Word: bergelin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Phillips came away from the assignment with a very personal souvenir: Borg's coach, Lennart Bergelin, undertook to massage away her chronic case of tennis elbow. "Borg calls him Dr. Black-and-Blue, and now I know why," says Phillips. "After the massage, my arm swelled up and turned a rainbow of colors. But three days later I was able to lift my arm over my head without pain for the first time in a year." And her hands to the typewriter, for a pleasing and unique look at the incredible tennis machine...
...Bergelin had his way, too. In order to win at Wimbledon, Borg had to improve...
...teenager, Borg was pressured by a succession of well-meaning coaches to alter his game. One exception was Lennart Bergelin, appointed Sweden's Davis Cup captain in 1970 and charged with dis covering and developing young players...
...Bergelin, now 55, first saw Borg at a ju nior tournament. A year later the 14-yearold joined Bergelin's team of Davis Cup hopefuls. Bergelin remembers the early criticism of Borg's style: "No one had ever seen anything like the way this boy played, so no one thought he could play successfully. But it was his way, and for him it was the only way. I did not try to change...
Borg won the French Open, then left for London to practice on grass courts. He had been close to only one person other than his parents, Lennart Bergelin. The coach was anxious for Borg to concentrate on improving his game, and Borg was willing. But the young man, who had limited his long-distance telephoning to habitual every-other-day calls to his parents, was also anxious to locate Mariana. "I was playing a tournament in Scotland," she says. "Somehow he found me. We talked and talked...