for some reason if is intended or not that world border command is not effected by tick command.
steps:
1. shrink the world border with a time "/worldborder set 20 10"
10 here means seconds
2. sprint the game for 10 or 20 seconds "/tick sprint 20s"
3. world border still shrinking
Should duplicate MC-53491 since MC-268330 was resolved as duplicate of MC-53491
Update: It seems like MC-53491 relates to to this report so in that case I can confirm.