Why did Borg retire?
The best explanation Borg can give for his sudden retirement is that he just lost motivation. He had been on the professional circuit from the age of 14 and dedicated himself to playing tennis as well as he humanly could. Without that drive there was no point continuing.
Borg, now 66 years old, is still very active in the world of tennis, primarily as the captain of Team Europe for the Laver Cup. He loves interacting with today's players, but he admitted he doesn't play a lot anymore.
On January 23, 1983 while traveling in Bangkok, he announced his retirement at age 26. Borg flirted with comebacks in 1991, 1992, and 1993, but all to no avail. When Borg retired from tennis in 1983 after a decade on the tour, he held the Open Era record for most major championships with 11.
Locating the Queen's ship above Jupiter, Picard confronts her, and the Borg Queen explains that following the events of "Endgame," the Borg were decimated to the point of near destruction by the future Janeway's pathogen, leaving only the Borg Queen, a handful of drones and a single Borg Cube by the time that Picard ...
On stardate 50984.3 the Borg faced their destruction after they invaded Species 8472's fluidic space with intent to assimilate this species. Unfortunately – for the Borg – Species 8472 DNA encoding was so dense that nanoprobes could not assimilate their cells. Species 8472 responded with an all out attack on the Borg.
After their retirements, Borg and McEnroe grew a more friendly relationship. In March 2006, when Bonhams Auction House in London announced that it would auction Borg's Wimbledon trophies and two of his winning rackets on 21 June 2006, McEnroe called from New York and told Borg, "What's up?
In January 1983 Borg abruptly announced his retirement from professional tennis, though he did attempt a short-lived comeback in 1991. Borg founded a successful sportswear company in the early 1990s. He wrote, with Eugene Scott, Björn Borg: My Life and Game (1980).
McEnroe was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999. He is now a sports commentator providing commentary for American television networks such as ESPN, CBS, NBC, and USA at the US Open, the Australian Open, and various ATP tournaments, as well as at Wimbledon for the BBC in the UK.
In tracksuit tops mirroring those they wore in 1981 when McEnroe, then 22, unseated 25-year-old five times Wimbledon champion Borg, they returned to Centre Court. Video Player is loading.
Was Björn Borg the best ever?
Widely considered as the greatest tennis player in history - winning 64 career titles. Björn Rune Borg is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles with six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimbledon.
More recently, he has been a sometime analyst for Tennis Channel. Now, after the publishing of his memoir "The Outsider," Connors is back in the tennis life full throttle.
In 1978, Borg defeated Connors in the Wimbledon final, but Connors defeated Borg at the US Open (played on hard court for the inaugural time) with both of their victories being dominating. Connors also won the U.S. Pro Indoor. While he retained the ATP No.
The fourth set results in an unprecedented and punishing tie break, won by McEnroe. Despite facing seven match points, Borg rallies to win the fifth set and the title, while McEnroe's sportsmanship receives a standing ovation.
Species 8472 was capable of destroying great parts of the Borg fleet and even their planets. The Q with their godlike powers could probably wipe out all Borg with one snap.
The reasons that Matalas was unable to include Janeway came down to budgetary constraints and not wanting to step on Star Trek: Prodigy's toes, but despite not appearing, Janeway was almost an honorary character in Star Trek: Picard season 3.
The "Good Borg", Jurati's Borg, were established in the Alpha Quadrant in the 21st century, when the queen from the alternate timeline and Jurati merged. The Borg that are assimilating the fleet in Picard season 3 are the "Bad Borg", not Jurati's Borg.
Thanks to Star Trek: Picard season 2, the Prime Timeline how has Two Borg Queens! The original Borg Queen was first embodied by Alice Krige and debuted in Star Trek: First Contact. Krige reprised the role but also shared it with Susanna Thompson in Star Trek: Voyager.
Admiral Janeway stayed behind, sacrificing herself to be assimilated, but in so doing she infected the Borg with a “neurolytic pathogen,” breaking the Queen's control over the Collective.
At that time, writer and de facto showrunner Maurice Hurley intended for the Borg to be introduced much earlier, and possibly as an insect race. Hurley was also the writer of "Q Who?" and the person who, basically, created the Borg.
Did the Romulans create the Borg?
Although any further details would be purely speculative, it fits with the established canon and timeline that the ancient Romulans could've started experimenting with artificial life forms, accidentally created the Borg and realized the terror their experiments had given rise to.
You might think the “Ice Man” was born just like that, but Borg had a terrible temper growing up. Aged 12, he was suspended for six months in Sweden for his outbursts on court.
The 1980 Wimbledon Championships Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the gentlemen's singles tournament at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships. After 3 hours and 53 minutes of play, the four-time defending champion Björn Borg defeated John McEnroe 1–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–7, 8–6 to win the match.
The Connors–McEnroe rivalry was a tennis rivalry between Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe, who played 34 times between 1977 and 1991. Their head-to-head was 20–14, favoring McEnroe.
