveness which the media and the equally morally defunkt and mentally challenged fans demand you suffer..... being well or chipper is so passe so yesterday............................... that's why they're angry, sir....
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My favourite ever tennis player. Absolute legend ❤
I was 11 years old when this was filmed. I loved tennis, but this Bjorn Borg wasn't the one I adored. That came the next year, in 1975, when Bjorn locked down his hair under his fila headband & won everything under the sun from 1975 - 1981.
It's hard to chose a favourite player...but Bjorn Borg, Roger, Martina, Carlos & Andy Murray are my top 5 for sure.
Bjorn could have won more grand slams than anyone else but decided to retire at 26. Crazy when you think of it. He was something else.
Tennis requires 100% motivation and he just lost motivation to keep playing. You get to a point when even winning isn’t enough to satisfy you and when that happens it’s easy to want to find other things to do with your life
I want that tracksuit.
Adidas originals are best.
Bjorn Borg was the first Rockstar tennis player !
Those Adidas Originals are the best ever. His jacket to me looks like Dutch football team shirts of 1974
I grew up in Sweden in the seventies and of course Björn Borg was a huge idol of mine. I started to play tennis, like thousands of other children, but I never reached any success, though I was born the same year as Stefan Edberg. The longhaired lady interviewed in the clip is Ingrid Bentzer, who was the best female Swedish tennis player at the time. I'm not sure who the blond girl is, but she is talking about Helena Anliot who was Björn's first girlfriend.
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Thank you very much for the infos LapsangTe
I started paying attention to tennis (ie Wimbledon) a couple of years after this when Borg was already well established as the perennial champ, and oddly I don't recall him having heartthrob status. Mind you he did have a beard by then! I do recall that when he retired it seemed to me he had been around forever, and I couldn't believe he was only 26.
He always had beard at Wimbledon, likely because he had it when he won in 76. He was a bit superstitious I think. He was twice selected as the most famous sport person in the world, second to Ali. So he was so followed by fans everywhere. In Wimbledon 74 he had a fake girlfriend to keep the fans away, didnt help though..
Ah my sister was a teenager in the 70s, and loved him. I was just a small child.
Steppenwolf even did a song about Borg. It's called "Bjorn to be Wild."
Find his advert for Diadora Borg Elite tennis shoes. Genius copywriting.
It is the first time I've seen how good looking of Borg, I think he's better than some of the best in Hollywood.
Some resemblance to Ryan Gosling
Much better
And when John McEnroe came to the scene. It was love at first sight. Talladega Nights baby.
My mums biggest crush ...and she was in her 30 around this time
Grey tennis balls! Those were the days.
They were white out of the can.
Focus puller fell asleep when the bald guy was on....
Isn't that Stirling Moss?
3:39 cameraman had a spliff on his lunchbreak.
Should've gone to specsavers
3:39 You need that colon for a time stamp mate. Hope that helps.
@@hopebgood Ahh that's why yours is blue. Thank you.
@@andydixon2980 😉
Chris Evert what a babe.
Very femenine lady
A reminder that ABBA weren't the only Swedish sensations that year. It's extremely interesting to see Ilie Năstase featured there as another one of the new long-haired brigade invading the tennis scene at the time as there's an indirectly ABBA-related connection going on between him and Björn Borg - and 'Yours Truly', for good measure! Ilie is one of the more prominent celebrities who share my birthday of 19th July. A rather less prominent personality who does is Isabelle Morizet, who during her singing career first in the 1970s then in the 1980s was known variously as Carene Cheryl, then Karen Cheryl, from autumn 1978 onwards. In her 'Karen' years she released a song dedicated to Björn Borg entitled 'Rock 'n' Roll tennis', that could just as well have been dedicated to her fellow child of 19th July. In her 'Carene' years she did a French-language cover of ABBA's 'Mamma Mia!' as the flip-side to her single 'Samedi, dimanche et fêtes', slightly re-titled to 'Oh! Mam(m)a mia'. If one drops by my channel there's a video presented in my best French celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the ten-year recording contract between Carene Cheryl and her Producer/Manager, «Mémé» Ibach on 25th April 1974, where 'Oh! Mam(m)a mia' is played. I clearly recall my older brother having a 'thing' for Chris Evert and her passing very closely by him when he once went to Wimbledon, which was a bit of a 'wow!' moment for him.
2:10 ABBA enter the chat
I assumed that he, being Swedish, might have been wearing yellow and blue.
Throughout the entire video, he's wearing a lot of orange, which I thought was a Dutch national team colour.
"Maybe he just loved wearing the colour orange," you might say.
I'm sorry.
I was just trying to make small talk.
Where did he get his shoulder pads from ?
I am forever mocked by my family because as a kid I read his name as Borjan Bong. 😂
😀 My family never let me forget that when I first started talking I called flies "lullahs". And no, I don't know why.
…that racket is the size of a ping-pong paddle 😂😂😂
And the balls were still white!
Good player but my favourite was always Jimmy Connors.
1974: BJÖRN BORG and his TEENYBOPPER ARMY | Midweek | When They Were Young | BBC Archive 004am 25.6.24 really? maybe it's why i am still undertaking a job search all those years later....but bjorn borg was the best for me. he had his own style, the flair player who played on instinct as opposed to adhering to boring text book play. the last of the players - as opposed to relying on the nowadays virtues (ie: lack of style) of the first serve b.s... the genteel days of wood and cat gut. the ping of the ball upon a taught skein and the pong of the spectator's anticipation. you can't beat it, sir!!!! you really can't. i can't say i would have caused a ruckus in my desire to "touch him" - like those pretty gals... but he was and is a weird silent enigma. probably the tail end of the decent white sportsperson along with james hunt and barry sheen...ahahahaah!!!!! i wonder if the wooden racket will make a come back along with stylish players as opposed to the gormless, muscle bound might is right player????
Borg was my favourite but Connors was up there too. Great player. Great era.
@@welshlad6427 connors once got angry. in fact he got angry a number of times. as you do when you're a spilt brat or on top form re: your game play and are forced to suffer the indignities of dodgy ref decisions or biased farm hands from ross country town. even borg was liable to get miffed. which was shocking in those days of ice cool calm... no, fav player would be bjorn borg then the mighty becker - probably stitched up by media hacks... the days of individual flair need to be revived. staid roboticism isn't my cup of cha!! p. i only tolerated connors cos he reminded me of dan tanna aka bob ulrich - private dick. he was cool but all the ladies loved him cos he was allegedly good looking... ummmm... being grabbed by the dick, indeed, for petty las vegas misdemeanors... or bad tennis posture. god luck!!!!
@@welshlad6427 Most of all the top players of that era were all great personalities. Today there is no one like Connors, Nastase or Borg. The top players of today seem to have very little personality.
Amen brother, Connors got me interested, those Vegas challenge matches
3:36 FO-CUS!!!!!
I will never forgive him for assimilating Captain jean luc Picard.
Cute
You can not be serious.
It was in 1974 when Sweden invented ABBA to take the attention away from Bjorn.
Guy turned into an underwear salesman.
Aug Strindberg did not taken Jim at all
"The Well-Read", "Gentile"... Oh, the snobbery
1974: BJÖRN BORG and his TEENYBOPPER ARMY | Midweek | When They Were Young | BBC Archive 25.6.24 0812am Connors paved the way for McEnroe.... which, depending on your purview, was a curse.... or a blessing for a stale and dying game. the lack of style in the game is what gets to me. being a big head and actually doing what you know you can do ie: beat all commers is fine by me.... being cool and liking oneself says it all, really. nowadays i doubt you can get yer head thru the door if you haven't made a list of vile illnesses and mental defektiveness which the media and the equally morally defunkt and mentally challenged fans demand you suffer..... being well or chipper is so passe so yesterday............................... that's why they're angry, sir....
Europe before the invasions of the barbarians, what a classy, clean, beautiful place it used to be.