New racquet billed as tennis `breakthrough' // Six-sided LongString features adjustable tension

Chicago Sun-Times | August 22, 1986| | Copyright

When Bjorn Borg's tennis coach first saw the racquet designed by Herwig Fischer, he called it "ugly."

But Lennart Bergelin, Borg's coach, eventually joined forces with Fischer to design the new MacGregor Bergelin LongString, the most innovative and visually different tennis racquet to hit the market since Prince unveiled its over-sized racquet in 1976.

The Bergelin LongString has six sides.

"The shape of the racquet is functional, not cosmetic," said Marv Konowitz, MacGregor's director of tennis. "The design accommodates a unique diagonal stringing system. That's important, and we're ...

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