IMAGE: Tennis legend Bjorn Borg is in the Garden City for the continued version of the Bengaluru Open. Photograph: Luke Walker/Getty Images
The Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association, which had organised a ceremony to felicitate tennis legend Bjorn Borg on Tuesday, cancelled the occasion with out citing any cause.
A KSLTA official claimed that the ace tennis participant was busy watching his son Leo Borg’s match with Taiwanese participant Hsu Yu Hsiou and therefore it was ‘placed on maintain’.
However, some reviews claimed that Borg, who gained 11 Grand Slam titles in his profession, was upset with the delay in arrival of Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on the venue. Bommai was imagined to attend the occasion at 10.30 am, in keeping with the schedule.
The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) had mentioned in the day by day schedule of the programme that Bommai will solely work together with Borg and one other legendary tennis participant from India, Vijay Amritraj. Bommai was late by about an hour.
The KSLTA official whom PTI spoke to mentioned, “Borg was not sad. He was having fun with his son’s match. We did plan his felicitation however he was busy watching the match.”
An official from the CMO mentioned there was no official programme of Bommai felicitating Borg or Amritraj. “There was no official programme of felicitating the gamers however as soon as the CM goes to any occasion, some occasions like felicitation is added there, which is widespread,” the official identified.
He additionally added that Bommai acquired delayed resulting from an occasion of launching ‘Ambaari Utsav’ air-conditioned buses of KSRTC at Vidhana Soudha.
Borg and Amritraj had been in Bengaluru in reference to the Bengaluru Open tennis match on the KSLTA premises.
