Former No. 1 Mats Wilander recounts how he escaped death at the end of 1988 to the Desert Sun. Wilander was supposed to take a cortisone injection for shin splints but "chickened out." He then canceled his flight from Lockerbie, Scotland to New York on Pan Am Fight 103, which was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers, 16 crew members and 11 people on the ground. "You never know what's around the next corner," Wilander said. "It's the same thing as how you meet your wife, by accident. I just wasn't on it and I'm still here and I feel sorry for the unfortunate ones who are not with us anymore."—Matthew Cronin
Wilander recalls close escape
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Published Apr 12, 2011