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EXCLUSIVE: “Bjorn Borg was the love of my life”: Tennis ace’s ex-wife on romance as John McEnroe clash movie released

The cool Swedish sporting hero’s first wife Mariana Simionescu recalls what it was like being the partner of one of the most successful player’s of all time, and reveals how she could “bring out his emotions”

 

 

By Peter Robertson

08:33, 22 Sep 2017UPDATED14:30, 22 Sep 2017

The new film Borg Vs McEnroe tells the story of one of the greatest rivalries in sport. But for one woman it brought back memories, happy and sad, of the man she still calls “the love of my life”.

 

Mariana Simionescu was the first wife of tennis legend Bjorn Borg , the ice-cool Swedish heartthrob whose battles with the brilliant but hot-headed American John McEnroe are central to the movie.

 

 

After watching the premiere in Stockholm – where she was reunited with Bjorn, there with his third wife Patricia – Mariana says: “I don’t know if I was the real love of Bjorn’s life, but he was for me.”

 

 

Their romance began in 1976, the year he won the first of his five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles, and they were front page news until their divorce in 1984, which happened after he took up with a teenage model he met while judging a wet T-shirt contest.

 

Mariana, who has never remarried, still lives in Monaco, where she moved with Bjorn 40 years ago. She lives with her mother in a home adorned with photos of her eight years with Bjorn.

 

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Tennis legend Bjorn Borg and first wife Mariana Simionescu in 1980(Popperfoto)

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Borg won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles(Hulton Archive)

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The summer they got together was a heady period. Mariana says: “That was the best ever. For Bjorn and for me.

 

 

“It’s like you’re dreaming, you’re flying. We were in love and it was beautiful. It was the most exciting time of my life. I was so much in love that I didn’t even know my own name.

 

 

“Bjorn was very, very sweet. Everything was nice about him because he was a very shy person, but I kne

w how to bring out his emotions.”

 

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