Saturday, August 23, 2014

The Tennis Oracle

The Oracle
This is Björn Hellberg. A living oracle when it comes to tennis. He knows every fact of every game set and match ever played (more or less). He hasn't missed a Wimbledon tournament for nearly 50 years. He is a sport journalist, and also a well known author. He has written a biography about Björn Borg. These days he is also a very popular crime writer, and has written 25 novels. He was busy at a book signing when I spotted him in the mall in Handen today. But in general he is best known for a TV show called På Spåret. It is a very popular quiz show about geography. He competed four times and won every year. That was too much for the show so they made him a judge a job he had for some 20 years.

7 comments:

William Kendall said...

Quite an accomplished man!

Jack said...

He would be an interesting person to know. And, your portrait is excellent. A REAL close-up.

Stuart said...

Quite the interesting fellow. Nice portrait !

Birdman said...

Tennis bores me. Borg didn't!

VP said...

An unusual knowledge and a fine portrait!

Lasse Jansson said...

Kanonporträtt av en härlig personlighet! Det inte han vet är inte värt att veta... Cool med en man som kan rabbla ställningen från en tennismatch på 70-talet, från tredje gamet i andra set. :-)

PerthDailyPhoto said...

Mr Hellberg is a busy man Steffe, you were lucky to catch him here :)